The men's hammer throw at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 19 and 20 August 2023.

Summary

Ethan Katzberg arrived at these championships with a respectable personal best of 78.73m set earlier in the season. As the fourth thrower in the preliminary rounds, he threw an 81.18m National Record, while no other athlete cleared 78.50 in the preliminaries.

Five time defending champion Paweł Fajdek started off the finals with an exact 80 metre throw. With the home crowd cheering, Bence Halász took the lead with an 80.82m. Katzberg closed off the first round with an 80.18m. In the second round, Olympic Champion Wojciech Nowicki knocked his teammate Fajdek off the podium with an 80.70m. He improved that to 80.83m in the fourth round to knock Halász off the top by a single cm. In the fifth round, Katzberg jumped into the lead with an . On the next throw, Nowicki improved, but 81.02m wasn't enough to get back to the lead. Neither were able to improve in the final round, but Katzberg's 81.11m would have also won the competition.

Through two days of competition, Katzberg landed 6 legal throws, all of them more than a metre longer than he had ever thrown before. He took home a World Championship and set his National Record twice. He became the first athlete from NACAC to win a medal at a Men's Hammer throw in the World Athletics Championships.Hammer_throw#Men_3

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

RecordAthlete & LocationDate World record86.74 mStuttgart, West Germany30 August 1986Championship record83.63 mOsaka, Japan27 August 2007World Leading81.92 mOslo, Norway15 June 2023African Record81.27 mCairo, Egypt21 March 2014Asian Record84.86 mPrague, Czech Republic29 June 2003North, Central American and Caribbean record82.71 mEugene, United States20 June 2021South American Record78.63 mCelje, Slovenia19 June 2016European Record86.74 mStuttgart, West Germany30 August 1986Oceanian record79.29 mVaraždin, Croatia6 July 2002

The following records were established during the competition: Date Event Name Nationality Distance Record 19 August Qualification Ethan Katzberg 81.18 20 August Final Ethan Katzberg 81.25

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 78.00.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (CEST), was as follows:

Date Time Round19 August 13:00 Qualification 14:45 Qualification 20 August 17:49 Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 77.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.

Rank Group Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 1 A Ethan Katzberg 81.18 81.18 Q,  2 B Mykhaylo Kokhan 76.59 78.47 78.47 Q 3 A Bence Halász 78.13 78.13 Q 4 A Wojciech Nowicki 78.04 78.04 Q 5 B Paweł Fajdek 77.98 77.98 Q 6 B Rudy Winkler 75.37 77.06 77.06 Q 7 A Daniel Haugh x x 76.64 76.64 q 8 B Michail Anastasakis x 73.43 75.76 75.76 q 9 B Eivind Henriksen 71.61 74.37 75.37 75.37 q 10 A Gabriel Kehr 75.10 72.88 73.63 75.10 q 11 B Diego del Real 73.28 74.91 73.30 74.91 q 12 A Adam Keenan 74.56 72.97 73.32 74.56 q 13 B Rowan Hamilton 71.81 70.42 74.14 74.14 14 A Christos Frantzeskakis 74.05 73.30 x 74.05 15 B Dániel Rába x 71.93 73.17 73.17 16 A Thomas Mardal 72.40 73.13 72.62 73.13 17 B x 72.15 72.96 72.96 18 B Serghei Marghiev 72.91 68.76 71.50 72.91 19 A Jerome Vega 71.61 x 72.87 72.87 20 B Humberto Mansilla 72.32 72.80 72.01 72.80 21 B Joaquín Gómez 68.66 72.77 68.57 72.77 22 A Sören Klose 72.23 x x 72.23 23 B Yann Chaussinand x 72.17 x 72.17 24 B Ragnar Carlsson 70.94 72.02 x 72.02 25 B Donát Varga x x 72.02 72.02 26 B Ronald Mencía 71.72 70.74 x 71.72 27 A Alexandros Poursanidis 71.63 x 71.58 71.63 28 B Mostafa Elgamel x 71.36 x 71.36 29 A Denzel Comenentia 69.46 x 70.16 70.16 30 A Konstantinos Zaltos 69.98 x 69.67 69.98 31 A Alex Young 69.10 x 67.40 69.10 32 A Patrik Hájek 67.36 66.30 68.77 68.77 33 A 67.57 x 68.65 68.65 B Merlin Hummel x x x NM A Hilmar Örn Jónsson x x x NM

Final The final was started on 20 August at 17:52.

Rank Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ethan Katzberg 80.18 80.02 x 79.82 81.25 81.11 81.25 Wojciech Nowicki 79.14 80.70 78.94 80.83 81.02 80.36 81.02 Bence Halász 80.82 x x 80.59 79.94 x 80.82 4 Paweł Fajdek 80.00 x 77.06 x x 77.99 80.00 5 Mykhaylo Kokhan x 77.41 79.34 78.37 79.59 79.52 79.59 6 Daniel Haugh 76.07 77.38 75.66 78.64 74.83 x 78.64 7 Eivind Henriksen 75.85 77.06 x x 76.81 x 77.06 8 Rudy Winkler x x 76.04 x 75.83 x 76.04 9 Gabriel Kehr 75.99 75.54 74.24 75.99 10 Michail Anastasakis 74.62 73.04 75.49 75.49 11 Adam Keenan 74.49 73.96 72.58 74.49 12 Diego del Real 72.39 71.84 72.56 72.56

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