1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw

The men's hammer throw event at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sydney, Australia, at International Athletic Centre on 23 and 24 August.^[1][2] A 7257g (senior implement) hammer was used.

Medalists

Gold	Maciej Pałyszko  Poland
Silver	Vadim Devyatovskiy  Belarus
Bronze	Roman Konevtsov  Russia

Results

Final

24 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts						Result	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Maciej Pałyszko	Poland	69.54	70.90	70.58	70.46	70.22	71.24	71.24
	Vadim Devyatovskiy	Belarus	68.26	70.88	65.56	67.66	68.40	69.24	70.88
	Roman Konevtsov	Russia	x	69.44	x	70.32	x	68.84	70.32
4	Sergey Martemyanov	Belarus	66.42	x	x	68.22	x	x	68.22
5	Mikko Dannbäck	Finland	63.80	66.70	66.06	67.68	67.34	63.70	67.68
6	Yosmel Montes	Cuba	x	67.34	x	x	64.90	65.70	67.34
7	Oleg Sergeyev	Russia	65.90	67.12	63.64	x	64.78	63.04	67.12
8	Ioánnis Barlís	Greece	x	65.38	65.10	66.14	65.02	66.52	66.52
9	Samu-Petri Simo	Finland	64.88	x	65.18				65.18
10	Xavier Tison	France	64.12	62.82	x				64.12
11	Roman Tcherkachine	Ukraine	58.82	60.90	x				60.90
	Frank Caspers	Germany	x	x	x				NM

Qualifications

23 Aug

Group A

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts			Result	Notes
			1	2	3
1	Maciej Pałyszko	Poland	67.14	-	-	67.14	Q
2	Mikko Dannbäck	Finland	66.20	-	-	66.20	Q
3	Xavier Tison	France	x	63.18	64.74	64.74	Q
4	Ioánnis Barlís	Greece	x	64.06	-	64.06	Q
5	Sergey Martemyanov	Belarus	x	64.04	-	64.04	Q
6	Yosmel Montes	Cuba	62.28	63.70	63.76	63.76	q
7	Frank Caspers	Germany	62.76	61.48	60.02	62.76	q
8	Oleg Sergeyev	Russia	61.88	x	x	61.88	q
9	Libor Charfreitag	Slovakia	61.52	59.22	x	61.52
10	Cameron Grant	Australia	x	57.64	58.32	58.32
11	Patric Suter	Switzerland	56.36	x	x	56.36
12	David Spitz	United States	x	x	53.48	53.48
13	Hamoud Al-Anzi	Kuwait	x	x	42.00	42.00

Group B

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts			Result	Notes
			1	2	3
1	Vadim Devyatovskiy	Belarus	65.38	-	-	65.38	Q
2	Roman Konevtsov	Russia	64.72	-	-	64.72	Q
3	Samu-Petri Simo	Finland	64.44	-	-	64.44	Q
4	Roman Tcherkachine	Ukraine	58.72	60.72	61.78	61.78	q
5	Thomas Bourgeois	France	60.14	61.18	x	61.18
6	András Haklits	Hungary	60.30	x	x	60.30
7	Patrick Hiemer	Germany	56.10	60.14	58.54	60.14
8	Dorian Çollaku	Albania	59.58	59.08	59.72	59.72
9	Anscar Salgado	Spain	59.24	58.92	x	59.24
10	Nuno Coelho	Portugal	x	53.88	57.68	57.68
11	Theoharis Hatziadamidis	Greece	52.92	54.30	57.06	57.06
12	Yamine Hussein	Egypt	50.34	52.20	56.30	56.30
13	Alexandre Kojokar	Moldova	x	53.04	53.14	53.14
14	Oleg Toulaev	Tajikistan	x	44.30	x	44.30

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 27 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event.

•  Albania (1)
•  Australia (1)
•  Belarus (2)
•  Cuba (1)
•  Egypt (1)
•  Finland (2)
•  France (2)
•  Germany (2)
•  Greece (2)
•  Hungary (1)
•  Kuwait (1)
•  Moldova (1)
•  Poland (1)
•  Portugal (1)
•  Russia (2)
•  Slovakia (1)
•  Spain (1)
•   Switzerland (1)
•  Tajikistan (1)
•  Ukraine (1)
•  United States (1)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1996 Sydney AUS Aug 20-25, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 31 October 2013, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015