World Athletics Championships 1993 / men's hammer throw

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 21 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 16 (qualifying) August 17 (final)
Medalist Andrei Abduwalijew ( TDJ )   Ihar Astapkovich ( BLR )   Tibor Gécsek ( HUN )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The men's hammer throw at the World Athletics Championships in 1993 was held on August 16 and 17, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

World champion was the 1992 Olympic champion Andrei Abduwalijew from Tajikistan . He won before the Belarusian Olympic runner-up in 1992, vice world champion in 1991 and reigning European champion Ihar Astapkovich . Bronze went to the Hungarian Vice European Champion from 1990 Tibor Gécsek .

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.

World champion Andrei Abduwalijew from Tajikistan set a new Asian record in the final with his winning shot of 81.64 m.

qualification

28 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 76.50 m. Six athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the six next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). In the end, 74.36 m had to be achieved for participation in the finals.

Group A

Karsten Kobs was eliminated from the qualification with 71.82 m - in 1999 he became world champion

August 14, 1993, 11:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Andrei Abduvaliev	Tajikistan	77.22
2	Alexandr Seleznyov	Russia	77.12
3	Andrij Skwaruk	Ukraine	75.54
4th	Raphael Piolanti	France	75.34
5	Sjarhej Alaj	Belarus	75.34
6th	Vasily Sidorenko	Russia	74.40
7th	Pavel Sedláček	Czech Republic	73.90
8th	Tore Gustafsson	Sweden	71.88
9	Karsten Kobs	Germany	71.82
10	Savas Saritzoglou	Greece	71.76
11	Johann Lindner	Austria	71.46
12	Jim Driscoll	United States	69.40
13	Paul Head	Great Britain	68.88
14th	James Wong	Singapore	49.14

Group B

69.62 m was not enough for Marko Wahlman to be in the final

August 14, 1993, 12:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Sergei Litvinov	Russia	77.96
2	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	77.82
3	Lance deal	United States	77.14
4th	Ihar Astapkovich	Belarus	76.82
5	Christophe Épalle	France	74.74
6th	Vadim Kolesnik	Ukraine	74.36
7th	Walter Ciofani	France	73.36
8th	Alberto Sánchez	Cuba	71.00
9	Marko Wahlman	Finland	69.62
10	Andrés Charadia	Argentina	68.48
11	Iosif Shaverdashvili	Georgia	68.26
12	Guillermo Guzmán	Mexico	67.30
13	Hakim Toumi	Algeria	66.16
14th	Enrico Sgrulletti	Italy	63.58

final

August 15, 1993, 4:20 pm

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	Andrei Abduvaliev	Tajikistan	81.64 AS	78.08	x	78.02	81.64	x	80.56
2	Ihar Astapkovich	Belarus	79.88	77.54	x	x	79.88	79.48	79.16
3	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	79.54	73.34	x	76.80	79.54	73.84	x
4th	Sjarhej Alaj	Belarus	79.02	71.42	76.56	77.12	x	77.40	79.02
5	Vasily Sidorenko	Russia	78.86	x	76.82	76.62	77.12	78.86	77.36
6th	Alexandr Seleznyov	Russia	78.58	76.48	78.58	76.34	x	x	75.28
7th	Sergei Litvinov	Russia	78.56	78.56	x	x	75.02	76.56	x
8th	Christophe Épalle	France	76.22	76.22	x	75.90	x	x	75.04
9	Lance deal	United States	76.20	Expiration not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Raphael Piolanti	France	75.88
11	Vadim Kolesnik	Ukraine	73.08
NM	Andrij Skwaruk	Ukraine	ogV

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  The eighth placed Christophe Épalle

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  Lance Deal (here in 2014 in front of a picture from his playing days) reached ninth place

Video

• Hammer Throw World Athletics Champs 1993 on youtube.com, accessed May 14, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 14, 2020
• Men Hammer Throw Athletics IV World Championship 1993 Stuttgart (GER) on todor66.com (English), accessed on May 14, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Hammer Throw, Stuttgart 1993, p. 196 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on May 14, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer throw men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 14, 2020