1960 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 18 countries
Competition location	Stadio Olimpico
Competition phase	September 2, 1960 (qualification) September 3, 1960 (final)
Medalist Wassili Rudenkow ( URS )   Gyula Zsivótzky ( HUN )   Tadeusz Rut ( POL )

The men's hammer throw at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome was held on September 2nd and 3rd, 1960 in the Stadio Olimpico . 28 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Vasily Rudenkow from the Soviet Union. He won ahead of the Hungarian Gyula Zsivótzky and the Pole Tadeusz Rut .

While athletes from Liechtenstein did not take part, three Germans, an Austrian and a Swiss competed. The Swiss Hansruedi Jost was eliminated in the qualification as well as the Germans Manfred Losch , Siegfried Lorenz and Klaus Peter . The Austrian Heinrich Thun qualified for the final and finished ninth there.

Existing records

World record	70.33 m	Hal Connolly ( USA )	Walnut , USA	August 12, 1960
Olympic record	63.19 m		Melbourne finals , Australia	November 24, 1956

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a qualifying round on September 2nd. The required qualification width was 60.00 m. The final for all qualified throwers took place on September 3rd. Each participant was initially entitled to three attempts. The best six athletes could then complete three more attempts.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Time schedule

September 2, 10.15 a.m .: Qualification

September 3, 4 p.m .: Final

qualification

Manfred Losch (GER) failed in the qualification.

Eleventh place in the final: Sverre Strandli (NOR)

Date: September 2, 1960, 10.15 a.m.

The best widths are printed in bold. With the same distance, the second best distance decided the placement.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	result	annotation
1	Vasily Rudenkow	Soviet Union	67.03 m OR	-	-	67.03 m	OR
2	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	64.80 m	-	-	64.80 m
3	Anatoly Samotsvetov	Soviet Union	64.67 m	-	-	64.67 m
4th	Mike Ellis	Great Britain	63.21 m	-	-	63.21 m
5	Hal Connolly	United States	63.02 m	-	-	63.02 m
6th	Heinrich Thun	Austria	62.73 m	-	-	62.73 m
7th	John Lawlor	Ireland	x	62.10 m	-	62.10 m
8th	Noboru Okamoto	Japan	x	x	61.95 m	61.95 m
9	Sverre Strandli	Norway	58.67 m	61.41 m	-	61.41 m
10	Zvonko Bezjak	Yugoslavia	60.90 m	-	-	60.90 m
11	Muhammad Iqbal	Pakistan	57.84 m	60.86 m	-	60.86 m
12	Albert Hall	United States	57.43 m	x	60.76 m	60.76 m
13	Tadeusz Ruth	Poland	60.73 m	-	-	60.73 m
14th	Olgierd Ciepły	Poland	60.61 m	-	-	60.61 m
15th	Yuri Nikulin	Soviet Union	60.40 m	-	-	60.40 m
16	Guy Husson	France	59.31 m	x	59.83 m	59.83 m
17th	Klaus Peter	Germany	x	59.83 m	x	59.83 m
18th	József Csermák	Hungary	x	x	59.72 m	59.72 m
19th	Ed Bagdonas	United States	x	59.48 m	x	59.48 m
20th	Manfred Losch	Germany	x	58.85 m	59.38 m	59.38 m
21st	Takeo Sugawara	Japan	58.40 m	59.32 m	57.66 m	59.32 m
22nd	Hansruedi Jost	Switzerland	55.09 m	57.07 m	59.12 m	59.12 m
23	Siegfried Lorenz	Germany	x	59.06 m	x	59.06 m
24	Birger Asplund	Sweden	57.27 m	x	x	57.27 m
	Krešimir Račić	Yugoslavia
26th	José Luis Falcón	Spain	51.26 m	57.24 m	x	57.24 m
27	Andreas Kouvelogiannis	Greece	53.43 m	x	55.18 m	55.18 m
28	Eduardo Albuquerque	Portugal	53.26 m	54.31 m	54.92 m	54.92 m

final

Date: September 3, 1960, 4:00 p.m.

15 participants had made the qualification distance. The favorites were the Soviet thrower Vasily Rudenkow and the US Olympic champion from 1956 , Harold Connolly, who had set a new world record in August .

After his Olympic record in qualification, Rudenkow also took the lead with the first attempt in the final. But already in the second round he was replaced by the Pole Tadeusz Rut. Connolly, on the other hand, stayed far below his potential in this competition. In the end, he finished eighth with a distance that was almost seven meters below his world record, but exceeded his result at the Olympic victory four years ago by 40 centimeters. The quality of hammer throwing had developed rapidly. In the third attempt, Rudenkow again achieved Olympic record. Two more litters in rounds four and six exceeded the best litter of the silver medalist Gyula Zsivótzky from Hungary, who was able to overtake Rut with his fourth attempt. The Pole won the bronze medal.

Vasily Rudenkow won the first Soviet Olympic victory in hammer throw.

Tadeusz Rut won the first Polish medal in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Vasily Rudenkow	Soviet Union	65.60 m	64.98 m	67.10 m OR	66.62 m	64.58 m	66.23 m	67.10 m	OR
2	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	60.83 m	63.83 m	64.87 m	65.79 m	x	65.11 m	65.79 m
3	Tadeusz Ruth	Poland	64.51 m	65.64 m	64.95 m	x	64.85 m	63.54 m	65.64 m
4th	John Lawlor	Ireland	x	62.59 m	64.09 m	64.95 m	x	x	64.95 m
5	Olgierd Ciepły	Poland	60.03 m	64.07 m	62.27 m	64.57 m	62.48 m	62.06 m	64.57 m
6th	Zvonko Bezjak	Yugoslavia	61.96 m	64.21 m	63.54 m	63.95 m	62.86 m	x	64.21 m
7th	Anatoly Samotsvetov	Soviet Union	x	63.60 m	x	not in the final of the six best throwers			63.60 m
8th	Hal Connolly	United States	63.05 m	62.57 m	63.59 m				63.59 m
9	Heinrich Thun	Austria	62.23 m	x	63.53 m				63.53 m
10	Yuri Nikulin	Soviet Union	61.56 m	63.10 m	62.23 m				63.10 m
11	Sverre Strandli	Norway	x	62.02 m	63.05 m				63.05 m
12	Muhammad Iqbal	Pakistan	60.55 m	61.79 m	60.80 m				61.79 m
13	Noboru Okamoto	Japan	x	60.08 m	x				60.08 m
14th	Albert Hall	United States	59.64 m	x	59.76 m				59.76 m
15th	Mike Ellis	Great Britain	x	54.22 m	x				54.22 m

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 212f

Videos

• Vasily Rudenkov - Men's Hammer Throw - Summer Olympic Games 1960 , published August 9, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed October 21, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Hammerwurf , accessed October 21, 2017
• Official report pp. 149–151, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 21, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 558 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 21 October 2017
2. ^ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 63 at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 21, 2017
3. ^ Official report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 150 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 21, 2017
4. ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 151 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 21, 2017
5. ↑ SportsReference (English) accessed on October 21, 2017