Athletics World Championships 1999 / men's hammer throw

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	38 athletes from 22 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 21 (qualifying) August 22 (final)
Medalist Karsten Kobs ( GER )   Zsolt Németh ( HUN )   Wladyslaw Piskunow ( UKR )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The men's hammer throw at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 21 and 22, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

World champion was the German European Championship third from 1998 Karsten Kobs . The Hungarian Zsolt Németh won the silver medal. Bronze went to Wladyslaw Piskunow from Ukraine .

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.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid
r	Competition not continued (retired)

qualification

38 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 78.50 m. One athlete exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the eleven next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 75.42 m was enough for the final.

Group A

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  74.12 m was not enough for Szymon Ziółkowski to be in the final - the following year he became  Olympic champion

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  Libor Charfreitag was eliminated from the qualification with his 70.20 m

August 21, 1999, 10:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Karsten Kobs	Germany	78.91	78.91	-	-
2	Zsolt Németh	Hungary	77.56	x	76.18	77.56
3	Wladyslaw Piskunow	Ukraine	76.99	76.09	76.99	76.67
4th	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland	75.89	74.23	75.11	75.89
5	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy	75.81	75.55	x	75.81
6th	Vadim Khersontsev	Russia	75.42	71.90	74.29	75.42
7th	Lance deal	United States	75.29	74.38	73.66	75.29
8th	Andrei Abduvaliev	Uzbekistan	75.12	72.36	75.12	72.91
9	Vasily Sidorenko	Russia	74.85	73.01	74.85	73.04
10	Baláz's Kiss	Hungary	74.61	74.61	73.96	x
11	Raphael Piolanti	France	74.23	72.76	73.38	74.23
12	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	74.12	72.90	x	74.12
13	András Haklits	Croatia	73.28	71.67	72.89	73.28
14th	Alexandros Papadimitriou	Greece	72.97	x	72.97	x
15th	Pavel Sedláček	Czech Republic	72.63	70.66	72.63	72.48
16	Chris Harmse	South Africa	71.57	x	71.57	65.06
17th	Libor Good Friday	Slovakia	70.20	x	69.92	70.20
18th	Stuart Rendell	Australia	67.55	67.55	x	x
NM	Holger Klose	Germany	ogV	x	x	x

Group B

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  Kōji Murofushi only narrowly failed with his 75.18 m - he had a successful career ahead of him in the coming years

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  For Marko Wahlman it was not enough in the final with 75.04 m

August 21, 1999, 12:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Ihar Astapkovich	Belarus	77.75	76.11	77.75	-
2	Andrij Skwaruk	Ukraine	77.42	77.42	-	-
3	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	77.27	76.57	75.35	77.27
4th	Christos Polychroniou	Greece	76.82	76.55	76.82	r
5	Vladimir Maska	Czech Republic	75.78	75.78	72.62	74.93
6th	Ilya Konovalov	Russia	75.72	74.18	74.63	75.72
7th	Kōji Murofushi	Japan	75.18	74.04	75.18	72.68
8th	Marko Wahlman	Finland	75.04	74.32	75.04	74.58
9	Heinz Weis	Germany	74.71	74.71	74.71	72.98
10	Kevin McMahon	United States	74.62	74.62	73.84	x
11	Loris Paoluzzi	Italy	74.26	72.75	74.71	x
12	David Chaussinand	France	74.02	71.64	72.83	74.02
13	Gilles Dupray	France	73.32	73.32	71.70	69.62
14th	Maciej Palyszko	Poland	72.05	69.60	72.05	71.57
15th	Juan Ignacio Cerra	Argentina	71.24	69.72	71.24	69.83
16	Vítor Costa	Portugal	69.28	68.35	67.44	69.28
17th	Patrick McGrath	Ireland	68.96	66.51	68.96	65.80
18th	Vadim Kolesnik	Ukraine	68.14	x	68.14	67.96
19th	Nikolay Davydov	Kyrgyzstan	66.87	66.87	64.76	65.08
DNS	Jan Bielecki	Denmark

final

August 22, 1999, 9:45 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	Karsten Kobs	Germany	80.24	80.24	78.87	79.90	x	79.12	78.00
2	Zsolt Németh	Hungary	79.05	74.52	76.15	x	x	77.72	79.05
3	Wladyslaw Piskunow	Ukraine	79.03	77.38	77.94	77.92	77.25	79.03	76.39
4th	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	78.95	x	x	78.16	x	78.95	73.77
5	Andrij Skwaruk	Ukraine	78.80	78.80	77.35	77.14	77.87	x	x
6th	Christos Polychroniou	Greece	78.31	76.43	78.31	x	77.01	77.15	76.84
7th	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy	78.31	76.54	77.07	74.89	74.76	78.31	x
8th	Vadim Khersontsev	Russia	76.96	76.17	76.73	x	76.96	76.30	74.05
9	Ihar Astapkovich	Belarus	76.02	74.98	76.02	75.50	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Ilya Konovalov	Russia	75.63	x	74.52	75.63
11	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland	75.59	x	75.59	x
12	Vladimir Maska	Czech Republic	75.26	x	75.26	x

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  World champion Karsten Kobs

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  Seventh-placed Nicola Vizzoni

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  Olli-Pekka Karjalainen reached eleventh place

Video

• Hammer Throw Kobs World Champs 1999 , video posted September 1, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed July 19, 2020

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 4, 2020
• Men Hammer Throw Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 19, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Hammer Throw, Seville 1999, p. 197 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on July 19, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer throw men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 19, 2020