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 )

Berlin Olympic Stadium

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

72.76 m was not enough for the Spaniard Javier Cienfuegos - here at an award ceremony in Ostrava in 2011 - to take part in the final

With 71.34 m the Finn Henri Liipola clearly missed the qualification for the final

The Dutchman Denzel Comenentia retired with 70.70 m in the 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)
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)
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)
	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

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  Vice European Champion Pawel Fajdek, Poland

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  The Norwegian Eivind Henriksen was fifth

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  Sixth place for Belarusian Ivan Zichan

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  The Slovak Marcel Lomnický ( far right ) came in eleventh place

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

1. ↑ Doping fraudster Tsikhan gets hammer silver on sport.de, August 20, 2016, accessed on January 9, 2019
2. ↑ Tichons renunciation to start: Positive follow-up test from 2004 on focus.de, August 3, 2012, accessed on January 9, 2019
3. ↑ Revision of results following sanctions of Tsikhan and Ostapchuk on iaaf.org, April 27, 2014, accessed January 9, 2019