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Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw

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Men's hammer throw
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
VenueStade de France, Paris, France
Date
  • 2 August 2024 (qualification)
    4 August 2024 (final)
Competitors32 from 21 nations
Winning distance84.12 m
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ethan Katzberg  Canada
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Bence Halász  Hungary
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Mykhaylo Kokhan  Ukraine
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The men's hammer throw at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in Paris, France, on 2 and 4 August 2024. This was the 29th time that the event is contested at the Summer Olympics.

Summary

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The revelation of 2023 was Ethan Katzberg who had grown from fouling out at the 2021 U20 Championships to winning the 2023 World Championships. At the time the narrow victory over Olympic Champion Wojciech Nowicki may have marked a changing of the guard. Silver medalist Eivind Henriksen and bronze medalist Paweł Fajdek were back but now well over 30, not abnormal for hammer throwers. World Championship bronze medalist Bence Halász is still in his late 20's, but Katzberg is only 22. This season Katzberg dominated the top throws, setting a North American record at 84.38m in April and 8 different competitions over 80. The only other throwers over 80 meters were Nowicki, Fajdek, Halász and Mykhaylo Kokhan, age 23 who threw over 80 five times. A Russian and a Belorussian were not invited to the Olympics.[1]

In the qualifying round, only Rudy Winkler made an auto qualifier of 77 meters on his first attempt. After cleaning up a first round foul, Katzberg led five auto qualifiers. It took 75.25m to get into the final.[2]

In the finals, Nowicki started with a 77.42m, Kokhan topped that with 78.54m and Winkler put himself in position with 77.92m. Then, Katzberg stepped into the ring and launched his first throw of the finals at 84.12 m (275 ft 11 in). It was game over at that point, with the other competitors now having to fight it out for silver and bronze. In the second round, Kokhan improved to 79.39m and Henriksen moved up to 79.18m. In the third round, Halász pushed Henriksen off the podium with a 79.97m, the Katzberg backed up his first throw with an 82.28m. They went through the formality of three more rounds as no other thrower broke 80m, but only Fajdek improved to 78.80m and that only put him in fifth.[3]

Katzberg was the first Canadian to win the Hammer, the first North American since 1956, and only the third non-(former) Soviet Bloc athlete to win since WWII.

Background

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The men's hammer throw has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the second edition in 1900.

Global records before the 2024 Summer Olympics
Record Athlete (Nation) Distance (m) Location Date
World record  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) 86.74[4] Stuttgart, West Germany 30 August 1986
Olympic record  Sergey Litvinov (URS) 84.80 Seoul, South Korea 26 September 1988
World leading  Ethan Katzberg (CAN) 84.38[5] Nairobi, Kenya 20 April 2024
Area records before the 2024 Summer Olympics[6]
Area Record Athlete (Nation) Distance (m)
Africa (records)  Mostafa El Gamel (EGY) 81.27
Asia (records)  Koji Murofushi (JPN) 84.86
Europe (records)  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) 86.74 WR
North, Central America

and Caribbean (records)

 Ethan Katzberg (CAN) 84.38
Oceania (records)  Stuart Rendell (AUS) 79.29
South America (records)  Wagner Domingos (BRA) 78.63

Qualification

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Main article: Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification § Men's hammer throw

For the men's hammer throw event, the qualification period was between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. 32 athletes were able to qualify for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per nation, by throwing the entry standard of 78.20 m or further or by their World Athletics Ranking for this event.[7][8]

Results

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Qualification

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The qualification was held on 2 August, starting at 10:10 (UTC+2) for Group A and 11:35 (UTC+2) for Group B in the morning. 32 athletes qualified for the first round by qualification distance or world ranking.[9] Qualification: 77.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.[10]

