1988 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Hammer throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 30 athletes from 16 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Seoul Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 25, 1988 (qualifying) September 26, 1988 (final) |
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The men's hammer throw at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was played in two rounds on September 25 and 26, 1988 in the Seoul Olympic Stadium. Thirty athletes took part.
The medals all went to athletes from the Soviet Union. Olympic champion was Sergei Litwinow ahead of Jurij Sedych and Jüri Tamm .
Christoph Sahner and Heinz Weis started for the Federal Republic of Germany. Sahner failed in the qualification. Weis reached the final and finished fifth. Ralf Haber and Gunther Rodehau took part
for the GDR . Both reached the final, Haber came fourth, Rodehau twelfth.
The Austrian Johann Lindner also qualified for the final. He came in tenth there.
Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 1984 | Juha Tiainen ( Finland ) | 78.08 m | Los Angeles 1984 |
World Champion 1987 | Sergei Litvinov ( Soviet Union ) | 83.06 m | Rome 1987 |
European champion 1986 | Jurij Sedych ( Soviet Union ) | 86.74 m | Stuttgart 1986 |
Pan American champion 1987 | Jud Logan ( USA ) | 77.24 m | Indianapolis 1987 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1987 | Vicente Sánchez ( Cuba ) | 69.86 m | Caracas 1987 |
South America Champion 1987 | Andrés Charadía ( Argentina ) | 66.72 m | São Paulo 1987 |
Asian champion 1987 | Xie Yingqi ( People's Republic of China ) | 66.36 m | Singapore 1987 |
African Champion 1988 | Hakim Toumi ( Algeria ) | 69.06 m | Annaba 1988 |
Existing records
World record | 86.74 m | Jurij Sedych ( Soviet Union ) | Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany ) | August 30, 1986 |
Olympic record | 81.80 min | Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia ) | July 31, 1980 |
qualification
Date: September 25, 1988
For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 77.00 m. Since only eight throwers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best throwers from both groups to twelve starters (highlighted in light green). Finally, a width of 76.24 m was sufficient for participation in the finals.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Jüri Tamm | Soviet Union | 79.68 m | - | - | 79.68 m | |
2 | Yuri Sedych | Soviet Union | 78.48 m | - | - | 78.48 m | |
3 | Ralf Haber | GDR | 75.64 m | 78.16 m | - | 78.16 m | |
4th | Gunther Rodehau | GDR | x | 78.12 m | - | 78.12 m | |
5 | Harri Huhtala | Finland | 75.98 m | 77.34 m | - | 77.34 m | |
6th | Tibor Gécsek | Hungary | x | 77.12 m | - | 77.12 m | |
7th | Imre Szitás | Hungary | 74.98 m | 76.24 m | 73.82 m | 76.24 m | |
8th | Juha Tiainen | Finland | 72.44 m | 73.74 m | x | 73.74 m | |
9 | Viktor Apostolov | Bulgaria | x | x | 71.10 m | 71.10 m | |
10 | Dave Smith | Great Britain | x | x | 69.12 m | 69.12 m | |
11 | Hakim Toumi | Algeria | 65.78 m | 65.72 m | x | 65.78 m | |
12 | Matthew Mileham | Great Britain | 59.94 m | 62.42 m | x | 62.42 m | |
13 | Lee Joo-hyong | South Korea | x | x | 55.98 m | 55.98 m | |
ogV | Kjell Bystedt | Sweden | x | x | x | without space |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Sergei Litvinov | Soviet Union | 81.24 m | - | - | 81.24 m | |
2 | Heinz Weis | BR Germany | 76.40 m | 76.70 m | 77.24 m | 77.24 m | |
3 | Ivan Tanev | Bulgaria | 76.84 m | x | x | 76.84 m | |
4th | Johann Lindner | Austria | 76.60 m | 74.54 m | x | 76.60 m | |
5 | Tore Gustafsson | Sweden | 72.90 m | 73.14 m | 76.44 m | 76.44 m | |
6th | Christoph Sahner | BR Germany | 75.84 m | 72.42 m | 72.46 m | 75.84 m | |
7th | Plamen Minew | Bulgaria | 74.46 m | 70.22 m | x | 74.46 m | |
8th | József Vida | Hungary | 70.60 m | 74.30 m | 72.50 m | 74.30 m | |
9 | Lance deal | United States | x | 71.72 m | 73.66 m | 73.66 m | |
10 | Kenneth Flax | United States | x | 72.70 m | 72.24 m | 72.70 m | |
11 | Jud Logan | United States | 69.46 m | 72.46 m | 72.64 m | 72.64 m | |
12 | Lucio Serrani | Italy | 70.50 m | x | 70.00 m | 70.50 m | |
13 | Michael Jones | Great Britain | 70.38 m | x | 68.94 m | 70.38 m | |
14th | Conor McCullough | Ireland | x | x | 68.66 m | 68.66 m | |
15th | Andrés Charadía | Argentina | 66.86 m | 66.02 m | 68.26 m | 68.26 m | |
16 | Waleed Al-Bekheet | Kuwait | 62.78 m | 60.14 m | 63.86 m | 63.86 m |
final
Date: September 26, 1988
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, eight of them over the required qualification distance. All three participants from the Soviet Union were there. There were also two throwers from the GDR and two from Hungary. The final field was completed by one starter each from the Federal Republic of Germany, Bulgaria, Finland, Austria and Sweden.
