1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	37 athletes from 22 countries
Competition location	Centennial Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 27, 1996 (qualification) July 28, 1996 (final)
Medalist Baláz's Kiss ( HUN )   Lance Deal ( USA )   Oleksandr Krykun ( UKR )

The men's hammer throw at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 27 and 28, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 37 athletes took part.

The Hungarian Balázs Kiss became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the American Lance Deal and the Ukrainian Oleksandr Krykun .

Claus Dethloff, Karsten Kobs and Heinz Weis started for Germany . Dethloff and Kobs were eliminated from the qualification. Weis reached the final and finished fifth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1992	Andrei Abduwalijew ( EUN )	82.54 m	Barcelona 1992
World Champion 1995	Andrei Abduwalijew ( Tajikistan )	81.56 m	Gothenburg 1995
European Champion 1994	Vasily Sidorenko ( Russia )	81.10 m	Helsinki 1994
Pan American champion 1995	Lance Deal ( USA )	75.64 m	Mar del Plata 1995
Central America and Caribbean champions 1995	Yosvany Suárez ( Cuba )	69.68 m	Guatemala City 1995
South American Champion 1995	Andrés Charadía ( Argentina )	70.34 m	Manaus 1995
Asian champion 1995	Bi Zhong ( People's Republic of China )	70.30 m	Jakarta 1995
African champion 1996	Hakim Toumi ( Algeria )	69.32 m	Yaoundé 1996
Oceania Champion 1994	Patrick Hellier ( New Zealand )	63.16 m	Auckland 1994

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 )	Seoul , South Korea	September 26, 1988

Remarks:

• All times are local Atlanta time ( UTC − 5 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 76.50 m. Since only eight athletes achieved this performance (highlighted in light blue), the final field with the next best athletes from both groups was filled by four more throwers to twelve finalists (highlighted in light green). So finally 75.10 m was enough for the final.

Group A

The Frenchman Christophe Épalle retired as ninth in his qualifying group

July 27, 1996, 11:30 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Baláz's Kiss	Hungary	x	78.34	-	78.34
2	Heinz Weis	Germany	75.16	77.84	-	77.84
3	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	77.64	-	-	77.64
4th	Vasily Sidorenko	Russia	76.64	-	-	76.64
5	Oleksandr Krykun	Ukraine	73.82	75.78	75.70	75.78
6th	Sjarhej Alaj	Belarus	74.94	73.60	75.10	75.10
7th	Claus Dethloff	Germany	74.60	73.68	72.68	74.60
8th	Alexandros Papadimitriou	Greece	74.42	x	74.46	74.46
9	Christophe Épalle	France	74.22	73.42	73.98	74.22
10	Gilles Dupray	France	x	70.92	74.04	74.04
11	Pavel Sedláček	Czech Republic	72.60	73.98	x	73.98
12	Kevin McMahon	United States	73.10	73.46	72.78	73.46
13	Jüri Tamm	Estonia	72.14	73.16	x	73.16
14th	Loris Paoluzzi	Italy	71.38	71.68	72.82	72.82
15th	Adrian Annus	Hungary	68.68	72.26	72.58	72.58
16	Tore Gustafsson	Sweden	70.36	71.02	x	71.02
17th	Jan Bielecki	Denmark	x	x	69.40	69.40
18th	Roman Linscheid	Ireland	x	68.14	66.90	68.14

Group B

The German Karsten Kobs retired as ninth in his qualification group

The Finn Marko Wahlman finished twelfth in his qualification group and was eliminated

July 27, 1996, 1:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Lance deal	United States	75.10	76.34	78.56	78.56
2	Ihar Astapkovich	Belarus	76.00	78.52	-	78.52
3	Andrij Skwaruk	Ukraine	73.52	77.48	-	77.48
4th	Enrico Sgrulletti	Italy	77.36	-	-	77.36
5	Raphael Piolanti	France	75.46	x	76.44	76.44
6th	Ilya Konovalov	Russia	74.84	75.10	75.08	75.10
7th	Alberto Sánchez	Cuba	73.16	74.22	74.82	74.82
8th	Vadim Schersonzew	Russia	73.62	74.00	74.48	74.48
9	Karsten Kobs	Germany	72.04	x	74.20	74.20
10	Aljaksandr Krasko	Belarus	71.82	73.74	x	73.74
11	Zsolt Németh	Hungary	41.64	72.24	73.68	73.68
12	Marko Wahlman	Finland	72.60	73.50	x	73.50
13	Sean Carlin	Australia	73.32	72.00	x	73.32
14th	Ken Popejoy	United States	72.08	72.46	x	72.46
15th	David Smith	Great Britain	x	x	69.32	69.32
16	Aqarab Abbas	Pakistan	65.60	x	64.34	65.60
17th	Andrés Charadía	Argentina	65.26	x	x	65.26
18th	Vitaly Khoschatelev	Uzbekistan	64.52	x	x	64.52
ogV	Christos Polychroniou	Greece	x	x	x		without space

