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...

at the 2000 Summer Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

as part of the athletics program

Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, 46 events in athletics were contested, 24 for men and 22 for women. There were a total number of 2134 participating athletes from 193 countries.-Men's events:...

 was held at the Olympic Stadium on Saturday, September 23 and Sunday, September 24.

The qualifying athletes progressed through to the final where the qualifying distances are scrapped and they start afresh with up to six throws. The eight highest-ranked competitors after three rounds qualified for the final three throws to decide the medals. The qualifying distance was 77.50 metres. For all qualifiers who did not achieve the standard, the remaining spaces in the final were filled by the longest throws until a total of 12 qualifiers.

Medalists

Schedule

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  Qualification Round
  Group A	Group B
  23.09.2000 – 10:00h	23.09.2000 – 12:15h
  Final Round
  24.09.2000 – 20:50h

Abbreviations

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

Records

Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics
World Record		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....
Olympic Record		84.80 m	September 26, 1988	Seoul Seoul Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world... , South Korea South Korea The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
Season Best 2000 Hammer Throw Year Ranking This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2000 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, where the final of the men's competition was held on Sunday September 24, 2000...		82.58 m	August 18, 2000	Stayki Minsk - Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened... , 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 ,...

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
			1	2	3
1	2		79.55	—	—	79.55 m	Q
2	3		78.49	—	—	78.49 m	Q
3	4		77.81	—	—	77.81 m	Q
4	5		75.31	77.56	—	77.56 m	Q
5	6		75.97	X	77.33	77.33 m	q
6	8		77.07	76.93	74.29	77.07 m	q
7	10		76.43	76.90	X	76.90 m	q
8	11		X	76.70	75.62	76.70 m	q
9	18		74.66	72.71	75.33	75.33 m
10	19		X	74.71	75.05	75.05 m
11	20	align=left	| 74.83	72.49	74.17	74.83 m
12	25		73.95	X	X	73.95 m
13	28		67.67	72.78	X	72.78 m
14	29		X	X	72.66	72.66 m
15	31		72.29	X	71.65	72.29 m
16	35		X	69.51	X	69.51 m
17	36		69.48	65.97	X	69.48 m
18	37		67.07	68.79	68.89	68.89 m
19	40		X	68.01	62.46	68.01 m
20	41		67.00	64.09	64.35	67.00 m
21	42		60.55	64.53	65.04	65.04 m
22	43		X	60.60	X	60.60 m

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
			1	2	3
1	1		79.81	—	—	79.81 m	Q
2	7		77.12	X	X	77.12 m	q
3	9		X	73.63	76.91	76.91 m	q
4	12		76.61	74.77	X	76.61 m	q
5	13		76.33	X	70.11	76.33 m
6	14		75.95	76.00	76.08	76.08 m
7	15		X	75.64	74.19	75.64 m
8	16		73.84	75.61	73.93	75.61 m
9	17		74.01	75.41	X	75.41 m
10	21		74.72	73.97	X	74.72 m
11	22	align=left	| 70.58	74.00	74.63	74.63 m
12	23		70.46	72.70	74.22	74.22 m
13	24		X	X	74.02	74.02 m
14	26		73.51	73.19	X	73.51 m
15	27		X	72.86	X	72.86 m
16	30		71.10	72.52	X	72.52 m
17	32		70.55	X	X	70.55 m
18	33		68.56	70.46	X	70.46 m
19	34		69.64	X	X	69.64 m
20	38		68.83	X	67.02	68.83 m
21	39		68.42	68.05	X	68.42 m
			X	X	X	NM

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Record
		1	2	3	4	5	6
		74.89	79.87	X	80.02	78.68	78.32	80.02 m
		76.35	76.57	79.64	76.07	76.99	X	79.84 m	PB
		74.98	X	77.08	X	79.17	79.06	79.17 m
4		78.85	78.11	79.17	X	75.93	X	79.17 m
5		78.56	78.12	X	X	72.78	X	78.56 m
6		78.18	X	X	X	76.19	X	78.18 m
7		75.25	76.99	77.70	75.81	77.06	76.82	77.70 m
8		77.32	75.37	76.39	73.86	X	75.52	77.32 m
9		X	76.24	76.60				76.60 m
10		71.60	75.50	X				75.50 m
11		74.74	X	75.26				75.26 m
12		X	73.30	X				73.30 m