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List Of Hammer Throwers
This is a list of hammer throwers. A * * * B * Tatyana Beloborodova C * Libor Charfreitag D * Lance Deal E * Bronwyn Eagles * Markus Esser F * Paweł Fajdek G * Tibor Gécsek H * Ralf Haber * Betty Heidler * Martina Hrasnova K * Olli-Pekka Karjalainen * Karsten Kobs * Ilya Konovalov (hammer thrower), Ilya Konovalov * Primož Kozmus * Olga Kuzenkova * Zdzisław Kwaśny L * Sergey Litvinov (athlete, born 1958), Sergey Litvinov (born 1958) * Sergey Litvinov (athlete, born 1986), Sergey Litvinov (born 1986) M * Eiichiro Matsuno * Lukáš Melich * Mihaela Melinte * Lisa Misipeka * Manuela Montebrun * Yipsi Moreno * Koji Murofushi N * Dilshod Nazarov * Zsolt Németh (athlete), Zsolt Németh * Wojciech Nowicki P * Krisztián Pars * Vladyslav Piskunov * DeAnna Price S * Yuriy Sedykh * Vasiliy Sidorenko * Andriy Skvaruk T * Jüri Tamm * Alexandra Tavernier * Ivan Tsikhan W * Heinz Weis * Zhang Wenxiu * Anita Włodarczyk Z * Aleksey Zagornyi * Szymon Ziółkowski See also [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammer Throw
The hammer throw is one of the four throwing events in regular track and field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and javelin. The "hammer" used in this sport is not like any of the tools also called by that name. It consists of a metal ball attached by a steel wire to a grip. The size of the ball varies between men's and women's competitions. History With roots dating back to the 15th century, the contemporary version of the hammer throw is one of the oldest of Olympic Games competitions, first included at the 1900 games in Paris, France (the second Olympiad of the modern era). Its history since the late 1960s and legacy prior to inclusion in the Olympics has been dominated by Europe and Eastern European influence, which has affected interest in the event in other parts of the world. The hammer evolved from its early informal origins to become part of the Scottish Highland games in the late 18th century, where the original version of the event is sti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Litvinov (athlete, Born 1958)
Sergey Nikolaevich Litvinov (russian: Серге́й Никола́евич Литви́нов; 23 January 1958 – 19 February 2018) was a Russian hammer thrower and athletics coach. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics, missing the 1984 Summer Olympics due to the Soviet boycott, and won a silver and a gold medal, respectively. He also won two world titles, in 1983 and 1987. After retiring from competitions he coached elite hammer throwers including Ivan Tsikhan and his son Sergey. Career Throughout his career Litvinov battled with Yuriy Sedykh. Litvinov set three world records, the last being 84.14 metres in June 1983. However, Sedykh improved the world record to 86.34 m in 1984 and to 86.74 m at the 1986 European championships. In 1986 Litvinov threw 86.04 metres which remained his personal best. This result puts him second on the all-time performer's list, behind Sedykh. He also coached Ivan Tsikhan. Litvinov finished second behind Sedykh a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladyslav Piskunov
Vladyslav Yuriyovych Piskunov ( uk, Владислав Юрійович Піскунов; born 7 June 1978 in Nova Kakhovka, Kherson) is a former Ukrainian hammer thrower. Piskunov originally won a gold medal at the 1994 World Junior Championships, but failed a drugs test and became disqualified.IAAF World Junior Championships Eugene 2014 Facts and Figures IAAF. Retrieved 2018-04-10. At the 2005 World Championships he failed another test and received a life ban. His personal best throw was 82.23 metres, achieved in April 2002 in |
Krisztián Pars
Krisztián Pars (; born 18 February 1982) is a Hungarian hammer thrower. He competed at the Summer Olympics in 2004, 2008, and 2012, winning the gold medal in 2012. He also won the 2012 and 2014 European championships. Career His personal best throw is 82.69 metres, achieved at the 2014 European Championships in Zürich. Pars previously held the world junior record (6 kg) with 81.35 metres, achieved in September 2001 in Szombathely. He took fourth place at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He was initially upgraded to the silver medal after the doping disqualification of original medallists Vadim Devyatovskiy and Ivan Tsikhan in December 2008, but both had their medals reinstated two years later. That same year he won the silver medal in the hammer at the 2008 European Winter Throwing Cup meeting in Split and another silver at the 2008 IAAF World Athletics Final. In the 2009 season, he began well with a victory at the 2009 European Winter Throwing Cup, but missed out on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wojciech Nowicki
Wojciech Nowicki (; born 22 February 1989) is a Polish hammer thrower. He won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics and bronze medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2015, 2017 and 2019 World Championships. His personal best in the event is 82.52 metres set in 2021 at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Career Nowicki achieved his personal best, 78.71 metres, on 3 May 2015. In August of the same year, he won the bronze medal in the hammer throw event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China. He placed third again at the two subsequent World Championships ( London 2017 and Doha 2019). In July 2016, Nowicki took bronze at the European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In August, he was awarded the bronze medal in the hammer throw at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Nowicki won the qualification with a throw of 79.78 m. In the third attempt of the finals, he managed to improve his personal best from 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsolt Németh (athlete)
Zsolt Németh is the name of: * Zsolt Németh (footballer) (born 1991), Hungarian-ethnic Slovak footballer * Zsolt Németh (fencer) (born 1963), Hungarian fencer * Zsolt Németh (hammer thrower) (born 1971), Hungarian hammer thrower * Zsolt Németh (politician, 1963), Hungarian politician (Fidesz) * Zsolt Németh (politician, 1984), Hungarian politician (Jobbik) * Zsolt Németh (water polo) Zsolt Németh (born 15 April 1970) is a Hungarian water polo player. He competed in the Water polo at the 1996 Summer Olympics, men's tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1970 births Living people Hunga ..., Hungarian water polo player * Zsolt V. Németh, Hungarian politician (Fidesz) {{hndis, Nemeth, Zsolt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilshod Nazarov
