1981 Hammer Throw Year Ranking
Encyclopedia
This page lists the World Best Year Performances in the year 1981
in the Men's Hammer Throw
. (The women did not compete in the hammer throw until the early 1990s.) The world record was broken in the previous (1980) year by Soviet Union's Yuriy Sedykh
at the 1980 Summer Olympics
in Moscow, Soviet Union.
1981 in athletics (track and field)
-International events:*Asian Championships*Central American and Caribbean Championships*European Indoor Championships*South American Championships*World Cross Country Championships-100 metres:-200 metres:-400 metres:-800 metres:-1,500 metres:...
in the Men's Hammer Throw
Hammer throw
The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...
. (The women did not compete in the hammer throw until the early 1990s.) The world record was broken in the previous (1980) year by Soviet Union's Yuriy Sedykh
Yuriy Sedykh
Yuriy Georgiyevich Sedykh is a retired Soviet/Ukrainian athlete who represented the USSR, specialising in the hammer throw....
at the 1980 Summer Olympics
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...
in Moscow, Soviet Union.
Records
| Standing records prior to the 1981 season in track and field | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Record | 81.80 m | July 31, 1980 |  Moscow, Soviet Union |
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1981 World Year Ranking
| Rank | Mark | Athlete | Venue | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 80.56 m | Obersühl, West Germany West Germany West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990.... |
27.06.1981 | PB | |
| 2 | 80.18 m | Tbilisi Tbilisi Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form T'pilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936... , Soviet Union |
27.06.1981 | ||
| 3 | 79.60 m | Gateshead Gateshead Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England and is the main settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. Historically a part of County Durham, it lies on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne and together they form the urban core of Tyneside... , United Kingdom |
18.07.1981 | ||
| 4 | 78.72 m | Berlin, East Germany | 20.06.1981 | PB | |
| 78.72 m | Gelsenkirchen Gelsenkirchen Gelsenkirchen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the Ruhr area. Its population in 2006 was c. 267,000.... , West Germany West Germany West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990.... |
19.07.1981 | |||
| 6 | 77.84 m | Leningrad Leningrad Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:- Places :* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg* Leningrad, Tajikistan, capital of Muminobod district in Khatlon Province... , Soviet Union |
30.08.1981 | PB | |
| 7 | 77.50 m | Leningrad Leningrad Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:- Places :* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg* Leningrad, Tajikistan, capital of Muminobod district in Khatlon Province... , Soviet Union |
27.12.1981 | ||
| 8 | 77.26 m | Budapest, Hungary | 18.08.1981 | ||
| 9 | 77.14 m | Poznań Poznan Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be... , Poland |
28.07.1981 | PB | |
| 10 | 76.84 m | Stavropol Stavropol -International relations:-Twin towns/sister cities:Stavropol is twinned with: Des Moines, United States Béziers, France Pazardzhik, Bulgaria-External links:* **... , Soviet Union |
05.06.1981 | ||
| 11 | 76.76 m | Ylivieska Ylivieska Ylivieska is a town and a municipality of Northern Ostrobothnia region, Finland. It has a population of , and it serves as the administrative centre for Kalajokilaakso and Pyhäjokilaakso, an area with about 90,000 inhabitants.... , Finland |
19.07.1981 | PB | |
| 12 | 76.68 m | Kaunas Kaunas Kaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania and has historically been a leading centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the biggest city and the center of a powiat in Trakai Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1413. During Russian Empire occupation... , Soviet Union |
29.06.1981 | PB | |
| 13 | 76.64 m | Stockholm, Sweden | 29.08.1981 | PB | |
| 14 | 76.34 m | Gorkiy Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is, with the population of 1,250,615, the fifth largest city in Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg... , Soviet Union |
08.06.1981 | ||
| 15 | 75.84 m | Sofia, Bulgaria | 06.06.1981 | PB | |
| 16 | 75.74 m | Leningrad Leningrad Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:- Places :* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg* Leningrad, Tajikistan, capital of Muminobod district in Khatlon Province... , Soviet Union |
19.08.1981 | ||
| 17 | 75.66 m | Nancy, France | 23.05.1981 | ||
| 18 | 75.56 m | Palo Alto, United States | 28.03.1981 | ||
| 19 | 75.54 m | Stavropol Stavropol -International relations:-Twin towns/sister cities:Stavropol is twinned with: Des Moines, United States Béziers, France Pazardzhik, Bulgaria-External links:* **... , Soviet Union |
05.06.1981 | ||
| 20 | 75.30 m | Kiev Kiev Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press.... , Soviet Union |
02.10.1981 | PB | |
| 21 | 75.04 m | unknown | ??.??.1981 | ||
| 22 | 75.02 m | Kharkov, Soviet Union | 27.08.1981 | PB | |
| 23 | 74.90 m | Sochi Sochi Sochi is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated just north of Russia's border with the de facto independent republic of Abkhazia, on the Black Sea coast. Greater Sochi sprawls for along the shores of the Black Sea near the Caucasus Mountains... , Soviet Union |
31.05.1981 | ||
| 24 | 74.86 m | Kiev Kiev Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press.... , Soviet Union |
27.08.1981 | ||
| 25 | 74.80 m | Chorzów Chorzów Chorzów is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. Chorzów is one of the central districts of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union - a metropolis with a population of 2 million... , Poland |
20.09.1981 | PB |