2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Estádio Nilton Santos
Competition phase	August 17, 2016 (qualification) August 19, 2016 (final)
Medalist Dilschod Nazarow ( TJK )   Ivan Zichan ( BLR )   Wojciech Nowicki ( POL )

The men's hammer throw at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 17 and 19, 2016 in the Estádio Nilton Santos . 32 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Tajike Dilschod Nazarow , who won ahead of Belarusian Ivan Zichan . Wojciech Nowicki from Poland won the bronze medal.

Athletes from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion	Krisztián Pars ( Hungary )	80.59 m	London 2012
World Champion	Paweł Fajdek ( Poland )	80.88 m	Beijing 2015
European champion		80.93 m	Amsterdam 2016
North / Central America / Caribbean champions	Roberto Janet ( Cuba )	72.72 m	San José 2015
South America champion	Wagner Domingos ( Brazil )	71.47 m	Lima 2015
Asian champion	Dilschod Nazarow ( Tajikistan )	77.68 m	Wuhan 2015
African champions	Eslam Ibrahim ( Egypt )	68.92 m	Durban 2016
Oceania Champion	Warren Button ( New Zealand )	58.14 m	Cairns 2015

Existing records

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

Remarks:

• All times are based on local time in Rio ( UTC-3 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualifying distance for reaching the final directly was 76.50 m. Since only two throwers exceeded this required distance - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best throwers from both groups to a total of twelve athletes - highlighted in light green. In the end, 73.74 m was enough to make it to the final.

Group A

The Pole Paweł Fajdek was eliminated with his 72.00 m in the qualification

August 17, 2016, 9:40 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)	annotation
1	Wagner domingos	Brazil	71.93	74.17	73.65	74.17
2	Marcel Lomnický	Slovakia	74.16	x	73.47	74.16
3	Yevgeny Winohradov	Ukraine	73.46	71.85	73.95	73.95
4th	Ashraf Amgad el-Seify	Qatar	72.99	72.62	73.47	73.47
5	Pavel Barejscha	Belarus	x	x	73.33	73.33
6th	Roberto Janet	Cuba	72.77	71.53	73.23	73.23
7th	Paweł Fajdek	Poland	x	71.33	72.00	72.00
8th	Rudy Winkler	United States	x	71.89	x	71.89
9	Mark Dry	Great Britain	70.26	x	71.03	71.03
10	Roberto Sawyers	Costa Rica	70.08	x	x	70.08
11	Hassan Mohamed Mahmoud	Egypt	68.47	67.38	69.87	69.87
12	Javier Cienfuegos	Spain	68.88	69.73	68.69	69.73
13	Kaveh Mousavi	Iran	63.19	65.03	x	65.03
14th	Amanmyrat Hommadow	Turkmenistan	61.55	61.99	x	61.99
ogV	Kibwe Johnson	United States	x	x	x	-	without space
	Marco Lingua	Italy	x	x	x

Group B

73.14 m was not enough for the Czech Lukáš Melich to take part in the final

The Greek Michalis Anastasakis failed with 71.28 m in the qualification

August 17, 2016, 11:05 am

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)	annotation
1	Wojciech Nowicki	Poland	74.39	74.09	77.64	77.64
2	Ivan Zichan	Belarus	76.51	-	-	76.51
3	Dilschod Nazarov	Tajikistan	75.46	76.39	-	76.39
4th	Krisztián Pars	Hungary	73.54	75.49	-	75.49
5	Diego del Real	Mexico	73.20	75.19	x	75.19
6th	Serghei Marghiev	Moldova	74.97	73.74	x	74.97
7th	David Soderberg	Finland	74.55	70.91	74.64	74.64
8th	Sjarhej Kalamoyez	Belarus	71.10	74.29	73.00	74.29
9	Lukáš Melich	Czech Republic	70.73	73.14	72.54	73.14
10	Conor McCullough	United States	70.64	66.30	72.88	72.88
11	Chris Bennett	Great Britain	68.44	70.74	71.32	71.32
12	Michalis Anastasakis	Greece	71.07	x	71.28	71.28
13	Nick Miller	Great Britain	x	x	70.83	70.83
14th	Suhrob Xoʻjayev	Uzbekistan	68.83	x	70.11	70.11
15th	Eşref Apak	Turkey	x	x	70.08	70.08
16	Pezhman Ghalehnoei	Iran	69.15	x	x	69.15

final

August 19, 2016, 9:05 pm

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, two of them directly via the qualifying distance, the other ten via their placements. The participants came from Brazil, Finland, Qatar, Mexico, Moldova, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine and Hungary. In addition, two Belarusians took part.

