1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Hammer throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 17 athletes from 12 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Luzhniki Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 30, 1980 (qualifying) July 31, 1980 (final) |
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The men's hammer throw at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on July 30 and 31, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. 17 athletes took part.
The Soviet team celebrated a triple medal success. The 1976 Olympic champion Jurij Sedych won with a new world record in front of Sergei Litwinow and Jüri Tamm .
Detlef Gerstenberg and Roland Steuk started for the GDR . Both reached the final: Steuk came fourth, Gerstenberg fifth.
Throwers from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.
Existing records
World record | 81.66 m | Sergei Litvinov ( Soviet Union ) | Sochi , Soviet Union (now Russia ) | May 24, 1980 |
Olympic record | 77.52 m | Jurij Sedych ( Soviet Union ) | Final of Montreal , Canada | July 28, 1976 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes started a qualification round on July 30th, which was held together in a group due to the small number of participants. The qualifying distance for directly reaching the final on July 31 was 72.00 m. Since only eight athletes exceeded this distance, the final field was filled to twelve throwers after the next best distance, so that 69.38 m was enough for participation in the final.
Time schedule
July 26, 11.30 a.m .: Qualification
July 27, 5 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are local time Moscow ( UTC + 3 )
The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.
qualification
Date: July 26, 1980, 11:30 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Yuri Sedych | Soviet Union | 78.22 m OR | - | - | 78.22 m | OR |
2 | Jüri Tamm | Soviet Union | 76.24 m | - | - | 76.24 m | |
3 | Sergei Litvinov | Soviet Union | x | 75.24 m | - | 75.24 m | |
4th | Detlef Gerstenberg | GDR | 75.04 m | - | - | 75.04 m | |
5 | Roland Steuk | GDR | x | 73.52 m | - | 73.52 m | |
6th | Harri Huhtala | Finland | 71.42 m | 72.46 m | - | 72.46 m | |
7th | Armando Orozco | Cuba | x | x | 72.28 m | 72.28 m | |
8th | Giampaolo Urlando | Italy | 68.40 m | 72.20 m | - | 72.20 m | |
9 | Ireneusz Golda | Poland | x | 69.98 m | 70.88 m | 70.88 m | |
10 | Juha Tiainen | Finland | 70.64 m | 70.46 m | 70.82 m | 70.82 m | |
11 | Emanuil Djugerow | Bulgaria | x | 69.24 m | 70.60 m | 70.60 m | |
12 | Jiří Chamrád | Czechoslovakia | x | 67.44 m | 69.38 m | 69.38 m | |
13 | Peter Farmer | Australia | 68.52 m | 69.16 m | x | 69.16 m | |
14th | Chris Black | Great Britain | 66.02 m | 66.74 m | x | 66.74 m | |
15th | Paul Dickenson | Great Britain | x | 64.22 m | 63.90 m | 64.22 m | |
16 | Seán Egan | Ireland | 63.34 m | 63.94 m | x | 63.94 m | |
17th | Khaled Ghaloum | Kuwait | x | 47.40 m | 47.00 m | 47.40 m |
final
Date: July 27, 1980, 5 p.m.
The Soviet throwers with the 1976 Olympic champion , Jurij Sedych, the world record holder Sergei Litwinow and Jueri Tamm, also an 80-meter thrower, were the top favorites for this competition. Due to the Olympic boycott, the former world record holder from the Federal Republic of Germany, Karl-Hans Riehm , who had not suffered a defeat in the pre-Olympic year, was missing . The two GDR athletes Roland Steuk, Vice European Champion from 1978 , and Detlef Gerstenberg, European Championship fourth in 1978, were the main competitors for the athletes from the USSR.
As it turned out at the end, the medal award was already clear in the first round. Jurij Sedych set a new world record straight away, and Sergei Litvinov immediately succeeded in breaking the 80-meter mark. Jüri Tamm was in third place. This increased in the second round to 78.96 m, but that didn't change the order. Litvinov made no further valid attempt in the following period. The Bulgarian Emanuil Djulgerow and the Finn Harri Huhtala both had exactly the same best distance after three rounds. So it came to the novelty that nine instead of eight athletes contested the second final round with three more attempts. In the end, Roland Steuk and Detlef Gerstenberg took fourth and fifth place.
It was the second triple success in a row for the Soviet team in the hammer throw .
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 | 81.80 m WR | 81.46 m | 79.68 m | x | 80.98 m | 80.70 m | 81.80 m | WR |
2 | Sergei Litvinov | Soviet Union | 80.64 m | x | x | x | x | x | 80.64 m | |
3 | Jüri Tamm | Soviet Union | 77.84 m | 78.96 m | 77.92 m | 77.26 m | x | 76.86 m | 78.96 m | |
4th | Roland Steuk | GDR | 74.34 m | 76.00 m | 75.58 m | 77.26 m | 77.54 m | x | 77.54 m | |
5 | Detlef Gerstenberg | GDR | 73.64 m | 74.60 m | 73.98 m | x | x | 73.40 m | 74.60 m | |
6th | Emanuil Djulgerov | Bulgaria | 70.14 m | 71.34 m | 71.82 m | 71.34 m | 74.04 m | x | 74.04 m | |
7th | Giampaolo Urlando | Italy | 73.60 m | 73.90 m | 73.18 m | 73.30 m | x | x | 73.90 m | |
8th | Ireneusz Golda | Poland | 72.38 m | 73.74 m | x | x | x | x | 73.74 m | |
9 | Harri Huhtala | Finland | 69.78 m | x | 71.82 m | 71.96 m | 71.82 m | 71.02 m | 71.96 m | |
10 | Juha Tiainen | Finland | x | 71.38 m | 71.08 m | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
71.38 m | |||
11 | Armando Orozco | Cuba | x | 67.76 m | 68.68 m | 68.68 m | ||||
12 | Jiří Chamrád | Czechoslovakia | 68.16 m | 65.94 m | 66.58 m | 68.16 m |
Video
- Yuri Sedykh Dominates Olympic Hammer Throw - Moscow 1980 Olympics , published May 20, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed December 31, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference Hammerwurf , accessed December 31, 2017
- Moscow 1980 Official Report. Volume III: Results. P. 66 f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 558 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 31 December 2017
- ^ Moscow 1980 Official Report. Volume III: Results. P. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017.
- ^ A b Moscow 1980 Official Report. Volume III: Results. P. 65, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017.
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 31, 2017 (English).