1999 World Championships in Athletics - Men's Hammer

These are the official results of the Men's Hammer Throw

Hammer throw

The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...

event at the 1999 World Championships

1999 World Championships in Athletics

The 7th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Estadio Olímpico, Seville, Spain, between the August 20 and August 29....

in Seville, Spain. There were a total number of 39 participating athletes, with the final held on Sunday 22 August 1999.

Medalists

Gold	Karsten Kobs Karsten Kobs Karsten Kobs is a German hammer thrower, whose personal best throw is 82.78 metres, achieved in June 1999 in Dortmund. This ranks him third among German hammer throwers, only behind Ralf Haber and Heinz Weis.... Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... (GER)
Silver	Zsolt Németh Zsolt Németh Zsolt Németh is a retired male hammer thrower from Hungary. His personal best throw was 81.56 metres, achieved in August 1999 in Veszprém. He is the son of coach Pál Németh.-Achievements:-References:*... Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The... (HUN)
Bronze	Vladislav Piskunov Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia... (UKR)

Schedule

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Qualification Round
Group A Group B
21.08.1999 – 10:00h 21.08.1999 – 12:00h
Final Round
22.08.1999 – 21:45h

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
21.08.1999 – 10:00h	21.08.1999 – 12:00h
Final Round
22.08.1999 – 21:45h

Abbreviations

All results shown are in metres

Q automatic qualification
q qualification by rank
DNS did not start
NM no mark
WR world record
AR area record
NR national record
PB personal best
SB season best

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1999 World Athletics Championships
World Record World records in athletics World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....	86.74 m	August 30, 1986	Stuttgart Stuttgart Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million .... , West Germany West Germany West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
Event Record	83.06 m	September 1, 1987	Rome, Italy
Season Best 1999 Hammer Throw Year Ranking This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 1999 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the 1999 World Athletics Championships in Seville, Spain, where the final of the men's competition was held on Sunday August 22, 1999...	82.78 m	June 26, 1999	Dortmund, Germany

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
Rank	Overall	Athlete	1	2	3	Distance
1	1		78.91	—	—	78.91 m
2	3		X	76.18	77.56	77.56 m
3	6		76.09	76.99	76.67	76.99 m
4	8		74.23	75.11	75.89	75.89 m
5	9		75.55	X	75.81	75.81 m
6	12		71.90	74.29	75.42	75.42 m
7	13		73.28	73.66	75.29	75.29 m
8	15		72.36	75.12	72.91	75.12 m
9	17		73.01	74.85	73.04	74.85 m
10	20		74.61	73.96	X	74.61 m
11	22		72.76	73.38	74.23	74.23 m
12	23		72.90	X	74.12	74.12 m
13	26		71.67	72.89	73.28	73.28 m
14	27		X	72.97	X	72.97 m
15	28		70.66	72.63	72.48	72.63 m
16	30		X	71.57	65.06	71.57 m
17	32		X	69.92	70.20	70.20 m
18	36		67.55	X	X	67.55 m
—	—		X	X	X	NM

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
Rank	Overall	Athlete	1	2	3	Distance
1	2		76.11	77.75	—	77.75 m
2	4		77.42	—	—	77.42 m
3	5		76.47	75.35	77.27	77.27 m
4	7		76.55	76.82	Ab	76.82 m
5	10		75.78	72.62	74.93	75.78 m
6	11		74.18	74.63	75.72	75.72 m
7	14		74.04	75.18	73.68	75.18 m
8	16		74.32	75.04	74.58	75.04 m
9	18		74.71	74.71	72.98	74.71 m
10	19		74.62	73.84	X	74.62 m
11	21		72.75	74.26	X	74.26 m
12	24		71.64	72.83	74.02	74.02 m
13	25		73.32	71.70	69.62	73.32 m
14	29		69.60	72.05	71.57	72.05 m
15	31		69.72	71.24	69.83	71.24 m
16	33		68.35	67.44	69.28	69.28 m
17	34		66.51	68.96	65.80	68.96 m
18	35		X	68.14	67.96	68.14 m
19	37		66.87	64.76	65.08	66.87 m
—	—		—	—	—	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance
Rank	Athlete	1	2	3	4	5	6	Distance
		80.24	78.87	79.90	X	79.12	78.00	80.24 m
		74.52	76.15	X	X	77.72	79.05	79.05 m
		77.38	77.94	77.92	77.25	79.03	76.39	79.03 m
4		X	X	78.16	X	78.95	73.77	78.95 m
5		78.80	77.35	77.14	77.87	X	X	78.80 m
6		76.43	78.31	X	77.01	77.15	76.84	78.31 m
7		76.54	77.07	74.89	74.76	78.31	X	78.31 m
8		76.17	76.73	X	76.96	76.30	74.05	76.96 m

9		74.98	76.02	75.50				76.02 m
10		X	74.52	75.63				75.63 m
11		X	75.59	X				75.59 m
12		X	75.26	X				75.26 m