2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw

Victory ceremony

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.

Medallists

Gold	Ivan Tsikhan  Belarus (BLR)
Silver	Primož Kozmus  Slovenia (SLO)
Bronze	Libor Charfreitag  Slovakia (SVK)

Schedule

• All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
25.08.2007 – 19:30h	25.08.2007 – 21:00h
Final Round
27.08.2007 – 19:30h

Abbreviations

• 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

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

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Nation	Attempts			Distance	Note
				1	2	3
1	1	Libor Charfreitag	Slovakia (SVK)	80.61	—	—	80.61 m	Q
2	3	Vadim Devyatovskiy	Belarus (BLR)	76.85	79.30	—	79.30 m	Q
3	4	Krisztián Pars	Hungary (HUN)	79.11	—	—	79.11 m	Q
4	8	Koji Murofushi	Japan (JPN)	73.11	77.25	—	77.25 m	q
5	12	Eşref Apak	Turkey (TUR)	75.27	73.34	74.04	75.27 m	q
6	13	James Steacy	Canada (CAN)	74.11	X	73.07	74.11 m
7	15	Yevhen Vynohradov	Ukraine (UKR)	71.15	73.87	X	73.87 m
8	16	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy (ITA)	71.58	73.64	71.79	73.64 m
9	18	András Haklits	Croatia (CRO)	71.75	X	73.04	73.04 m
10	19	Mohsen El Anany	Egypt (EGY)	72.93	X	69.67	72.93 m
11	20	David Söderberg	Finland (FIN)	X	71.25	72.45	72.45 m
12	21	Dilshod Nazarov	Tajikistan (TJK)	71.70	70.71	X	71.70 m
13	27	Dorian Collaku	Albania (ALB)	66.63	68.30	63.86	68.30 m	SB
—	—	Kibwe Johnson	United States (USA)	X	X	X	NM

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Nation	Attempts			Distance	Note
				1	2	3
1	2	Miloslav Konopka	Slovakia (SVK)	X	79.83	—	79.83 m	Q / SB
2	5	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland (POL)	73.87	78.90	—	78.90 m	Q
3	6	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia (SLO)	77.93	—	—	77.93 m	Q
4	7	Ivan Tsikhan	Belarus (BLR)	X	77.75	—	77.75 m	Q
5	9	Ali Al-Zinkawi	Kuwait (KUW)	X	76.49	X	76.49 m	q
6	10	Markus Esser	Germany (GER)	76.36	74.12	X	76.36 m	q
7	11	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland (FIN)	75.04	X	76.12	76.12 m	q
8	14	Igors Sokolovs	Latvia (LAT)	X	72.95	73.92	73.92 m
9	17	A.G. Kruger	United States (USA)	73.19	69.39	X	73.19 m
10	22	Alexandros Papadimitriou	Greece (GRE)	71.58	X	X	71.58 m
11	23	Cosmin Sorescu	Romania (ROM)	70.43	71.49	69.42	71.49 m
12	24	Chris Harmse	South Africa (RSA)	71.07	X	X	71.07 m
13	25	Aleksey Zagornyi	Russia (RUS)	X	X	70.94	70.94 m
14	26	Hiroaki Doi	Japan (JPN)	67.57	69.89	X	69.89 m
15	28	Fatih Eryildirim	Turkey (TUR)	67.87	67.62	66.09	67.87 m

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Attempts						Distance	Note
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Ivan Tsikhan	Belarus (BLR)	X	X	79.35	X	80.77	83.63	83.63 m	SB
	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia (SLO)	80.68	79.62	82.12	X	X	82.29	82.29 m
	Libor Charfreitag	Slovakia (SVK)	X	80.93	79.10	76.88	81.60	80.48	81.60 m	SB
4	Vadim Devyatovskiy	Belarus (BLR)	76.28	80.95	X	81.22	81.57	81.20	81.57 m
5	Krisztián Pars	Hungary (HUN)	78.29	79.49	79.55	79.63	77.29	80.93	80.93 m
6	Koji Murofushi	Japan (JPN)	76.94	79.46	80.38	79.56	80.13	80.46	80.46 m	SB
7	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland (POL)	79.81	80.09	78.58	79.87	X	77.53	80.09 m
8	Markus Esser	Germany (GER)	78.67	79.66	78.37	X	79.19	79.46	79.66 m
9	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland (FIN)	78.15	78.27	78.35				78.35 m	SB
10	Miloslav Konopka	Slovakia (SVK)	X	78.09	X				78.09 m
11	Eşref Apak	Turkey (TUR)	75.67	X	76.59				76.59 m
12	Ali Al-Zinkawi	Kuwait (KUW)	X	72.88	76.04				76.04 m

See also

• 2007 in hammer throw

References

• Official results, qualification - IAAF.org
• Official results, final - IAAF.org
• Event report - IAAF.org
• hammerthrow.wz