2023 World Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw

Men's hammer throw
at the 2023 World Championships
Ethan Katzberg shortly after the final.
VenueNational Athletics Centre
Dates19 August (Qualification)
20 August (Final)
Competitors35 from 22 nations
Winning distance81.25
Medalists
gold medal Ethan Katzberg   Canada
silver medal Wojciech Nowicki   Poland
bronze medal Bence Halász   Hungary
Events at the
2023 World Championships
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4 × 100 m relaymenwomen
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World Team

The men's hammer throw at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 19 and 20 August 2023.[1]

Summary

Ethan Katzberg arrived at these championships with a respectable personal best of 78.73m set earlier in the season. As the fourth thrower in the preliminary rounds, he threw an 81.18m National Record, while no other athlete cleared 78.50 in the preliminaries.

Five time defending champion Paweł Fajdek started off the finals with an exact 80 metre throw. With the home crowd cheering, Bence Halász took the lead with an 80.82m. Katzberg closed off the first round with an 80.18m. In the second round, Olympic Champion Wojciech Nowicki knocked his teammate Fajdek off the podium with an 80.70m. He improved that to 80.83m in the fourth round to knock Halász off the top by a single cm. In the fifth round, Katzberg jumped into the lead with an 81.25 m (266 ft 6 in). On the next throw, Nowicki improved, but 81.02m wasn't enough to get back to the lead. Neither were able to improve in the final round, but Katzberg's 81.11m would have also won the competition.

Through two days of competition, Katzberg landed 6 legal throws, all of them more than a metre longer than he had ever thrown before. He took home a World Championship and set his National Record twice. He became the first athlete from NACAC to win a medal at a Men's Hammer throw in the World Athletics Championships.[2]

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:[3]

Record Athlete & Nat. Perf. Location Date
World record  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) 86.74 m Stuttgart, West Germany 30 August 1986
Championship record  Ivan Tsikhan (BLR) 83.63 m Osaka, Japan 27 August 2007
World Leading  Wojciech Nowicki (POL) 81.92 m Oslo, Norway 15 June 2023
African Record  Mostafa Elgamel (EGY) 81.27 m Cairo, Egypt 21 March 2014
Asian Record  Koji Murofushi (JPN) 84.86 m Prague, Czech Republic 29 June 2003
North, Central American and Caribbean record  Rudy Winkler (USA) 82.71 m Eugene, United States 20 June 2021
South American Record  Wagner Domingos (BRA) 78.63 m Celje, Slovenia 19 June 2016
European Record  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) 86.74 m Stuttgart, West Germany 30 August 1986
Oceanian record  Stuart Rendell (AUS) 79.29 m Varaždin, Croatia 6 July 2002

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Event Name Nationality Distance Record
19 August Qualification Ethan Katzberg  Canada 81.18 NR
20 August Final Ethan Katzberg  Canada 81.25 NR

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 78.00.[4]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (CEST), was as follows:[5]

Date Time Round
19 August 13:00 Qualification
14:45 Qualification
20 August 17:49 Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 77.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.[6][7]

