The men's

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at the

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as part of the athletics program was held at the

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on Saturday, 23 September and Sunday, 24 September. There were 44 competitors from 24 nations. The event was won by

Szymon Ziółkowski Szymon Jerzy Ziółkowski (; born 1 July 1976 in Poznań) is a retired Poland, Polish hammer thrower and an Olympic Games, Olympic gold medal winner from 2000 Summer Olympics, Sydney 2000. He also won a gold medal at the 2001 World Championship ...

of Poland, the nation's first victory in the event and first medal of any color in the men's hammer throw since 1960. Silver went to

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, the first medal winner in the event for Italy.

Igor Astapkovich Ihar Astapkovich (also Igor Vyacheslavovich Astapkovich, be, Ігар Вячаслававіч Астапковіч; born 4 January 1963, in Navapolatsk) is a hammer thrower who won two Olympic medals, first representing the Soviet Union and lat ...

, who had won a silver medal on the Unified Team in 1992, took bronze for the first medal credited to

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in the event. Astapkovich was the 11th man to win multiple medals in the hammer throw.

Background

This was the 23rd appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics except 1896. Seven of the 12 finalists from the 1996 Games returned: silver medalist (and 1992 finalist)

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of the United States, fourth-place finisher

Andriy Skvaruk Andriy Bohdanovych Skvaruk ( uk, Андрій богданович Скварук; born 9 March 1967 in Brodivsky, Lviv) is a retired hammer thrower from Ukraine, whose personal best throw is , achieved in April 2002 in Koncha-Zaspa Koncha-Zas ...

of Ukraine, fifth-place finisher (and 1988 and 1992 finalist)

Heinz Weis Heinz Weis (born 14 July 1963) is a male former hammer thrower from Germany. He competed for West Germany until 1990. Weis was born in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, and at club level represented TV 1863 Germania Trier. He was coached initially b ...

of Germany, sixth-place finisher Ilya Konovalov of Russia, seventh-place finisher (and 1992 silver medalist)

of Belarus, tenth-place finisher

of Poland, and twelfth-place finisher

Vasiliy Sidorenko Vasiliy Viktorovich Sidorenko (russian: Василий Викорович Сидоренко; born 1 May 1961 in Volgograd) is a retired male hammer thrower who represented the USSR and later Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federatio ...

of Russia. Also returning was 1992 Olympic champion

Andrey Abduvaliyev Andrey Hakimovich Abduvaliyev (russian: Андрей Хакимович Абдувалиев; born 30 June 1966) is a former Soviet, Tajikistani, and Uzbekistani hammer thrower. He won a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics while representing t ...

, now competing for Uzbekistan. Weis (1997) and

Karsten Kobs Karsten Kobs (born 16 September 1971 in Dortmund) is a German hammer thrower, whose personal best throw is 82.78 metres, achieved in June 1999 in Dortmund. This ranks him third among German hammer throwers, only behind Ralf Haber Ralf Haber ( ...

(199), also of Germany, were the last two World Champions. Croatia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Slovakia, and Slovenia each made their debut in the event. The United States appeared for the 22nd time, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Qualification

Each

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was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had thrown 75.50 metres or further during the qualification period. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had thrown 72.50 metres or further could be entered.http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/images/stories/tfn_pdfs/ogqualifying_standards.pdf

Competition format

The competition used the two-round format introduced in 1936, with the qualifying round completely separate from the divided final. In qualifying, each athlete received three attempts; those recording a mark of at least 77.50 metres advanced to the final. If fewer than 12 athletes achieved that distance, the top 12 would advance. The results of the qualifying round were then ignored. Finalists received three throws each, with the top eight competitors receiving an additional three attempts. The best distance among those six throws counted.Official Report, Results Book for Athletics.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows. No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition.

Schedule

All times are

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Results

Qualifying

Final

The tie for bronze medal at 79.17 metres was broken by second-best throw, with Astapkovich's 79.06 metres beating Tikhon's 78.85 metres.

References

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