2017 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw

Men's hammer throw at the 2017 World Championships
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	9 August (qualification) 11 August (final)
Competitors	32 from 20 nations
Winning distance	79.73 m (261 ft 6+3⁄4 in)
Medalists
Paweł Fajdek    Poland   Valeriy Pronkin    Authorised Neutral Athletes   Wojciech Nowicki    Poland
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The men's hammer throw at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics is being held at the Olympic Stadium on 9 and 11 August. ^[1]

Summary

The final started with Aleksei Sokirskiy (ANA)'s 76.22 m early leader. Wojciech Nowicki (POL) slightly improved upon that to 77.36 m but the next thrower Quentin Bigot (FRA) hit the first round leader 77.05 m on the next throw. Near the end of the round, Valeriy Pronkin (ANA) moved into second place with his 77.00 m. In the second round, Sokirskiy improved to 77.50 m, while Olympic champion Dilshod Nazarov (TJK) moved into second with his best of the day 77.22m. In the third round, Nick Miller (GBR) put himself into bronze medal position with his 77.31 m best, but two throws later Nowicki threw his best of 78.03 m to take the lead followed by Bigot improving to 77.46 m. Near the end of the round, 2017 #1 Paweł Fajdek (POL) took a big lead with a 79.73 m. In the fourth round, Bigot again improved, 77.67 m enough to move into bronze position. At the end of the round, Fajdek threw his best of the day 79.81 m (261 ft 10 in). Two throws later, in the fifth round, Pronkin's 77.98 m leapfrogged him from seventh place to silver. He then improved upon that with a 78.16 m in the final round. It was the third silver medal for Authorised Neutral Athletes.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows: ^[2]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date	Location
World	86.74	Yuriy Sedykh	URS	30 Aug 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany
Championship	83.63	Ivan Tsikhan	BLR	27 Aug 2007	Osaka, Japan
World leading	83.44	Paweł Fajdek	POL	27 Jun 2017	Ostrava, Czech Republic
African	81.27	Mostafa Al-Gamel	EGY	21 Mar 2014	Cairo, Egypt
Asian	84.86	Koji Murofushi	JPN	29 Jun 2003	Prague, Czech Republic
NACAC	82.52	Lance Deal	USA	7 Sep 1996	Milan, Italy
South American	78.63	Wagner Domingos	BRA	19 Jun 2016	Celje, Slovenia
European	86.74	Yuriy Sedykh	URS	30 Aug 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany
Oceanian	79.29	Stuart Rendell	AUS	6 Jul 2002	Varaždin, Croatia

No records were set at the competition. ^[3]

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 76.00 metres. ^[4]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), is as follows: ^[5]

Date	Time	Round
9 August	19:20	Qualification
11 August	20:30	Final

Results

Qualification

The qualification round took place on 9 August, in two groups, with Group A starting at 19:22 and Group B starting at 20:50. ^[6] Athletes attaining a mark of at least 75.50 metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows: ^[7]

