Hammer Throw

The hammer throw at the Summer Olympics is one of four track and field throwing events held at the multi-sport event. The men's hammer throw has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900, becoming the third Olympic throws event after the shot put and discus throw. The women's event was a much later addition, being first contested at the 2000 Olympics.

The Olympic records are 84.80 m (278 ft 2¹⁄₂ in) for men, set by Sergey Litvinov in 1988, and 82.29 m (269 ft 11³⁄₄ in) for women, set by Anita Włodarczyk in 2016.

History, Records and Statistics of Men's Hammer Throw

History, Records and Statistics of Women's Hammer Throw

Medalists

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1900 Paris	John Flanagan  United States	Truxtun Hare  United States	Josiah McCracken  United States
1904 St. Louis	John Flanagan  United States	John DeWitt  United States	Ralph Rose  United States
1908 London	John Flanagan  United States	Matt McGrath  United States	Con Walsh  Canada
1912 Stockholm	Matt McGrath  United States	Duncan Gillis  Canada	Clarence Childs  United States
1920 Antwerp	Patrick Ryan  United States	Carl Johan Lind  Sweden	Basil Bennett  United States
1924 Paris	Fred Tootell  United States	Matt McGrath  United States	Malcolm Nokes  Great Britain
1928 Amsterdam	Pat O'Callaghan  Ireland	Ossian Skiöld  Sweden	Edmund Black  United States
1932 Los Angeles	Pat O'Callaghan  Ireland	Ville Pörhölä  Finland	Peter Zaremba  United States
1936 Berlin	Karl Hein  Germany	Erwin Blask  Germany	Fred Warngård  Sweden
1948 London	Imre Németh  Hungary	Ivan Gubijan  Yugoslavia	Robert Bennett  United States
1952 Helsinki	József Csermák  Hungary	Karl Storch  Germany	Imre Németh  Hungary
1956 Melbourne	Hal Connolly  United States	Mikhail Krivonosov  Soviet Union	Anatoliy Samotsvetov  Soviet Union
1960 Rome	Vasily Rudenkov  Soviet Union	Gyula Zsivótzky  Hungary	Tadeusz Rut  Poland
1964 Tokyo	Romuald Klim  Soviet Union	Gyula Zsivótzky  Hungary	Uwe Beyer  United Team of Germany
1968 Mexico City	Gyula Zsivótzky  Hungary	Romuald Klim  Soviet Union	Lázár Lovász  Hungary
1972 Munich	Anatoliy Bondarchuk  Soviet Union	Jochen Sachse  East Germany	Vasiliy Khmelevskiy  Soviet Union
1976 Montreal	Yuriy Sedykh  Soviet Union	Aleksey Spiridonov  Soviet Union	Anatoliy Bondarchuk  Soviet Union
1980 Moscow	Yuriy Sedykh  Soviet Union	Sergey Litvinov  Soviet Union	Jüri Tamm  Soviet Union
1984 Los Angeles	Juha Tiainen  Finland	Karl-Hans Riehm  West Germany	Klaus Ploghaus  West Germany
1988 Seoul	Sergey Litvinov  Soviet Union	Yuriy Sedykh  Soviet Union	Jüri Tamm  Soviet Union
1992 Barcelona	Andrey Abduvaliyev  Unified Team	Igor Astapkovich  Unified Team	Igor Nikulin  Unified Team
1996 Atlanta	Balázs Kiss  Hungary	Lance Deal  United States	Oleksandr Krykun  Ukraine
2000 Sydney	Szymon Ziółkowski  Poland	Nicola Vizzoni  Italy	Igor Astapkovich  Belarus
2004 Athens	Koji Murofushi  Japan	Not awarded[1]	Eşref Apak  Turkey
2008 Beijing	Primož Kozmus  Slovenia	Vadim Devyatovskiy  Belarus[2]	Ivan Tsikhan  Belarus[2]
2012 London	Krisztián Pars  Hungary	Primož Kozmus  Slovenia	Koji Murofushi  Japan
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Dilshod Nazarov  Tajikistan	Ivan Tsikhan  Belarus	Wojciech Nowicki  Poland

