1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	26 athletes from 19 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Barcelona
Competition phase	August 1, 1992 (qualification) August 2, 1992 (final)
Medalist Andrei Abduwalijew ( EUN )   Ihar Astapkovich ( EUN )   Igor Nikulin ( EUN )

The men's hammer throw at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held on August 1st and 2nd, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. 26 athletes took part.

The united team celebrated a triple success. Andrei Abduwalijew won ahead of Ihar Astapkowitsch and Igor Nikulin .

Claus Dethloff and Heinz Weis started for Germany . Dethloff failed in the qualification. Weis reached the final and was sixth.
The Austrian Johann Lindner also reached the final. He finished ninth.
Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion in 1988	Sergei Litvinov ( Soviet Union )	84.80 m	Seoul 1988
World Champion 1991	Jurij Sedych ( Soviet Union )	81.70 m	Tokyo 1991
European champion 1990	Ihar Astapkovich ( Soviet Union )	84.14 m	Split 1990
'Pan American Champion' 1991	Jim Driscoll ( USA )	72.78 m	Havana 1991
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1991	Guillermo Guzmán ( Mexico )	64.58 m	Xalapa 1991
South American Champion 1991	Adrián Marzo ( Argentina )	65.12 m	Manaus 1991
Asian champion 1991	Bi Zhong ( People's Republic of China )	69.90 m	Kuala Lumpur 1991
Africa Champion2	Hakim Toumi ( Algeria )	69.80 m	Belle Vue Maurel 1992
Oceania Champion 1990	Douglas Mace ( New Zealand )	57.50 m	Suva 1990

Existing records

World record	86.74 m	Jurij Sedych ( Soviet Union )	Stuttgart , Germany	August 30, 1986
Olympic record	84.80 m	Sergei Litvinov ( Soviet Union )	Final from Seoul , South Korea	September 26, 1988

qualification

Date: August 1, 1992

For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 76.00 m. Since only eight throwers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best participants from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 74.86 m was enough for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Jud Logan	United States	78.40 m	-	-	78.40 m
2	Jüri Tamm	Estonia	71.76 m	75.24 m	78.16 m	78.16 m
3	Ihar Astapkovich	EUN	76.50 m	-	-	76.50 m
4th	Enrico Sgrulletti	Italy	75.40 m	75.40 m	x	75.40 m
5	Johann Lindner	Austria	75.28 m	75.24 m	74.02 m	75.28 m
6th	Heinz Weis	Germany	74.86 m	74.64 m	x	74.86 m
7th	Raphael Piolanti	France	x	73.22 m	71.98 m	73.22 m
8th	Frédéric Kuhn	France	71.20 m	71.76 m	71.64 m	71.76 m
9	Andrés Charadía	Argentina	70.82 m	70.64 m	x	70.82 m
10	Benjaminas Viluckis	Lithuania	70.54 m	x	70.54 m	70.54 m
11	Plamen Minew	Bulgaria	68.78 m	x	69.90 m	69.90 m
12	Paul Head	Great Britain	x	69.58 m	65.64 m	69.58 m
13	Pavel Sedláček	Czechoslovakia	67.76 m	64.98 m	67.34 m	67.76 m

Group B

The Frenchman Christophe Épalle took tenth place in the final

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Igor Nikulin	EUN	74.20 m	79.08 m	-	79.08 m
2	Andrei Abduvaliev	EUN	78.82 m	-	-	78.82 m
3	Lance deal	United States	x	75.58 m	77.00 m	77.00 m
4th	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	76.48 m	-	-	76.48 m
5	Christophe Épalle	France	76.24 m	-	-	76.24 m
6th	Sean Carlin	Australia	74.48 m	74.38 m	75.90 m	75.90 m
7th	Bi Zhong	People's Republic of China	70.66 m	x	74.30 m	74.30 m
8th	Sávvas Saritzoglou	Greece	x	73.06 m	74.16 m	74.16 m
9	Claus Dethloff	Germany	73.12 m	73.64 m	73.36 m	73.64 m
10	Tore Gustafsson	Sweden	73.52 m	x	71.92 m	73.52 m
11	Ivan Tanev	Bulgaria	'70, 20 m	71.16 m	72.62 m	72.62 m
12	Kenneth Flax	United States	69.04 m	x	69.36 m	69.36 m
13	Waleed Al-Bakheet	Kuwait	x	x	63.94 m	63.94 m
14th	Rashid Riyadh Al-Ameeri	Bahrain	x	x	56.08 m	56.08 m

