World Athletics Championships 1997 / men's hammer throw

6th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	43 athletes from 24 countries
venue	Athens
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 2nd (qualification) August 3rd (final)
Medalist Heinz Weis ( GER )   Andrij Skwaruk ( UKR )   Vasily Sidorenko ( RUS )

The Athens Olympic Stadium in 2014

The men's hammer throw at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 2 and 3, 1997 in the Olympic Stadium in the Greek capital, Athens .

The German European Championship third from 1994 , Heinz Weis, became world champion . He won ahead of Andrij Skwaruk from Ukraine . Bronze went to the Russian European Champion from 1994, Vasily Sidorenko .

The final turned out to be very exciting. After the first two rounds, Wassili Sidorenko was leading in front of Hungary's Balázs Kiss and Heinz Weis. In the third attempt, Weis took the lead with the competition's first 80-meter throw. But Sidorenko was also able to improve to 79.80 m. In rounds four and five, Sidorenko replaced the German from his lead twice, but Weis was able to counter each time. In the last lap, Weis had to give up his top position again, and Andrij Skwaruk, who had been seventh up to that point, reached 81.46 m. Vasily Sidorenko could not hold back and stayed on the bronze rank. But Heinz Weis countered a third time to now 81.78 m and was thus world champion.

Existing records

World record	86.74 m	Yury Sjedych	EM 1986 in Stuttgart , Federal Republic of 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.

The Peruvian Eduardo Acuña set a new national record in qualifying on August 2nd with 60.14 m.

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
x	invalid
r	Competition not continued (retired)

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 75.28 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

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  Marko Wahlman retired with 73.60 m in the qualification

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  Nicola Vizzoni scored 73.62 m and did not reach the final

August 2, 1997, 8:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Vasily Sidorenko	Russia	77.94	75.52	77.94	-
2	Andrij Skwaruk	Ukraine	77.94	x	77.94	-
3	Heinz Weis	Germany	77.12	75.86	77.12	-
4th	Raphael Piolanti	France	76.12	74.42	75.04	76.12
5	Oleksandr Krykun	Ukraine	75.32	74.26	75.32	75.26
6th	Kōji Murofushi	Japan	75.28	75.28	74.50	73.50
7th	Holger Klose	Germany	75.16	75.16	x	74.18
8th	Andrei Abduvaliev	Uzbekistan	74.96	68.92	74.30	74.96
9	Stuart Rendell	Australia	74.28	74.28	x	x
10	Pavel Sedláček	Czech Republic	73.94	73.94	73.84	73.76
11	Alexandros Papadimitriou	Greece	73.92	73.92	x	73.48
12	Marko Wahlman	Finland	73.60	73.00	72.22	73.60
13	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy	73.42	71.52	73.42	72.62
14th	Kevin McMahon	United States	72.42	x	66.92	72.42
15th	Jud Logan	United States	71.92	x	70.66	71.92
16	Zsolt Németh	Hungary	71.80	71.80	x	x
17th	Maciej Palyszko	Poland	71.54	71.54	71.32	69.02
18th	David Chaussinand	France	71.20	71.20	70.20	68.54
19th	Aleksandr Krasko	Belarus	70.84	70.84	x	x
20th	Nikólaos Yedékos	Greece	67.36	67.36	66.84	r
21st	Brentt Jones	Norfolk Island	53.04	49.30	53.04	52.60
22nd	Enrique Reina	Honduras	47.92	47.92	r	-

Group B

Christophe Épalle did not get a valid throw in qualification

August 2, 1997, 10:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Baláz's Kiss	Hungary	80.46	80.46	-	-
2	Ihar Astapkovich	Belarus	77.96	75.90	77.96	-
3	Vadim Khersontsev	Russia	76.44	76.44	75.58	75.12
4th	Ilya Konovalov	Russia	76.36	75.86	76.36	74.18
5	Karsten Kobs	Germany	76.20	72.96	76.20	x
6th	Ivan Zichan	Belarus	75.74	75.08	75.74	x
7th	Vadim Kolesnik	Ukraine	75.16	74.86	75.16	73.12
8th	Enrico Sgrulletti	Italy	74.70	74.70	74.50	72.84
9	Jan Bielecki	Denmark	73.82	71.70	73.36	73.82
10	Zoltán Fábián	Hungary	72.12	69.68	71.92	72.12
11	Christos Polychroniou	Greece	71.56	71.56	x	x
12	David Popejoy	United States	71.52	71.52	r	-
13	Loris Paoluzzi	Italy	71.50	71.50	x	x
14th	David Smith	Great Britain	70.94	70.94	r	-
15th	Vladimír Maška	Czech Republic	70.50	x	x	70.50
16	Vítor da Costa	Portugal	70.04	70.04	68.66	x
17th	Hakim Toumi	Algeria	68.32	66.94	68.32	67.62
18th	Roman Linscheid	Ireland	67.96	x	x	67.96
19th	Eduardo Acuña	Peru	60.14 NO	x	57.78	60.14
NM	Christophe Épalle	France	ogV	x	x	x
	Naser Al Husaini	Kuwait		x	x	x

final

August 3, 1997, 5:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Heinz Weis	Germany	81.78	x	77.54	80.24	80.52	81.14	81.78
2	Andrij Skwaruk	Ukraine	81.46	76.88	76.94	x	78.04	x	81.46
3	Vasily Sidorenko	Russia	80.76	78.26	79.10	79.80	80.38	80.76	78.32
4th	Baláz's Kiss	Hungary	79.96	77.86	78.32	x	79.32	79.96	79.28
5	Ihar Astapkovich	Belarus	79.70	x	x	78.12	79.70	77.94	78.72
6th	Ilya Konovalov	Russia	78.68	75.18	76.60	76.46	77.36 m	78.12	78.68
7th	Vadim Khersontsev	Russia	77.42	76.24	77.42	77.00	x	x	x
8th	Oleksandr Krykun	Ukraine	77.14	75.02	76.44	75.26	76.62	77.14	76.76
9	Karsten Kobs	Germany	76.12	76.12	74.94	x	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Kōji Murofushi	Japan	74.82	74.82	74.50	x
11	Raphael Piolanti	France	74.08	74.08	73.26	73.44
NM	Ivan Zichan	Belarus	ogV	x	x	x

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  Karsten Kobs, who won the title two years later, had to settle for ninth place this time

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  Kōji Murofushi (here as world champion 2011) reached tenth place - his successes (including the 2004 Olympic victory ) came later

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  Iwan Zichan remained without a valid attempt in the final

Video

• Hammer Throw World Championships 1997 Final IAAF on youtube.com, accessed June 23, 2020
• Hammer Throw World Championships IAAF 1997 Qualifying on youtube.com, accessed June 23, 2020

Web links

• 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 9, 2020
• Men Hammer Throw Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed June 23, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Hammer Throw, Athens 1997, p. 197 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on June 23, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer throw men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 23, 2020