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Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw

The men's hammer throw at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the ANZ Stadium on Saturday, 23 September and Sunday, 24 September.[1] There were 44 competitors from 24 nations.[2] The event was won by Szymon Ziółkowski of Poland, the nation's first victory in the event and first medal of any color in the men's hammer throw since 1960. Silver went to Nicola Vizzoni, the first medal winner in the event for Italy. Igor Astapkovich, who had won a silver medal on the Unified Team in 1992, took bronze for the first medal credited to Belarus in the event. Astapkovich was the 11th man to win multiple medals in the hammer throw.

Men's hammer throw
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Szymon Ziółkowski (2001)
VenueANZ Stadium
Dates23 September 2000 (qualifying)
24 September 2000 (final)
Competitors44 from 24 nations
Winning distance80.02
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Szymon Ziółkowski
 Poland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Nicola Vizzoni
 Italy
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Igor Astapkovich
 Belarus
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2004 →

Background edit

This was the 23rd appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics except 1896. Seven of the 12 finalists from the 1996 Games returned: silver medalist (and 1992 finalist) Lance Deal of the United States, fourth-place finisher Andriy Skvaruk of Ukraine, fifth-place finisher (and 1988 and 1992 finalist) Heinz Weis of Germany, sixth-place finisher Ilya Konovalov of Russia, seventh-place finisher (and 1992 silver medalist) Igor Astapkovich of Belarus, tenth-place finisher Szymon Ziółkowski of Poland, and twelfth-place finisher Vasiliy Sidorenko of Russia. Also returning was 1992 Olympic champion Andrey Abduvaliyev, now competing for Uzbekistan. Weis (1997) and Karsten Kobs (199), also of Germany, were the last two World Champions.[2]

Croatia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Slovakia, and Slovenia each made their debut in the event. The United States appeared for the 22nd time, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Qualification edit

Main article: Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had thrown 75.50 metres or further during the qualification period. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had thrown 72.50 metres or further could be entered.[3]

Competition format edit

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 77.50 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][4]

Records edit

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

World record   Yuriy Sedykh (URS) 86.74 Stuttgart, West Germany 30 August 1986
Olympic record   Sergey Litvinov (URS) 84.80 Seoul, South Korea 26 September 1988

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

Schedule edit

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Date Time Round
Saturday, 23 September 2000 10:00 Qualifying
Sunday, 24 September 2000 20:50 Final

Results edit

Qualifying edit

Rank Athlete Nation 1 2 3 Distance Notes
1 Igor Astapkovich   Belarus 79.81 – – 79.81 Q
2 Andriy Skvaruk   Ukraine 79.55 – – 79.55 Q
3 Koji Murofushi   Japan 78.49 – – 78.49 Q
4 Szymon Ziółkowski   Poland 77.81 – – 77.81 Q
5 Nicola Vizzoni   Italy 75.31 77.56 – 77.56 Q
6 Tibor Gécsek   Hungary 75.97 X 77.33 77.33 q
7 David Chaussinand   France 77.12 X X 77.12 q
8 Ilya Konovalov   Russia 77.07 76.93 74.29 77.07 q
9 Loris Paoluzzi   Italy X 73.63 76.91 76.91 q
10 Ivan Tikhon   Belarus 76.43 76.90 X 76.90 q
11 Vladimír Maška   Czech Republic X 76.70 75.62 76.70 q
12 Alexandros Papadimitriou   Greece 76.61 74.77 X 76.61 q
13 Maciej Pałyszko   Poland 76.33 X 70.11 76.33
14 Vladyslav Piskunov   Ukraine 75.95 76.00 76.08 76.08
15 Andrey Abduvaliyev   Uzbekistan X 75.64 74.19 75.64
16 Lance Deal   United States 73.84 75.61 73.93 75.61
17 Adrián Annus   Hungary 74.01 75.41 X 75.41
18 Pavel Sedláček   Czech Republic 74.66 72.71 75.33 75.33
19 Gilles Dupray   France X 74.71 75.05 75.05
20 Oleksandr Krykun   Ukraine 74.83 72.49 74.17 74.83
21 Vasiliy Sidorenko   Russia 74.72 73.97 X 74.72
22 Aleksey Zagornyi   Russia 70.58 74.00 74.63 74.63
23 Christophe Épalle   France 70.46 72.70 74.22 74.22
24 Hristos Polihroniou   Greece X X 74.02 74.02
25 Zsolt Nemeth   Hungary 73.95 X X 73.95
26 Heinz Weis   Germany 73.51 73.19 X 73.51
27 Juan Ignacio Cerra   Argentina X 72.86 X 72.86
28 Stuart Rendell   Australia 67.67 72.78 X 72.78
29 András Haklits   Croatia X X 72.66 72.66
30 Libor Charfreitag   Slovakia 71.10 72.52 X 72.52
31 Karsten Kobs   Germany 72.29 X 71.65 72.29
32 Miloslav Konopka   Slovakia 70.55 X X 70.55
33 Jan Bielecki   Denmark 68.56 70.46 X 70.46
34 Olli-Pekka Karjalainen   Finland 69.64 X X 69.64
35 Markus Esser   Germany X 69.51 X 69.51
36 Kevin McMahon   United States 69.48 65.97 X 69.48
37 Vitor Costa   Portugal 67.07 68.79 68.89 68.89
38 Primož Kozmus   Slovenia 68.83 X 67.02 68.83
39 Jud Logan   United States 68.42 68.05 X 68.42
40 Roman Rozna   Moldova X 68.01 62.46 68.01
41 Paddy McGrath   Ireland 67.00 64.09 64.35 67.00
42 Vitaly Khojatelev   Uzbekistan 60.55 64.53 65.04 65.04
43 Victor Ustinov   Uzbekistan X 60.60 X 60.60
— Nikolay Davydov   Kyrgyzstan X X X NM

Final edit

The tie for bronze medal at 79.17 metres was broken by second-best throw, with Astapkovich's 79.06 metres beating Tikhon's 78.85 metres.

Rank Athlete Nation 1 2 3 4 5 6 Distance Notes
  Szymon Ziółkowski   Poland 74.89 79.87 X 80.02 78.68 78.32 80.02
  Nicola Vizzoni   Italy 76.35 76.57 79.64 76.07 76.99 X 79.64 PB
  Igor Astapkovich   Belarus 74.98 X 77.08 X 79.17 79.06 79.17
4 Ivan Tikhon   Belarus 78.85 78.11 79.17 X 75.93 X 79.17
5 Ilya Konovalov   Russia 78.56 78.12 X X 72.78 X 78.56
6 Loris Paoluzzi   Italy 78.18 X X X 76.19 X 78.18
7 Tibor Gécsek   Hungary 75.25 76.99 77.70 75.81 77.06 76.82 77.70
8 Vladimír Maška   Czech Republic 77.32 75.37 76.39 73.86 X 75.52 77.32
9 Koji Murofushi   Japan X 76.24 76.60 Did not advance 76.60
10 Andriy Skvaruk   Ukraine 71.60 75.50 X Did not advance 75.50
11 David Chaussinand   France 74.74 X 75.26 Did not advance 75.26
12 Alexandros Papadimitriou   Greece X 73.30 X Did not advance 73.30

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Athletics at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Hammer Throw". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Hammer Throw, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  3. ^ http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/images/stories/tfn_pdfs/ogqualifying_standards.pdf[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ Official Report, Results Book for Athletics.

External links edit

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