2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw

The Men's Hammer Throw event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 15 and August 17. With reigning champion Ivan Tsikhan banned from competition for doping offences, the 2008 Olympic gold and silver medallists Primož Kozmus and Krisztián Pars were the favourites in the event. Pars entered the competition with a world-leading throw of 81.43 m and an 18 competition win-streak. Belarusian Yuriy Shayunov and Russian Aleksey Zagornyi, the only other athletes to have thrown over eighty metres twice that season prior to the championships, were identified as possible podium finishers. Nicola Vizzoni, Igor Sokolov, Olli-Pekka Karjalainen, Szymon Ziółkowski, Koji Murofushi, and Libor Charfreitag were all predicted to have an outside chance of a medal.^[1]

On the first day of competition, Kozmus was the first to pass the automatic qualifying mark of 77.50 m. Pars had the best effort of the day with 78.68 m, while former world champion Ziółkowski led group A with a throw of 77.89 m. Aspiring medallists Sokolov, Shayunov and Karjalainen all failed to progress to the final of the competition.^[2] On the final day of the hammer throw, the favourite Kozmus delivered a best of 80.15 m to take the gold medal, Slovenia's first ever in the World Championships.^[3] Ziółkowski's 79.30 m, the best of his season, was enough to take the silver – his first medal at a major championships since 2005. The level of the competition, however, failed to live up to expectations: the world-leader Pars started poorly and, after a number of fouls, he never regained ground and finished in fourth place. Furthermore, the performance of bronze medallist Zagornyi (78.09) was the shortest-ever distance of a medal winner in championship history.^[4]

Medalists

Gold	Primož Kozmus  Slovenia (SLO)
Silver	Szymon Ziółkowski  Poland (POL)
Bronze	Aleksey Zagornyi  Russia (RUS)

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

World record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	86.74	Stuttgart, West Germany	30 August 1986
Championship record	Ivan Tsikhan (BLR)	83.89	Helsinki, Finland	8 August 2005
World Leading	Krisztián Pars (HUN)	81.43	Veszprém, Hungary	25 April 2009
African record	Chris Harmse (RSA)	80.63	Durban, South Africa	15 April 2004
Asian record	Koji Murofushi (JPN)	84.86	Prague, Czech Republic	29 June 2003
North American record	Lance Deal (USA)	82.52	Milan, Italy	7 September 1996
South American record	Juan Ignacio Cerra (ARG)	76.42	Trieste, Italy	25 July 2001
European record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	86.74	Stuttgart, West Germany	30 August 1986
Oceanian record	Stuart Rendell (AUS)	79.29	Varaždin, Croatia	6 July 2002

