1999 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw

This article documents the official results of the Men's Hammer Throw event at the 1999 World Championships in Seville, Spain. There were a total number of 39 participating athletes, with the final held on Sunday 22 August 1999.

Medalists edit

Gold	Karsten Kobs Germany (GER)
Silver	Zsolt Németh Hungary (HUN)
Bronze	Vladyslav Piskunov Ukraine (UKR)

Schedule edit

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
21.08.1999 – 10:00h	21.08.1999 – 12:00h
Final Round
22.08.1999 – 21:45h

Abbreviations edit

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 edit

Standing records prior to the 1999 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	86.74 m	August 30, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany
Event Record	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	83.06 m	September 1, 1987	Rome, Italy
Season Best	Karsten Kobs (GER)	82.78 m	June 26, 1999	Dortmund, Germany

Qualification edit

Group A edit

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
Rank	Overall	Athlete	1	2	3	Distance
1	1	Karsten Kobs (GER)	78.91	—	—	78.91 m
2	3	Zsolt Németh (HUN)	X	76.18	77.56	77.56 m
3	6	Vladyslav Piskunov (UKR)	76.09	76.99	76.67	76.99 m
4	8	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN)	74.23	75.11	75.89	75.89 m
5	9	Nicola Vizzoni (ITA)	75.55	X	75.81	75.81 m
6	12	Vadim Khersontsev (RUS)	71.90	74.29	75.42	75.42 m
7	13	Lance Deal (USA)	73.28	73.66	75.29	75.29 m
8	15	Andrey Abduvaliyev (UZB)	72.36	75.12	72.91	75.12 m
9	17	Vasiliy Sidorenko (RUS)	73.01	74.85	73.04	74.85 m
10	20	Balázs Kiss (HUN)	74.61	73.96	X	74.61 m
11	22	Raphaël Piolanti (FRA)	72.76	73.38	74.23	74.23 m
12	23	Szymon Ziółkowski (POL)	72.90	X	74.12	74.12 m
13	26	András Haklits (CRO)	71.67	72.89	73.28	73.28 m
14	27	Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE)	X	72.97	X	72.97 m
15	28	Pavel Sedláček (CZE)	70.66	72.63	72.48	72.63 m
16	30	Chris Harmse (RSA)	X	71.57	65.06	71.57 m
17	32	Libor Charfreitag (SVK)	X	69.92	70.20	70.20 m
18	36	Stuart Rendell (AUS)	67.55	X	X	67.55 m
—	—	Holger Klose (GER)	X	X	X	NM

Group B edit

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
Rank	Overall	Athlete	1	2	3	Distance
1	2	Igor Astapkovich (BLR)	76.11	77.75	—	77.75 m
2	4	Andriy Skvaruk (UKR)	77.42	—	—	77.42 m
3	5	Tibor Gécsek (HUN)	76.47	75.35	77.27	77.27 m
4	7	Christos Polychroniou (GRE)	76.55	76.82	Ab	76.82 m
5	10	Vladimír Maška (CZE)	75.78	72.62	74.93	75.78 m
6	11	Ilya Konovalov (RUS)	74.18	74.63	75.72	75.72 m
7	14	Koji Murofushi (JPN)	74.04	75.18	73.68	75.18 m
8	16	Marko Wahlman (FIN)	74.32	75.04	74.58	75.04 m
9	18	Heinz Weis (GER)	74.71	74.71	72.98	74.71 m
10	19	Kevin McMahon (USA)	74.62	73.84	X	74.62 m
11	21	Loris Paoluzzi (ITA)	72.75	74.26	X	74.26 m
12	24	David Chaussinand (FRA)	71.64	72.83	74.02	74.02 m
13	25	Gilles Dupray (FRA)	73.32	71.70	69.62	73.32 m
14	29	Maciej Pałyszko (POL)	69.60	72.05	71.57	72.05 m
15	31	Juan Ignacio Cerra (ARG)	69.72	71.24	69.83	71.24 m
16	33	Vítor Costa (POR)	68.35	67.44	69.28	69.28 m
17	34	Paddy McGrath (IRL)	66.51	68.96	65.80	68.96 m
18	35	Vadim Kolesnik (UKR)	X	68.14	67.96	68.14 m
19	37	Nikolay Davydov (KGZ)	66.87	64.76	65.08	66.87 m
—	—	Jan Bielecki (DEN)	—	—	—	DNS

Final edit

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance
Rank	Athlete	1	2	3	4	5	6	Distance
	Karsten Kobs (GER)	80.24	78.87	79.90	X	79.12	78.00	80.24 m
	Zsolt Németh (HUN)	74.52	76.15	X	X	77.72	79.05	79.05 m
	Vladyslav Piskunov (UKR)	77.38	77.94	77.92	77.25	79.03	76.39	79.03 m
4	Tibor Gécsek (HUN)	X	X	78.16	X	78.95	73.77	78.95 m
5	Andrey Skvaruk (UKR)	78.80	77.35	77.14	77.87	X	X	78.80 m
6	Christos Polychroniou (GRE)	76.43	78.31	X	77.01	77.15	76.84	78.31 m
7	Nicola Vizzoni (ITA)	76.54	77.07	74.89	74.76	78.31	X	78.31 m
8	Vadim Khersontsev (RUS)	76.17	76.73	X	76.96	76.30	74.05	76.96 m

9	Igor Astapkovich (BLR)	74.98	76.02	75.50				76.02 m
10	Ilya Konovalov (RUS)	X	74.52	75.63				75.63 m
11	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN)	X	75.59	X				75.59 m
12	Vladimír Maška (CZE)	X	75.26	X				75.26 m