1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	31 athletes from 17 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Munich
Competition phase	September 4, 1972 (qualification) September 7, 1972 (final)
Medalist Anatoly Bondarchuk ( URS )   Jochen Sachse ( GDR )   Wassili Chmelewski ( URS )

The men's hammer throw at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was held on September 4th and 7th, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 31 athletes took part.

Anatolij Bondarchuk from the Soviet Union was Olympic champion . The silver medal was won by Jochen Sachse from the GDR, while the bronze went to Wassili Chmelewski from the Soviet Union.

For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - Uwe Beyer , Edwin Klein and Karl-Hans Riehm started. All three made it to the final. Beyer was fourth, Klein seventh and Riehm tenth.
In addition to silver medalist Sachse, Reinhard Theimer took part for the GDR. He also reached the final and was 13th.
The Austrian Peter Sternad was 17th in the final.
Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	76.40 m	Walter Schmidt ( Federal Republic of Germany )	Lahr / Black Forest , Federal Republic of Germany	4th September 1971
Olympic record	73.36 m	Gyula Zsivótzky ( Hungary )	Mexico City Final , Mexico	17th October 1968

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round on September 4th. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 66.00 m. Since more than twelve athletes exceeded this distance, the final field was not filled any further.

In the final on September 7th, each athlete initially had three attempts. The best eight participants were then entitled to another three attempts.

Time schedule

September 4, 10:30 a.m .: Qualification
September 7, 4:50 p.m .: Final

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the following athletes in light green.

qualification

Date: September 4, 1972, from 10.30 a.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Reinhard Theimer	GDR	70.66 m	-	-	70.66 m
2	Vasily Chmelewski	Soviet Union	70.00 m	-	-	70.00 m
3	Srećko Štiglić	Yugoslavia	65.52 m	69.60 m	-	69.60 m
4th	Mario Vecchiato	Italy	68.12 m	-	-	68.12 m
5	Karl-Hans Riehm	BR Germany	64.44 m	67.64 m	-	67.64 m
6th	István Encsi	Hungary	67.38 m	-	-	67.38 m
7th	Stavros Moutaftsidis	Greece	67.22 m	-	-	67.22 m
8th	Edwin Klein	BR Germany	67.14 m	-	-	67.14 m
9	Takeo Sugawara	Japan	65.94 m	64.56 m	66.50 m	66.50 m
10	Barry Williams	United Kingdom	x	66.32 m	-	66.32 m
11	Al Schoterman	United States	65.18 m	63.74 m	64.06 m	65.18 m
12	Stanisław Lubiejewski	Poland	60.34 m	64.80 m	x	64.80 m
13	George Frenn	United States	57.28 m	62.14 m	58.86 m	62.14 m
14th	Vladimir Prikhodko	France	60.80 m	61.78 m	59.58 m	61.78 m
15th	Darwin Piñeyrúa	Uruguay	59.84 m	x	58.50 m	59.84 m

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Anatoly Bondarchuk	Soviet Union	72.88 m	-	-	72.88 m
2	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	71.20 m	-	-	71.20 m
3	Jochen Sachse	GDR	69.94 m	-	-	69.94 m
4th	Tom Gage	United States	65.32 m	65.14 m	69.40 m	69.40 m
5	Jacques Accambray	France	68.00 m	x	x	68.00 m
6th	Shigenobu Murofushi	Japan	65.94 m	67.26 m	-	67.26 m
7th	Uwe Beyer	BR Germany	67.04 m	x	x	67.04 m
8th	Peter Sternad	Austria	x	66.74 m	x	66.74 m
9	Iosif Gamsky	Soviet Union	x	x	66.72 m	66.72 m
10	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	66.44 m	-	-	66.44 m
11	Todor Manolow	Bulgaria	x	x	65.62 m	65.62 m
12	Howard Payne	United Kingdom	63.58 m	64.56 m	64.10 m	64.56 m
13	Yoshihisa Ishida	Japan	63.00 m	63.82 m	x	63.82 m
14th	Georgios Georgiadis	Greece	63.58 m	x	x	63.58 m
15th	William Silenus	Puerto Rico	x	x	62.02 m	62.02 m
16	José Alberto Vallejo	Argentina	x	60.08 m	x	60.08 m
DNS	Jorge Núñez	Mexico	x	60.08 m	x	60.08 m

final

Date: September 7, 1972, 4:50 p.m.

