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)
Medalist Jurij Sedych ( URS )   Sergei Litvinov ( URS )   Jüri Tamm ( URS )

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 )

Detlef Gerstenberg from the GDR took fifth place

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

qualification

Date: July 26, 1980, 11:30 a.m.

GDR thrower Roland Steuk came fourth

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
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
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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 558 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 31 December 2017
2. ^ Moscow 1980 Official Report. Volume III: Results. P. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017.
3. ^ ^{A b} Moscow 1980 Official Report. Volume III: Results. P. 65, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017.
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 31, 2017 (English).