This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2005 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the 2005 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 8, 2005. The women had their final four days later, on August 12, 2005.

Standing records prior to the 2005 season in track and field
World Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	86.74 m	August 30, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Venue	Date	Note
1	86.73 m	Ivan Tikhon (BLR)	Brest, Belarus	03.07.2005	NR
2	84.90 m	Vadim Devyatovski (BLR)	Minsk, Belarus	21.07.2005	PB
3	81.45 m	Eşref Apak (TUR)	Istanbul, Turkey	04.06.2005	NR
4	81.00 m	Andriy Skvaruk (UKR)	Kyiv, Ukraine	03.07.2005
5	80.85 m	Libor Charfreitag (SVK)	Dallas, United States	01.04.2005
6	80.81 m	Aleksey Zagornyi (RUS)	Adler, Russia	19.02.2005
7	80.63 m	Chris Harmse (RSA)	Durban, South Africa	15.04.2005	NR
8	80.41 m	András Haklits (CRO)	Marietta, United States	29.05.2005	NR
9	80.03 m	Krisztián Pars (HUN)	Dubnica nad Váhom, Slovakia	29.08.2005
10	80.00 m	Markus Esser (GER)	Leichlingen, Germany	04.06.2005	PB
11	79.92 m	Ilya Konovalov (RUS)	Sochi, Russia	26.05.2005
12	79.81 m	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN)	Szombathely, Hungary	03.09.2005
13	79.56 m	Artem Rubanko (UKR)	Kyiv, Ukraine	12.05.2005
14	79.47 m	Vadim Khersontsev (RUS)	Moscow, Russia	15.07.2005
15	79.46 m	Karsten Kobs (GER)	Wattenscheid, Germany	05.06.2005
16	79.36 m	Lukáš Melich (CZE)	Turnov, Czech Republic	13.07.2005	PB
17	79.35 m	Szymon Ziółkowski (POL)	Helsinki, Finland	08.08.2005
18	79.23 m	Holger Klose (GER)	Mannheim, Germany	18.06.2005
19	78.97 m	Sergey Kirmasov (RUS)	Moscow, Russia	15.07.2005
20	78.93 m	Andrei Vorontsov (BLR)	Brest, Belarus	03.07.2005	PB
21	78.85 m	Ihor Tuhay (UKR)	Kyiv, Ukraine	03.07.2005	PB
22	78.72 m	Vladyslav Piskunov (UKR)	Kyiv, Ukraine	04.06.2005
23	78.43 m	Patric Suter (SUI)	Zug, Switzerland	28.05.2005
24	78.28 m	Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE)	Athens, Greece	06.05.2005
25	78.25 m	Kibwe Johnson (USA)	Marietta, United States	29.05.2005	PB

Standing records prior to the 2005 season in track and field
World Record	Mihaela Melinte (ROM)	76.07 m	August 29, 1999	Rüdlingen, Switzerland
Standing records after the 2005 season in track and field
World Record	Tatyana Lysenko (RUS)	77.06 m	July 15, 2005	Moscow, Russia

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Venue	Date	Note
1	77.06 m	Tatyana Lysenko (RUS)	Moscow, Russia	15.07.2005	WR
2	76.66 m	Olga Tsander (BLR)	Minsk, Belarus	21.07.2005	PB
3	75.10 m	Olga Kuzenkova (RUS)	Helsinki, Finland	12.08.2005
4	74.95 m	Yipsi Moreno (CUB)	Banská Bystrica, Slovakia	28.08.2005
5	74.66 m	Manuela Montebrun (FRA)	Zagreb, Croatia	11.07.2005	NR
6	74.27 m	Kamila Skolimowska (POL)	Madrid, Spain	16.07.2005	PB
7	73.87 m	Erin Gilreath (USA)	Carson, United States	25.06.2005	NR
8	73.59 m	Ester Balassini (ITA)	Brixen, Italy	25.06.2005	NR
9	73.24 m	Zhang Wenxiu (CHN)	Changsha, PR China	24.06.2005	PB
10	73.08 m	Yekaterina Khoroshikh (RUS)	Tula, Russia	14.06.2005	PB
11	72.74 m	Susanne Keil (GER)	Nikiti, Greece	15.07.2005	PB
12	72.51 m	Liu Yinghui (CHN)	Izmir, Turkey	16.08.2005	PB
13	72.19 m	Betty Heidler (GER)	Schönebeck, Germany	29.07.2005
14	71.95 m	Mihaela Melinte (ROM)	Mersin, Turkey	26.02.2005
15	71.45 m	Candice Scott (TRI)	Marietta, United States	15.05.2005	NR
16	71.08 m	Daryia Pchelnik (BLR)	Minsk, Belarus	21.07.2005	PB
17	71.00 m	Ivana Brkljačić (CRO)	Mersin, Turkey	13.03.2005	PB
18	70.91 m	Kathrin Klaas (GER)	Mannheim, Germany	18.06.2005
19	70.76 m	Gulfiya Khanafeyeva (RUS)	Tula, Russia	23.07.2005
20	70.59 m	Clarissa Claretti (ITA)	Savona, Italy	15.06.2005	PB
21	70.30 m	Iryna Sekachova (UKR)	Kyiv, Ukraine	02.07.2005
22	70.15 m	Aksana Miankova (BLR)	Minsk, Belarus	21.07.2005
23	70.03 m	Loree Smith (USA)	Fort Collins, United States	13.05.2005	PB
24	69.85 m	Maryia Smaliachkova (BLR)	Brest, Belarus	03.07.2005
25	69.80 m	Sviatlana Sudak (BLR)	Minsk, Belarus	21.07.2005	PB

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