European Athletics Championships 2018 / men's hammer throw
discipline | Men's hammer throw |
city | Berlin |
place | Olympiastadion Berlin |
Attendees | 30 athletes from 17 countries |
Competition phase | August 6, 2018 (qualification) August 7, 2018 (final) |
Medalist | |
---|---|
gold | Wojciech Nowicki ( POL ) |
silver | Paweł Fajdek ( POL ) |
bronze | Bence Halász ( HUN ) |
The men's hammer throw at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 6th and 7th in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .
There was a Polish one-two. European champion was Wojciech Nowicki . Paweł Fajdek came second. The Hungarian Bence Halász won the bronze medal.
Records
World record | Yury Sjedych | 86.74 m | EM in Stuttgart , BR Germany (today Germany ) | August 30, 1986 |
European record | ||||
Championship record |
qualification
The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualifying distance for reaching the final directly was 76.00 m. Since only four throwers exceeded this required distance - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best throwers from both groups to a total of twelve athletes - highlighted in light green. In the end, 73.19 m was enough to make it to the final.
Group A
August 6, 2018, 4:05 p.m. CEST
space | athlete | country | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Width (m) |
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1 | Bence Halász | Hungary | 76.81 | - | - | 76.81 |
2 | Wojciech Nowicki | Poland | 76.03 | - | - | 76.03 |
3 | Michalis Anastasakis | Greece | 73.72 | 75.61 | 72.87 | 75.61 |
4th | Serghei Marghiev | Moldova | 75.10 | 73.51 | 74.31 | 75.10 |
5 | Ivan Zichan | Belarus | 72.53 | 74.67 | 74.31 | 74.67 |
6th | Denis Lukyanov | Authorized Neutral Athletes | 72.06 | 72.35 | 73.19 | 73.19 |
7th | Marco Lingua | Italy | x | x | 73.07 | 73.07 |
8th | Javier Cienfuegos | Spain | 72.76 | 71.27 | 71.94 | 72.76 |
9 | Quentin Bigot | France | 72.73 | 72.12 | 72.33 | 72.73 |
10 | Hleb Dudarau | Belarus | x | 71.41 | 72.19 | 72.19 |
11 | Özkan Baltacı | Turkey | 71.55 | 71.35 | x | 71.55 |
12 | Henri Liipola | Finland | 70.86 | 71.34 | 68.75 | 71.34 |
13 | Chris Bennett | Great Britain | 70.57 | 70.34 | x | 70.57 |
14th | Serhiy Reheda | Ukraine | 67.81 | 70.39 | x | 70.39 |
15th | Eriksson is different | Sweden | x | 69.19 | x | 69.19 |
Group B
August 6, 2018, 5:30 p.m. CEST
space | athlete | country | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Width (m) |
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1 | Paweł Fajdek | Poland | 74.61 | 77.86 | - | 77.86 |
2 | Pavel Barejscha | Belarus | 74.34 | 76.47 | - | 76.47 |
3 | Eivind Henriksen | Norway | 74.54 | 74.36 | 75.14 | 75.14 |
4th | Marcel Lomnický | Slovakia | 72.26 | x | 75.08 | 75.08 |
5 | Hlib Piskunov | Ukraine | 72.40 | x | 74.18 | 74.18 |
6th | Nick Miller | Great Britain | 73.79 | x | - | 73.79 |
7th | Alexei Sokirski | Authorized Neutral Athletes | 72.97 | 70.97 | 71.85 | 72.97 |
8th | Eşref Apak | Turkey | 72.70 | x | 71.88 | 72.70 |
9 | Simone Falloni | Italy | 70.77 | 71.03 | 69.58 | 71.03 |
10 | Denzel Comenentia | Netherlands | x | 66.10 | 70.70 | 70.70 |
11 | Volodymyr Myslyvchuk | Ukraine | 69.57 | x | 70.59 | 70.59 |
12 | Bence Pásztor | Hungary | 69.02 | 69.66 | 68.85 | 69.66 |
13 | David Soderberg | Finland | 69.18 | 68.15 | 67.21 | 69.18 |
14th | Nejc Pleško | Slovenia | x | 68.29 | x | 68.29 |
15th | Pedro José Martín | Spain | x | x | 67.56 | 67.56 |
final
August 7, 2018, 6:45 p.m. CEST
Three throwers started as favorites. The Pole Paweł Fajdek was the world champion of 2015 / 2017 , Vice European Champion in 2016 and European champion in 2016 . The Belarusian Ivan Tsikhan was the world champion of 2003 / 2007 has been repeatedly punished and European Vice Champion of 2016. He was in the past as doping offenders. Wojciech Nowicki, another Pole, was third in the 2015/2017 World Cup, third in the 2016 Olympic Games and third in the European Championship in 2016. The Tajik Olympic champion in 2016 and vice world champion in 2015 Dilschod Nasarov was not among the participants .
