2017 World Athletics Championships / Men's hammer throw

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's hammer throw
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Attendees	32 athletes from 20 countries
Competition phase	August 9, 2017 (qualification) August 11, 2017 (final)
Medalist
gold	Paweł Fajdek ( POL )
silver	Valery Pronkin ( ANA )
bronze	Wojciech Nowicki ( POL )

View of the London  Olympic Stadium

The men's hammer throw at the 2017 World Athletics Championships took place in London , Great Britain , on August 9-11, 2017 .

The Pole Paweł Fajdek won the world title . He won ahead of the Russian Valeri Pronkin, who started under a neutral flag. Wojciech Nowicki from Poland won the bronze medal.

Records

World record	Yuri Sedych	86.74 m	Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	August 30, 1986
Championship record	Ivan Zichan	83.63 m	World Cup in Osaka , Japan	August 27, 2007

qualification

The Hungarian Krisztián Pars was eliminated in the qualification with 74.08 m

Ashraf Amgad Elseify from Qatar, his 71.87 m was not enough for the final

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualifying distance for reaching the final directly was 75.50 m. Since only eight throwers exceeded this required distance - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best throwers from both groups to a total of twelve athletes - highlighted in light green. In the end, 74.41 m was enough to make it to the final.

Group A

August 9, 2017, 7:20 p.m. local time (8:20 p.m. CEST )

space	athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
1	Paweł Fajdek	Poland	71.43	76.82	-	76.82
2	Quentin Bigot	France	76.11	-	-	76.11
3	Pavel Barejscha	Belarus	x	74.07	75.98	75.98
4th	Bence Halász	Hungary	75.56	-	-	75.56
5	Dilschod Nazarov	Tajikistan	x	75.54	-	75.54
6th	Nick Miller	Great Britain	75.52	-	-	75.52
7th	Alexei Sokirski	Authorized Neutral Athletes	75.50	-	-	75.50
8th	Özkan Baltacı	Turkey	74.69	74.16	74.46	74.69
9	Marco Lingua	Italy	74.41	x	x	74.41
10	David Soderberg	Finland	73.76	x	x	73.76
11	Sergei Litvinov	Authorized Neutral Athletes	73.32	73.48	73.36	73.48
12	Allan Wolski	Brazil	x	x	72.51	72.51
13	Serhii Reheda	Ukraine	70.03	71.10	71.53	71.53
14th	Hilmar Örn Jónsson	Iceland	71.12	x	x	71.12
15th	Hassan Mohamed Mahmoud	Egypt	x	x	69.92	69.92
16	Rudy Winkler	United States	68.77	x	68.88	68.88

Group B

August 9, 2017, 8:50 p.m. local time (9:50 p.m. CEST )

space	athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
1	Wojciech Nowicki	Poland	76.85	-	-	76.85
2	Serghei Marghiev	Moldova	75.18	73.41	74.96	75.18
3	Valery Pronkin	Authorized Neutral Athletes	74.11	73.75	75.09	75.09
4th	Marcel Lomnický	Slovakia	74.26	73.35	x	74.26
5	Krisztián Pars	Hungary	74.08	x	73.36	74.08
6th	Eşref Apak	Turkey	73.55	x	x	73.55
7th	Sachar Machrossenka	Belarus	x	72.58	x	72.58
8th	Alex Young	United States	x	72.07	70.93	72.07
9	Chris Bennett	Great Britain	x	72.05	69.12	72.05
10	Sjarhej Kalamoyez	Belarus	71.90	68.97	x	71.90
11	Ashraf Amgad el-Seify	Qatar	71.87	x	71.00	71.87
12	Wagner domingos	Brazil	x	69.59	71.69	71.69
13	Diego del Real	Mexico	68.10	70.72	71.29	71.29
14th	Michalis Anastasakis	Greece	70.94	70.93	69.95	70.94
15th	Simone Falloni	Italy	x	69.90	x	69.90
16	Kibwé Johnson	United States	68.86	x	68.81	68.86

World Champion Paweł Fajdek, Poland

Dilschod Nazarow from Tajikistan finished seventh

final

August 11, 2017, 8:30 p.m. local time (9:30 p.m. CEST )

Among the favorites for this competition mainly included the world champion of 2013 / 2015 , Vice European Champion in 2016 and European champion in 2016 Paweł Fajdek from Poland, the Olympic champion in 2016 and runner-up of 2015 Dilshod Nazarov from Tajikistan, the Pole Wojciech Nowicki as Olympic third of 2016, World Cup third from 2015 and EM third from 2016 as well as the Hungarian Olympic champion from 2012 , vice world champion from 2013 and European champion from 2014 Krisztián Pars. However, Pars had already failed in the qualification, he was missing 33 centimeters there for the final.

