Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw

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Men's hammer throw
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
1991 CPA 6349.jpg
Soviet stamp commemorating 1992 Olympic athletics
Venue Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
DatesAugust 1, 1992 (1992-08-01) (qualifying)
August 2, 1992 (1992-08-02) (final)
Competitors27 from 19 nations
Winning distance82.54
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Andrey Abduvaliyev
Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team
Silver medal icon.svg Igor Astapkovich
Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team
Bronze medal icon.svg Igor Nikulin
Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team
  1988
1996  

The men's hammer throw was an event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There were 27 participating athletes from 19 nations. [1] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress.

In this Olympics, the Unified Team comprised some of the republics of the former Soviet Union. Andrey Abduvaliyev from Tajikistan, Igor Astapkovich from Belarus, and Igor Nikulin from Russia created a sweep for the Unified Team. It was the fourth sweep in five Games for Soviet/Unified Team athletes; only the boycotted 1984 Games broke the consistent dominance of the Soviets.

The three dominated the competition in the late 80s and early 90s. Astapkovich, the strongest in the season, held the lead after the first round and retook it in the third. Abduvaliyev settled it with his fourth round throw 82.54 m (270 ft 9+12 in) while both Astapkovich and Nikulin hit their best throws in the final round, they could not match it.

Background

This was the 21st appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics except 1896. Six of the 12 finalists from the 1988 Games returned: two-time bronze medalist Jüri Tamm of the Soviet Union (now competing for independent Estonia), fifth-place finisher Heinz Weis of West Germany (now competing for united Germany), sixth-place finisher Tibor Gécsek of Hungary, eighth-place finisher Ivan Tanev of Bulgaria, tenth-place finisher Johann Lindner of Austria, and eleventh-place finisher Tore Gustafsson of Sweden. The Soviet trio that had swept the Olympic medals in both 1980 and 1988, and won the World Championships in 1983 (Sergey Litvinov), 1987 (Litvinov), and 1991 (Yuriy Sedykh), had been replaced by new throwers on the Unified Team, though Tamm continued to compete for Estonia (which was not part of the Unified Team). The new team, led by 1990 European champion Andrey Abduvaliyev, was still dominant and heavily favored. [2]

Bahrain, the People's Republic of China, and Lithuania each made their debut in the event. Some former Soviet Republics competed as the Unified Team; others (Lithuania and Estonia, appearing independently for the first time since 1936) competed separately. The United States appeared for the 20th time, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

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 76.00 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. [2] [3]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World recordFlag of the Soviet Union.svg  Yuriy Sedykh  (URS)86.74 Stuttgart, West Germany 30 August 1986
Olympic recordFlag of the Soviet Union.svg  Sergey Litvinov  (URS)84.80 Seoul, South Korea 26 September 1988

No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition.

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

DateTimeRound
Saturday, 1 August 19929:25Qualifying
Sunday, 2 August 199218:55Final

Results

Qualifying

RankAthleteNation123DistanceNotes
1 Igor Nikulin Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team 74.2079.0879.08Q
2 Andrey Abduvaliyev Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team 78.8278.82Q
3 Jud Logan Flag of the United States.svg  United States 78.4078.40Q, DPG [2]
4 Jüri Tamm Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 71.7675.2478.1678.16Q
5 Lance Deal Flag of the United States.svg  United States X75.5877.0077.00Q
6 Igor Astapkovich Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team 76.5076.50Q
7 Tibor Gécsek Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 76.4876.48Q
8 Christophe Épalle Flag of France.svg  France 76.2476.24Q
9 Sean Carlin Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 74.4874.3875.9075.90q
10 Enrico Sgrulletti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 75.4075.40X75.40q
11 Johann Lindner Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 75.2875.2474.0275.28q
12 Heinz Weis Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 74.8674.64X74.86q
13 Bi Zhong Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 70.66X74.3074.30
14 Savvas Saritzoglou Flag of Greece.svg  Greece X73.0674.1674.16
15 Claus Dethloff Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 73.1273.6473.3673.64
16 Tore Gustafsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 73.52X71.9273.52
17 Raphaël Piolanti Flag of France.svg  France X73.2271.9873.22
18 Ivan Tanev Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 70.2071.1672.6272.62
19 Frédéric Kuhn Flag of France.svg  France 71.2071.7671.6471.76
20 Andrés Charadia Flag of Argentina (1861-2010).svg  Argentina 70.8270.64X70.82
21 Benjaminas Viluckis Flag of Lithuania (1988-2004).svg  Lithuania 70.54X70.5470.54
22 Plamen Minev Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 68.78X69.9069.90
23 Paul Head Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain X69.5865.6469.58
24 Kenneth Flax Flag of the United States.svg  United States 69.04X69.3669.36
25 Pavel Sedláček Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 67.7664.9867.3467.76
26 Waleed Al-Bekheet Flag of Kuwait (3-2).svg  Kuwait XX63.9463.94
27 Rashid Riyadh Al-Ameeri Flag of Bahrain (1972-2002).svg  Bahrain XX56.0856.08

Final

RankAthleteNation123456DistanceNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Andrey Abduvaliyev Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team 78.5680.1880.3482.5479.1282.2482.54
Silver medal icon.svg Igor Astapkovich Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team 80.02X81.8078.0881.7081.9681.96
Bronze medal icon.svg Igor Nikulin Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team 78.4678.56X78.3280.4481.3881.38
4 Tibor Gécsek Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 77.7875.78X75.54X76.5877.78
5 Jüri Tamm Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 76.3677.00X76.8075.8277.5277.52
6 Heinz Weis Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 76.72X76.90X75.3276.2876.90
7 Lance Deal Flag of the United States.svg  United States X76.8474.92X75.0676.4276.84
8 Sean Carlin Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 75.0876.1675.10Did not advance76.16
9 Johann Lindner Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 75.1473.3674.26Did not advance75.14
10 Christophe Epalle Flag of France.svg  France 74.2474.8474.74Did not advance74.84
11 Enrico Sgrulletti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 72.9872.34XDid not advance72.98
Jud Logan Flag of the United States.svg  United States 79.0078.44XXX75.8079.00DPG [2]

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