2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw

Men's hammer throw
at the European Athletics Championships

The men's hammer throw at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 28 and 30 June.

Medalists

Gold Krisztián Pars
 Hungary
Silver Aleksey Zagornyi
 Russia
Bronze Szymon Ziółkowski
 Poland

Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 European Athletics Championships
World record  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) 86.74 Stuttgart, West Germany 30 August 1986
European record  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) 86.74 Stuttgart, West Germany 30 August 1986
Championship record  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) 86.74 Stuttgart, West Germany 30 August 1986
World Leading  Ivan Tsikhan (BLR) 82.81 Brest, Belarus 25 May 2012
European Leading  Ivan Tsikhan (BLR) 82.81 Brest, Belarus 25 May 2012

Schedule

Date Time Round
28 June 2012 13:55 Qualification
30 June 2012 21:05 Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualification Performance 77.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final

Rank Group Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes
1 A Krisztián Pars  Hungary 77.16 x 78.09 78.09 Q
2 B Nicola Vizzoni  Italy 73.99 76.42 74.18 76.42 q, SB
3 B Oleksiy Sokyrskyy  Ukraine 75.35 x 72.56 75.35 q
4 A Olli-Pekka Karjalainen  Finland 74.54 x x 74.54 q
5 B Pavel Kryvitski  Belarus 70.78 x 74.39 74.39 q
6 B Markus Esser  Germany 74.04 73.42 x 74.04 q
7 A Aleksey Zagornyi  Russia 72.10 73.55 74.00 74.00 q
8 A Marcel Lomnický  Slovakia 73.84 73.32 x 73.84 q
9 B Szymon Ziółkowski  Poland 72.05 x 73.74 73.74 q
10 A Jérôme Bortoluzzi  France 70.29 73.46 x 73.46 q
11 B Valeriy Sviatokha  Belarus 73.01 x 70.48 73.01 q
12 A Mattias Jons  Sweden 71.56 72.85 x 72.85 q
13 A Nicolas Figère  France 72.84 71.17 x 72.84
14 A Eivind Henriksen  Norway 72.54 x 71.49 72.54
15 A Lorenzo Povegliano  Italy x 72.47 x 72.47
16 B Kristóf Németh  Hungary 69.42 71.23 72.46 72.46
17 A Yury Shayunou  Belarus x 72.18 72.07 72.18
18 B Anatoliy Pozdnyakov  Russia 69.08 67.84 71.79 71.79
19 A Andriy Martynyuk  Ukraine 71.48 68.39 71.69 71.69
20 B Tuomas Seppänen  Finland 69.84 70.47 71.15 71.15
21 A Marco Lingua  Italy x 70.81 71.07 71.07
22 B Javier Cienfuegos  Spain x 70.91 x 70.91
23 B Igors Sokolovs  Latvia 69.77 x 70.80 70.80
24 B Quentin Bigot  France 68.36 x 70.78 70.78
25 B Mark Dry  Great Britain 69.32 x 70.27 70.27
26 B Libor Charfreitag  Slovakia x 69.65 x 69.65
27 A Andraš Haklić  Croatia 69.31 x x 69.31
28 B Lukáš Melich  Czech Republic x 68.92 x 68.92
29 A Konstantinos Stathelakos  Cyprus 68.07 67.30 68.20 68.20
30 A Dorian Collaku  Albania 59.44 59.92 x 59.92
A David Söderberg  Finland x x x NM

Final

Rank Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Krisztián Pars  Hungary 78.57 79.40 x 79.72 79.46 77.47 79.72
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Aleksey Zagornyi  Russia 74.97 76.51 x x 75.92 77.40 77.40
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Szymon Ziółkowski  Poland 76.44 x x x 74.31 76.67 76.67
4 Valeriy Sviatokha  Belarus 75.83 x x 73.34 73.15 75.07 75.83
5 Nicola Vizzoni  Italy 75.13 74.77 74.22 74.77 x x 75.13
6 Mattias Jons  Sweden 74.50 73.64 x 74.56 x 74.44 74.56
7 Markus Esser  Germany 74.18 73.26 73.00 74.49 72.23 74.43 74.49
8 Jérôme Bortoluzzi  France 73.89 74.49 73.10 x 73.89 74.05 74.49
9 Pavel Kryvitski  Belarus x x 73.67 73.67
10 Olli-Pekka Karjalainen  Finland 69.97 73.08 73.48 73.48
11 Marcel Lomnický  Slovakia 73.41 x 72.97 73.41
Oleksiy Sokyrskyy  Ukraine x x x NM

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