2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
place	Beijing National Stadium
Attendees	33 athletes from 26 countries
Competition phase	August 15 and 17, 2008
Medalist
gold	Primož Kozmus ( SVN )
silver	Vadsim Dsevyatousky ( BLR )
bronze	Ivan Zichan ( BLR )

The hammer throw at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing took place on August 15 and 17, 2008. 33 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Primož Kozmus from Slovenia . The silver medal went to the Belarusian Vadsim Dzewjatouski . Bronze went to Iwan Zichan , also from Belarus.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 2004	Kōji Murofushi ( Japan )	82.91 m	Athens 2004
World Champion 2007	Ivan Zichan ( Belarus )	83.63 m	Osaka 2007
European champion 2006	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen ( Finland )	80.84 m	Gothenburg 2006
Pan American Champion 2007	James Steacy ( Canada )	73.77 m	Rio de Janeiro 2007
Central America and Caribbean champions 2008	Noleysi Bicet ( Cuba )	71.61 m	Cali 2008
South America Champion 2007	Juan Ignacio Cerra ( Argentina )	72.96 m	São Paulo 2007
Asian champion 2007	Ali Mohamed Al-Zankawi ( Kuwait )	75.71 m	Amman 2007
Africa Champion 2008	Chris Harmse ( South Africa )	77.72 m	Addis Ababa 2008
Oceania Champion 2008	Thomas McGuire ( Australia )	46.00 m	Saipan 2008

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

doping

None of the hammer throwers was ultimately disqualified, all results are still valid today. Nevertheless, the doping problem did not go past this competition. Wadsim Dzewjatouski and Iwan Zichan were initially disqualified by the IOC in December 2008 for positive doping tests , but appealed against this decision to the International Court of Justice for Sports , which in June 2010 overturned the athletes' disqualification due to a breakdown in the laboratory that analyzed the samples. IOC Vice President Thomas Bach announced that the IOC would conduct another analysis to overturn the CAS ruling.

Both athletes had already been noticed because of positive doping tests, results had been canceled.

• Ivan Zichan
  • Withdrawal of the bronze medal from the 2004 Olympic Games on December 5, 2012
  • Withdrawal of the gold medal from the 2005 World Championships
  • Withdrawal of the gold medal from the 2006 European Championships
• Vadsim Dsevyatousky
  • two-year ban for violating doping regulations
  • Withdrawal of the silver medal from the 2005 World Championships

Just because of legal quibbles and unprofessional work in the CAS laboratory, the two Belarusian hammer throwers officially remain in the lists of medal winners this time.

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). In the end, 75.34 m had to be achieved to take part.

The Latvian Igors Sokolovs Szymkowiak is eliminated with 73.72 m

Group A

August 15, 2008, 10:40 am

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Krisztián Pars	Hungary	x	80.07 m	-	80.07 m
2	Kōji Murofushi	Japan	78.16 m	-	-	78.16 m
3	Markus Esser	Germany	x	77.00 m	77.60 m	77.60 m
4th	András Haklits	Croatia	74.27 m	77.12 m	76.23 m	77.12 m
5	Dilschod Nazarov	Tajikistan	74.67 m	75.34 m	72.47 m	75.34 m
6th	Yevgen Vynogradov	Ukraine	73.41 m	74.49 m	x	74.49 m
7th	Valeryy Svyatocha	Belarus	74.41 m	x	x	74.41 m
8th	Alexandros Papadimitriou	Greece	x	74.33 m	73.83 m	74.33 m
9	Igors Sokolovs	Latvia	73.72 m	71.50 m	x	73.72 m
10	Kirill Ikonnikow	Russia	x	72.04 m	72.33 m	72.33 m
11	Miloslav Konopka	Slovakia	71.76 m	71.96 m	x	71.96 m
12	Igor Tugay	Ukraine	71.89 m	x	70.56 m	71.89 m
13	Bergur Ingi Pétursson	Iceland	69.73 m	x	71.63 m	71.63 m
14th	Lukáš Melich	Czech Republic	69.31 m	70.56 m	69.03 m	70.56 m
ogV	Mohsen Mohamed Anani	Egypt	x	x	x		without space
	Marco Lingua	Italy	x	x	x

The Italian Nicola Vizzoni did not reach the final with his 75.01 m

Group B

August 15, 2008, 12:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	79.55 m	-	-	79.55 m
2	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia	79.44 m	-	-	79.44 m
3	Ivan Zichan	Belarus	79.26 m	-	-	79.26 m
4th	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland	75.49 m	x	77.07 m	77.07 m
5	Vadsim Dsevyatousky	Belarus	73.39 m	76.56 m	76.95 m	76.95 m
6th	Libor Good Friday	Slovakia	76.03 m	x	76.61 m	76.61 m
7th	James Steacy	Canada	76.32 m	x	75.01 m	76.32 m
8th	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy	72.82 m	x	75.01 m	75.01 m
9	Artem Rubanko	Ukraine	74.47 m	73.89 m	x	74.47 m
10	Eşref Apak	Turkey	x	74.45 m	x	74.45 m
11	Ali Zenkawi	Kuwait	x	73.62 m	x	73.62 m
12	Igor Vinichenko	Russia	x	72.05 m	x	72.05 m
13	Roman Rozna	Moldova	71.33 m	69.99 m	70.23 m	71.33 m
14th	Alfred George Kruger III	United States	70.58 m	71.21 m	x	71.21 m
15th	Dorian Çollaku	Albania	69.14 m	69.64 m	70.98 m	70.98 m
16	Juan Ignacio Cerra	Argentina	x	70.16 m	x	70.16 m
ogV	Amanmurad Hommadov	Turkmenistan	x	x	x		without space

final

August 17, 2008, 7:10 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, five of them by qualifying distance and another seven by their placements. Two Belarusians and one participant each from Germany, Finland, Germany, Japan, Canada, Croatia, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Tajikistan were represented.

