2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	35 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Athens Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 20, 2004 (qualification) August 22, 2004 (final)
Medalist Kōji Murofushi ( Japan )   no silver medal awarded Eşref Apak ( Turkey )

The men's hammer throw at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 20 and 22, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 35 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Japanese Kōji Murofushi . No silver medal was awarded because of the doping-related disqualification of two athletes. Bronze went to the Turk Eşref Apak .

With Markus Esser and Karsten Kobs , two German participants started. Both reached the final, in which Esser finished fifth and Kobs finished eleventh.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein were not among the participants.

Current title holders

Olympic Champion 2000	Szymon Ziółkowski ( Poland )	80.02 m	Sydney 2000
World Champion 2003	Ivan Zichan ( Belarus )	83.05 m	Paris 2003
European Champion 2002	Adrián Annus ( Hungary )	81.17 m	Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003	Juan Ignacio Cerra ( Argentina )	75.53 m	Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean champions 2003	Hammer throw not held as a championship competition		St. George’s 2003
South American Champion 2003	Juan Ignacio Cerra ( Argentina )	73.31 m	Barquisimeto 2003
Asian champion 2003	Ali Al-Zinkawi ( Kuwait )	70.62 m	Manila 2003
African champion 2004	Chris Harmse ( South Africa )	75.90 m	Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002	Faleono Seve ( Solomon Islands )	53.00 m	Christchurch 2002

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 Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

doping

There were two doping cases to report in this competition. The Hungarian Adrián Annus originally took first place with a width of 83.19 m. After Annus did not show up for a target check scheduled by the International Olympic Committee in Hungary, the gold medal was revoked . In the end result, all finalists moved up one place. As a result of his cheating, the Russian Ilya Konovalov was denied participation in the final. In addition, the German Karsten Kobs would have had three more attempts in the final of the eight best throwers.

On December 5, 2012, the Belarusian bronze medalist Iwan Zichan , who had advanced to second place with 79.81 m after Annus' disqualification, was stripped of his medal because of doping. The IOC did not reassign the silver medal afterwards.

qualification

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 78.00 m. Since only five athletes reached this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). Finally, 76.69 m had to be achieved to participate.

Group A

August 20, 2004, 9:15 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Markus Esser	Germany	76.39	75.29	77.49	77.49
2	Ihar Astapkovich	Belarus	76.70	76.08	76.88	76.88
3	Eşref Apak	Turkey	76.74	x	x	76.74
4th	Ilya Konovalov	Russia	75.40	x	76.36	76.36	would have been eligible to participate in the final after Annus' disqualification
5	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	76.12	74.55	76.17	76.17
6th	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland	x	74.51	76.11	76.11
7th	Alexandros Papadimitriou	Greece	x	x	75.55	75.55
8th	Oleksandr Krykun	Ukraine	x	75.42	74.37	75.42
9	Patric Suter	Switzerland	72.45	x	73.54	73.54
10	Stuart Rendell	Australia	x	72.61	x	72.61
11	Juan Ignacio Cerra	Argentina	69.10	72.53	68.64	72.53
12	Vítor Costa	Portugal	72.47	72.44	x	72.47
13	Roman Rozna	Moldova	x	x	71.78	71.78
14th	Vladimir Maska	Czech Republic	71.76	x	x	71.76
15th	Alfred Kruger	United States	69.38	68.03	x	69.38
ogV	Dilschod Nazarov	Tajikistan	x	x	x		without space
	Wladyslaw Piskunow	Ukraine	x	x	x
DOP	Adrian Annus	Hungary

Group B

August 20, 2004, 11:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Krisztián Pars	Hungary	77.43	80.50	-	80.50
2	Kōji Murofushi	Japan	79.55	-	-	79.55
3	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia	76.97	78.81	-	78.81
4th	Libor Good Friday	Slovakia	x	x	77.30	77.30
5	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy	76.84	75.35	75.03	76.84
6th	Vadsim Dsevyatousky	Belarus	71.69	74.81	76.72	76.72
7th	Karsten Kobs	Germany	76.69	x	x	76.69
8th	Miloslav Konopka	Slovakia	74.42	x	76.16	76.16
9	Sergei Kirmasov	Russia	75.12	73.68	75.83	75.83
10	Artem Rubanko	Ukraine	75.08	x	x	75.08
11	James Parker	United States	73.15	74.09	75.04	75.04
12	Andras Haklits	Croatia	x	73.51	74.43	74.43
13	David Soderberg	Finland	x	x	74.14	74.14
14th	Yuri Voronkin	Russia	73.47	71.97	x	73.47
15th	Ali Mohamed Al-Zankawi	Kuwait	70.67	71.06	70.68	71.06
16	Dorian Çollaku	Albania	70.06	69.27	67.61	70.06
DOP	Ivan Zichan	Belarus

final

August 22, 2004, 9:15 pm

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, five of them by qualifying distance and another seven by their placements. All three Belarusians, two Germans, two Hungarians and one participant each from Italy, Japan, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey were represented. However, two of them dropped out of the ranking after positive doping tests.