final

Date: August 21, 1992

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, eight of them by the required qualification distance, the other four by their placements. All three athletes from the united team were in the final. The final field was completed by one participant each from Australia, Germany, Estonia, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary and the USA. The second qualified US American, Jud Logan, was disqualified for taking clenbuterol and subsequently banned for four years. He had initially reached fourth place in the competition.

After the resignation of Jurij Sedych and Sergei Litvinov , who had dominated this competition for more than a decade, the favorites were the three athletes from the combined team, i. H. European champion and vice world champion Ihar Astapkowitsch, the World Cup fifth Andrei Abduwalijew, and the European Championship third Igor Nikulin. Other candidates for top positions were World Cup third Heinz Weis from Germany and World Cup fourth Tibor Gécsek from Hungary.

Astapkovich took the lead on the first lap, followed by Abduwalijew and Nikulin. In the second round, Abduwalijew threw 80.18 m and thus sixteen centimeters further than Astapkowitsch. He countered in the third attempt with 81.80 m, Abduwalijew in round four then with 82.54 m. Thus the final stand was established, even if Astapkowitsch improved to 81.96 m and Nikulin to 81.38 m in the last attempt. None of the other finalists succeeded in surpassing the 80-meter mark. Places four to six went to Tibor Gécsek, the Estonian Jüri Tamm and Heinz Weis.

Not counting 1984, when the Soviet Union boycotted the Los Angeles Games , this was the fourth triple success in a row for athletes from the Soviet Union or the successor organization CIS .

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Andrei Abduvaliev	EUN	78.56 m	80.18 m	80.34 m	82.54 m	79.12 m	82.24 m	82.54 m
2	Ihar Astapkovich	EUN	80.02 m	x	81.80 m	78.08 m	81.70 m	81.96 m	81.96 m
3	Igor Nikulin	EUN	78.46 m	78.56 m	x	78.32 m	80.44 m	81.38 m	81.38 m
4th	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	77.78 m	75.78 m	x	75.54 m	x	76.58 m	77.78 m
5	Jüri Tamm	Estonia	76.36 m	77.00 m	x	76.80 m	75.82 m	77.52 m	77.52 m
6th	Heinz Weis	Germany	76.72 m	x	76.90 m	x	75.32 m	76.28 m	76.90 m
7th	Lance deal	United States	x	76.84 m	74.92 m	x	75.06 m	76.42 m	76.84 m
8th	Sean Carlin	Australia	75.08 m	76.16 m	75.10 m	not in the final of the eight best throwers			76.16 m
9	Johann Lindner	Austria	75.14 m	73.36 m	74.26 m				75.14 m
10	Christophe Épalle	France	74.24 m	74.84 m	74.74 m				74.84 m
11	Enrico Sgrulletti	Italy	72.98 m	72.34 m	x				72.98 m
DOP	Jud Logan	United States	79.00 m	78.44 m	x	x	x	75.80 m		disqualified for doping offense

Web links

• SportsReference Hammerwurf , accessed February 13, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 51f, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 13, 2018

Video

• Hammer Throw Barcelona Olympics 1992 , published August 19, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed February 13, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 680 , accessed on February 13, 2018
2. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 51, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 13, 2018
3. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 52, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 13, 2018
4. ↑ List of Olympic doping offenders on SportsReference , accessed on February 13, 2018