Dilshod Jamoliddinovich Nazarov ( tg, Dilşod Çamoliddinovic Nazarov, fa, دلشاد نظروف; russian: Дильшод Джамолиддинович Назаров, ''Dilshod Dzhamoliddinovich Nazarov'') (born 6 May 1982) is a Tajik track and field athlete who specializes in the hammer throw. He has represented his country at the Olympic Games on four occasions (in 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016), winning the gold medal in Rio de Janeiro, the first gold medal for Tajikistan in the history of the Olympic Games. He has competed seven times at the World Championships in Athletics (2005 to 2017), but has been most successful at regional competitions: he won medals at four consecutive Asian Athletics Championships and was the hammer champion at the Asian Games in 2006, 2010 and 2014. He won his first global medal (a silver) in 2010 at the IAAF Continental Cup. His personal best for the event is 80.71 metres, set in 2013. Career Early career Born in Dushanbe [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koji Murofushi
is a former Japanese-Romanian hammer thrower and Sports science, sports scientist. He has been among the world elite since the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, 2001 World Championships, where he won the silver medal. He was the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2004 Olympic champion. In 2011, he was crowned world champion. Career Murofushi was born in Numazu, Shizuoka, Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture. Before the 2001 World Championships he had made his mark in Asian athletics. He started with a bronze medal at the Athletics at the 1993 East Asian Games, 1993 East Asian Games. At the Asian Championships he won silver medals in 1993 Asian Championships in Athletics, 1993, 1995 Asian Championships in Athletics, 1995. He won the silver medal at the Athletics at the 1994 Asian Games, 1994 Asian Games and then took his first title Athletics at the 1997 East Asian Games, 1997 East Asian Games. A silver medal at the 1998 Asian Championships in Athletics, 1998 Asian Championship was followed by a g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yipsi Moreno
Yipsi Moreno González (born November 19, 1980, in Camagüey) is a Cuban hammer thrower. She is a triple world champion and Olympic gold medalist, a former world junior record holder and current area record holder. In 2016, after the 2008 Olympic gold medallist Belarus athlete Aksana Miankova received a disqualification by IAAF, Moreno ostensibly became Olympic hammer throw champion for Cuba in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Early life and education At the age of 11, she was recruited by the Cerro Pelado Sports School in her hometown, where she started practicing shot put and discus throw. Hammer throw was not a regular women's event at the time, but following its introduction in Cuba in 1993, she eventually concentrated on this event and she earned a place on the national junior team in 1996. Athletics career 1997–2000 In 1997, Moreno won the Pan American Junior Championships in Havana with a throw of 55.74 metres, improving the two-year-old championship reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuela Montebrun
Manuela Montebrun (born 13 November 1979) is a retired, female hammer thrower from France. She is an Olympic bronze medallist and two-time World Championship bronze medallist. Career Born in Laval, Mayenne, Montebrun won two back-to-back World Championship bronze medals in 2003 and 2005. She had finished fourth in the final of the 2005 World Championships, but was belatedly awarded the bronze medal in 2013 when the 2005 World Championships gold medallist Olga Kuzenkova was stripped of her gold medal for doping. Montebrun's outdoor, personal best throw is 74.66 metres, achieved on 11 July 2005 in Zagreb, Croatia. Montebrun retired from athletics in June 2012. Originally fifth in the 2008 Olympic final, Montebrun was promoted to the bronze medal position in 2016, after the drugs disqualifications of Aksana Miankova Aksana Miankova, also transliterated as Oksana Menkova, ( be, Аксана Мянькова, born 28 March 1982) is a Belarusian hammer thrower. Her personal be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Misipeka
Lisa Vasa Misipeka (born January 3, 1975) is an American Samoan athlete who specialises in the hammer throw. She was the first woman to represent American Samoa at the Olympics. She won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics. First place was 75.20m, second place 72.56m, and 9m behind first and 6.5m behind second was Misipeka in third with 66.06m. It was the first ever international medal for American Samoa American Samoa ( sm, Amerika Sāmoa, ; also ' or ') is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the island country of Samoa. Its location is centered on . It is east of the International ..., and the greatest difference in distance between the first three medal places. The flag bearer for American Samoa at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece where she did not record a distance in the qualifying round of the women's hammer due to a knee injury and therefore did not advance to the final. Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihaela Melinte
Mihaela Melinte (born 27 March 1975 in Bacău) is a Romanian hammer thrower. She holds the world junior record, and with 76.07 metres she held the world record until Tatyana Lysenko beat it in July 2005. The twelve-time Romanian national champion, Melinte is also a former European and World champion, but has never participated in the Olympics. She failed a drugs test at the Notturna di Milano meeting in 2000 (ruling her out of the 2000 Sydney Olympics) and she was banned from the sport for two years for taking nandrolone (an anabolic steroid). Following her ban, she never again reached a major global podium or threw over 72 metres – some way off her previous world record mark. She took second place in the women's hammer at the 2005 European Cup Winter Throwing, but was less successful at the 2006 edition, where she finished eleventh overall. She finished fourth in both the 2007 and 2008 European Cup Winter Throwing events. She was the bronze medallist at the 2005 Jeux d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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