1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw

These are the official results of the Men's Hammer Throw event at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. There were a total of 28 participating athletes, with the final held on Sunday August 15, 1993. The qualification mark was set at 77.00 metres.

Medalists

Gold	Andrey Abduvaliyev Tajikistan (TJK)
Silver	Igor Astapkovich Belarus (BLR)
Bronze	Tibor Gécsek Hungary (HUN)

Schedule

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
14.08.1993 – 11:00h	14.08.1993 – 12:45h
Final Round
15.08.1993 – 16:20h

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1993 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Yuriy Sedykh  (URS)	86.74 m	August 30, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany
Event Record	Sergey Litvinov  (URS)	83.06 m	September 1, 1987	Rome, Italy
Season Best	Sergey Kirmasov  (RUS)	82.54 m	May 22, 1993	Sochi, Russia

Qualification

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	3	Andrey Abduvaliyev  (TJK)				77.22 m
2	5	Aleksandr Seleznyov  (RUS)				77.12 m
3	7	Andriy Skvaruk  (UKR)				75.54 m
4	8	Raphaël Piolanti  (FRA)				75.34 m
5	9	Sergey Alay  (BLR)				75.34 m
6	11	Vasiliy Sidorenko  (RUS)				74.40 m
7	13	Pavel Sedláček  (CZE)				73.90 m
8	15	Tore Gustafsson  (SWE)				71.88 m
9	16	Karsten Kobs  (GER)				71.82 m
10	17	Savvas Saritzoglou  (GRE)				71.76 m
11	18	Johann Lindner  (AUT)				71.46 m
12	21	Jim Driscoll  (USA)				69.40 m
13	22	Paul Head  (GBR)				68.88 m
14	28	Tuck Yim Wong  (SIN)				49.14 m

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	1	Sergey Litvinov  (RUS)				77.96 m
2	2	Tibor Gécsek  (HUN)				77.82 m
3	4	Lance Deal  (USA)				77.14 m
4	6	Igor Astapkovich  (BLR)				76.82 m
5	10	Christophe Épalle  (FRA)				74.74 m
6	12	Vadim Kolesnik  (UKR)				74.36 m
7	14	Walter Ciofani  (FRA)				73.36 m
8	19	Alberto Sanchez  (CUB)				71.00 m
9	20	Marko Wahlman  (FIN)				69.62 m
10	23	Andrés Charadia  (ARG)				68.48 m
11	24	Iosif Shaverdashvili  (GEO)				68.26 m
12	25	Guillermo Guzmán  (MEX)				67.30 m
13	26	Hakim Toumi  (ALG)				66.16 m
14	27	Enrico Sgrulletti  (ITA)				63.58 m

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Andrey Abduvaliyev  (TJK)	78.08	X	78.02	81.64	X	80.56	81.64 m
	Igor Astapkovich  (BLR)	77.54	X	X	79.88	79.48	79.16	79.88 m
	Tibor Gécsek  (HUN)	73.34	X	76.80	79.54	73.84	X	79.54 m
4	Sergey Alay  (BLR)	71.42	76.56	77.12	X	77.40	79.02	79.02 m
5	Vasiliy Sidorenko  (RUS)	X	76.82	76.62	77.12	78.86	77.36	78.86 m
6	Aleksandr Seleznyov  (RUS)	76.48	78.58	76.34	X	X	75.28	78.58 m
7	Sergey Litvinov  (RUS)	78.56	X	X	75.02	76.56	X	78.56 m
8	Christophe Épalle  (FRA)	76.22	X	75.90	X	X	75.04	76.22 m
9	Lance Deal  (USA)							76.20 m
10	Raphaël Piolanti  (FRA)							75.88 m
11	Vadim Kolesnik  (UKR)							73.08 m
—	Andriy Skvaruk  (UKR)	X	X	X				NM

See also

• 1992 Men's Olympic Hammer Throw
• 1993 Hammer Throw Year Ranking

References

• Results
• hammerthrow.wz