Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw

The men's hammer throw event was part of the track and field athletics programme

Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics

At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, 33 athletics events were contested, 24 for men and 9 for women. Three events made their Olympic debut at these Games: women's 200 metres, women's long jump and women's shot put...

at the 1948 Summer Olympics

1948 Summer Olympics

The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in London, England, United Kingdom. After a 12-year hiatus because of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin...

. The competition was held on July 31. The final was won by Hungarian Imre Nemeth.

Final

Rank	Athlete	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result
	Imre Nemeth Imre Németh Imre Németh Imre Németh Imre Németh (September 23, 1917 in Kassa, then Hungary, today Košice (Slovakia, – August 18, 1989 in Budapest) was a Hungarian athlete who mainly competed in the hammer throw....	53.59	55.44	54.94	50.05		56.07	56.07
	Ivan Gubijan Ivan Gubijan Ivan Gubijan was a Yugoslav athlete who competed for the former Yugoslavia in the hammer-throw at the 1948 Summer Olympics. After WWII he came to Belgrade and joined the "Partizan" athetic club.In the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London he won the silver medal in the hammer-throw...			54.27	51.76	54.22		54.27
	Robert Bennett	52.53	51.11	52.08	53.73	51.21	49.81	53.73
4	Sam Felton							53.66
5	Lauri Tamminen							53.08
6	Bo Ericson Bo Ericson Bo Evert Ericson was a Swedish hammer thrower who won a gold medal at the 1946 European Athletics Championships in Oslo with a throw of 56.44 metres...							52.98
7	Teseo Taddia Teseo Taddia Teseo Taddia was a male hammer thrower from Italy. He twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: in 1948 and 1952. Born in Bondeno, Ferrara he set his personal best in the men's hammer throw event in 1950.-References:*...							51.74
8	Einar Söderqvist							51.48
9	Henry Dreyer							51.37
10	Svend Aage Frederiksen							50.07
11	Duncan Clark Duncan Clark (athlete) Duncan McDougall Munro Clark was an Olympic athlete from Scotland. He specialised in the hammer throw events during his career.Clark represented Great Britain in two consecutive Olympic Games, starting in 1948...							48.35
12	Hans Houtzager							45.69
13	Gin Gang-Hwan							43.93

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