Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw

Men's hammer throw
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Szymon Ziółkowski (2001)
VenueANZ Stadium
Dates23 September 2000 (qualifying)
24 September 2000 (final)
Competitors44 from 24 nations
Winning distance80.02
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Szymon Ziółkowski
 Poland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Nicola Vizzoni
 Italy
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Igor Astapkovich
 Belarus
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The men's hammer throw at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the ANZ Stadium on Saturday, 23 September and Sunday, 24 September.[1] There were 44 competitors from 24 nations.[2] The event was won by Szymon Ziółkowski of Poland, the nation's first victory in the event and first medal of any color in the men's hammer throw since 1960. Silver went to Nicola Vizzoni, the first medal winner in the event for Italy. Igor Astapkovich, who had won a silver medal on the Unified Team in 1992, took bronze for the first medal credited to Belarus in the event. Astapkovich was the 11th man to win multiple medals in the hammer throw.

Background

This was the 23rd appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics except 1896. Seven of the 12 finalists from the 1996 Games returned: silver medalist (and 1992 finalist) Lance Deal of the United States, fourth-place finisher Andriy Skvaruk of Ukraine, fifth-place finisher (and 1988 and 1992 finalist) Heinz Weis of Germany, sixth-place finisher Ilya Konovalov of Russia, seventh-place finisher (and 1992 silver medalist) Igor Astapkovich of Belarus, tenth-place finisher Szymon Ziółkowski of Poland, and twelfth-place finisher Vasiliy Sidorenko of Russia. Also returning was 1992 Olympic champion Andrey Abduvaliyev, now competing for Uzbekistan. Weis (1997) and Karsten Kobs (199), also of Germany, were the last two World Champions.[2]

Croatia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Slovakia, and Slovenia each made their debut in the event. The United States appeared for the 22nd time, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Qualification

Main article: Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had thrown 75.50 metres or further during the qualification period. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had thrown 72.50 metres or further could be entered.[3]

Competition format

The competition used the two-round format introduced in 1936, with the qualifying round completely separate from the divided final. In qualifying, each athlete received three attempts; those recording a mark of at least 77.50 metres advanced to the final. If fewer than 12 athletes achieved that distance, the top 12 would advance. The results of the qualifying round were then ignored. Finalists received three throws each, with the top eight competitors receiving an additional three attempts. The best distance among those six throws counted.[2][4]

Records

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

World record  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) 86.74 Stuttgart, West Germany 30 August 1986
Olympic record  Sergey Litvinov (URS) 84.80 Seoul, South Korea 26 September 1988

No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition.

Schedule

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Date Time Round
Saturday, 23 September 2000 10:00 Qualifying
Sunday, 24 September 2000 20:50 Final

Results

Qualifying

Rank Athlete Nation 1 2 3 Distance Notes
1 Igor Astapkovich  Belarus 79.81 – – 79.81 Q
2 Andriy Skvaruk  Ukraine 79.55 – – 79.55 Q
3 Koji Murofushi  Japan 78.49 – – 78.49 Q
4 Szymon Ziółkowski  Poland 77.81 – – 77.81 Q
5 Nicola Vizzoni  Italy 75.31 77.56 – 77.56 Q
6 Tibor Gécsek  Hungary 75.97 X 77.33 77.33 q
7 David Chaussinand  France 77.12 X X 77.12 q
8 Ilya Konovalov  Russia 77.07 76.93 74.29 77.07 q
9 Loris Paoluzzi  Italy X 73.63 76.91 76.91 q
10 Ivan Tikhon  Belarus 76.43 76.90 X 76.90 q
11 Vladimír Maška  Czech Republic X 76.70 75.62 76.70 q
12 Alexandros Papadimitriou  Greece 76.61 74.77 X 76.61 q
13 Maciej Pałyszko  Poland 76.33 X 70.11 76.33
14 Vladyslav Piskunov  Ukraine 75.95 76.00 76.08 76.08
15 Andrey Abduvaliyev  Uzbekistan X 75.64 74.19 75.64
16 Lance Deal  United States 73.84 75.61 73.93 75.61
17 Adrián Annus  Hungary 74.01 75.41 X 75.41
18 Pavel Sedláček  Czech Republic 74.66 72.71 75.33 75.33
19 Gilles Dupray  France X 74.71 75.05 75.05
20 Oleksandr Krykun  Ukraine 74.83 72.49 74.17 74.83
21 Vasiliy Sidorenko  Russia 74.72 73.97 X 74.72
22 Aleksey Zagornyi  Russia 70.58 74.00 74.63 74.63
23 Christophe Épalle  France 70.46 72.70 74.22 74.22
24 Hristos Polihroniou  Greece X X 74.02 74.02
25 Zsolt Nemeth  Hungary 73.95 X X 73.95
26 Heinz Weis  Germany 73.51 73.19 X 73.51
27 Juan Ignacio Cerra  Argentina X 72.86 X 72.86
28 Stuart Rendell  Australia 67.67 72.78 X 72.78
29 András Haklits  Croatia X X 72.66 72.66
30 Libor Charfreitag  Slovakia 71.10 72.52 X 72.52
31 Karsten Kobs  Germany 72.29 X 71.65 72.29
32 Miloslav Konopka  Slovakia 70.55 X X 70.55
33 Jan Bielecki  Denmark 68.56 70.46 X 70.46
34 Olli-Pekka Karjalainen  Finland 69.64 X X 69.64
35 Markus Esser  Germany X 69.51 X 69.51
36 Kevin McMahon  United States 69.48 65.97 X 69.48
37 Vitor Costa  Portugal 67.07 68.79 68.89 68.89
38 Primož Kozmus  Slovenia 68.83 X 67.02 68.83
39 Jud Logan  United States 68.42 68.05 X 68.42
40 Roman Rozna  Moldova X 68.01 62.46 68.01
41 Paddy McGrath  Ireland 67.00 64.09 64.35 67.00
42 Vitaly Khojatelev  Uzbekistan 60.55 64.53 65.04 65.04
43 Victor Ustinov  Uzbekistan X 60.60 X 60.60
— Nikolay Davydov  Kyrgyzstan X X X NM

Final

The tie for bronze medal at 79.17 metres was broken by second-best throw, with Astapkovich's 79.06 metres beating Tikhon's 78.85 metres.

Rank Athlete Nation 1 2 3 4 5 6 Distance Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Szymon Ziółkowski  Poland 74.89 79.87 X 80.02 78.68 78.32 80.02
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Nicola Vizzoni  Italy 76.35 76.57 79.64 76.07 76.99 X 79.64 PB
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Igor Astapkovich  Belarus 74.98 X 77.08 X 79.17 79.06 79.17
4 Ivan Tikhon  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
6 Loris Paoluzzi  Italy 78.18 X X X 76.19 X 78.18
7 Tibor Gécsek  Hungary 75.25 76.99 77.70 75.81 77.06 76.82 77.70
8 Vladimír Maška  Czech Republic 77.32 75.37 76.39 73.86 X 75.52 77.32
9 Koji Murofushi  Japan X 76.24 76.60 Did not advance 76.60
10 Andriy Skvaruk  Ukraine 71.60 75.50 X Did not advance 75.50
11 David Chaussinand  France 74.74 X 75.26 Did not advance 75.26
12 Alexandros Papadimitriou  Greece X 73.30 X Did not advance 73.30

See also

References

  1. ^ "Athletics at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Hammer Throw". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Hammer Throw, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  3. ^ http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/images/stories/tfn_pdfs/ogqualifying_standards.pdf[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ Official Report, Results Book for Athletics.

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