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	Round			Mark	Notes
				1	2	3
1	B	Wojciech Nowicki	Poland  (POL)	76.85			76.85	Q
2	A	Paweł Fajdek	Poland  (POL)	71.43	76.82		76.82	Q
3	A	Quentin Bigot	France  (FRA)	76.11			76.11	Q
4	A	Pavel Bareisha	Belarus  (BLR)	x	74.07	75.98	75.98	Q
5	A	Bence Halász	Hungary  (HUN)	75.56			75.56	Q
6	A	Dilshod Nazarov	Tajikistan  (TJK)	x	75.54		75.54	Q
7	A	Nick Miller	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	75.52			75.52	Q
8	A	Aleksei Sokirskiy	Authorised Neutral Athletes  (ANA)	75.50			75.50	Q
9	B	Serghei Marghiev	Moldova  (MDA)	75.18	73.41	74.96	75.18	q
10	B	Valeriy Pronkin	Authorised Neutral Athletes  (ANA)	74.11	73.75	75.09	75.09	q
11	A	Özkan Baltacı	Turkey  (TUR)	74.69	74.16	74.46	74.69	q
12	A	Marco Lingua	Italy  (ITA)	74.41	x	x	74.41	q
13	B	Marcel Lomnický	Slovakia  (SVK)	74.26	73.35	x	74.26
14	B	Krisztián Pars	Hungary  (HUN)	74.08	x	73.36	74.08
15	A	David Söderberg	Finland  (FIN)	73.76	x	x	73.76
16	B	Eşref Apak	Turkey  (TUR)	73.55	x	x	73.55
17	A	Sergey Litvinov	Authorised Neutral Athletes  (ANA)	73.32	73.48	73.36	73.48
18	B	Zakhar Makhrosenka	Belarus  (BLR)	x	72.58	x	72.58
19	A	Allan Wolski	Brazil  (BRA)	x	x	72.51	72.51
20	B	Alex Young	United States  (USA)	x	72.07	70.93	72.07
21	B	Chris Bennett	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	x	72.05	69.12	72.05
22	B	Siarhei Kalamoyets	Belarus  (BLR)	71.90	68.97	x	71.90
23	B	Ashraf Amgad Elseify	Qatar  (QAT)	71.87	x	71.00	71.87
24	B	Wagner Domingos	Brazil  (BRA)	x	69.59	71.69	71.69
25	A	Serhii Reheda	Ukraine  (UKR)	70.03	71.10	71.53	71.53
26	B	Diego del Real	Mexico  (MEX)	68.10	70.72	71.29	71.29
27	A	Hilmar Örn Jónsson	Iceland  (ISL)	71.12	x	x	71.12
28	B	Mihail Anastasakis	Greece  (GRE)	70.94	70.93	69.95	70.94
29	A	Mohamed Mahmoud Hassan	Egypt  (EGY)	x	x	69.92	69.92
30	B	Simone Falloni	Italy  (ITA)	x	69.90	x	69.90
31	A	Rudy Winkler	United States  (USA)	68.77	x	68.88	68.88
32	B	Kibwé Johnson	United States  (USA)	68.86	x	68.81	68.86

Final

The final took place on 11 August at 20:30. The results were as follows: ^[8]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Round						Mark	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Paweł Fajdek	Poland  (POL)	x	77.09	79.73	79.81	79.40	x	79.81
	Valeriy Pronkin	Authorised Neutral Athletes  (ANA)	77.00	77.20	75.71	76.25	77.98	78.16	78.16
	Wojciech Nowicki	Poland  (POL)	76.36	76.54	78.03	76.19	x	x	78.03
4	Quentin Bigot	France  (FRA)	77.05	76.26	77.46	77.67	x	76.87	77.67
5	Aleksei Sokirskiy	Authorised Neutral Athletes  (ANA)	76.22	77.50	77.15	x	x	x	77.50	SB
6	Nick Miller	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	x	75.78	77.31	x	76.16	x	77.31
7	Dilshod Nazarov	Tajikistan  (TJK)	76.33	77.22	75.36	76.01	77.14	74.91	77.22
8	Serghei Marghiev	Moldova  (MDA)	75.40	75.87	75.80	75.85	74.57	x	75.87
9	Pavel Bareisha	Belarus  (BLR)	74.35	75.86	x				75.86
10	Marco Lingua	Italy  (ITA)	69.64	75.13	x				75.13
11	Bence Halász	Hungary  (HUN)	70.89	x	74.45				74.45
12	Özkan Baltacı	Turkey  (TUR)	73.17	72.90	74.39				74.39

References

1. Start list
2. "Hammer Throw Men – Records". IAAF . Retrieved 31 July 2017.
3. "Records Set - Final" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 14 August 2017.
4. "Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 9 August 2017.
5. "Hammer Throw Men − Timetable". IAAF . Retrieved 9 August 2017.
6. "Hammer Throw Men − Qualification − Results" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 9 August 2017.
7. "Hammer Throw Men − Qualification − Summary" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 9 August 2017.
8. "Hammer Throw Men − Final − Results" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 9 August 2017.