Actually, the reigning world champion Iwan Zichan from Belarus started as the favorite . Together with one of his strongest competitors, the Hungarian vice world champion and European champion Adrián Annus, he was one of the two throwers who were later disqualified for doping offenses. Another favorite was the Japanese Kōji Murofushi as World Cup third in 2003 and vice world champion in 2001. A medal contender was also the Slovenian World Cup fifth Primož Kozmus. The 2000 Olympic champion , the Pole Szymon Ziółkowski, was among the participants again, but was no longer in the form of previous years.

In the final, Murofushi took the lead after round one with 79.90 m, which he expanded further in round two with the first throw of the competition over eighty meters. Then he exceeded this mark three times, only his penultimate attempt was invalid. In the sixth and last lap he achieved his greatest distance with 82.91 m. None of the other athletes could keep up. Apart from the Japanese, no thrower could surpass the 80-meter mark. But it was close and exciting in the fight for the further placements, although only afterwards, when Zichan and Annus had been disqualified, it became clear that it was actually a dispute about medals. In passage two, the Turk Eşref Apak reached 79.51 m. In the end he was first in fourth place, but moved up to the bronze rank due to Annus' disqualification. And even after Zichan was convicted of the doping offense, it stayed with bronze, because the IOC decided that a silver medal will not be awarded. Fourth was the Belarusian Wadsim Dzewjatouski ahead of the Hungarian Krisztián Pars and the Slovenian Primož Kozmus. There were only 95 centimeters between Apaks and Kozmus' bests. The Slovak Libor Charfreitag took seventh place ahead of the German Karsten Kobs.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Kōji Murofushi	Japan	79.90	81.60	81.16	82.32	x	82.91	82.91
The silver medal was not awarded.
3	Eşref Apak	Turkey	75.51	79.51	x	79.23	75.15	76.34	79.51
4th	Vadsim Dsevyatousky	Belarus	78.67	78.82	x	75.41	76.61	x	78.82
5	Krisztián Pars	Hungary	76.94	78.16	77.55	78.73	x	77.26	78.73
6th	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia	75.82	77.08	76.45	78.56	77.61	78.24	78.56
7th	Libor Good Friday	Slovakia	74.93	77.93	77.30	75.60	77.54	73.06	77.54
8th	Karsten Kobs	Germany	75.72	75.97	76.30	not in the final of the eight best throwers			76.30	would be wg. Annus' disqualification. in the final d. best eight
9	Ihar Astapkovich	Belarus	x	x	76.22				76.22
10	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy	74.27	72.97	76.30				74.27
11	Markus Esser	Germany	72.51	x	71.31				72.51
DOP	Ivan Zichan	Belarus
	Adrian Annus	Hungary

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  Gold medalist Kōji Murofushi from Japan

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  The Belarusian Wadsim Dzewjatouski finished fourth

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  The Hungarian Olympic fifth, Krisztián Pars

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  The Slovenian Primož Kozmus finished sixth in the final

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  Libor Charfritag from Slovakia was Olympic seventh

Web links

• SportsReference Hammerwurf , accessed May 1, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website, accessed on May 1, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on May 1, 2018

Video

• Olympics 2004- Hammer Throw , published September 17, 2006 on youtube.com, accessed May 1, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pan American Games on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 1, 2018
2. ↑ Central American and Caribbean Championships (Men) on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 1, 2018
3. ^ South American Championships (Men) on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 1, 2018
4. ↑ Asian Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 1, 2018
5. ↑ African Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 1, 2018
6. ↑ Oceania Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 1, 2018
7. ↑ IAAF world records hammer throw men , accessed on May 1, 2018
8. ↑ ^{a b} Olympic hammer throw winner Annus gives gold , RP Online October 21, 2004, accessed on April 19, 2018
9. ↑ ^{a b c} IOC Media Relations Team: IOC disqualifies four medallists from Athens 2004 following further analysis of stored samples ( English ) International Olympic Committee. December 5, 2012. Accessed May 1, 2018.
10. ^ Athletics at the 2004 Athina Summer Games: Men's Hammer Throw. Olympics at Sports-Reference.com, accessed May 1, 2018 .