final

The Pole Szymon Ziółkowski finished tenth in the final

July 28, 1996, 3:45 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, eight over the required qualification distance and another four over their placements. Two Russians, two Ukrainians and Belarusians fought for the medals with one participant each from Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Hungary and the USA.

Some of the old guard of hammer throwers were no longer here in Atlanta . For example, the 1992 Olympic champion and 1995 world champion Andrei Abduwalijew from Tajikistan or the Hungarian World Cup third-placed Tibor Gécsek . The favorites were the Hungarian World Cup fourth Balázs Kiss, the Belarusian vice world champion, vice European champion and Olympic runner-up from 1992 Ihar Astapkowitsch, the US-American Lance Deal, world championship fifth, and also European champion Wassili Sidorenko from Russia, who, however, no longer has the throwing qualities of the European championship season.

Kiss took the lead in the first lap with 79.28 m, behind him in second place was German Heinz Weis with 78.78 m. Both improved their widths in the second attempt, Weis to 79.30 m and Kiss to 80.50 m. In the third round, Kiss managed 81.24 m. The Ukrainian Andrij Skwaruk moved up to second place with 79.92 m in front of his compatriot Oleksandr Krykun, who scored 79.44 m and displaced Weis in fourth place.

Nine athletes were allowed to participate in the following three attempts. Both the US athlete Lance Deal and the Italian Enrico Sgrulletti were eighth with 76.94 m. In this case, the rule of resorting to the second best distance did not apply and both could continue the competition.

In the next two test series nothing happened in the ranking. But in the last round there were again changes. First, Deal threw the hammer to 81.12 m and was second behind Kiss. Krykun reached 80.02 m, which pushed him past Skwaruk into third place. Weis also improved his distance again to 79.78 m, but this did not result in any change in the classification. Balázs Kiss was Olympic champion, the medals won Lance Deal - silver - and Oleksandr Krykun - bronze. Andrij Skwaruk took fourth place ahead of Heinz Weis and the Russian Ilja Konovalov.

Lance Deal won the nineteenth U.S. medal in hammer throw , the first medal since Hal Connolly's 1956 Olympic victory .

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Baláz's Kiss	Hungary	79.28	80.50	81.24	78.60	79.82	x	81.24
2	Lance deal	United States	x	x	76.94	75.62	77.26	81.12	81.12
3	Oleksandr Krykun	Ukraine	76.24	77.64	79.44	x	78.14	80.02	80.02
4th	Andrij Skwaruk	Ukraine	74.24	x	79.92	75.80	76.56	x	79.92
5	Heinz Weis	Germany	78.78	79.30	x	78.10	78.98	79.78	79.78
6th	Ilya Konovalov	Russia	76.44	77.48	77.44	77.70	76.52	78.72	78.72
7th	Ihar Astapkovich	Belarus	76.38	78.20	x	76.62	77.38	x	78.20
8th	Sjarhej Alaj	Belarus	75.46	76.68	77.38	76.50	76.38	75.78	77.38
9	Enrico Sgrulletti	Italy	76.34	76.94	75.22	76.88	74.78	76.98	76.98
10	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	76.30	74.90	76.64	not in the final of the best nine throwers			76.64
11	Raphael Piolanti	France	74.34	75.24	x				75.24
12	Vasily Sidorenko	Russia	73.62	x	74.68				74.68

literature

• Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 38f

Web links

• SportsReference Hammerwurf , accessed March 5, 2018
• Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 93, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 5, 2018

Video

• Hammer Throw Atlanta Olympics 1996 Final , published December 23, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed March 5, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 680 , accessed on March 5, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 93, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 5, 2018