Multiple medalists

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	John Flanagan	United States (USA)	1900–1908	3	0	0	3
2	Yuriy Sedykh	Soviet Union (URS)	1976–1988	2	1	0	3
3	Pat O'Callaghan	Ireland (IRL)	1928–1932	2	0	0	2
4	Matt McGrath	United States (USA)	1908–1924	1	2	0	3
	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary (HUN)	1960–1968	1	2	0	3
6	Romuald Klim	Soviet Union (URS)	1964–1968	1	1	0	2
	Sergey Litvinov	Soviet Union (URS)	1980–1988	1	1	0	2
	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia (SLO)	2008–2012	1	1	0	2
9	Imre Németh	Hungary (HUN)	1948–1952	1	0	1	2
	Anatoliy Bondarchuk	Soviet Union (URS)	1972–1976	1	0	1	2
	Koji Murofushi	Japan (JPN)	2004–2012	1	0	1	2
12	Igor Astapkovich	Unified Team (EUN)  Belarus (BLR)	1992–2000	0	1	1	2
	Ivan Tsikhan	Belarus (BLR)	2008–2016	0	1	1	2
14	Jüri Tamm	Soviet Union (URS)	1980–1988	0	0	2	2

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	7	5	7	19
2	Soviet Union (URS)	6	5	5	16
3	Hungary (HUN)	5	2	2	9
4	Ireland (IRL)	2	0	0	2
5	Germany (GER)[nb]	1	2	1	4
6	Unified Team (EUN)	1	1	1	3
7	Finland (FIN)	1	1	0	2
	Slovenia (SLO)	1	1	0	2
9	Poland (POL)	1	0	2	3
10	Japan (JPN)	1	0	1	2
11	Tajikistan (TJK)	1	0	0	1
12	Belarus (BLR)	0	2	2	4
13	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	1	3
14	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	1	2
16	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	0	1
19	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1

• ^nb The German total includes teams both competing as Germany and the United Team of Germany, but not East or West Germany.

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2000 Sydney	Kamila Skolimowska  Poland	Olga Kuzenkova  Russia	Kirsten Münchow  Germany
2004 Athens	Olga Kuzenkova  Russia	Yipsi Moreno  Cuba	Yunaika Crawford  Cuba
2008 Beijing	Yipsi Moreno  Cuba	Zhang Wenxiu  China	Manuela Montebrun  France
2012 London	Anita Włodarczyk  Poland	Betty Heidler  Germany	Zhang Wenxiu  China
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Anita Włodarczyk  Poland	Zhang Wenxiu  China	Sophie Hitchon  Great Britain

Multiple medalists

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland (POL)	2012–2016	2	0	0	2
2	Olga Kuzenkova	Russia (RUS)	2000–2004	1	1	0	2
	Yipsi Moreno	Cuba (CUB)	2004–2008	1	1	0	2
4	Zhang Wenxiu	China (CHN)	2008–2016	0	2	1	3

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Poland (POL)	3	0	0	3
2	Cuba (CUB)	1	1	1	3
3	Russia (RUS)	1	1	0	2
4	China (CHN)	0	2	1	3
5	Germany (GER)	0	1	1	2
6	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1

Non-canonical Olympic events

In addition to the main 1904 Olympic men's hammer throw, a handicap competition was held that year. The reigning Olympic champion John Flanagan won the event with a throw of 46.75 m with a zero handicap. Albert Johnson, sixth in the main event, came second with 46.20 m off a 30 ft handicap. James Mitchel, a weight throw medallist in 1904, won the bronze with 46.16 m given a 23 ft handicap.

These events are no longer considered part of the official Olympic history of the hammer throw or the athletics programme in general. Consequently, medals from these competitions have not been assigned to nations on the all-time medal tables.