1968 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Hammer throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 22 athletes from 12 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Estadio Olímpico Universitario | ||||||||
Competition phase | October 16, 1968 (qualification) October 17, 1968 (final) |
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The men's hammer throw at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City was held on October 16 and 17, 1968 in the Estadio Olímpico Universitario . 22 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the Hungarian Gyula Zsivótzky . He won ahead of Romuald Klim from the Soviet Union and Lázár Lovász , like Zsivótzky, also from Hungary.
For the FR Germany - officially Germany - Hans Fahsl , Lutz Caspers and Uwe Beyer competed . Caspers and Beyer failed in the qualification, Fahsl reached the final and was eleventh there.
The GDR - officially East Germany - was represented by Helmuth Baumann and Reinhard Theimer , who both reached the final. Theimer finished seventh, Baumann eighth.
The Swiss Ernst Ammann dropped out in the qualification.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 73.76 m |
Gyula Zsivótzky ( Hungary )
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Budapest , Hungary | September 14, 1968 |
Olympic record | 69.74 m |
Romuald Klim ( Soviet Union )
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Tokyo finals , Japan | October 18, 1964 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in a qualifying round on October 16, which was completed in two groups. The twelve best starters qualified for the final. The qualifying distance for reaching the final on October 17th was 66.00 m. There, each participant initially had three attempts. For the first time, the eight best athletes - and not the six best athletes until 1964 - were then able to complete three more attempts.
Time schedule
October 16, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification
October 17, 3 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are Mexico City local time ( UTC −6)
The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.
qualification
Date: October 16, 1968, from 10 a.m.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Gyula Zsivótzky |
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72.60 m OR | - | - | 72.60 m | OR |
2 | Lázár Lovász |
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68.96 m | - | - | 68.96 m | |
3 | Helmuth Baumann |
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68.24 m | - | - | 68.24 m | |
4th | Reinhard Theimer |
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65.78 m | 68.12 m | - | 68.12 m | |
5 | Hans Fahsl |
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65.80 m | 67.90 m | - | 67.90 m | |
6th | Takeo Sugawara |
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67.76 m | - | - | 67.76 m | |
7th | Gennady Kondrashov |
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67.56 m | - | - | 67.56 m | |
8th | Ed Burke |
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67.36 m | - | - | 67.36 m | |
9 | Romuald Klim |
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66.82 m | - | - | 66.82 m | |
10 | Anatoly Shchupliakov |
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64.78 m | 66.56 m | - | 66.56 m | |
11 | Uwe Beyer |
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65.02 m | 64.88 m | 65.44 m | 65.44 m |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Sándor Eckschmiedt |
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68.60 m | - | - | 68.60 m | |
2 | Howard Payne |
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65.52 m | 64.80 m | 68.06 m | 68.06 m | |
3 | Yoshihisa Ishida |
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67.16 m | - | - | 67.16 m | |
4th | Albert Hall |
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x | 65.70 m | 58.28 m | 65.70 m | |
5 | Lutz Caspers |
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x | 65.54 m | 64.70 m | 65.54 m | |
6th | Hal Connolly |
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x | x | 65.00 m | 65.00 m | |
7th | José Luis Martínez |
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60.60 m | 63.40 m | 62.84 m | 63.40 m | |
8th | Ernst Ammann |
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x | 61.48 m | 62.40 m | 62.40 m | |
9 | Praveen Kumar |
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x | 59.80 m | 60.84 m | 60.84 m | |
10 | Gustavo Morales |
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x | 43.88 m | 45.76 m | 45.76 m | |
11 | Carlos Hasbun |
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x | 37.02 m | 37.46 m | 37.46 m |
final
Date: October 16, 1968, 3 p.m.
The top favorites were the gold and silver medalists from 1964 , Romuald Klim from the USSR, and the Hungarian Gyula Zsivótzky. The German thrower Uwe Beyer, who won bronze in 1964 behind Klim and Zsivótzky, was the best of the year in the world. World record holder Zsivótzky showed that the development of hammer throwing had continued : he already set a new Olympic record in qualifying , while Klim had exceeded the necessary width of 66.00 m by just 82 cm. The elimination competition ended badly for Beyer. He could not qualify for the final and was more than five meters behind his annual best.
In the first round of the final, Zsivótzky took the lead over Klim with a two-centimeter lead. In the second attempt, the Hungarian was able to improve again slightly, but in lap three Klim took over the top position with a new Olympic record and expanded it even further in the fourth attempt. In the following fifth attempt, Zsivótzky countered with another Olympic record, the fourth in this competition. This decided the battle for gold and silver. Bronze went to Zsivótzky's compatriot Lovász, who had thrown the same distance as the Japanese Sugawara. The second best distance was used for the decision. Here Lovász with 69.38 m was 32 centimeters better than Sugawara with 69.06 m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Gyula Zsivótzky |
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72.26 m | 72.46 m | 72.54 m | x | 73.36 m OR | 72.22 m | 73.36 m | OR |
2 | Romuald Klim |
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72.24 m | 68.96 m | 72.82 m OR | 73.28 m OR | 71.16 m | 71.64 m | 73.28 m | |
3 | Lázár Lovász |
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64.76 m | x | 69.78 m | x | 69.38 m | x | 69.78 m | |
4th | Takeo Sugawara |
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67.24 m | 68.12 m | x | 69.06 m | 69.78 m | 61.40 m | 69.78 m | |
5 | Sándor Eckschmiedt |
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67.84 m | 68.50 m | 69.46 m | x | 67.64 m | 68.08 m | 69.46 m | |
6th | Gennady Kondrashov |
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69.08 m | 67.00 m | 68.64 m | 67.10 m | 67.98 m | 67.70 m | 69.08 m | |
7th | Reinhard Theimer |
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68.82 m | x | 66.16 m | 68.84 m | 67.86 m | 63.54 m | 68.84 m | |
8th | Helmuth Baumann |
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65.94 m | 66.98 m | 68.26 m | x | 63.76 m | x | 68.26 m | |
9 | Anatoly Shchupliakov |
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67.58 m | 67.74 m | 66.90 m | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
67.74 m | |||
10 | Howard Payne |
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65.98 m | 67.62 m | 66.58 m | 67.62 m | ||||
11 | Hans Fahsl |
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x | 64.00 m | 66.36 m | 66.36 m | ||||
12 | Ed Burke |
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x | 65.72 m | 65.46 m | 65.72 m | ||||
13 | Yoshihisa Ishida |
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65.04 m | 63.72 m | x | 65.04 m |
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 368–370
Web links
- SportsReference Hammerwurf , accessed November 9, 2017
- Official report - summary p. 108f., English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 9, 2017
- Official report of the Olympic Games 1968 p. 530, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 9, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 558 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 9, 2017
- ↑ Official report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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. 10, English / French (PDF), accessed on November 9, 2017
- ↑ a b Official Report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from September 17, 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. 530, English / French (PDF), accessed on November 9, 2017
- ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 368f