2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw

The men's hammer throw event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on 25 August 2007 (qualification) and 27 August 2007 (final) at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan.

Victory ceremony

Medallists

GoldIvan Tsikhan
 Belarus (BLR)
SilverPrimož Kozmus
 Slovenia (SLO)
BronzeLibor Charfreitag
 Slovakia (SVK)

Schedule

Qualification Round
Group AGroup B
25.08.2007 – 19:30h25.08.2007 – 21:00h
Final Round
27.08.2007 – 19:30h

Abbreviations

  • All results shown are in metres
Qautomatic qualification
qqualification by rank
DNSdid not start
NMno mark
WRworld record
ARarea record
NRnational record
PBpersonal best
SBseason best

Records

Standing records prior to the 2007 World Athletics Championships
World Record  Yuriy Sedykh (URS)86.74 m August 30, 1986 Stuttgart, West Germany
Event Record  Ivan Tsikhan (BLR)83.89 m August 8, 2005 Helsinki, Finland
Season Best  Vadim Devyatovskiy (BLR)82.94 m July 28, 2007 Minsk, Belarus

Qualification

Group A

RankOverallAthleteNationAttemptsDistanceNote
123
11Libor Charfreitag  Slovakia (SVK)80.6180.61 m Q
23Vadim Devyatovskiy  Belarus (BLR)76.8579.3079.30 m Q
34Krisztián Pars  Hungary (HUN)79.1179.11 m Q
48Koji Murofushi  Japan (JPN)73.1177.2577.25 m q
512Eşref Apak  Turkey (TUR)75.2773.3474.0475.27 m q
613James Steacy  Canada (CAN)74.11X73.0774.11 m
715Yevhen Vynohradov  Ukraine (UKR)71.1573.87X73.87 m
816Nicola Vizzoni  Italy (ITA)71.5873.6471.7973.64 m
918András Haklits  Croatia (CRO)71.75X73.0473.04 m
1019Mohsen El Anany  Egypt (EGY)72.93X69.6772.93 m
1120David Söderberg  Finland (FIN)X71.2572.4572.45 m
1221Dilshod Nazarov  Tajikistan (TJK)71.7070.71X71.70 m
1327Dorian Collaku  Albania (ALB)66.6368.3063.8668.30 m SB
Kibwe Johnson  United States (USA)XXXNM

Group B

RankOverallAthleteNationAttemptsDistanceNote
123
12Miloslav Konopka  Slovakia (SVK)X79.8379.83 m Q / SB
25Szymon Ziółkowski  Poland (POL)73.8778.9078.90 mQ
36Primož Kozmus  Slovenia (SLO)77.9377.93 m Q
47Ivan Tsikhan  Belarus (BLR)X77.7577.75 m Q
59Ali Al-Zinkawi  Kuwait (KUW)X76.49X76.49 m q
610Markus Esser  Germany (GER)76.3674.12X76.36 m q
711Olli-Pekka Karjalainen  Finland (FIN)75.04X76.1276.12 m q
814Igors Sokolovs  Latvia (LAT)X72.9573.9273.92 m
917A.G. Kruger  United States (USA)73.1969.39X73.19 m
1022Alexandros Papadimitriou  Greece (GRE)71.58XX71.58 m
1123Cosmin Sorescu  Romania (ROM)70.4371.4969.4271.49 m
1224Chris Harmse  South Africa (RSA)71.07XX71.07 m
1325Aleksey Zagornyi  Russia (RUS)XX70.9470.94 m
1426Hiroaki Doi  Japan (JPN)67.5769.89X69.89 m
1528Fatih Eryildirim  Turkey (TUR)67.8767.6266.0967.87 m

Final

RankAthleteNationAttemptsDistanceNote
123456
Ivan Tsikhan  Belarus (BLR)XX79.35X80.7783.6383.63 m SB
Primož Kozmus  Slovenia (SLO)80.6879.6282.12XX82.2982.29 m
Libor Charfreitag  Slovakia (SVK)X80.9379.1076.8881.6080.4881.60 m SB
4Vadim Devyatovskiy  Belarus (BLR)76.2880.95X81.2281.5781.2081.57 m
5Krisztián Pars  Hungary (HUN)78.2979.4979.5579.6377.2980.9380.93 m
6Koji Murofushi  Japan (JPN)76.9479.4680.3879.5680.1380.4680.46 m SB
7Szymon Ziółkowski  Poland (POL)79.8180.0978.5879.87X77.5380.09 m
8Markus Esser  Germany (GER)78.6779.6678.37X79.1979.4679.66 m
9Olli-Pekka Karjalainen  Finland (FIN)78.1578.2778.3578.35 m SB
10Miloslav Konopka  Slovakia (SVK)X78.09X78.09 m
11Eşref Apak  Turkey (TUR)75.67X76.5976.59 m
12Ali Al-Zinkawi  Kuwait (KUW)X72.8876.0476.04 m

See also

References