2017 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw

The men's hammer throw at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics is being held at the Olympic Stadium on 9 and 11 August.Start list

Summary

The final started with Aleksei Sokirskiy (ANA)'s 76.22 m early leader. Wojciech Nowicki (POL) slightly improved upon that to 77.36 m but the next thrower Quentin Bigot (FRA) hit the first round leader 77.05 m on the next throw. Near the end of the round, Valeriy Pronkin (ANA) moved into second place with his 77.00 m. In the second round, Sokirskiy improved to 77.50 m, while Olympic champion Dilshod Nazarov (TJK) moved into second with his best of the day 77.22m. In the third round, Nick Miller (GBR) put himself into bronze medal position with his 77.31 m best, but two throws later Nowicki threw his best of 78.03 m to take the lead followed by Bigot improving to 77.46 m. Near the end of the round, 2017 #1 Paweł Fajdek (POL) took a big lead with a 79.73 m. In the fourth round, Bigot again improved, 77.67 m enough to move into bronze position. At the end of the round, Fajdek threw his best of the day . Two throws later, in the fifth round, Pronkin's 77.98 m leapfrogged him from seventh place to silver. He then improved upon that with a 78.16 m in the final round. It was the third silver medal for Authorised Neutral Athletes.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

Record Athlete Date LocationWorld86.74Yuriy Sedykh30 Aug 1986Stuttgart, West GermanyChampionship83.63Ivan Tsikhan27 Aug 2007Osaka, JapanWorld leading83.44Paweł Fajdek27 Jun 2017Ostrava, Czech RepublicAfrican81.27Mostafa Al-Gamel21 Mar 2014Cairo, EgyptAsian84.86Koji Murofushi29 Jun 2003Prague, Czech RepublicNACAC82.52Lance Deal7 Sep 1996Milan, ItalySouth American78.63Wagner Domingos19 Jun 2016Celje, SloveniaEuropean86.74Yuriy SedykhStuttgart, West GermanyOceanian79.29Stuart Rendell6 Jul 2002Varaždin, Croatia

No records were set at the competition.

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 76.00 metres.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), is as follows: Date Time Round9 August 19:20 Qualification11 August 20:30 Final

Results Qualification The qualification round took place on 9 August, in two groups, with Group A starting at 19:22 and Group B starting at 20:50. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 75.50 metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows:

Rank Group Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 1 B Wojciech Nowicki 76.85 76.85 2 A Paweł Fajdek 71.43 76.82 76.82 3 A Quentin Bigot 76.11 76.11 4 A Pavel Bareisha 74.07 75.98 75.98 5 A Bence Halász 75.56 75.56 6 A Dilshod Nazarov 75.54 75.54 7 A Nick Miller 75.52 75.52 8 A Aleksei Sokirskiy 75.50 75.50 9 B Serghei Marghiev 75.18 73.41 74.96 75.18 10 B Valeriy Pronkin 74.11 73.75 75.09 75.09 11 A Özkan Baltacı 74.69 74.16 74.46 74.69 12 A Marco Lingua 74.41 74.41 13 B Marcel Lomnický 74.26 73.35 74.26 14 B Krisztián Pars 74.08 73.36 74.08 15 A David Söderberg 73.76 73.76 16 B Eşref Apak 73.55 73.55 17 A Sergey Litvinov 73.32 73.48 73.36 73.48 18 B Zakhar Makhrosenka 72.58 72.58 19 A Allan Wolski 72.51 72.51 20 B Alex Young 72.07 70.93 72.07 21 B Chris Bennett 72.05 69.12 72.05 22 B Siarhei Kalamoyets 71.90 68.97 71.90 23 B Ashraf Amgad Elseify 71.87 71.00 71.87 24 B Wagner Domingos 69.59 71.69 71.69 25 A Serhii Reheda 70.03 71.10 71.53 71.53 26 B Diego del Real 68.10 70.72 71.29 71.29 27 A Hilmar Örn Jónsson 71.12 71.12 28 B Mihail Anastasakis 70.94 70.93 69.95 70.94 29 A Mohamed Mahmoud Hassan 69.92 69.92 30 B Simone Falloni 69.90 69.90 31 A Rudy Winkler 68.77 68.88 68.88 32 B Kibwé Johnson 68.86 68.81 68.86

Final The final took place on 11 August at 20:30. The results were as follows:

Rank Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 Paweł Fajdek 77.09 79.73 79.81 79.40 79.81 Valeriy Pronkin 77.00 77.20 75.71 76.25 77.98 78.16 78.16 Wojciech Nowicki 76.36 76.54 78.03 76.19 78.03 Quentin Bigot 77.05 76.26 77.46 77.67 76.87 77.67 Aleksei Sokirskiy 76.22 77.50 77.15 77.50 Nick Miller 75.78 77.31 76.16 77.31 Dilshod Nazarov 76.33 77.22 75.36 76.01 77.14 74.91 77.22 Serghei Marghiev 75.40 75.87 75.80 75.85 74.57 75.87 Pavel Bareisha 74.35 75.86 75.86 10 Marco Lingua 69.64 75.13 75.13 11 Bence Halász 70.89 74.45 74.45 12 Özkan Baltacı 73.17 72.90 74.39 74.39

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