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| Men's hammer throw at the 2017 World Championships | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympic Stadium | |||||||||
| Dates | 9 August (qualification) 11 August (final) | |||||||||
| Competitors | 32 from 20 nations | |||||||||
| Winning distance | 79.73 m (261 ft 6+3⁄4 in) | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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The men's hammer throw at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics is being held at the Olympic Stadium on 9 and 11 August.[1]
Summary
[edit]The final started with Aleksei Sokirskiy (ANA)'s 76.22 m early leader. Wojciech Nowicki (POL) slightly improved upon that to 77.36 m but the next thrower Quentin Bigot (FRA) hit the first round leader 77.05 m on the next throw. Near the end of the round, Valeriy Pronkin (ANA) moved into second place with his 77.00 m. In the second round, Sokirskiy improved to 77.50 m, while Olympic champion Dilshod Nazarov (TJK) moved into second with his best of the day 77.22m. In the third round, Nick Miller (GBR) put himself into bronze medal position with his 77.31 m best, but two throws later Nowicki threw his best of 78.03 m to take the lead followed by Bigot improving to 77.46 m. Near the end of the round, 2017 #1 Paweł Fajdek (POL) took a big lead with a 79.73 m. In the fourth round, Bigot again improved, 77.67 m enough to move into bronze position. At the end of the round, Fajdek threw his best of the day 79.81 m (261 ft 10 in). Two throws later, in the fifth round, Pronkin's 77.98 m leapfrogged him from seventh place to silver. He then improved upon that with a 78.16 m in the final round. It was the third silver medal for Authorised Neutral Athletes.
Records
[edit]Before the competition records were as follows:[2]
| Record | Perf. | Athlete | Nat. | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World | 86.74 | Yuriy Sedykh |  URS | 30 Aug 1986 | Stuttgart, West Germany |
| Championship | 83.63 | Ivan Tsikhan |  BLR | 27 Aug 2007 | Osaka, Japan |
| World leading | 83.44 | Paweł Fajdek |  POL | 27 Jun 2017 | Ostrava, Czech Republic |
| African | 81.27 | Mostafa Al-Gamel |  EGY | 21 Mar 2014 | Cairo, Egypt |
| Asian | 84.86 | Koji Murofushi |  JPN | 29 Jun 2003 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| NACAC | 82.52 | Lance Deal |  USA | 7 Sep 1996 | Milan, Italy |
| South American | 78.63 | Wagner Domingos |  BRA | 19 Jun 2016 | Celje, Slovenia |
| European | 86.74 | Yuriy Sedykh | URS | 30 Aug 1986 | Stuttgart, West Germany |
| Oceanian | 79.29 | Stuart Rendell |  AUS | 6 Jul 2002 | Varaždin, Croatia |
No records were set at the competition.[3]
Qualification standard
[edit]The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 76.00 metres.[4]
Schedule
[edit]The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), is as follows:[5]
| Date | Time | Round |
|---|---|---|
| 9 August | 19:20 | Qualification |
| 11 August | 20:30 | Final |
Results
[edit]Qualification
[edit]The qualification round took place on 9 August, in two groups, with Group A starting at 19:22 and Group B starting at 20:50.[6] Athletes attaining a mark of at least 75.50 metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows:[7]
| Rank | Group | Name | Nationality | Round | Mark | Notes | ||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| 1 | B | Wojciech Nowicki |  Poland (POL) | 76.85 | 76.85 | Q | ||
| 2 | A | Paweł Fajdek | Poland (POL) | 71.43 | 76.82 | 76.82 | Q | |
| 3 | A | Quentin Bigot |  France (FRA) | 76.11 | 76.11 | Q | ||
| 4 | A | Pavel Bareisha |  Belarus (BLR) | x | 74.07 | 75.98 | 75.98 | Q |
| 5 | A | Bence Halász |  Hungary (HUN) | 75.56 | 75.56 | Q | ||
| 6 | A | Dilshod Nazarov |  Tajikistan (TJK) | x | 75.54 | 75.54 | Q | |
| 7 | A | Nick Miller |  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | 75.52 | 75.52 | Q | ||
| 8 | A | Aleksei Sokirskiy |  Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) | 75.50 | 75.50 | Q | ||
