1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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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.

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

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

23 Aug

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

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

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