2023 World Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw

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Men's hammer throw
at the 2023 World Championships
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Ethan Katzberg shortly after the final.
Venue National Athletics Centre
Dates19 August (Qualification)
20 August (Final)
Competitors35 from 22 nations
Winning distance81.25
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
  2022
2025  

The men's hammer throw at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 19 and 20 August 2023. [1]

Contents

Summary

Ethan Katzberg arrived at these championships with a respectable personal best of 78.73m set earlier in the season. As the fourth thrower in the preliminary rounds, he threw an 81.18m National Record, while no other athlete cleared 78.50 in the preliminaries.

Five time defending champion Paweł Fajdek started off the finals with an exact 80 metre throw. With the home crowd cheering, Bence Halász took the lead with an 80.82m. Katzberg closed off the first round with an 80.18m. In the second round, Olympic Champion Wojciech Nowicki knocked his teammate Fajdek off the podium with an 80.70m. He improved that to 80.83m in the fourth round to knock Halász off the top by a single cm. In the fifth round, Katzberg jumped into the lead with an 81.25 m (266 ft 6 in). On the next throw, Nowicki improved, but 81.02m wasn't enough to get back to the lead. Neither were able to improve in the final round, but Katzberg's 81.11m would have also won the competition.

Through two days of competition, Katzberg landed 6 legal throws, all of them more than a metre longer than he had ever thrown before. He took home a World Championship and set his National Record twice. He became the first athlete from NACAC to win a medal at a Men's Hammer throw in the World Athletics Championships. [2]

Records

Before the competition records were as follows: [3]

RecordAthlete & Nat.Perf.LocationDate
World record Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Yuriy Sedykh  (URS)86.74 m Stuttgart, West Germany 30 August 1986
Championship record Flag of Belarus.svg  Ivan Tsikhan  (BLR)83.63 m Osaka, Japan 27 August 2007
World LeadingFlag of Poland.svg  Wojciech Nowicki  (POL)81.92 m Oslo, Norway 15 June 2023
African Record Flag of Egypt.svg  Mostafa Elgamel  (EGY)81.27 m Cairo, Egypt 21 March 2014
Asian Record Flag of Japan.svg  Koji Murofushi  (JPN)84.86 m Prague, Czech Republic 29 June 2003
North, Central American and Caribbean record Flag of the United States.svg  Rudy Winkler  (USA)82.71 m Eugene, United States 20 June 2021
South American Record Flag of Brazil.svg  Wagner Domingos  (BRA)78.63 m Celje, Slovenia 19 June 2016
European Record Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Yuriy Sedykh  (URS)86.74 m Stuttgart, West Germany 30 August 1986
Oceanian record Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Stuart Rendell  (AUS)79.29 m Varaždin, Croatia 6 July 2002

The following records were established during the competition:

DateEventNameNationalityDistanceRecord
19 August Qualification Ethan Katzberg Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  (CAN)81.18 NR
20 August Final Ethan Katzberg Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  (CAN)81.25 NR

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 78.00. [4]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (CEST), was as follows: [5]

DateTimeRound
19 August13:00 Qualification
14:45 Qualification
20 August17:49 Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 77.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final. [6] [7]

