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2002 European Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw

Men's hammer throw
at the European Athletics Championships

The final of the Men's hammer throw event at the 2002 European Championships in Munich, Germany was held on August 7, 2002. There were a total number of 31 participating athletes. The qualifying rounds were staged a day earlier, on August 6, with the mark set in 79.00 metres.

Medalists

Gold Hungary Adrián Annus
Hungary (HUN)
Silver Ukraine Vladyslav Piskunov
Ukraine (UKR)
Bronze Greece Alexandros Papadimitriou
Greece (GRE)

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 2002 European Athletics Championships
World Record  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) 86.74 m August 30, 1986 West Germany Stuttgart, West Germany
Event Record  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) 86.74 m August 30, 1986 West Germany Stuttgart, West Germany

Qualification

Group A

Rank Overall Athlete Attempts Distance
1 2 3
1 1  Aleksey Zagornyi (RUS) 80.16 m
2 3  Adrián Annus (HUN) 79.82 m
3 7  Nicolas Figère (FRA) 78.50 m
4 8  Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE) 78.39 m
5 9  Ivan Tikhon (BLR) 78.24 m
6 10  Miloslav Konopka (SVK) 78.16 m
7 11  Vladyslav Piskunov (UKR) 78.06 m
8 13  Nicola Vizzoni (ITA) 77.57 m
9 14  Karsten Kobs (GER) 77.44 m
10 15  Szymon Ziółkowski (POL) 77.17 m
11 17  Holger Klose (GER) 76.98 m
12 20  Ilya Konovalov (RUS) 76.79 m
13 23  David Söderberg (FIN) 74.64 m
14 24  Vladimír Maška (CZE) 74.52 m
15 28  Bengt Johansson (SWE) 71.27 m
16 30  Dorian Collaku (ALB) 67.47 m

Group B

Rank Overall Athlete Attempts Distance
1 2 3
1 2  Andriy Skvaruk (UKR) 79.96 m
2 4  Balázs Kiss (HUN) 79.32 m
3 5  Libor Charfreitag (SVK) 79.18 m
4 6  Tibor Gécsek (HUN) 79.03 m
5 12  Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN) 77.78 m
6 16  Vadim Khersontsev (RUS) 77.00 m
7 18  Oleksandr Krykun (UKR) 76.92 m
8 19  Jan Bielecki (DEN) 76.82 m
9 21  Christophe Épalle (FRA) 76.27 m
10 22  Maciej Pałyszko (POL) 75.51 m
11 25  Primož Kozmus (SLO) 72.60 m
12 26  Vítor Costa (POR) 72.43 m
13 27  Christos Polychroniou (GRE) 71.70 m
14 29  Markus Esser (GER) 70.15 m
 András Haklits (CRO) X X X NM

Final

Rank Athlete Attempts Distance Note
1 2 3 4 5 6
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Adrián Annus (HUN) 76.00 78.65 80.62 81.17 80.37 81.17 m
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Vladyslav Piskunov (UKR) X 78.23 79.58 X 80.39 X 80.39 m
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE) 76.81 78.31 78.51 77.86 80.21 78.61 80.21 m
4  Balázs Kiss (HUN) 80.13 X 80.17 X 80.06 80.05 80.17 m
5  Andriy Skvaruk (UKR) 79.22 X 80.15 78.68 X 79.23 80.15 m
6  Tibor Gécsek (HUN) 79.25 78.62 X X 76.91 78.52 79.25 m
7  Libor Charfreitag (SVK) 79.20 X X X 76.93 X 79.20 m
8  Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN) X 78.41 78.57 X X X 78.57 m
9  Ivan Tsikhan (BLR) 72.60 77.86 X 77.86 m
10  Miloslav Konopka (SVK) 76.69 76.94 77.33 77.33 m
11  Aleksey Zagornyi (RUS) 77.01 X X 77.01 m
12  Nicolas Figère (FRA) 76.17 X 76.49 76.49 m

See also

References