Each thrower initially had three attempts, the lengths of the qualifying round were not counted. The best eight athletes were then given a further three attempts, the last four were eliminated.

Due to the doping-related exclusion of Russian athletes from the Olympic Games imposed by the IAAF , the three best of the year 2016 were not there. The Hungarian Olympic champion from 2012 Krisztián Pars had qualified for the final. In contrast to him, the Polish world and European champion Paweł Fajdek failed in the qualification. The Belarusian Iwan Zichan, world champion from 2003 and 2007 , who had been noticed several times in the past as a doping offender , was allowed after a ban. who had prevented his participation in the 2012 Games in London , will be back here in Rio . He had qualified for the final and, like Pars, was one of the favorites. Other medal contenders were Vice World Champion Dilschod Nasarow from Tajikistan and the Polish World Cup and European Championship third Wojciech Nowicki.

In the first final round, Nazarow took the lead with 76.16 m and Zichan with 76.13 m. The lead changed in round two. Zichan was now with 77.43 m ahead of Nazarow with 77.24 m. In the third attempt, Nazarow then pushed his opponent back from the lead with 78.07 m, the Mexican Diego del Real moved up to third with 76.05 m. There were further improvements in the fifth attempt. Nasarow reached 78.68 m, Zichan 77.79 m, whereby nothing changed in the classification. In the last round, Nowicki ousted the Mexican del Real with 77.73 m from the bronze medal.

Dilschod Nazarow achieved the first ever Olympic victory for Tajikistan. It was also the country's first medal in athletics.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)	annotation
1	Dilschod Nazarov	Tajikistan	76.16	77.24	78.07	77.17	78.68	77.68	78.68
2	Ivan Zichan	Belarus	76.13	77.43	73.48	x	77.79	76.34	77.79
3	Wojciech Nowicki	Poland	x	74.94	74.97	x	x	77.73	77.73
4th	Diego del Real	Mexico	73.35	73.58	76.05	x	70.83	73.57	76.05
5	Marcel Lomnický	Slovakia	73.33	72.65	74.96	75.09	75.97	74.64	75.97
6th	Ashraf Amgad el-Seify	Qatar	73.88	75.40	74.45	75.20	75.46	74.25	75.46
7th	Krisztián Pars	Hungary	74.77	75.15	75.28	74.89	74.62	x	75.28
8th	David Soderberg	Finland	72.30	x	74.61	74.38	x	x	74.61
9	Sjarhej Kalamoyez	Belarus	74.22	74.17	73.70	not in the final of the eight best throwers			74.22
10	Serghei Marghiev	Moldova	73.31	74.14	x				74.14
11	Yevgeny Winohradov	Ukraine	73.39	x	74.11				74.11
12	Wagner domingos	Brazil	x	71.97	72.28				72.28

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  Olympic champion Dilschod Nazarow, Tajikistan

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  Silver medalist Ivan Zichan, Belarus

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  The Mexican Diego del Real took fourth place in the final

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  Ashraf Amgad Elseify from Qatar was sixth in the Olympics

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  The Hungarian Krisztián Pars came in seventh

Web links

• Results Book Rio 2016, official report at library.olympic.org, accessed October 8, 2018
• Results on the website of the World Athletics Federation IAAF Hammer Throw Men (English), accessed on October 8, 2018
• Sports Reference, Result Hammer Throw Men (English), accessed on October 8, 2018

Video

• Nazarov wins historic gold in Hammer Throw on youtube.com, published August 24, 2016, accessed October 8, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 680 (English) , accessed on October 8, 2018