1936 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	27 athletes from 16 countries
Competition location	Olympiastadion Berlin
Competition phase	August 3, 1936
Medalist Karl Hein ( GER ) Erwin Blask ( GER ) Fred Warngård ( SWE )
← 1932 1948 →

The men's hammer throw at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin was held on August 3, 1936 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. 27 athletes took part.

The German Karl Hein was Olympic champion ahead of his compatriot Erwin Blask . The bronze medal went to the Swede Fred Warngård .

Existing records

• World record : 57.77 m - Pat Ryan ( USA ), New York , August 17, 1913
• Olympic record : 54.74 m - Matt McGrath ( USA ), Stockholm final , July 14, 1912

Conducting the competition

The athletes began with a qualifying round. In order to qualify for the preliminary competition, the participants had to create at least 46.00 m. In the preliminary battle, each participant had three attempts. The best six athletes then qualified for another three attempts in the final. The result of the pre-match was included in the final result. All partial competitions were held on August 3rd.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The order and width of the trial series in the qualifying round are not known.

qualification

August 3, 1936, 9.00 a.m.
Weather conditions: overcast, 18 - 19 ° C, cross wind at approx. 2.9 m / s.

Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
Isao Abe	Japan	k. A.
Koit Annamaa	Estonia
Anton Barticevic	Chile
Erwin Blask	German Empire
Giovanni Cantagalli	Italy
Henry Dreyer	United States
Donald Favor	United States
Bernhard Greulich	German Empire
Karl Hein	German Empire
Sulo Heino	Finland
Gunnar Jansson	Sweden
Gustaf Koutonen	Finland
Evert Linnaeus	Sweden
Ville Pörhölä	Finland
William Rowe	United States
Fred Warngård	Sweden
Joseph Wirtz	France
Kristos Dimitropoulos	Greece	k. A.
Norman Drake	Great Britain
Jaroslav Eliáš	Czechoslovakia
Pedro Goic	Yugoslavia
Hans Houtzager	Netherlands
Emil Janausch	Austria
Jaroslav Knotek	Czechoslovakia
Eiichiro Matsuno	Japan
Assis Naban	Brazil
Milan Stepišnik	Yugoslavia

Pre-fight

August 3, 1936, 3 p.m.
Weather conditions: overcast, short showers, 19-20 ° C, diagonal tail wind of approx. 2.7-2.9 m / s.
Note: The best sizes are printed in bold.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	result	annotation
1	Erwin Blask	German Empire	52.55 m	55.04 m	x	55.04 m	OR
2	Fred Warngård	Sweden	52.05 m	52.98 m	54.03 m	54.03 m
3	Karl Hein	German Empire	52.13 m	52.44 m	x	52.44 m
4th	Gustaf Koutonen	Finland	x	50.01 m	51.90 m	51.90 m
5	William Rowe	United States	51.53 m	51.04 m	49.29 m	51.53 m
6th	Donald Favor	United States	50.78 m	50.02 m	51.01 m	51.01 m
7th	Bernhard Greulich	German Empire	50.19 m	x	50.61 m	50.61 m
8th	Koit Annamaa	Estonia	48.77 m	49.54 m	50.46 m	50.46 m
9	Henry Dreyer	United States	49.81 m	x	50.42 m	50.42 m
10	Sulo Heino	Finland	49.93 m	47.15 m	48.30 m	49.93 m
11	Ville Pörhölä	Finland	45.35 m	x	49.89 m	49.89 m
12	Gunnar Jansson	Sweden	49.21 m	48.49 m	49.28 m	49.28 m
13	Abe Isao	Japan	47.40 m	41.83 m	49.01 m	49.01 m
14th	Evert Linnaeus	Sweden	x	47.25 m	47.61 m	47.61 m
15th	Giovanni Cantagalli	Italy	45.21 m	47.42 m	45.08 m	47.42 m
16	Joseph Wirtz	France	x	44.82 m	45.69 m	45.69 m
17th	Anton Barticevic	Chile	x	43.02 m	45.23 m	45.23 m

final

August 5, 1936
Weather conditions: overcast, short showers, 19-20 ° C, diagonal tail wind of approx. 2.7-2.9 m / s.

Unfortunately, Pat O'Callaghan , the 1932 Olympic champion , was condemned to watch these games because his Irish association, the National Athletic and Cycling Association of Ireland (NACAI), was not recognized by the World Athletics Federation and therefore not recognized by the IOC . So there was no outright favorite. In Germany the hammer throw had led a wallflower existence until 1934 and had only become a high-quality discipline through targeted association actions.
In the final, Erwin Blask first surpassed the old Olympic record set by American Pat Ryan in 1912 with his second attempt . With his third and again improved fourth attempt, the Swede Fred Warngård was in second place, until Karl Hein set the Olympic record of 56.49 m in the last round. So there was a German double victory here.
The Finn Ville Pörhölä, Olympic champion in the shot put of 1920 and Olympic runner-up in hammer throw from 1932 was also there again here in Berlin . But the development in this discipline had continued and Pörhölä was no longer quite the level of previous years. So he came in eleventh place with 49.89 m.

Karl Hein won the first German gold medal in hammer throw.
For the first time there was no medal for a US starter.
Note: The best sizes are printed in bold.

				final
space	Surname	nation	Qualification range	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Karl Hein	German Empire	52.44 m	54.70 m	54.85 m	56.49 m	56.49 m	OR
2	Erwin Blask	German Empire	55.04 m	54.10 m	54.48 m	x	55.04 m
3	Fred Warngård	Sweden	54.03 m	54.83 m	53.30 m	50.61 m	54.83 m
4th	Gustaf Koutonen	Finland	51.90 m	49.11 m	49.91 m	x	51.90 m
5	William Rowe	United States	51.53 m	50.32 m	51.66 m	x	51.66 m
6th	Donald Favor	United States	51.01 m	48.48 m	50.33 m	47.71 m	51.01 m
7th	Bernhard Greulich	German Empire	50.61 m	not in the final			50.61 m
8th	Koit Annamaa	Estonia	50.46 m				50.46 m

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 297f

Web links

• SportsReference Hammerwurf , accessed on September 21, 2017
• Official report pp. 680–682, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 21, 2017
• 1936, Hammer Throw, Men, Olympic Games, Berlin , published August 2, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed September 21, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 558 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Official report p. 682, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)