World Athletics Championships 1991 / men's hammer throw

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	27 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 24th (qualification) August 25th (final)
Medalist Jurij Sjedych ( URS )   Ihar Astapkovich ( URS )   Heinz Weis ( GER )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The men's hammer throw at the World Athletics Championships in 1991 was held on August 24 and 25, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

The Soviet hammer throwers achieved a double success in this competition. With Jurij Sjedych , one of the most successful hammer throwers in sports history became world champion. He was two-time Olympic champion ( 1976 / 1980 ), Olympic silver medalist from 1988 , three-time European champion ( 1978 / 1982 / 1986 ), vice world champion in 1983 and holder of the world record. Now he had also won the last great title that was still missing. The reigning European champion Ihar Astapkowitsch took second place . The German Heinz Weis won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	86.74 m	Yury Sjedych	EM 1986 in Stuttgart , FR Germany	August 30, 1986
World Cup record	83.06 m	Sergei Litvinov	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	September 1, 1987

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

qualification

August 24, 1991, 12:00 p.m.

27 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 75.50 m. Four athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the eight athletes placed next to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 73.24 m was enough for the final.

Group A

Lance Deal (here in 2014 in front of a picture from his playing days) did not reach the final with his 72.90 m

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Andrei Abduvaliev	Soviet Union	80.36
2	Ihar Astapkovich	Soviet Union	79.06
3	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	75.86
4th	Raphael Piolanti	France	74.92
5	Sean Carlin	Australia	74.90
6th	Claus Dethloff	Germany	73.54
7th	Lance deal	United States	72.90
8th	Ivan Tanev	Bulgaria	72.52
9	Enrico Sgrulletti	Italy	72.40
10	Paul Head	Great Britain	68.52
11	Kjell Bystedt	Sweden	67.20
12	Guillermo Guzmán	Mexico	66.80
13	Andrés Charadía	Argentina	66.52

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Yury Sjedych	Soviet Union	77.96
2	Plamen Minew	Bulgaria	75.08
3	Walter Ciofani	France	74.74
4th	Heinz Weis	Germany	74.40
5	Ken Flax	United States	73.26
6th	Bi Zhong	People's Republic of China	73.24
7th	Johann Lindner	Austria	72.90
8th	Imre Szitás	Hungary	71.92
9	Savas Saritzoglou	Greece	70.60
10	Jud Logan	United States	70.04
11	Angus Cooper	New Zealand	68.48
12	Ajet Toska	Albania	67.26
13	Cherif Farouk El Hennawi	Egypt	57.26
14th	James Wong Tuck Yim	Singapore	46.04

final

August 25, 1991, 3:00 p.m.

Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Yury Sjedych	Soviet Union	81.70	81.38	81.70	81.06	80.26	79.28	79.94
2	Ihar Astapkovich	Soviet Union	80.94	77.52	79.66	x	79.70	80.94	80.90
3	Heinz Weis	Germany	80.44	78.02	77.70	76.80	79.14	79.60	80.44
4th	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	78.98	77.30	x	75.62	77.16	78.68	78.98
5	Andrei Abduvaliev	Soviet Union	78.30	77.86	77.04	78.28	x	78.30	77.86
6th	Walter Ciofani	France	76.48	x	74.46	76.48	75.68	75.68	x
7th	Ken Flax	United States	75.98	75.68	75.35	x	75.98	75.34	x
8th	Raphael Piolanti	France	73.64	72.78	72.24	73.64	x	72.08	73.44
9	Sean Carlin	Australia	73.24	Expiration not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Claus Dethloff	Germany	72.96
11	Bi Zhong	People's Republic of China	69.50
12	Plamen Minew	Bulgaria	68.70

Video links

• Hammer Throw World Athletics Champs 1991 Tokyo Yuri Sedych on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2020
• hammer throw astapkovich world champs 1991 79.66m on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2020
• 3351 World Track & Field 1991 Hammer Men Heinz Weis on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 26, 2020
• Men Hammer Throw Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) 1991 from todor66.com, accessed April 26, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Hammer Throw, Tokyo 1991, pp. 195f (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on April 26, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer throw men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 26, 2020