Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw


The men's hammer throw competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20–22 August.
Adrián Annus of Hungary originally won the competition, but he was disqualified after being found guilty of tampering with his sample at the doping control. The original runner-up, Koji Murofushi, was accordingly declared the 2004 Olympic champion.
Originally, Ivan Tsikhan won the silver medal, but he was disqualified in 2012 after a retest of his samples from 2004 were positive for methandienone. Tsikhan withdrew from the 2012 Summer Olympics as a result. The decision was taken to vacate his medal, leaving the only medallists as Murofushi with gold and Eşref Apak of Turkey with the bronze. The athlete in a position to be elevated to the Olympic bronze medal, Vadim Devyatovskiy of Belarus, had previously been subject to a court case by the International Olympic Committee regarding doping at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Competition format

Each athlete receives three throws in the qualifying round. All who achieve the qualifying distance progress to the final. If less than twelve athletes achieve this mark, then the twelve furthest throwing athletes reach the final. Each finalist is allowed three throws in last round, with the top eight athletes after that point being given three further attempts.

Schedule

All times are Greece Standard Time
DateTimeRound
Friday, 20 August 200409:15Qualification
Sunday, 22 August 200421:15Final

Records

, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.
No new records were set during the competition.

Results

Qualifying round

Rule: Qualifying standard 78.00 or at least best 12 qualified.
RankGroupNameNationality#1#2#3ResultNotes
1BIvan Tsikhan77.8577.1280.78 80.78 Q
2AAdrián Annus79.59 79.59 Q
3BKrisztián Pars77.4380.5080.50 Q
4BKoji Murofushi79.55 79.55 Q
5BPrimož Kozmus76.9778.81 78.81 Q, SB
6AMarkus Esser76.3975.2977.49 77.49 q
7BLibor Charfreitag77.30 77.30 q
8AIgor Astapkovich76.7076.0876.88 76.88 q
9BNicola Vizzoni76.84 75.3575.0376.84 q
10AEşref Apak76.74 76.74 q
11BVadim Devyatovskiy71.6974.8176.72 76.72 q
12BKarsten Kobs76.69 76.69 q
13AIlya Konovalov75.4076.36 76.36
14ASzymon Ziółkowski76.1274.5576.17 76.17
15BMiloslav Konopka74.4276.16 76.16
16AOlli-Pekka Karjalainen74.5176.11 76.11
17BSergey Kirmasov75.1273.6875.83 75.83
18AAléxandros Papadimitríou75.55 75.55
19AOleksandr Krykun75.42 74.3775.42
20BArtem Rubanko75.08 75.08
21BJames Parker73.1574.0975.04 75.04
22BAndrás Haklits73.5174.43 74.43
23BDavid Söderberg74.14 74.14
24APatric Suter72.4573.54 73.54
25BYuriy Voronkin73.47 71.9773.47
26AStuart Rendell72.61 72.61
27AJuan Ignacio Cerra69.1072.53 68.6472.53
28AVítor Costa72.47 72.4472.47
29ARoman Rozna71.78 71.78
30AVladimír Maška71.76 71.76
31BAli Al-Zinkawi70.6771.06 70.6871.06
32BDorian Çollaku70.06 69.2767.6170.06
33AA.G. Kruger69.38 68.0369.38
AVladyslav Piskunov'
ADilshod Nazarov'

Final