1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	24 athletes from 14 countries
Competition location	Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	October 17, 1964 (qualification) October 18, 1964 (final)
Medalist Romuald Klim ( URS )   Gyula Zsivótzky ( HUN )   Uwe Beyer ( EUA )

The men's hammer throw at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo was held on October 17 and 18, 1964 in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 24 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Romuald Klim from the Soviet Union. He won ahead of the Hungarian Gyula Zsivótzky and the German Uwe Beyer .

While athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part, two other Germans and an Austrian competed. The Germans Martin Lotz and Hans Fahsl failed in the qualification. The Austrian Heinrich Thun made the qualification and finished 15th in the final.

Existing records

World record	70.67 m	Hal Connolly ( USA )	Palo Alto , USA	July 21, 1962
Olympic record	67.10 m	Vasily Rudenkow ( Soviet Union )	Final of Rome , Italy	September 3, 1960

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a qualifying round on October 17th. Each participant had three attempts. The best twelve and all starters who reached 63.00 m or more qualified for the final on October 18th. There, each participant initially had three attempts. The six best athletes were then allowed three more attempts.

Time schedule

• October 17, 10 a.m .: Qualification
• October 18, 1 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)

Best widths are printed in bold.

The athletes qualified over the distance are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.

qualification

Date: October 17, 1964, 10:00 a.m.

Weather conditions: sunny, 18–20 ° C, 67–69% humidity

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	67.99 m OR	-	-	67.99 m	OR
2	Hal Connolly	United States	67.40 m	-	-	67.40 m
3	Romuald Klim	Soviet Union	67.10 m	-	-	67.10 m
4th	Zdzisław Smoliński	Poland	66.00 m	-	-	66.00 m
5	Yuri Nikulin	Soviet Union	65.64 m	-	-	65.64 m
6th	Tadeusz Ruth	Poland	65.03 m	-	-	65.03 m
7th	Uwe Beyer	Germany	65.01 m	-	-	65.01 m
8th	Ed Burke	United States	62.23 m	64.94 m	-	64.94 m
9	Heinrich Thun	Austria	64.73 m	-	-	64.73 m
10	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	64.64 m	-	-	64.64 m
11	Albert Hall	United States	64.31 m	-	-	64.31 m
12	Yuri Bakarinov	Soviet Union	63.86 m	-	-	63.86 m
13	Takeo Sugawara	Japan	63.84 m	-	-	63.84 m
14th	Olgierd Ciepły	Poland	x	63.66 m	-	63.66 m
15th	Josef Matoušek	Czechoslovakia	59.61 m	63.53 m	51.37 m	63.53 m
16	Hans Fahsl	Germany	58.90 m	x	62.35 m	62.35 m
17th	Howard Payne	Great Britain	61.90 m	x	61.74 m	61.90 m
18th	Martin Lotz	Germany	60.97 m	61.88 m	58.66 m	61.88 m
19th	Shohei Kasahara	Japan	56.38 m	61.87 m	x	61.87 m
20th	Noboru Okamoto	Japan	58.99 m	60.78 m	61.51 m	61.51 m
21st	Birger Asplund	Sweden	60.60 m	61.15 m	60.91 m	61.15 m
22nd	Guy Husson	France	60.04 m	59.86 m	x	60.04 m
23	John Lawlor	Ireland	x	58.22 m	59.12 m	59.12 m
24	Rome Dong-sil	South Korea	x	53.71 m	56.43 m	56.43 m

final

Date: October 18, 1964, 1 p.m.

Weather conditions: rain, approx. 14 ° C, 90–97% humidity

Hal Connolly (USA), world record holder and Olympic champion in 1956 , was not one of the favorites. These were the Hungarian Gyula Zsivótzky, silver medalist from 1960 and European champion from 1962, and the Soviet thrower Romuald Klim.

Zsivótzky opened the final, which 15 athletes had reached, with a throw that exceeded Klim's Olympic record from qualifying by over a meter. The German Uwe Beyer also threw Klim's record in his attempt. Beyer had already achieved a personal best in qualifying, which he has now improved by more than three meters. Klim was in third place ahead of his compatriot Juri Nikulin. But the Soviet co-favorite still had a lot to offer. Initially, Klim pushed past Beyer into second place before taking the lead on the fourth attempt. He exceeded Zsivótzky's record throw again by 65 centimeters. In the last two laps nothing changed in the classification apart from fifth and sixth place.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Romuald Klim	Soviet Union	67.19 m	64.64 m	68.59 m	69.74 m OR	68.81 m	68.17 m	69.74 m	OR
2	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	69.09 m OR	66.20 m	68.47 m	67.41 m	67.85 m	67.32 m	69.09 m
3	Uwe Beyer	Germany	68.09 m	65.64 m	62.91 m	x	65.71 m	x	68.09 m
4th	Yuri Nikulin	Soviet Union	67.08 m	67.01 m	67.69 m	x	x	65.61 m	67.69 m
5	Yuri Bakarinov	Soviet Union	65.91 m	66.50 m	65.39 m	65.25 m	66.72 m	x	66.72 m
6th	Hal Connolly	United States	x	62.95 m	66.65 m	x	64.73 m	x	66.65 m
7th	Ed Burke	United States	65.66 m	65.06 m	62.68 m	not in the final of the six best throwers			65.66 m
8th	Olgierd Ciepły	Poland	64.83 m	x	x				64.83 m
9	Josef Matoušek	Czechoslovakia	64.49 m	64.59 m	63.29 m				64.59 m
10	Tadeusz Ruth	Poland	61.03 m	61.94 m	64.52 m				64.52 m
11	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	63.83 m	63.19 m	x				63.83 m
12	Albert Hall	United States	59.72 m	62.35 m	63.82 m				63.82 m
13	Takeo Sugawara	Japan	x	62.66 m	63.69 m				63.69 m
14th	Zdzisław Smoliński	Poland	x	x	62.90 m				62.90 m
15th	Heinrich Thun	Austria	62.76 m	62.42 m	x				62.76 m

Picture gallery

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  The Pole Tadeusz Rut came in tenth

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  The German Martin Lotz failed in the qualification

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 284–286

Video

• The Tokyo 1964 Olympics Part 3 | Olympic History , range 6:30 min - 8:29 min, published on October 17, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on October 29, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Hammerwurf , accessed October 29, 2017
• Official report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 54f engl. (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 558 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 29 October 2017
2. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 54 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017 
3. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 54 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017 
4. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 55 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017 
5. ↑ Sport Reference (Engl.) ( Memento of 24 January 2009 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 29, 2017