2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	44 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 23, 2000 (qualification) September 24, 2000 (final)
Medalist Szymon Ziółkowski ( POL )   Nicola Vizzoni ( ITA )   Ihar Astapkovich ( BLR )

The men's hammer throw at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 23 and 24, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 44 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Szymon Ziółkowski from Poland . He won ahead of the Italian Nicola Vizzoni and the Belarusian Ihar Astapkowitsch .

With Markus Esser , Karsten Kobs and Heinz Weis , three Germans took part in the competition. All three failed in the qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein were not there.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1996	Balázs Kiss ( Hungary )	81.24 m	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999	Karsten Kobs ( Germany )	80.24 m	Seville 1999
European champion 1998	Tibor Gécsek ( Hungary )	82.87 m	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Lance Deal ( USA )	79.61 m	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champions 1999	Hammer throw not carried out
South American Champion 1999	Juan Ignacio Cerra ( Argentina )	72.09 m	Bogotá 1999
Asian champion 2000	Wataru Ebihara ( Japan )	69.50 m	Jakarta 2000
African Champion 2000	Samir Haouam ( Algeria )	69.38 m	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	Brentt Jones ( Norfolk Island )	55.01 m	Adelaide 2000

Existing records

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

Remarks:

• All times are based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance was 77.50 m. Since only five participants exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). After all, 76.61 m were necessary to take part in the finals.

Group A

September 23, 2000, 10:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Andrij Skwaruk	Ukraine	79.55	-	-	79.55
2	Kōji Murofushi	Japan	78.49	-	-	78.49
3	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	77.81	-	-	77.81
4th	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy	75.31	77.56	-	77.56
5	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	75.97	x	77.33	77.33
6th	Ilya Konovalov	Russia	77.07	76.93	74.29	77.07
7th	Ivan Zichan	Belarus	76.43	76.90	x	76.90
8th	Vladimír Maška	Czech Republic	x	76.70	75.62	76.70
9	Pavel Sedláček	Czech Republic	74.66	72.71	75.33	75.33
10	Gilles Dupray	France	x	74.71	75.05	75.05
11	Oleksandr Krykun	Ukraine	74.83	72.49	74.17	74.17
12	Zsolt Németh	Hungary	73.95	x	x	73.95
13	Stuart Rendell	Australia	67.67	72.78	x	72.78
14th	András Haklits	Croatia	x	x	72.66	72.66
15th	Karsten Kobs	Germany	72.29	x	71.65	72.29
16	Markus Esser	Germany	x	69.51	x	69.51
17th	Kevin McMahon	United States	69.48	65.97	x	69.48
18th	Vítor Costa	Portugal	67.07	68.79	68.89	68.89
19th	Roman Rozna	Moldova	x	68.01	62.46	68.01
20th	Patrick McGrath	Ireland	67.00	64.09	64.35	67.00
21st	Vitaly Khoyatelev	Uzbekistan	60.55	64.53	65.04	65.04

Group B

September 23, 2000, 12:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Ihar Astapkovich	Belarus	79.81	-	-	79.81
2	David Chaussinand	France	77.12	x	x	77.12
3	Loris Paoluzzi	Italy	x	73.63	76.91	76.91
4th	Alexandros Papadimitriou	Greece	76.61	74.77	x	76.61
5	Maciej Pałyszko	Poland	76.33	x	70.11	76.33
6th	Wladyslaw Piskunow	Ukraine	75.95	76.00	76.08	76.08
7th	Andrei Abduvaliev	Uzbekistan	x	75.64	74.19	75.64
8th	Lance deal	United States	73.84	75.61	73.93	75.61
9	Adrian Annus	Hungary	74.01	75.41	x	75.41
10	Vasily Sidorenko	Russia	74.72	73.97	x	74.72
11	Alexei Sagorny	Russia	70.58	74.00	74.63	74.63
12	Christophe Épalle	France	70.46	72.70	74.22	74.22
13	Christos Polychroniou	Greece	x	x	74.02	74.02
14th	Heinz Weis	Germany	73.51	73.19	x	73.51
15th	Juan Ignacio Cerra	Argentina	x	72.86	x	72.86
16	Libor Good Friday	Slovakia	71.10	72.52	x	72.52
17th	Miloslav Konopka	Slovakia	70.55	x	x	70.55
18th	Jan Bielecki	Denmark	68.56	70.46	x	70.46
19th	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland	69.64	x	x	69.64
20th	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia	68.83	x	67.02	68.83
21st	Jud Logan	United States	68.42	68.05	x	68.42
ogV	Nikolai Davidov	Kyrgyzstan	x	x	x		without space

