Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw

Men's hammer throw
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
Date17–19 August 2016
Competitors32 from 24 nations
Winning distance78.68 m
Medalists
   Tajikistan
   Belarus
   Poland
Athletics at the
2016 Summer Olympics
List of athletes
Qualification
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
5000 m men women
10,000 m men women
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men women
3000 m
steeplechase
men women
4 × 100 m relay men women
4 × 400 m relay men women
Road events
Marathon men women
20 km walk men women
50 km walk men
Field events
Long jump men women
Triple jump men women
High jump men women
Pole vault men women
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men women
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men

The men's hammer throw competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium between 17–19 August.[1]

Summary

The hammer throw was an event that experienced a lot of problems. Initially the IAAF set the entry standard at 78.00 meters. With the ban of the Russian team from the Olympics, eliminating three top throwers in the world (and their potentially drug affected performances throwing off the bell curve), the IAAF had to lower the qualification standard to 77.00 meters. Still there were not sufficient qualified athletes to fill the quota of entries. Three American throwers Conor McCullough, Kibwé Johnson and Rudy Winkler, whose best marks were just below 77 meters, along with Amanmurad Hommadov, Javier Cienfuegos and Esref Apak were invited to fill the quota. Number 4 in the world qualifying Mostafa Al-Gamel and number 10 in 2016, Oleksandr Drygol did not enter. Drygol is a 50 year old, former Soviet thrower who switched his citizenship from Ukraine to Israel in 2016 in order to enter the Olympics. Dryhol would have been the oldest track and field athlete should have he competed.

With 76.50 m set as the automatic qualifying mark, only two athletes were able to manage the distance. One of them was 40 year old Ivan Tsikhan, who was previously stripped of a 2004 Olympic medal for doping and is only able to compete due to a second violation being overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on a procedural technicality. Number one in the world, with the top 24 performances (meaning 24 separate meets) over the last two years, Paweł Fajdek, did not get out of the qualifying round, only managing 72.00 m to finish in 17th place. Highly ranked throwers Pavel Bareisha and Roberto Janet also did not get out of qualifying.

Tsikhan started the final with at 76.13 m as the first thrower in the competition. Two thrower later, Krisztián Pars managed a 74.77 m, but no other thrower in the round even threw that far until the last thrower, World Championships silver medalist Dilshod Nazarov edged ahead with a 76.16 m. On the next throw, at the beginning of the second round, Tsikhan improved his mark to 77.43 m, to again take the lead. During the round Pars improved his bronze medal position to 75.15. A few throwers later, Ashraf Amgad Elseify, a Sri Lankan born, Egyptian free agent throwing for Qatar threw 75.40, to move into third. Nazarov improved to 77.27 to sit in second place. In the third round, Diego del Real threw 76.05 to move into third. On the final throw of the round, Nazarov threw 78.07 to not only take the lead, but to earn the right to continue as the last thrower in the remaining rounds. It didn't matter because nobody was able to throw further. There were no leader improvements during the fourth round. In the fifth round, Marcel Lomnicky moved into fourth with a 75.97 and Elseify improved, before solidified his hold on silver with a 77.79, which Nazarov answered with a 78.68 m (258 ft 1 in) that proved to be the winner. Nazrov knew it was big, dropping to his knees in celebration before exiting the ring. In the final round, Wojciech Nowicki threw 77.73 m, to leap from seventh place to the bronze medal, just 6 cm out of silver. None of the other athletes were able to answer.

Nazarov won the first gold medal for Tajikistan.

The following evening the medals were presented by Irena Szewińska, IOC member, Poland and Sergey Bubka, Senior Vice President of the IAAF.

Competition format

Each athlete received three throws in the qualifying round. All who achieved the qualifying distance progress to the final. If less than twelve athletes achieved this mark, then the twelve furthest throwing athletes reached the final. Each finalist was allowed three throws in last round, with the top eight athletes after that point being given three further attempts.