The top favorites were the Soviet throwers Sergei Litwinow and Jurij Sedych, who since 1976 with the exception of u. a. Los Angeles games boycotted by the USSR in 1984 had won all major tournaments. World record holder Sedych was the winner of the Olympic Games in 1976 and 1980 , and also reigning European champion . Litvinov had won the world championships in 1983 and 1987 . Her compatriot, Vice World Champion Jüri Tamm, was also rated highly, while the 1984 Olympic champion , the Finn Juha Tiainen, had already failed in the qualification.
In the first attempt Litvinow achieved a new Olympic record with 84.76 m . Sedych and Tamm followed in the next places. Sergei Litvinow not only succeeded in surpassing the previous Olympic record in all six attempts, but was also better than the top scores of all his competitors in each of his attempts. His weakest throw in the last round was 83.80 m, his strongest in the fifth round at 84.80 m, with which he increased his Olympic record from round one by four centimeters. As a silver medalist, Jurij Sedych also exceeded the Olympic record that had been in place up to these games with four attempts. Each of the three Soviet athletes reached a distance of more than eighty meters with each valid attempt. Of the other participants, only the GDR thrower Ralf Haber succeeded in doing this once, with his last attempt, who thus finished in the Olympics behind Jüri Tamm. The fifth and sixth place went to Heinz Weis, FR Germany, and the Hungarian Tibor Gécsek.
It was the third triple success for Soviet hammer throwers at the Olympics.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Sergei Litvinov | Soviet Union | 84.76 m OR | 83.82 m | 83.86 m | 83.98 m | 84.80 m OR | 83.80 m | 84.80 m | OR |
2 | Yuri Sedych | Soviet Union | 80.96 m | 83.62 m | 83.44 m | 83.44 m | x | 83.76 m | 83.76 m | |
3 | Jüri Tamm | Soviet Union | 80.94 m | 81.16 m | x | x | x | x | 81.16 m | |
4th | Ralf Haber | GDR | 78.92 m | 78.72 m | 79.18 m | x | 78.88 m | 80.44 m | 80.44 m | |
5 | Heinz Weis | BR Germany | 78.50 m | 76.80 m | x | 77.70 m | 78.98 m | 79.16 m | 79.16 m | |
6th | Tibor Gécsek | Hungary | 78.18 m | 76.52 m | 74.36 m | 77.82 m | x | 78.36 m | 78.36 m | |
7th | Imre Szitás | Hungary | 76.00 m | 76.40 m | 76.20 m | 75.66 m | 76.10 m | 77.04 m | 77.04 m | |
8th | Ivan Tanev | Bulgaria | 75.56 m | 75.76 m | x | 75.28 m | 75.54 m | 76.08 m | 76.08 m | |
9 | Harri Huhtala | Finland | 75.26 m | 75.38 m | 75.08 m | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
75.38 m | |||
10 | Johann Lindner | Austria | 75.36 m | 75.14 m | 75.28 m | 75.36 m | ||||
11 | Tore Gustafsson | Sweden | 74.24 m | 73.32 m | x | 74.24 m | ||||
12 | Gunther Rodehau | GDR | x | x | 72.36 m | 72.36 m |
Web links
- SportsReference Hammerwurf , accessed January 28, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , results in athletics: p. 245, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 28, 2018
Video
- 1988 seoul , published July 8, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed January 28, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 680 , accessed on January 28, 2018
- ↑ a b Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul, volume two, part two , athletics results: p. 245, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 28, 2018