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  The German Markus Esser threw 69.51 m in the qualification and was eliminated

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  With 74.22 m the Frenchman Christophe Épalle failed in the qualification

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  Libor Charfreitag from Slovakia was eliminated from the qualification with 72.52 m

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  The Finn Olli-Pekka Karjalainen did not reach the final with his 69.64 m

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  68.83 m were not enough for the Slovenian Primož Kozmus to take part in the finals

final

September 24, 2000, 8:50 pm

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, five of them by qualifying distance and seven more by their placements. Participants were two Italians, two Belarusians and one each from France, Greece, Japan, Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine and Hungary.

Some highly rated athletes such as the German world champion Karsten Kobs, the US-American Lance Deal, the Hungarian vice world champion Zsolt Németh and the World Cup third Wladyslaw Piskunow from Ukraine had already failed in the qualification. So it was difficult to find a favorite group for this final. The Hungarian European champion and fourth place in the World Cup, Tibor Gécsek, and Andrij Skwaruk from Ukraine, fifth in the World Cup in 1999 and runner-up in 1997 , were certainly among them.

The final was held under adverse conditions. Only one athlete, Szymon Ziółkowski from Poland, managed a throw over the 80-meter mark with 80.02 m. Ziółkowski won the gold medal in front of the Italian Nicola Vizzoni, who achieved his best distance of 79.64 m in the third attempt. With 79.17 m, the bronze medal went to Belarusian Ihar Astapkowitsch. His compatriot Iwan Zichan achieved exactly the same distance, but had the worse second best attempt with 78.85 m compared to Astapkowitsch's 79.06 m. The Russian Ilya Konovalov was fifth, the Italian Loris Paoluzzi sixth.

It was a close final with very close intervals. The quality suffered significantly from the difficult external conditions with sunny, but above all rainy sections.

Szymon Ziółkowski was the first Polish Olympic champion and medalist in the men's hammer throw .
Nicola Vizzoni won the first medal for Italy in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	74.89	79.87	x	80.02	78.68	78.32	80.02
2	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy	76.35	76.57	79.64	76.07	76.99	x	79.64
3	Ihar Astapkovich	Belarus	74.98	x	77.08	x	79.17	79.06	79.17
4th	Ivan Zichan	Belarus	78.85	78.11	79.17	x	75.93	x	79.17
5	Ilya Konovalov	Russia	78.56	78.12	x	x	72.78	x	78.56
6th	Loris Paoluzzi	Italy	78.18	x	x	x	76.19	x	78.18
7th	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	75.25	76.99	77.70	75.81	77.06	76.82	77.70
8th	Vladimír Maška	Czech Republic	77.32	75.37	76.39	73.86	x	75.52	77.32
9	Kōji Murofushi	Japan	x	76.24	76.60	not in the final of the eight best throwers			76.60
10	Andrij Skwaruk	Ukraine	71.60	75.50	x				75.50
11	David Chaussinand	France	74.24	x	75.26				75.26
12	Alexandros Papadimitriou	Greece	x	73.30	x				73.30

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  Olympic champion Szymon Ziółkowski from Poland

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  Silver medalist Nicola Vizzoni from Italy

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  Belarusian Ivan Zichan finished fourth in the final.

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  The Japanese Kōji Murofushi was an Olympian.

Web links

• SportsReference Hammerwurf , accessed April 2, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 2, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 2, 2018

Videos

• hammer throw astapkovich olympics 2000 , hammer throw bronze medalist, posted August 31, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed April 2, 2018
• Hammer Throw - Ziolkowski Sydney 2000 warmup , Throwing in Adverse Weather, posted August 31, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed April 2, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 680 , accessed on April 2, 2018