In the first round, the Frenchman Quentin Bigot 77.05 m was enough to lead. Valery Pronkin, who started under a neutral flag, was second with 77.00 m. In lap two, too, no thrower exceeded the 78-meter mark. Alexei Sokirski, who also started under a neutral flag, took the lead with 77.50 m. Nasarow was enough 77.22 m for second place, Pronkin, who improved to 77.20 m, was third. With his first valid attempt, Fajdek reached 77.09 m and was fourth ahead of Bigot. In round three there were further slight increases. Fajdek was the new leader with 79.73 m, Nowicki improved to second place with 78.03 m, Sokirski was now third, Bigot threw 77.46 m, which meant fourth place. British rider Nick Miller improved to fifth place with 77.31 m. Nasarow and Pronkin fell back to positions six and seven, respectively.

In lap four, Bigot first rose to bronze with 77.67 m. Fajdek improved his lead to 79.81 m, otherwise everything remained unchanged. In the penultimate round, the initially leading Pronkin ousted the French again with 77.98 m. Pronkin was now third, Bigot fourth. In the last series of experiments there was another change. Valery Pronkin had now obviously gained a really good foothold and climbed again to 78.16 m, which finally brought him the silver medal. Pawel Fajdek, who threw more than 79 meters three times, became a deserved world champion. Wojciech Nowicki won bronze, Quentin Bigot came fourth ahead of Alexei Sokirski Nick Miller. Co-favorite Dilschod Nazarow had to be satisfied with seventh place. The Moldovan Serghei Marghiev took eighth place. The gaps from second to seventh place were very close overall. The Second Pronkin was less than three feet from the Seventh Nazarov.

The level of distances in hammer throw had decreased significantly compared to previous years - a trend that was also evident at the Olympic Games a year ago. For the first time in many years, the high point of the year at the Games in 2016 and now again at the World Championships, the 80-meter mark was not exceeded, which Fajdek managed to do at the European Championships in 2016. What role the exclusion of Russian athletes, which is not without exception, or a modified doping control system will play here remains at least initially speculative.

space	athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)
	Paweł Fajdek	Poland	x	77.09	79.73	79.81	79.40	x	79.81
	Valery Pronkin	Authorized Neutral Athletes	77.00	77.20	75.71	76.25	77.98	78.16	78.16
	Wojciech Nowicki	Poland	76.36	76.54	78.03	76.19	x	x	78.03
4th	Quentin Bigot	France	77.05	76.26	77.46	77.67	x	76.87	77.67
5	Alexei Sokirski	Authorized Neutral Athletes	76.22	77.50	77.15	x	x	x	77.50 SB
6th	Nick Miller	Great Britain	x	75.78	77.31	x	76.16	x	77.31
7th	Dilschod Nazarov	Tajikistan	76.33	77.22	75.36	76.01	77.14	74.91	77.22
8th	Serghei Marghiev	Moldova	75.40	75.87	75.80	75.85	74.57	x	75.87
9	Pavel Barejscha	Belarus	74.35	75.86	x	not in the final of the eight best throwers			75.86
10	Marco Lingua	Italy	69.64	75.13	x				75.13
11	Bence Halász	Hungary	70.89	x	74.45				74.45
12	Özkan Baltacı	Turkey	73.17	72.90	74.39				74.39

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, Hammer Throw Men on the IAAF website (English), accessed on December 3, 2018
• Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 3, 2018
• Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 3, 2018

Video

• WCH London 2017 Highlights - Hammer Throw - Men on youtube.com, published August 13, 2017, accessed December 3, 2018