At the time of these games, some results that were later canceled were still valid. At that time, Belarusian Ivan Zichan still had the status of European champion from 2006 , world champion from 2005 and Olympic third from 2004 . His compatriot Wadsim Dzewjatouski was run as vice world champion in 2005. Both were close favorites here in Beijing . Zichan was and is also the official world champion of 2007 , Dsewjatouski World Cup fourth in 2007. Other medal candidates were the Slovenian vice world champion Primož Kozmus, the third place in the 2007 World Cup Libor Charfreitag from Slovakia, the Finn Olli-Pekka Karjalainen, today officially European champion from 2006 and World Cup third from 2005, the Hungarian World Cup fifth from 2007 Krisztián Pars and the Japanese World Cup sixth from 2007 Kōji Murofushi. The 2000 Olympic champion Szymon Ziółkowski from Poland was here again, but was no longer one of the narrowest favorites.

The distances achieved in this final had the high level of the world championships of the previous year with numerous throws beyond eighty meters. Initially, Kozmus achieved 80.75 m and was the front runner. In the second round he managed a further increase with 82.02 m. Dzewjatouski moved into second place, not far behind Kozmus with 81.61 m. Pars threw 80.96 m and was third in front of Murofushi - 80.71 m - and Zichan with 80.56 m. In round three, as in the first round, Kozmus was the only athlete with a throw above the 80-meter mark.

So it went into the final of the eight best throwers. Pars and again Kozmus had attempts that were more than eighty yards. On lap five, Zichan improved to 81.51 m, moving past Murofushi and Pars into third place. In the subsequent final round there were no more changes. Primož Kozmus, who threw more than eighty meters in all six attempts, was thus Olympic champion. He was followed by the two Belarusians Wadsim Dzewjatouski - silver - and Ivan Zichan - bronze. The two were only ten centimeters apart. Krisztián Pars was fourth in front of Kōji Murofushi. These five athletes had a final result greater than eighty meters. Not far behind were Olli-Pekka Karjalainen, Szymon Ziółkowski and Libor Charfreitag.

Primož Kozmus was the first Slovenian Olympic hammer throw champion .

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia	80.75 m	82.02 m	80.79 m	80.64 m	80.98 m	80.85 m	82.02 m
2	Vadsim Dsevyatousky	Belarus	79.00 m	81.61 m	x	x	80.86 m	x	81.61 m
3	Ivan Zichan	Belarus	78.49 m	80.56 m	79.59 m	79.89 m	81.51 m	80.87 m	81.51 m
4th	Krisztián Pars	Hungary	78.05 m	80.96 m	x	80.16 m	80.11 m	79.83 m	80.96 m
5	Kōji Murofushi	Japan	79.47 m	80.71 m	79.94 m	77.96 m	78.22 m	77.26 m	80.71 m
6th	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland	77.92 m	79.59 m	78.99 m	x	78.88 m	x	79.59 m
7th	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	75.92 m	79.22 m	79.07 m	79.04 m	76.16 m	x	79.22 m
8th	Libor Good Friday	Slovakia	x	77.62 m	76.83 m	77.26 m	78.65 m	x	78.65 m
9	Markus Esser	Germany	74.56 m	x	77.10 m	not in the final of the eight best throwers			77.10 m
10	András Haklits	Croatia	x	75.78 m	76.58 m				76.58 m
11	Dilschod Nazarov	Tajikistan	72.97 m	76.54 m	x				76.54 m
12	James Steacy	Canada	75.72 m	75.54 m	74.06 m				75.72 m

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  Olympic champion Primož Kozmus from Slovenia

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  Silver medalist Vadsim Dzewjatouski from Belarus

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  Ivan Zichan, also from Belarus, wins bronze

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  The Hungarian Krisztián Pars finished fourth in the final

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  The Japanese Olympic fifth Kōji Murofushi

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  The Slovak Libor Charfreitag comes in eighth in the final

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  Markus Esser from Germany is an Olympic competitor

Web links

• SportsReference Hammerwurf , accessed June 13, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website, accessed June 13, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on June 13, 2018
• "I begged to be checked" / "The Wada top would have to resign" , Zeit Online July 29, 2016, accessed on June 13, 2018

Video

• Athletics - Men's Hammer Throw Final - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games , published August 17, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed June 13, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 13, 2018
2. ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 13, 2018
3. ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed June 13, 2018 
4. ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 13, 2018
5. ↑ IAAF world records, hammer throw men , accessed on June 13, 2018
6. ^ IOC: IOC takes decisions on three doping cases . December 11, 2008, accessed June 13, 2018
7. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Doped hammer throwers lose medals . June 13, 2008, accessed May 28, 2018
8. ↑ CAS: The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upholds the appeals of the Belarusian athletes ( Memento of the original of March 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 165 kB). June 10, 2010, accessed June 13, 2018
9. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Belarusians get medals back . June 10, 2010, accessed June 13, 2018
10. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: IOC wants third analysis . June 10, 2010, accessed June 13, 2018
11. ^ IOC Media Relations Team: IOC disqualifies four medallists from Athens 2004 following further analysis of stored samples ( English ) International Olympic Committee. December 5, 2012. Retrieved June 13, 2018.
12. ↑ ^{a b} World Cup 2005 doping tests: three world champions convicted , Focus Online March 8, 2013, accessed June 13, 2018
13. ↑ European Athletics Championships - Göteborg 2006 , on European Athletics - Hammer Throw Result, accessed on June 13, 2018