1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Hammer throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 20 athletes from 14 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Montreal Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 26, 1976 (qualifying) July 28, 1976 (final) |
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The men's hammer throw at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held on July 26th and 28th, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 20 athletes took part.
For the team of the Soviet Union there was a triple success to celebrate. Jurij Sedych became Olympic champion. The silver medal went to Alexei Spiridonov , the bronze went to the 1972 Olympic champion , Anatolij Bondarchuk .
The Federal Republic of Germany was represented by Edwin Klein , Karl-Hans Riehm and Walter Schmidt . All three athletes reached the final. Riehm was fourth, Schmidt fifth and Klein eighth. Jochen Sachse and Manfred Seidel started
for the GDR and also reached the final. Sachse was sixth, Seidel tenth.
The Austrian Peter Sternad failed in the qualification.
Throwers from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 79.30 m | Walter Schmidt ( Federal Republic of Germany ) | Frankfurt am Main , Federal Republic of Germany | August 14, 1975 |
Olympic record | 75.50 m | Anatoly Bondarchuk ( Soviet Union ) | Final of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany | 7th September 1972 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in a qualifying round on July 26th, which was conducted in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final on July 28th was 69.00 m. Since only ten athletes reached this distance, the final field was filled to twelve participants according to the next best distance.
In the final, each athlete initially had three attempts. The best eight throwers were then entitled to another three attempts.
Time schedule
July 26, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification
July 28, 2 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )
The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.
qualification
Date: July 26, 1976, from 10 a.m.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Karl-Hans Riehm | BR Germany | 74.46 m | - | - | 74.46 m | |
2 | Yuri Sedych | Soviet Union | 71.46 m | - | - | 71.46 m | |
3 | Anatoly Bondarchuk | Soviet Union | 71.08 m | - | - | 71.08 m | |
4th | Manfred Seidel | GDR | 70.84 m | - | - | 70.84 m | |
5 | Walter Schmidt | BR Germany | 70.76 m | - | - | 70.76 m | |
6th | Jochen Sachse | GDR | x | 70.64 m | - | 70.64 m | |
7th | Alexei Spiridonov | Soviet Union | 70.64 m | - | - | 70.64 m | |
8th | Peter Farmer | Australia | 67.50 m | 68.94 m | 69.92 m | 69.92 m | |
9 | Edwin Klein | BR Germany | 68.68 m | 68.36 m | 68.72 m | 68.72 m | |
10 | Paul Dickenson | Great Britain | 67.52 m | x | 68.52 m | 68.52 m |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Chris Black | Great Britain | 70.76 m | - | - | 70.76 m | |
2 | Jacques Accambray | France | 70.72 m | - | - | 70.72 m | |
3 | Shigenobu Murofushi | Japan | 66.22 m | 68.84 m | 68.24 m | 68.84 m | |
4th | Giampaolo Urlando | Italy | x | 66.18 m | 68.54 m | 68.54 m | |
5 | Larry Hart | United States | 67.74 m | 65.74 m | x | 67.74 m | |
6th | Murray Cheater | New Zealand | 66.30 m | 67.38 m | x | 67.38 m | |
7th | Edoardo Podbershek | Italy | 66.56 m | 66.28 m | x | 66.56 m | |
8th | Peter Sternad | Austria | 65.80 m | 66.08 m | 66.14 m | 66.14 m | |
9 | Murray Keating | Canada | 65.00 m | 65.28 m | 65.68 m | 65.68 m | |
10 | Kleanthis Ierissiotis | Greece | 65.50 m | x | x | 65.50 m |
final
Date: July 28, 1976, 2 p.m.
The Soviet throwers Juri Sedych and Alexei Spiridonow as well as Karl-Hans Riehm from the Federal Republic of Germany competed as medal candidates. The year before, Riehm had taken the hammer throw to a whole new level with a new throwing technique. But in the Olympic year, Sedych and Spiridonov in particular had equalized this lead. The other favorites included Anatolij Bondarchuk, Olympic champion in 1972 , and world record holder Walter Schmidt, who, however, had not yet achieved his best results at major events. Also represented in the final was the Japanese Shigenobu Murofushi, whose son Kōji Murofushi was to become Olympic champion in hammer throw in 2004 .
Already in the first round of the finals, the three Soviet athletes were at the top with strong distances. Spiridonov was ten centimeters ahead of Sedych, and Sedych was sixteen centimeters ahead of Bondarchuk. In the second attempt, Sedych took the lead with the Olympic record distance of 77.52 m. Nothing changed in this order, even if Spiridonow was able to improve again in the last attempt. Riehm and Schmidt followed in fourth and fifth in front of the GDR athlete Jochen Sachse, who won the silver medal in 1972.
The Soviet throwers had the first triple success of a country after the USA at the Olympic Games in 1904 - at that time the US throwers even took the first six places.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Yuri Sedych | Soviet Union | 75.64 m | 77.52 m OR | x | x | 75.58 m | 76.40 m | 77.52 m | OR |
2 | Alexei Spiridonov | Soviet Union | 75.74 m | 73.94 m | 75.28 m | 75.60 m | x | 76.08 m | 76.08 m | |
3 | Anatoly Bondarchuk | Soviet Union | 75.48 m | x | 74.64 m | 74.16 m | x | 75.46 m | 75.48 m | |
4th | Karl-Hans Riehm | BR Germany | 75.00 m | 73.08 m | x | 75.46 m | 75.42 m | 74.62 m | 75.46 m | |
5 | Walter Schmidt | BR Germany | 72.58 m | 74.72 m | 74.36 m | 73.52 m | 74.72 m | 72.42 m | 74.72 m | |
6th | Jochen Sachse | GDR | 71.90 m | 72.84 m | 72.80 m | 73.14 m | 74.30 m | 73.70 m | 74.30 m | |
7th | Chris Black | Great Britain | 70.56 m | 72.38 m | 73.18 m | x | 69.54 m | x | 73.18 m | |
8th | Edwin Klein | BR Germany | 68.14 m | 70.52 m | 70.32 m | 70.36 m | 69.76 m | 71.34 m | 71.34 m | |
9 | Jacques Accambray | France | x | 67.52 m | 70.44 m | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
70.44 m | |||
10 | Manfred Seidel | GDR | 69.66 m | x | 70.02 m | 70.02 m | ||||
11 | Shigenobu Murofushi | Japan | x | 68.62 m | 68.88 m | 68.88 m | ||||
12 | Peter Farmer | Australia | 67.98 m | 67.92 m | 68.00 m | 68.00 m |
The 1972 Olympic champion Anatoly Bondarchuk, USSR, winner of the bronze medal
literature
- Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 228f
Videos
- SYND 29 7 76 OLYMPIC MEN'S 110M HURDLE FINAL, 3000M STEEPLECHASE, HAMMER THROW , range 0:36 min - 1:26 min published on July 24, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on December 18, 2017
- Hammer Throw Final 1976 Olympics.mpg , posted February 22, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed December 18, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference Hammerwurf , accessed December 18, 2017
- Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 77, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 18, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 558 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 18 December 2017
- ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 18, 2017
- ↑ a b Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 77, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 18, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 18, 2017