Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw

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Men's hammer throw
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue Stade de France, Paris, France
Date
  • 2 August 2024 (qualification)
    4 August 2024 (final)
Competitors32 from 21 nations
Winning distance84.12 m
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Ethan Katzberg Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Silver medal icon.svg Bence Halász Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
Bronze medal icon.svg Mykhaylo Kokhan Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
  2020
2028  

The men's hammer throw at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in Paris, France, on 2 and 4 August 2024. This was the 29th time that the event is contested at the Summer Olympics.

Summary

The revelation of 2023 was Ethan Katzberg who had grown from fouling out at the 2021 U20 Championships to winning the 2023 World Championships. At the time the narrow victory over Olympic Champion Wojciech Nowicki may have marked a changing of the guard. Silver medalist Eivind Henriksen and bronze medalist Paweł Fajdek were back but now well over 30, not abnormal for hammer throwers. World Championship bronze medalist Bence Halász is still in his late 20's, but Katzberg is only 22. This season Katzberg dominated the top throws, setting a North American record at 84.38m in April and 8 different competitions over 80. The only other throwers over 80 meters were Nowicki, Fajdek, Halász and Mykhaylo Kokhan, age 23 who threw over 80 five times. A Russian and a Belorussian were not invited to the Olympics. [1]

In the qualifying round, only Rudy Winkler made an auto qualifier of 77 meters on his first attempt. After cleaning up a first round foul, Katzberg led five auto qualifiers. It took 75.25m to get into the final. [2]

In the finals, Nowicki started with a 77.42m, Kokhan topped that with 78.54m and Winkler put himself in position with 77.92m. Then, Katzberg stepped into the ring and launched his first throw of the finals at 84.12 m (275 ft 11 in). It was game over at that point, with the other competitors now having to fight it out for silver and bronze. In the second round, Kokhan improved to 79.39m and Henriksen moved up to 79.18m. In the third round, Halász pushed Henriksen off the podium with a 79.97m, the Katzberg backed up his first throw with an 82.28m. They went through the formality of three more rounds as no other thrower broke 80m, but only Fajdek improved to 78.80m and that only put him in fifth. [3]

Katzberg was the first Canadian to win the Hammer, the first North American since 1956, and only the third non-(former) Soviet Bloc athlete to win since WWII.

Background

The men's hammer throw has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the second edition in 1900.

Global records before the 2024 Summer Olympics
RecordAthlete (Nation)Distance (m)LocationDate
World record Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Yuriy Sedykh  (URS)86.74 [4] Stuttgart, West Germany30 August 1986
Olympic record Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Sergey Litvinov  (URS)84.80 Seoul, South Korea26 September 1988
World leadingFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Ethan Katzberg  (CAN)84.38 [5] Nairobi, Kenya20 April 2024
Area records before the 2024 Summer Olympics [6]
Area RecordAthlete (Nation)Distance (m)
Africa ( records )Flag of Egypt.svg  Mostafa El Gamel  (EGY)81.27
Asia ( records )Flag of Japan.svg  Koji Murofushi  (JPN)84.86
Europe ( records )Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Yuriy Sedykh  (URS)86.74 WR
North, Central America

and Caribbean ( records )

Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Ethan Katzberg  (CAN)84.38
Oceania ( records )Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Stuart Rendell  (AUS)79.29
South America ( records )Flag of Brazil.svg  Wagner Domingos  (BRA)78.63

Qualification

For the men's hammer throw event, the qualification period was between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. 32 athletes were able to qualify for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per nation, by throwing the entry standard of 78.20 m or further or by their World Athletics Ranking for this event. [7] [8]

Results

Qualification

The qualification was held on 2 August, starting at 10:10 (UTC+2) for Group A and 11:35 (UTC+2) for Group B in the morning. 32 athletes qualified for the first round by qualification distance or world ranking. [9] Qualification: 77.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final. [10]

RankGroupAthleteNation123DistanceNotes
1B Ethan Katzberg Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada X79.9379.93 Q
2A Rowan Hamilton Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 76.97X77.7877.78 Q, PB
3A Mykhaylo Kokhan Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine X77.4277.42 Q
4B Rudy Winkler Flag of the United States.svg  United States 77.2977.29 Q
5B Eivind Henriksen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway X77.1477.14 Q, SB
6B Bence Halász Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 76.8472.8976.9076.90 q
7A Yann Chaussinand Flag of France.svg  France X75.4376.8676.86 q
8A Thomas Mardal Flag of Norway.svg  Norway X75.4376.7876.78 q
9B Pawel Fajdek Flag of Poland.svg  Poland XX76.5676.56 q
10A Wojciech Nowicki Flag of Poland.svg  Poland X76.3275.5076.32 q
11B Christos Frantzeskakis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 75.5373.9474.2175.53 q
12B Merlin Hummel Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 75.25XX75.25 q
13B Adam Keenan Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada X69.9774.4574.45 SB
14B Denzel Comenentia Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands X72.1774.3174.31
15A Ragnar Carlsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 72.7273.9673.9473.96
16B Volodymyr Myslyvčuk Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 73.84XX73.84
17A Matija Gregurić Civil ensign of Croatia.svg  Croatia 71.4872.9473.6973.69
18A Serghei Marghiev Flag of Moldova (3-2).svg  Moldova 73.46X70.7373.46
19A Wang Qi Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 65.4372.5269.6072.52
20B Gabriel Kehr Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 72.2872.1272.3172.31
21B Dániel Rába Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 71.37X72.2972.29
22B Diego del Real Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 69.3972.10X72.10
23B Joaquín Gómez Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina X64.9472.1072.10
24A Humberto Mansilla Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 71.7571.8370.8171.83
25A Donát Varga Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 69.9571.6569.7171.65
26B Jerome Vega Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 69.1971.6170.4471.61
27B Özkan Baltacı Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey X71.4071.2471.40
28A Sören Klose Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 71.20XX71.20
29A Mihail Anastasakis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece X70.14X70.14
30A Mostafa El Gamel Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 68.1268.6570.0970.09
31A Patrik Hájek Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 67.9668.4568.8068.80
A Daniel Haugh Flag of the United States.svg  United States XXX NM

[2]

Final

The final was held on 4 August, starting at 20:30 (UTC+2) in the evening.

RankAthleteNation123456DistanceNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Ethan Katzberg Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 84.12X82.28XXX84.12
Silver medal icon.svg Bence Halász Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 77.5878.8479.9779.9477.6679.8279.97
Bronze medal icon.svg Mykhaylo Kokhan Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 78.5479.39X78.1776.5379.2479.39
4 Eivind Henriksen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 76.4579.18XX76.11X79.18 SB
5 Pawel Fajdek Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 78.0177.2278.5778.80X76.6478.80
6 Rudy Winkler Flag of the United States.svg  United States 77.92XXX71.90X77.92
7 Wojciech Nowicki Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 77.4277.2876.7577.03X75.9277.42
8 Yann Chaussinand Flag of France.svg  France XX77.3877.15XX77.38
9 Rowan Hamilton Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 76.59XXDid not advance76.59
10 Merlin Hummel Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 74.8576.03XDid not advance76.03
11 Thomas Mardal Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 74.2573.68XDid not advance74.25
12 Christos Frantzeskakis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece X73.34XDid not advance73.34

[3]

References

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