Schedule

All times are Brasilia Time (UTC-3)

Date Time Round
Wednesday, 17 August 2016 9:40Qualifications
Friday, 19 August 2016 21:05Finals

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) 86.74 m Stuttgart, West Germany 30 August 1986
Olympic record  Sergey Litvinov (URS) 84.80 m Seoul, South Korea 26 September 1988
2016 World leading  Paweł Fajdek (POL) 81.87 m Bydgoszcz, Poland 25 June 2016

Results

Qualifying round

Progression rules: qualifying performance 76.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final

Rank Group Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes
1 B Wojciech Nowicki Poland 74.39 74.09 77.64 77.64 Q
2 B Ivan Tsikhan Belarus 76.51 76.51 Q
3 B Dilshod Nazarov Tajikistan 75.46 76.39 76.39 q
4 B Krisztián Pars Hungary 73.54 75.49 75.49 q
5 B Diego del Real Mexico 73.20 75.19 x 75.19 q
6 B Serghei Marghiev Moldova 74.97 73.74 x 74.97 q
7 B David Söderberg Finland 74.55 70.91 74.64 74.64 q
8 B Siarhei Kalamoyets Belarus 71.10 74.29 73.00 74.29 q
9 A Wagner Domingos Brazil 71.93 74.17 73.65 74.17 q
10 A Marcel Lomnický Slovakia 74.16 x 73.47 74.16 q
11 A Yevhen Vynohradov Ukraine 73.46 71.85 73.95 73.95 q
12 A Ashraf Amgad Elseify Qatar 72.99 72.62 73.47 73.47 q
13 A Pavel Bareisha Belarus x x 73.33 73.33
14 A Roberto Janet Cuba 72.77 71.53 73.23 73.23
15 B Lukas Melich Czech Republic 70.73 73.14 72.54 73.14
16 B Conor McCullough United States 70.64 66.30 72.88 72.88
17 A Paweł Fajdek Poland x 71.33 72.00 72.00
18 A Rudy Winkler United States x 71.89 x 71.89
19 B Chris Bennett Great Britain 68.44 70.47 71.32 71.32
20 B Mihail Anastasakis Greece 71.07 x 71.28 71.28
21 A Mark Dry Great Britain 70.26 x 71.03 71.03
22 B Nick Miller Great Britain x x 70.83 70.83
23 B Suhrob Khodjaev Uzbekistan 68.83 x 70.11 70.11
24 B Esref Apak Turkey x x 70.08 70.08
A Roberto Sawyers Costa Rica 70.08 x x 70.08
26 A Mohamed Mahmoud Hassan Egypt 68.47 67.38 69.87 69.87
27 A Javier Cienfuegos Spain 68.88 69.73 68.69 69.73
28 B Pezhman Ghalehnoei Iran 69.15 x x 69.15
29 A Kaveh Mousavi Iran 63.19 65.03 x 65.03
30 A Amanmurad Hommadov Turkmenistan 61.55 61.99 x 61.99
31 A Kibwe Johnson United States x x x NM
31 A Marco Lingua Italy x x x NM

Final

Rank Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Dilshod Nazarov Tajikistan 76.16 77.27 78.07 77.17 78.68 77.68 78.68
2nd, silver medalist(s) Ivan Tsikhan Belarus 76.13 77.43 73.48 x 77.79 76.34 77.79
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Wojciech Nowicki Poland x 74.94 74.97 x x 77.73 77.73
4 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
6 Ashraf Amgad Elseify Qatar 73.88 75.40 74.45 75.20 75.46 74.25 75.46
7 Krisztián Pars Hungary 74.77 75.15 75.28 74.89 74.62 x 75.28
8 David Söderberg Finland 72.30 x 74.61 74.38 x x 74.61
9 Siarhei Kalamoyets Belarus 74.22 74.17 73.70 Did not advance 74.22
10 Serghei Marghiev Moldova 73.31 74.14 x Did not advance 74.14
11 Yevhen Vynohradov Ukraine 73.39 x 74.11 Did not advance 74.11
12 Wagner Domingos Brazil x 71.97 72.28 Did not advance 72.28

References

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