| 9 | B | Serghei Marghiev |  Moldova (MDA) | 75.18 | 73.41 | 74.96 | 75.18 | q |
| 10 | B | Valeriy Pronkin | Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) | 74.11 | 73.75 | 75.09 | 75.09 | q |
| 11 | A | Özkan Baltacı |  Turkey (TUR) | 74.69 | 74.16 | 74.46 | 74.69 | q |
| 12 | A | Marco Lingua |  Italy (ITA) | 74.41 | x | x | 74.41 | q |
| 13 | B | Marcel Lomnický |  Slovakia (SVK) | 74.26 | 73.35 | x | 74.26 | |
| 14 | B | Krisztián Pars | Hungary (HUN) | 74.08 | x | 73.36 | 74.08 | |
| 15 | A | David Söderberg |  Finland (FIN) | 73.76 | x | x | 73.76 | |
| 16 | B | Eşref Apak | Turkey (TUR) | 73.55 | x | x | 73.55 | |
| 17 | A | Sergey Litvinov | Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) | 73.32 | 73.48 | 73.36 | 73.48 | |
| 18 | B | Zakhar Makhrosenka | Belarus (BLR) | x | 72.58 | x | 72.58 | |
| 19 | A | Allan Wolski | Brazil (BRA) | x | x | 72.51 | 72.51 | |
| 20 | B | Alex Young |  United States (USA) | x | 72.07 | 70.93 | 72.07 | |
| 21 | B | Chris Bennett | Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | x | 72.05 | 69.12 | 72.05 | |
| 22 | B | Siarhei Kalamoyets | Belarus (BLR) | 71.90 | 68.97 | x | 71.90 | |
| 23 | B | Ashraf Amgad Elseify |  Qatar (QAT) | 71.87 | x | 71.00 | 71.87 | |
| 24 | B | Wagner Domingos | Brazil (BRA) | x | 69.59 | 71.69 | 71.69 | |
| 25 | A | Serhii Reheda |  Ukraine (UKR) | 70.03 | 71.10 | 71.53 | 71.53 | |
| 26 | B | Diego del Real |  Mexico (MEX) | 68.10 | 70.72 | 71.29 | 71.29 | |
| 27 | A | Hilmar Örn Jónsson |  Iceland (ISL) | 71.12 | x | x | 71.12 | |
| 28 | B | Mihail Anastasakis |  Greece (GRE) | 70.94 | 70.93 | 69.95 | 70.94 | |
| 29 | A | Mohamed Mahmoud Hassan |  Egypt (EGY) | x | x | 69.92 | 69.92 | |
| 30 | B | Simone Falloni | Italy (ITA) | x | 69.90 | x | 69.90 | |
| 31 | A | Rudy Winkler | United States (USA) | 68.77 | x | 68.88 | 68.88 | |
| 32 | B | Kibwé Johnson | United States (USA) | 68.86 | x | 68.81 | 68.86 | |
Final
[edit]The final took place on 11 August at 20:30. The results were as follows:[8]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Round | Mark | Notes | |||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||
 | Paweł Fajdek | Poland (POL) | x | 77.09 | 79.73 | 79.81 | 79.40 | x | 79.81 | |
 | Valeriy Pronkin | Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) | 77.00 | 77.20 | 75.71 | 76.25 | 77.98 | 78.16 | 78.16 | |
 | Wojciech Nowicki | Poland (POL) | 76.36 | 76.54 | 78.03 | 76.19 | x | x | 78.03 | |
| 4 | Quentin Bigot | France (FRA) | 77.05 | 76.26 | 77.46 | 77.67 | x | 76.87 | 77.67 | |
| 5 | Aleksei Sokirskiy | Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) | 76.22 | 77.50 | 77.15 | x | x | x | 77.50 | SB |
| 6 | Nick Miller | Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | x | 75.78 | 77.31 | x | 76.16 | x | 77.31 | |
| 7 | Dilshod Nazarov | Tajikistan (TJK) | 76.33 | 77.22 | 75.36 | 76.01 | 77.14 | 74.91 | 77.22 | |
| 8 | Serghei Marghiev | Moldova (MDA) | 75.40 | 75.87 | 75.80 | 75.85 | 74.57 | x | 75.87 | |
| 9 | Pavel Bareisha | Belarus (BLR) | 74.35 | 75.86 | x | 75.86 | ||||
| 10 | Marco Lingua | Italy (ITA) | 69.64 | 75.13 | x | 75.13 | ||||
| 11 | Bence Halász | Hungary (HUN) | 70.89 | x | 74.45 | 74.45 | ||||
| 12 | Özkan Baltacı | Turkey (TUR) | 73.17 | 72.90 | 74.39 | 74.39 | ||||
References
[edit]- ^ Start list
- ^ "Hammer Throw Men – Records". IAAF. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ^ "Records Set - Final" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
- ^ "Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- ^ "Hammer Throw Men − Timetable". IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- ^ "Hammer Throw Men − Qualification − Results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- ^ "Hammer Throw Men − Qualification − Summary" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- ^ "Hammer Throw Men − Final − Results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
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