Qualification standards

A standard	B standard
77.50m	74.30m

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 15, 2009	12:00	Qualification
August 17, 2009	18:05	Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 77.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	B	Krisztián Pars	Hungary (HUN)	72.94	78.68		78.68	Q
2	A	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland (POL)	77.89			77.89	Q
3	B	Pavel Kryvitski	Belarus (BLR)	70.70	72.14	77.85	77.85	Q
4	A	Sergey Lytvynov Jr.	Germany (GER)	77.68			77.68	Q
5	A	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia (SLO)	77.55			77.55	Q
6	A	Igor Vinichenko	Russia (RUS)	77.54			77.54	Q
7	A	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy (ITA)	76.71	x	76.95	76.95	q
8	B	Markus Esser	Germany (GER)	76.81	76.67	x	76.81	q
9	A	András Haklits	Croatia (CRO)	75.50	76.39	75.73	76.39	q
10	B	Libor Charfreitag	Slovakia (SVK)	69.71	75.39	76.29	76.29	q
11	A	Dilshod Nazarov	Tajikistan (TJK)	73.84	74.73	75.83	75.83	q
12	B	Aleksey Zagornyi	Russia (RUS)	75.38	74.93	73.75	75.38	q
13	A	Ali Al-Zinkawi	Kuwait (KUW)	x	73.82	75.10	75.10
14	B	Lukáš Melich	Czech Republic (CZE)	74.40	72.98	74.47	74.47
15	B	Thomas J. Freeman	United States (USA)	71.38	74.19	72.58	74.19
16	A	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland (FIN)	x	73.25	74.09	74.09
17	B	Igors Sokolovs	Latvia (LAT)	73.96	73.97	73.12	73.97
18	B	David Söderberg	Finland (FIN)	73.69	73.14	73.56	73.69
19	B	Jérôme Bortoluzzi	France (FRA)	x	73.09	70.69	73.09
20	A	Mohsen El Anany	Egypt (EGY)	71.42	72.68	72.05	72.68
21	A	Michael Mai	United States (USA)	72.58	x	67.47	72.58
22	B	Olexiy Sokyrskiyy	Ukraine (UKR)	70.67	x	72.56	72.56
23	B	Alexandros Papadimitriou	Greece (GRE)	x	x	72.02	72.02
24	B	Javier Cienfuegos	Spain (ESP)	69.60	71.63	72.01	72.01
25	B	Dzmitry Shako	Belarus (BLR)	71.80	70.57	x	71.80
26	A	Yury Shayunou	Belarus (BLR)	71.37	x	x	71.37
27	B	Eşref Apak	Turkey (TUR)	x	70.70	x	70.70
28	A	A. G. Kruger	United States (USA)	67.40	x	70.19	70.19
29	A	Artem Rubanko	Ukraine (UKR)	x	69.81	x	69.81
30	B	Juan Ignacio Cerra	Argentina (ARG)	66.77	67.98	69.37	69.37
31	B	Bergur Ingi Pétursson	Iceland (ISL)	67.32	68.62	x	68.62
32	A	Ainārs Vaičulens	Latvia (LAT)	65.70	66.89	x	66.89
33	A	Amanmurad Hommadov	Turkmenistan (TKM)	57.39	56.46	x	57.39
	A	Chris Harmse	South Africa (RSA)	x	x	x	NM

Key: NM = no mark (i.e. no valid result), Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia (SLO)	75.14	79.74	77.21	79.28	80.15	80.84	80.84	SB
	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland (POL)	77.44	79.30	77.85	77.66	78.09	76.89	79.30	SB
	Aleksey Zagornyi	Russia (RUS)	76.11	x	77.42	x	75.11	78.09	78.09
4	Krisztián Pars	Hungary (HUN)	75.51	x	x	77.45	x	x	77.45
5	Sergej Litvinov	Germany (GER)	74.50	74.49	75.88	76.58	76.00	74.45	76.58
6	Markus Esser	Germany (GER)	68.07	76.27	74.07	x	x	x	76.27
7	András Haklits	Croatia (CRO)	72.60	75.12	75.09	x	74.82	76.26	76.26
8	Pavel Kryvitski	Belarus (BLR)	73.72	x	72.73	x	x	76.00	76.00
9	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy (ITA)	x	x	73.70				73.70
10	Libor Charfreitag	Slovakia (SVK)	x	72.63	x				72.63
11	Dilshod Nazarov	Tajikistan (TJK)	x	x	71.69				71.69
	Igor Vinichenko	Russia (RUS)	x	x	x				NM

Key: NM = no mark (i.e. no valid result), SB = Seasonal best

See also

• 2009 Hammer Throw Year Ranking

References

General

• Hammer throw results. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-08-15.
• hammerthrow.wz

Specific

1. Mulkeen, Jon (2009-08-15). Men's Hammer Throw - PREVIEW. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-08-15. Archived 2009-09-08.
2. Mulkeen, Jon (2009-08-15). Event Report - Men's Hammer Throw - Qualification Archived 2012-03-11 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-08-16.
3. Butcher, Mike (2009-08-17). For Kozmus, number 17 is lucky indeed Archived 2012-03-25 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-08-18.
4. Mulkeen, Jon (2009-08-17). Event Report - Men's Hammer Throw - Final Archived 2012-03-25 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-08-18.