2005 World Championships in Athletics - 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...

event at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics

2005 World Championships in Athletics

The 10th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations , were held in the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland , the site of the first IAAF World Championships in 1983. One theme of the 2005 championships was paralympic sports, some of...

was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium

Helsinki Olympic Stadium

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on August 6 and August 8.

Medalists

Gold	Ivan Tikhon Ivan Tikhon Ivan Tsikhan, also spelled sometimes as Ivan Tikhon is a Belarusian hammer thrower. He is a three-time world champion, an Olympic medalist, and European champion.-Biography:... Belarus Belarus Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,... (BLR)
Silver	Vadim Devyatovskiy Vadim Devyatovskiy Vadim Anatolyevich Devyatovsky is a Belarusian hammer thrower.He finished fourth at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and in 2005 he won the World Championships silver medal. In July the same year he threw 84.90 metres, which currently is his personal best. He originally won a silver medal at the 2008... Belarus Belarus Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,... (BLR)
Bronze	Szymon Ziółkowski Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north... (POL)

Schedule

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Qualification Round
Group A Group B
06.08.2005 – 11:30h 06.08.2005 – 13:05h
Final Round
08.08.2005 – 18:40h

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
06.08.2005 – 11:30h	06.08.2005 – 13:05h
Final Round
08.08.2005 – 18:40h

Abbreviations

All results shown are in metre
Metre
The metre , symbol m, is the base unit of length in the International System of Units . Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole , its definition has been periodically refined to reflect growing knowledge of metrology...

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Q automatic qualification
q qualification by rank
DNS did not start
NM no mark
WR world record
AR area record
NR national record
PB personal best
SB season best

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Startlist

Order	№	Season Best 2005 Hammer Throw Year Ranking This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2005 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the 2005 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 8, 2005...	Personal Best
GROUP A
1	7	75.78	76.96
2	876	76.74	81.33
3	396	79.23	82.22
4	814	78.97	82.62
5	944	78.72	82.23
6	909	77.63	79.05
7	1000	75.57	79.26
8	951	78.85	79.46
9	782	80.63	80.63
10	930	81.45	81.45
11	21	74.78	76.42
12	812	79.47	81.26
13	71	84.90	84.90
14	169	80.41	80.41
15	287	79.81	83.30
GROUP B
1	487	74.82	80.50
2	744	79.35	83.38
3	437	80.03	82.45
4	79	86.73	86.73
5	947	81.00	82.62
6	415	78.28	80.45
7	1017	74.67	79.20
8	191	79.36	79.36
9	378	80.00	81.10
10	213	75.31	76.00
11	871	78.43	80.51
12	874	80.85	81.81
13	815	79.92	82.28
14	637	75.80	76.62
15	594	76.25	77.37
16	81	78.93	81.31

Records

Standing records prior to the 2005 World Athletics Championships
World Record World records in athletics World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....	86.74 m	August 30, 1986	Stuttgart Stuttgart Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million .... , 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....
Event Record	83.38 m	August 5, 2001	Edmonton, Canada
Season Best 2005 Hammer Throw Year Ranking This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2005 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the 2005 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 8, 2005...	86.73 m	July 3, 2005	Brest, Belarus Brest, Belarus Brest , formerly also Brest-on-the-Bug and Brest-Litovsk , is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the city of Terespol, where the Bug River and Mukhavets rivers meet...
Broken records during the 2005 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	83.89 m	August 8, 2005	Helsinki, Finland

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
Rank	Overall	Athlete	1	2	3	Distance	Note
1	1		76.86	81.20	—	81.20 m
2	4		X	76.09	77.30	77.30 m
3	7		76.47	74.34	72.27	76.47 m
4	11		76.04	X	X	76.04 m
5	12		74.94	X	75.92	75.92 m
6	15		72.30	74.37	73.17	74.37 m
7	16		73.63	73.23	70.20	73.63 m
8	17		73.34	73.38	69.43	73.38 m
9	18		73.26	71.51	X	73.26 m
10	19		73.00	X	73.04	73.04 m
11	20		X	72.91	X	72.91 m
12	25		70.66	X	70.85	70.85 m
13	29		67.72	68.44	67.50	68.44 m
14	30		58.83	—	—	58.83 m
—	—		X	X	X	NM

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
Rank	Overall	Athlete	1	2	3	Distance	Note
1	2		71.80	X	79.26	79.26 m
2	3		75.47	78.34	—	78.34 m
3	5		75.69	X	77.21	77.21 m
4	6		75.62	75.55	76.86	76.86 m
5	8		73.19	71.62	76.45	76.45 m
6	9		71.91	76.42	75.71	76.42 m
7	10		76.30	75.28	75.00	76.30 m
8	13		70.97	74.99	X	74.99 m
9	14		X	74.53	X	74.53 m
10	21		X	X	72.28	72.28 m
11	22		71.95	X	70.94	71.95 m
12	23		71.78	X	68.95	71.78 m
13	24		71.52	69.30	70.45	71.52 m
14	26		X	70.77	X	70.77 m
15	27		X	69.71	X	69.71 m
16	28		65.65	68.54	X	68.54 m

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
Rank	Athlete	1	2	3	4	5	6	Distance	Note
		X	X	80.97	83.89	X	81.52	83.89 m	CR
		78.11	80.45	82.60	X	80.47	82.19	82.60 m
		78.27	76.44	79.35	77.35	78.39	X	79.35 m	SB 2005 Hammer Throw Year Ranking This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2005 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the 2005 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 8, 2005...
4		78.57	79.11	76.88	79.16	77.11	X	79.16 m
5		77.05	X	78.55	77.20	X	78.77	78.77 m
6		78.59	76.21	76.60	78.08	78.44	75.36	78.59 m
7		76.21	X	77.26	78.03	76.85	X	78.03 m
8		76.16	77.59	73.63	76.81	X	72.24	77.59 m

9		76.05	75.02	X				76.05 m
10		74.81	72.69	76.01				76.01 m
11		74.41	X	74.80				74.80 m
12		~~74.78~~	~~73.44~~	~~74.32~~				~~74.78 m~~	DSQ

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