The Soviet European Champion from 1969 , Anatolij Bondarchuk, was the top favorite . Other medal contenders were the West German throwers Uwe Beyer, European champion from 1971 , and Edwin Klein, the GDR athletes Reinhard Theimer, vice European champion from 1971, and Jochen Sachse, the Hungarian Olympic champion from 1968 , Gyula Zsivótzky and Wassili Chmelewski from the USSR.

In the finals, Bondarchuk threw the hammer in the first attempt at the new Olympic record of 75.50 m. This width was not exceeded in the course of the competition. It was close behind, at first with a very clear gap to Bondarchuk. Four throwers with a width of just over 71 m followed in the next places: Sachse, Zsivótzky, his compatriot Sándor Eckschmiedt and Klein. In the second round, Chmelewski took second place with 71.62 m ahead of Sachse. Beyer threw 71.52 m and was initially fourth just two centimeters behind Sachse. Wassili Chmelewski improved again very clearly in the third round to 74.04 m, but was ousted in the last attempt by Jochen Sachse, who reached 74.96 m, which earned him the silver medal. Wassili Chmelewski stayed on the bronze rank, followed by Uwe Beyer and Gyula Zsivótzky in fourth and fifth place.

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  Olympic champion Anatoly Bondarchuk, USSR

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  GDR thrower Jochen Sachse, winner of the silver medal

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  Uwe Beyer from the Federal Republic came fourth

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Anatoly Bondarchuk	Soviet Union	75.50 m OR	72.62 m	71.76 m	73.78 m	73.50 m	72.90 m	75.50 m	OR
2	Jochen Sachse	GDR	71.54 m	x	73.70 m	71.26 m	x	74.96 m	74.96 m
3	Vasily Chmelewski	Soviet Union	68.82 m	71.62 m	74.04 m	68.16 m	x	x	74.04 m
4th	Uwe Beyer	BR Germany	70.32 m	71.52 m	x	68.98 m	69.90 m	x	71.52 m
5	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	71.38 m	70.44 m	70.48 m	x	70.66 m	70.20 m	71.38 m
6th	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	71.20 m	x	67.26 m	69.24 m	67.90 m	68.86 m	71.20 m
7th	Edwin Klein	BR Germany	71.14 m	x	x	69.70 m	70.26 m	x	71.14 m
8th	Shigenobu Murofushi	Japan	69.36 m	70.88 m	70.32 m	65.70 m	69.08 m	68.54 m	70.88 m
9	Mario Vecchiato	Italy	x	69.46 m	70.58 m	not in the final of the eight best throwers			70.58 m
10	Karl-Hans Riehm	BR Germany	70.12 m	68.98 m	69.44 m				70.12 m
11	István Encsi	Hungary	66.32 m	69.82 m	70.06 m				70.06 m
12	Tom Gage	United States	66.94 m	69.50 m	x				69.50 m
13	Reinhard Theimer	GDR	x	69.16 m	x				69.16 m
14th	Srećko Štiglić	Yugoslavia	67.60 m	68.34 m	67.60 m				68.34 m
15th	Stavros Moutaftsidis	Greece	68.14 m	68.30 m	67.04 m				68.30 m
16	Barry Williams	United Kingdom	68.18 m	66.56 m	x				68.18 m
17th	Peter Sternad	Austria	65.60 m	65.94 m	66.64 m				66.64 m
18th	Iosif Gamsky	Soviet Union	66.26 m	x	65.34 m				66.26 m
19th	Jacques Accambray	France	x	65.06 m	x				65.06 m
20th	Takeo Sugawara	Japan	55.82 m	64.56 m	64.70 m				64.70 m

literature

• Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , p. 49

Video

• Anatoli Bondarchuk Hammer Throw , Munich 1972, published on June 17, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed on December 1, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Hammerwurf , accessed December 1, 2017
• Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 63, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 1, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 558 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 1, 2017
2. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 1, 2017 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 63, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 1, 2017 
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 1, 2017