2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw

These are the official results of the Men's Hammer Throw event at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, France. There were a total number of 26 participating athletes, with the final held on Monday 25 August 2003.

Medalists

Gold	Ivan Tsikhan Belarus (BLR)
Silver	Adrián Annus Hungary (HUN)
Bronze	Koji Murofushi Japan (JPN)

Schedule

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
23.08.2003 – 09:30h	23.08.2003 – 11:00h
Final Round
25.08.2003 – 18:00h

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 2003 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	86.74 m	August 30, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany
Event Record	Szymon Ziółkowski (POL)	83.38 m	August 5, 2001	Edmonton, Canada
Season Best	Koji Murofushi (JPN)	84.86 m	June 29, 2003	Prague, Czech Republic

Qualification

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	1	Igor Astapkovich (BLR)	77.11	77.48	79.66	79.66 m
2	3	Koji Murofushi (JPN)	77.50	79.45	—	79.45 m
3	5	Ilya Konovalov (RUS)	78.45	—	—	78.45 m
4	8	Primož Kozmus (SLO)	X	76.88	78.10	78.10 m
5	8	Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE)	75.82	77.53	75.95	77.53 m
6	10	Nicolas Figère (FRA)	76.79	76.26	X	76.79 m
7	13	Libor Charfreitag (SVK)	76.52	76.14	X	76.52 m
8	14	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN)	X	76.20	75.79	76.20 m
9	15	Nicola Vizzoni (ITA)	74.25	73.86	75.76	75.76 m
10	18	Maciej Pałyszko (POL)	75.20	X	75.42	75.42 m
11	19	Péter Botfa (HUN)	73.10	74.75	74.74	74.75 m
12	20	Sergey Kirmasov (RUS)	X	74.17	72.91	74.17 m
13	21	Oleksandr Krykun (UKR)	70.38	72.97	73.58	73.58 m

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	2	Ivan Tsikhan (BLR)	X	79.64	—	79.64 m
2	4	Andriy Skvaruk (UKR)	76.77	78.50	—	78.50 m
3	2	Adrián Annus (HUN)	78.20	—	—	78.20 m
4	7	Vadim Devyatovskiy (BLR)	75.07	76.46	78.12	78.12 m
5	11	Miloslav Konopka (SVK)	76.58	73.55	75.81	76.58 m
6	12	Stuart Rendell (AUS)	75.57	76.56	X	76.56 m
7	16	Vladyslav Piskunov (UKR)	73.43	74.73	75.65	75.65 m
8	17	Karsten Kobs (GER)	75.21	74.90	75.55	75.55 m
9	22	Aleksey Zagornyi (RUS)	X	72.36	73.30	73.30 m
10	23	Christophe Épalle (FRA)	X	72.82	X	72.82 m
11	24	Juan Ignacio Cerra (ARG)	72.70	X	71.86	72.70 m
12	25	Wojciech Kondratowicz (POL)	X	70.79	X	70.79 m
—	—	Vladimír Maška (CZE)	X	X	X	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Ivan Tsikhan (BLR)	X	80.69	81.77	X	X	83.05	83.05 m
	Adrián Annus (HUN)	77.26	78.48	79.22	79.01	78.49	80.36	80.36 m
	Koji Murofushi (JPN)	79.87	78.64	79.99	79.91	80.12	79.07	80.12 m
4	Andriy Skvaruk (UKR)	78.80	79.68	77.70	X	X	X	79.68 m
5	Primož Kozmus (SLO)	78.16	X	78.00	74.76	78.72	79.68	79.68 m
6	Ilya Konovalov (RUS)	76.49	X	76.06	76.81	76.10	78.55	78.55 m
7	Vadim Devyatovskiy (BLR)	78.13	76.81	77.63	X	73.99	X	78.13 m
8	Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE)	75.62	77.79	77.05	77.70	X	75.62	77.79 m
9	Miloslav Konopka (SVK)	75.86	75.18	X				75.86 m
10	Stuart Rendell (AUS)	73.14	75.72	75.54				75.72 m
11	Nicolas Figère (FRA)	73.97	70.98	74.06				74.06 m
—	Igor Astapkovich (BLR)	X	X	X				NM

See also

• Athletics at the 2003 Pan American Games - Men's hammer throw
• 2003 Hammer Throw Year Ranking

References

• Results
• hammerthrow.wz