Rank Group Name Nationality Round Mark Notes
1 2 3
1 A Ethan Katzberg  Canada 81.18 81.18 Q, NR
2 B Mykhaylo Kokhan  Ukraine 76.59 78.47 78.47 Q
3 A Bence Halász  Hungary 78.13 78.13 Q
4 A Wojciech Nowicki  Poland 78.04 78.04 Q
5 B Paweł Fajdek  Poland 77.98 77.98 Q
6 B Rudy Winkler  United States 75.37 77.06 77.06 Q
7 A Daniel Haugh  United States x x 76.64 76.64 q
8 B Michail Anastasakis  Greece x 73.43 75.76 75.76 q
9 B Eivind Henriksen  Norway 71.61 74.37 75.37 75.37 q
10 A Gabriel Kehr  Chile 75.10 72.88 73.63 75.10 q
11 B Diego del Real  Mexico 73.28 74.91 73.30 74.91 q
12 A Adam Keenan  Canada 74.56 72.97 73.32 74.56 q
13 B Rowan Hamilton  Canada 71.81 70.42 74.14 74.14
14 A Christos Frantzeskakis  Greece 74.05 73.30 x 74.05
15 B Dániel Rába  Hungary x 71.93 73.17 73.17 SB
16 A Thomas Mardal  Norway 72.40 73.13 72.62 73.13
17 B Aaron Kangas  Finland x 72.15 72.96 72.96
18 B Serghei Marghiev  Moldova 72.91 68.76 71.50 72.91
19 A Jerome Vega  Puerto Rico 71.61 x 72.87 72.87
20 B Humberto Mansilla  Chile 72.32 72.80 72.01 72.80
21 B Joaquín Gómez  Argentina 68.66 72.77 68.57 72.77
22 A Sören Klose  Germany 72.23 x x 72.23
23 B Yann Chaussinand  France x 72.17 x 72.17
24 B Ragnar Carlsson  Sweden 70.94 72.02 x 72.02
25 B Donát Varga  Hungary x x 72.02 72.02
26 B Ronald Mencía  Cuba 71.72 70.74 x 71.72
27 A Alexandros Poursanidis  Cyprus 71.63 x 71.58 71.63
28 B Mostafa Elgamel  Egypt x 71.36 x 71.36
29 A Denzel Comenentia  Netherlands 69.46 x 70.16 70.16
30 A Konstantinos Zaltos  Greece 69.98 x 69.67 69.98
31 A Alex Young  United States 69.10 x 67.40 69.10
32 A Patrik Hájek  Czech Republic 67.36 66.30 68.77 68.77
33 A Marcin Wrotyński  Poland 67.57 x 68.65 68.65
B Merlin Hummel  Germany x x x NM
A Hilmar Örn Jónsson  Iceland x x x NM

Final

The final was started on 20 August at 17:52.[8]

Rank Name Nationality Round Mark Notes
1 2 3 4 5 6
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ethan Katzberg  Canada 80.18 80.02 x 79.82 81.25 81.11 81.25 NR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Wojciech Nowicki  Poland 79.14 80.70 78.94 80.83 81.02 80.36 81.02
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Bence Halász  Hungary 80.82 x x 80.59 79.94 x 80.82 SB
4 Paweł Fajdek  Poland 80.00 x 77.06 x x 77.99 80.00 SB
5 Mykhaylo Kokhan  Ukraine x 77.41 79.34 78.37 79.59 79.52 79.59 SB
6 Daniel Haugh  United States 76.07 77.38 75.66 78.64 74.83 x 78.64 SB
7 Eivind Henriksen  Norway 75.85 77.06 x x 76.81 x 77.06 SB
8 Rudy Winkler  United States x x 76.04 x 75.83 x 76.04
9 Gabriel Kehr  Chile 75.99 75.54 74.24 75.99
10 Michail Anastasakis  Greece 74.62 73.04 75.49 75.49
11 Adam Keenan  Canada 74.49 73.96 72.58 74.49
12 Diego del Real  Mexico 72.39 71.84 72.56 72.56

References

  1. ^ "WCH Budapest 23 preview: hammer throw". World Athletics. 16 August 2023. Archived from the original on 30 November 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  2. ^ Hammer_throw#Men_3
  3. ^ "Hammer Throw Men − Records". World Athletics. Archived from the original on 23 July 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  4. ^ "Qualifying System and Entry Standards" (PDF). World Athletics. 20 August 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Men's Hammer Throw -Timetable". World Athletics. Archived from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  6. ^ "Results Hammer Throw Men - Qualification" (PDF). World Athletics. 19 August 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  7. ^ "Summary Hammer Throw Men - Qualification" (PDF). World Athletics. 19 August 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  8. ^ "Results Hammer Throw Men - Final" (PDF). World Athletics. 20 August 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
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