RankGroupNameNationalityRoundMarkNotes
123
1A Ethan Katzberg Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  (CAN)81.1881.18Q, NR
2B Mykhaylo Kokhan Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine  (UKR)76.5978.4778.47Q
3A Bence Halász Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary  (HUN)78.1378.13Q
4A Wojciech Nowicki Flag of Poland.svg  Poland  (POL)78.0478.04Q
5B Paweł Fajdek Flag of Poland.svg  Poland  (POL)77.9877.98Q
6B Rudy Winkler Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)75.3777.0677.06Q
7A Daniel Haugh Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)xx76.6476.64q
8B Michail Anastasakis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece  (GRE)x73.4375.7675.76q
9B Eivind Henriksen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway  (NOR)71.6174.3775.3775.37q
10A Gabriel Kehr Flag of Chile.svg  Chile  (CHI)75.1072.8873.6375.10q
11B Diego del Real Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico  (MEX)73.2874.9173.3074.91q
12A Adam Keenan Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  (CAN)74.5672.9773.3274.56q
13B Rowan Hamilton Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  (CAN)71.8170.4274.1474.14
14A Christos Frantzeskakis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece  (GRE)74.0573.30x74.05
15B Dániel Rába Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary  (HUN)x71.9373.1773.17 SB
16A Thomas Mardal Flag of Norway.svg  Norway  (NOR)72.4073.1372.6273.13
17B Aaron Kangas  [ fi ]Flag of Finland.svg  Finland  (FIN)x72.1572.9672.96
18B Serghei Marghiev Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova  (MDA)72.9168.7671.5072.91
19A Jerome Vega Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico  (PUR)71.61x72.8772.87
20B Humberto Mansilla Flag of Chile.svg  Chile  (CHI)72.3272.8072.0172.80
21B Joaquín Gómez Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina  (ARG)68.6672.7768.5772.77
22A Sören Klose Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)72.23xx72.23
23B Yann Chaussinand Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)x72.17x72.17
24B Ragnar Carlsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden  (SWE)70.9472.02x72.02
25B Donát Varga Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary  (HUN)xx72.0272.02
26B Ronald Mencía Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba  (CUB)71.7270.74x71.72
27A Alexandros Poursanidis Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus  (CYP)71.63x71.5871.63
28B Mostafa Elgamel Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt  (EGY)x71.36x71.36
29A Denzel Comenentia Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands  (NED)69.46x70.1670.16
30A Konstantinos Zaltos Flag of Greece.svg  Greece  (GRE)69.98x69.6769.98
31A Alex Young Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)69.10x67.4069.10
32A Patrik Hájek Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic  (CZE)67.3666.3068.7768.77
33A Marcin Wrotyński  [ pl ]Flag of Poland.svg  Poland  (POL)67.57x68.6568.65
B Merlin Hummel Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)xxxNM
A Hilmar Örn Jónsson Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland  (ISL)xxxNM

Final

The final was started on 20 August at 17:52. [8]

RankNameNationalityRoundMarkNotes
123456
Gold medal icon.svg Ethan Katzberg Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  (CAN)80.1880.02x79.8281.2581.1181.25 NR
Silver medal icon.svg Wojciech Nowicki Flag of Poland.svg  Poland  (POL)79.1480.7078.9480.8381.0280.3681.02
Bronze medal icon.svg Bence Halász Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary  (HUN)80.82xx80.5979.94x80.82 SB
4 Paweł Fajdek Flag of Poland.svg  Poland  (POL)80.00x77.06xx77.9980.00 SB
5 Mykhaylo Kokhan Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine  (UKR)x77.4179.3478.3779.5979.5279.59 SB
6 Daniel Haugh Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)76.0777.3875.6678.6474.83x78.64 SB
7 Eivind Henriksen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway  (NOR)75.8577.06xx76.81x77.06 SB
8 Rudy Winkler Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)xx76.04x75.83x76.04
9 Gabriel Kehr Flag of Chile.svg  Chile  (CHI)75.9975.5474.2475.99
10 Michail Anastasakis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece  (GRE)74.6273.0475.4975.49
11 Adam Keenan Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  (CAN)74.4973.9672.5874.49
12 Diego del Real Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico  (MEX)72.3971.8472.5672.56

References

  1. "WCH Budapest 23 preview: hammer throw". World Athletics . 16 August 2023. Archived from the original on 30 November 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  2. Hammer_throw#Men_3
  3. "Hammer Throw Men − Records". World Athletics . Archived from the original on 23 July 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  4. "Qualifying System and Entry Standards" (PDF). World Athletics . 20 August 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  5. "Men's Hammer Throw -Timetable". World Athletics . Archived from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  6. "Results Hammer Throw Men - Qualification" (PDF). World Athletics . 19 August 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  7. "Summary Hammer Throw Men - Qualification" (PDF). World Athletics . 19 August 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  8. "Results Hammer Throw Men - Final" (PDF). World Athletics . 20 August 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.