1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw

1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's hammer throw event at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Annecy, France, at Parc des Sports on 31 July and 1 August. ^{[1] [2]} A 7257g (senior implement) hammer was used.

Medalists

Gold	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen   Finland
Silver	Yury Voronkin   Russia
Bronze	Wojciech Kondratowicz   Poland

Results

Final

1 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts						Result	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland	x	72.40	72.31	x	x	71.85	72.40
	Yury Voronkin	Russia	66.97	67.98	67.51	x	69.66	x	69.66
	Wojciech Kondratowicz	Poland	68.93	67.90	66.75	x	x	x	68.93
4	Ioánnis Barlís	Greece	66.31	x	x	67.59	68.36	67.81	68.36
5	Miloslav Konopka	Slovakia	64.69	x	66.36	66.58	67.09	x	67.09
6	Nicolas Figère	France	x	63.50	65.98	62.15	x	65.21	65.98
7	Péter Botfa	Hungary	64.15	64.26	65.08	62.84	x	63.36	65.08
8	Marcin Szeszula	Poland	64.42	63.83	64.75	62.51	63.43	63.05	64.75
9	Aleksey Mukhortov	Russia	61.59	63.07	63.39				63.39
10	Lukáš Melich	Czech Republic	57.81	61.51	60.44				61.51
11	Éric Albert	France	x	60.20	x				60.20
12	Markus Esser	Germany	x	54.09	59.58				59.58

Qualifications

31 Jul

Group A

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts			Result	Notes
			1	2	3
1	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland	69.39	-	-	69.39	Q
2	Miloslav Konopka	Slovakia	65.93	-	-	65.93	Q
3	Nicolas Figère	France	63.76	65.13	-	65.13	Q
4	Yury Voronkin	Russia	58.77	x	64.36	64.36	q
5	Lukáš Melich	Czech Republic	62.26	62.78	61.00	62.78	q
6	Marcin Szeszula	Poland	59.29	60.50	62.52	62.52	q
7	Dmitriy Shako	Belarus	62.08	61.25	61.14	62.08
8	Dilshod Nazarov	Tajikistan	x	58.98	60.02	60.02
9	Ross Corner	Australia	58.46	x	56.53	58.46
10	Christian Fernández	Argentina	x	55.58	54.58	55.58
11	Hrístos Tsintsos	Greece	54.50	53.16	51.77	54.50

Group B

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts			Result	Notes
			1	2	3
1	Ioánnis Barlís	Greece	66.15	-	-	66.15	Q
2	Markus Esser	Germany	x	65.87	-	65.87	Q
3	Wojciech Kondratowicz	Poland	65.86	-	-	65.86	Q
4	Péter Botfa	Hungary	64.36	x	65.34	65.34	Q
5	Aleksey Mukhortov	Russia	63.87	62.53	64.07	64.07	q
6	Éric Albert	France	60.82	61.66	62.33	62.33	q
7	Fatih Eryildirim	Turkey	59.91	60.99	x	60.99
8	John Badovinac	United States	58.27	57.27	x	58.27
9	Hamad Saleh Al-Mahdi	Qatar	55.57	55.25	57.52	57.52
10	Marco Felice	Italy	x	55.95	55.37	55.95
11	Nabil Amroune	Algeria	54.49	x	x	54.49
12	Dovletgeldy Mamedov	Turkmenistan	38.80	x	43.73	43.73

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.

•   Algeria (1)
•   Argentina (1)
•   Australia (1)
•   Belarus (1)
•   Czech Republic (1)
•   Finland (1)
•   France (2)
•   Germany (1)
•   Greece (2)
•   Hungary (1)
•   Italy (1)
•   Poland (2)
•   Qatar (1)
•   Russia (2)
•   Slovakia (1)
•   Tajikistan (1)
•   Turkey (1)
•   Turkmenistan (1)
•   United States (1)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1998 Annecy FRA Jul 28-Aug 2, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 3 December 2013, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF , retrieved 13 June 2015