World Athletics Championships 1995 / men's hammer throw

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	43 athletes from 30 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 5th (qualification) August 6th (final)
Medalist Andrei Abduwalijew ( TJK )   Ihar Astapkovich ( BLR )   Tibor Gécsek ( HUN )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The men's hammer throw at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 5 and 6, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

World champion was the defending champion and Olympic champion from 1992 Andrei Abduwalijew from Tajikistan . He won in front of the Belarusian Olympic Second in 1992, two-time runner-up ( 1991 / 1993 ), European champions in 1990 and European Vice Champion of 1994 Ihar Astapkowitsch . Bronze went to the Hungarian World Cup third from 1993 and Vice European Champion from 1990 Tibor Gécsek . So there was an identical result to the last world championships in the medal ranks.

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

43 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 76.50 m. Five athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the seven next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 75.48 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

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  Mika Laaksonen scored 72.20 m and was eliminated

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  Szymon Ziółkowski - 71.84 m and therefore not in the final - his great successes began in 2000

August 5, 1995, 11:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Ihar Astapkovich	Belarus	79.12
2	Lance deal	United States	76.70
3	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	76.64
4th	Alexandr Seleznyov	Russia	75.16
5	Ilya Konovalov	Russia	75.78
6th	Oleksandr Krykun	Ukraine	74.48
7th	Enrico Sgrulletti	Italy	72.60
8th	Plamen Minew	Bulgaria	72.60
9	Per Karlsson	Sweden	72.48
10	Mika Laaksonen	Finland	72.20
11	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	71.84
12	Zoltán Fábián	Hungary	71.06
13	Gilles Dupray	France	70.46
14th	Claus Dethloff	Germany	69.64
15th	José Manuel Pérez	Spain	68.42
16	Pavel Sedláček	Czech Republic	67.94
17th	Peter Vivian	Great Britain	67.28
18th	Vitaliy Khozhatelyov	Uzbekistan	66.46
19th	Waleed Al-Bekheet	Kuwait	61.50
20th	Agustin Jarina	Philippines	49.98
NM	Christos Polychroniou	Greece	ogV
DNS	Heinz Weis	Germany

Group B

August 5, 1995, 1:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Andrei Abduvaliev	Tajikistan	79.18
2	Baláz's Kiss	Hungary	78.04
3	Raphael Piolanti	France	76.26
4th	Sjarhej Alaj	Belarus	75.36
5	Vadim Kolesnik	Ukraine	74.86
6th	Marko Wahlman	Sweden	74.60
7th	Tore Gustafsson	Sweden	74.44
8th	Sean Carlin	Australia	73.86
9	Christophe Épalle	France	73.62
10	Karsten Kobs	Germany	72.96
11	Jüri Tamm	Estonia	72.66
12	Vasily Sidorenko	Russia	71.78
13	Leave Akselin	Finland	70.82
14th	Kevin McMahon	United States	69.14
15th	Jan Bielecki	Denmark	68.80
16	Hakim Toumi	Algeria	68.36
17th	Roman Linscheid	Ireland	68.34
18th	Kōji Murofushi	Japan	67.06
19th	Andrés Charadia	Argentina	66.34
20th	Cherif El Hennawi	Egypt	65.66
21st	Brentt Jones	Norfolk Island	50.52
NM	Alberto Sánchez	Cuba	ogV

Hammer throwers eliminated from group B in qualification:

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  Christophe Épalle - 73.62 m

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  Karsten Kobs - 72.96 m, four years later he became  world champion

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  Jüri Tamm (Photo: 2017) - 72.66 m, in 1983 , he was Vice World Champion, 1980 Olympic silver medalist and 1988  Olympic THIRD

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  Kōji Murofushi - 67.06 m, he should celebrate great success in the coming years

final

August 6, 1995, 2:15 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	Andrei Abduvaliev	Tajikistan	81.56	77.68	79.10	78.22	80.12	79.00	81.56
2	Ihar Astapkovich	Belarus	81.10	x	79.02	79.98	81.10	80.58	80.26
3	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	80.98	79.20	80.40	77.94	80.98	x	x
4th	Baláz's Kiss	Hungary	79.02	79.02	77.84	78.70	78.18	77.46	x
5	Lance deal	United States	78.66	x	73.12	76.24	77.86	78.12	78.66
6th	Sjarhej Alaj	Belarus	76.66	74.26	75.68	76.66	71.84	75.38	75.74
7th	Ilya Konovalov	Russia	76.50	75.84	75.52	76.50	x	72.46	76.46
8th	Alexandr Seleznyov	Russia	76.18	76.18	x	x	x	x	72.02
9	Raphael Piolanti	France	75.98	Expiration not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Oleksandr Krykun	Ukraine	75.52
11	Vadim Kolesnik	Ukraine	75.18
12	Marko Wahlman	Sweden	73.02

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

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  Twelfth place Marko Wahlman

Video links

• 5675 World Track and Field 1995 Hammer Men Andrey Abduvaliyev on youtube.com, accessed June 3, 2020
• 5655 World Track and Field 1995 Hammer Men Igor Astapkovich on youtube.com, accessed June 3, 2020
• 5667 World Track and Field 1995 Hammer Men Tibor Gécsek on youtube.com, accessed June 3, 2020
• One of the best hammer throwers: Balazs Kiss on youtube.com, accessed June 3, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on June 3, 2020
• Men Hammer Throw Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com (English), accessed June 3, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Hammer Throw, Gothenborg 1995, p. 196 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on June 3, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer throw men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 3, 2020