World Athletics Championships 2001 / men's hammer throw

8th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	31 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Edmonton
Competition location	Commonwealth Stadium
Competition phase	August 4th (qualification) August 5th (final)
Medalist Szymon Ziółkowski ( POL )   Kōji Murofushi ( JPN )   Ilya Konovalov ( RUS )

The Commonwealth Stadium by Edmonton in 2005

The hammer throw men in the 2001 World Championships in Athletics was on 4 and 5 August 2001 Commonwealth Stadium the Canadian city of Edmonton held.

The current Olympic champion Szymon Ziółkowski from Poland became world champion . He won before the Japanese Kōji Murofushi , who had won the hammer throw at the Asian Games in 1998 . Third place went to the Russian Ilya Konovalov .

Records

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

Record improvement

The Polish world champion Szymon Ziółkowski improved the existing world championship record in the final on August 5 by 32 centimeters to 83.38 m.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

31 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 79.50 m. Two athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the three next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). In the end, 76.72 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

With 74.43 m Iwan Zichan, later medal winner, but also multiple doping offender, retired in the qualification

August 4, 2001, 10:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	81.85	x	81.85	-
2	Baláz's Kiss	Hungary	79.60	78.09	77.22	79.60
3	Nicolas Figère	France	79.90	79.09	77.23	x
4th	Adrian Annus	Hungary	78.57	78.57	78.15	77.95
5	Wladyslaw Piskunow	Ukraine	76.34	75.75	76.34	x
6th	Sergei Kirmasov	Russia	75.79	75.79	x	74.84
7th	Alexandros Papadimitriou	Greece	75.63	75.60	74.21	75.63
8th	Kevin McMahon	United States	75.62	71.77	75.62	70.64
9	Stuart Rendell	Australia	75.00	73.14	75.00	x
10	Loris Paoluzzi	Italy	74.75	72.01	x	74.75
11	Oleksandr Krykun	Ukraine	74.43	73.44	74.43	x
12	Ivan Zichan	Belarus	74.43	x	74.43	x
13	Michael Jones	Great Britain	73.31	x	73.31	x
14th	Miloslav Konopka	Slovakia	72.14	72.14	x	x
15th	Juan Ignacio Cerra	Argentina	70.70	69.92	70.70	68.23
DNS	Karsten Kobs	Germany

Group B

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  75.29 m were not enough for Libor to take part in the finals

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  Dylan Armstrong - here still active as a hammer thrower , he later switched to the shot put very successfully - had no chance in qualifying with 63.89 m

August 4, 2001, 12:08 pm

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	79.25	77.50	79.25	-
2	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland	78.82	78.82	75.91	78.78
3	Andrij Skwaruk	Ukraine	78.80	77.34	x	78.80
4th	Ilya Konovalov	Russia	78.67	78.67	76.87	75.99
5	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy	78.66	78.68	x	78.52
6th	Kōji Murofushi	Japan	78.06	77.69	78.06	76.69
7th	Ihar Astapkovich	Belarus	76.99	74.84	76.99	75.69
8th	Maciej Palyszko	Poland	76.72	76.72	75.91	75.53
9	David Chaussinand	France	76.66	76.02	x	76.66
10	Libor Good Friday	Slovakia	75.29	74.78	71.39	75.29
11	Vasily Sidorenko	Russia	74.56	74.56	72.29	73.86
12	Vladimír Maška	Czech Republic	74.20	74.20	x	x
13	Holger Klose	Germany	74.02	x	74.02	x
14th	Christos Polychroniou	Greece	73.79	73.79	x	72.30
15th	Bengt Johansson	Sweden	70.16	x	70.16	67.22
16	Dylan Armstrong	Canada	63.89	63.89	63.69	x

final

August 5, 2001, 4:40 pm

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	83.38 CR	81.88	79.69	x	80.32	83.38	80.39
2	Kōji Murofushi	Japan	82.92	79.91	82.46	81.95	81.43	82.92	82.61
3	Ilya Konovalov	Russia	80.27	80.27	79.42	79.09	78.94	76.26	x
4th	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy	80.13	79.13	72.42	78.46	x	80.13	x
5	Andrij Skwaruk	Ukraine	79.93	77.95	x	79.93	x	x	x
6th	Baláz's Kiss	Hungary	79.75	79.22	78.44	x	79.75	79.54	x
7th	Ihar Astapkovich	Belarus	79.72	x	78.35	79.20	79.72	78.57	x
8th	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	79.34	78.15	x	x	78.24	76.86	79.34
9	Adrian Annus	Hungary	78.10	77.86	75.92	78.10	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland	76.76	x	76.76	75.86
11	Maciej Palyszko	Poland	75.94	74.81	75.34	75.94
12	Nicolas Figère	France	75.36	x	75.36	x

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  World champion Szymon Ziółkowski, 2000  Olympic champion

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  Vice world champion Kōji Murofushi

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  Nicola Vizzoni, second in the 2000 Olympic Games, finished fourth, fourteen centimeters behind the bronze medal

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  Olli-Pekka Karjalainen reached tenth place

Video

• Hammer Throw IAAF World Champs 2001 Edmonton Canada , Video posted November 1, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed August 16, 2020

Web links

• 8th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 24, 2020
• Men hammer throw. Athletics VIII World Championship 2001 Edmonton (CAN) on todor66.com, accessed August 16, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Hammer Throw., Edmonton 2001, p. 197f (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on August 16, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer throw men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 16, 2020
2. ↑ eurosport.de Sigi Heinrich , Olympia-Blog: This is not a fairy tale, this is the cruel truth at eurosport.de, August 10, 2015, accessed on August 16, 2020