The two co-favorites from Poland were ahead after the first round. Fajdek was in the lead with 78.69 m, Nowicki had achieved 77.19 m. The Hungarian Bence Halász followed closely behind with 77.15 m. In lap two Nowicki managed a throw exactly to the 80-meter mark and thus took the lead. With his third attempt Nowicki rose again to 80.12 m. The Norwegian Eivind Henriksen scored 76.86 m in this round. That was a new Norwegian national record and it was fourth. Not much happened in the next round, Nowicki once again confirmed his clear leadership role in this competition with 79.00 m. The penultimate lap brought shifts with it. Halász increased to 77.36 m and thus underpinned his bronze rank. Zichan achieved his greatest distance here with 75.79 m, which meant he was fifth. Hlib Piskunow from Ukraine reached 74.62 m, that was seventh. There was one change in the last round. The Belarusian Pawel Barejscha rose to 77.02 m and finished fourth in front of Eivind Henriksen and Iwan Zichan. But the European champion was Wojciech Nowicki from Poland ahead of his compatriot Paweł Fajdek. Bence Halász surprisingly won the bronze medal.
space | athlete | country | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Width (m) |
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Wojciech Nowicki | Poland | 77.19 | 80.00 | 80.12 | 79.00 | x | 78.81 | 80.12 | |
Paweł Fajdek | Poland | 78.69 | x | x | x | 78.34 | 76.02 | 78.69 | |
Bence Halász | Hungary | 77.15 | x | x | x | 77.36 | x | 77.36 | |
4th | Pavel Barejscha | Belarus | x | 75.20 | x | 75.02 | 75.47 | 77.02 | 77.02 |
5 | Eivind Henriksen | Norway | 76.05 | 76.71 | 76.86 | 74.58 | 75.89 | x | 76.86 NO |
6th | Ivan Zichan | Belarus | 73.85 | x | 74.05 | 75.12 | 75.79 | 75.23 | 75.79 SB |
7th | Hlib Piskunov | Ukraine | 73.99 | 73.68 | 72.80 | 73.41 | 74.62 | 72.68 | 74.62 |
8th | Serghei Marghiev | Moldova | 72.72 | 74.47 | 73.76 | x | 73.06 | x | 74.47 |
9 | Michalis Anastasakis | Greece | 73.33 | x | 72.35 | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
73.33 | ||
10 | Nick Miller | Great Britain | 73.16 | x | x | 73.16 | |||
11 | Marcel Lomnický | Slovakia | x | x | 72.74 | 72.74 | |||
12 | Denis Lukyanov | Authorized Neutral Athletes | x | 69.64 | 71.71 | 71.71 |
Web links
- Homepage of the European Athletics Championships 2018 on the website of the European Athletic Association (English)
- European Athletics Championships 2018 - Official Results (PDF, 49.183 KB), p. 126 ff, accessed on January 9, 2019
- Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 9, 2019
Video
- Wojciech Nowicki Gold Medal, Final hammer throw 24th European Athletics Championships Berlin 2018 on youtube.com, published on August 7, 2018, accessed on January 9, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Doping fraudster Tsikhan gets hammer silver on sport.de, August 20, 2016, accessed on January 9, 2019
- ↑ Tichons renunciation to start: Positive follow-up test from 2004 on focus.de, August 3, 2012, accessed on January 9, 2019
- ↑ Revision of results following sanctions of Tsikhan and Ostapchuk on iaaf.org, April 27, 2014, accessed January 9, 2019