Rank Group Athlete Nation 1 2 3 Distance Notes
1 B Ethan Katzberg  Canada X 79.93 79.93 Q
2 A Rowan Hamilton  Canada 76.97 X 77.78 77.78 Q, PB
3 A Mykhaylo Kokhan  Ukraine X 77.42 77.42 Q
4 B Rudy Winkler  United States 77.29 77.29 Q
5 B Eivind Henriksen  Norway X 77.14 77.14 Q, SB
6 B Bence Halász  Hungary 76.84 72.89 76.90 76.90 q
7 A Yann Chaussinand  France X 75.43 76.86 76.86 q
8 A Thomas Mardal  Norway X 75.43 76.78 76.78 q
9 B Pawel Fajdek  Poland X X 76.56 76.56 q
10 A Wojciech Nowicki  Poland X 76.32 75.50 76.32 q
11 B Christos Frantzeskakis  Greece 75.53 73.94 74.21 75.53 q
12 B Merlin Hummel  Germany 75.25 X X 75.25 q
13 B Adam Keenan  Canada X 69.97 74.45 74.45 SB
14 B Denzel Comenentia  Netherlands X 72.17 74.31 74.31
15 A Ragnar Carlsson  Sweden 72.72 73.96 73.94 73.96
16 B Volodymyr Myslyvčuk  Czech Republic 73.84 X X 73.84
17 A Matija Gregurić  Croatia 71.48 72.94 73.69 73.69
18 A Serghei Marghiev  Moldova 73.46 X 70.73 73.46
19 A Wang Qi  China 65.43 72.52 69.60 72.52
20 B Gabriel Kehr  Chile 72.28 72.12 72.31 72.31
21 B Dániel Rába  Hungary 71.37 X 72.29 72.29
22 B Diego del Real  Mexico 69.39 72.10 X 72.10
23 B Joaquín Gómez  Argentina X 64.94 72.10 72.10
24 A Humberto Mansilla  Chile 71.75 71.83 70.81 71.83
25 A Donát Varga  Hungary 69.95 71.65 69.71 71.65
26 B Jerome Vega  Puerto Rico 69.19 71.61 70.44 71.61
27 B Özkan Baltacı  Turkey X 71.40 71.24 71.40
28 A Sören Klose  Germany 71.20 X X 71.20
29 A Mihail Anastasakis  Greece X 70.14 X 70.14
30 A Mostafa El Gamel  Egypt 68.12 68.65 70.09 70.09
31 A Patrik Hájek  Czech Republic 67.96 68.45 68.80 68.80
A Daniel Haugh  United States X X X NM

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Final

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Rank Athlete Nation 1 2 3 4 5 6 Distance Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ethan Katzberg  Canada 84.12 X 82.28 X X X 84.12
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Bence Halász  Hungary 77.58 78.84 79.97 79.94 77.66 79.82 79.97
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Mykhaylo Kokhan  Ukraine 78.54 79.39 X 78.17 76.53 79.24 79.39
4 Eivind Henriksen  Norway 76.45 79.18 X X 76.11 X 79.18 SB
5 Pawel Fajdek  Poland 78.01 77.22 78.57 78.80 X 76.64 78.80
6 Rudy Winkler  United States 77.92 X X X 71.90 X 77.92
7 Wojciech Nowicki  Poland 77.42 77.28 76.75 77.03 X 75.92 77.42
8 Yann Chaussinand  France X X 77.38 77.15 X X 77.38
9 Rowan Hamilton  Canada 76.59 X X Did not advance 76.59
10 Merlin Hummel  Germany 74.85 76.03 X Did not advance 76.03
11 Thomas Mardal  Norway 74.25 73.68 X Did not advance 74.25
12 Christos Frantzeskakis  Greece X 73.34 X Did not advance 73.34

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References

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  2. ^ a b "Men's Hammer Throw - Qualification results" (PDF). Olympics. 2 August 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Men's Hammer Throw - Final results" (PDF). Olympics. 4 August 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
  4. ^ "All time Top lists – Senior – Hammer throw men Archived 2024-07-18 at the Wayback Machine", World Athletics, 29 June 2024. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  5. ^ "Season Top Lists – Senior 2024 – Hammer throw men Archived 2024-08-05 at the Wayback Machine", World Athletics, 2024. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  6. ^ "Records – Hammer throw men". World Athletics. 3 July 2024. Archived from the original on 23 January 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
  7. ^ Sean McAlister, "How to qualify for athletics at Paris 2024. The Olympics qualification system explained Archived 2022-12-22 at the Wayback Machine", Olympics.com, 20 December 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  8. ^ "Road To | World Athletics". worldathletics.org. Archived from the original on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  9. ^ "Paris 2024 - Olympic Schedule - Athletics Archived 2024-03-24 at the Wayback Machine", Olympics.com. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
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