2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's hammer throw
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The Men's Hammer Throw
event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics
took place on 25 August 2007 (qualification) and 27 August 2007 (final) at the Nagai Stadium
in Osaka
, Japan
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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 2007 World Championships in Athletics
2007 World Championships in Athletics
The 11th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations , were held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan from 24 August to 2 September 2007...
took place on 25 August 2007 (qualification) and 27 August 2007 (final) at the Nagai Stadium
Nagai Stadium
is an athletic stadium in Osaka, Japan. It is the home ground of J. League club Cerezo Osaka. The stadium has a seating capacity of 50,000.-History:...
in Osaka
Osaka
is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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Medallists
| Gold | |
| Silver | |
| Bronze |
Schedule
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)Qualification Round Group A Group B 25.08.2007 – 19:30h 25.08.2007 – 21:00h Final Round 27.08.2007 – 19:30h
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
Records
| Standing records prior to the 2007 World Athletics Championships | ||||
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| 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 |  StuttgartStuttgart 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.... |
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| Event Record | 83.89 m | August 8, 2005 |  Helsinki, Finland |
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| Season Best 2007 Hammer Throw Year Ranking This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2007 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 27, 2007... |
82.94 m | July 28, 2007 |  Minsk, Belarus |
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Group A
| Rank | Overall | Athlete | Attempts | Distance | Note | ||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||
| 1 | 1 | 80.61 | — | — | 80.61 m | Q | |
| 2 | 3 | 76.85 | 79.30 | — | 79.30 m | Q | |
| 3 | 4 | 79.11 | — | — | 79.11 m | Q | |
| 4 | 8 | 73.11 | 77.25 | — | 77.25 m | q | |
| 5 | 12 | 75.27 | 73.34 | 74.04 | 75.27 m | q | |
| 6 | 13 | 74.11 | X | 73.07 | 74.11 m | ||
| 7 | 15 | 71.15 | 73.87 | X | 73.87 m | ||
| 8 | 16 | 71.58 | 73.64 | 71.79 | 73.64 m | ||
| 9 | 18 | 71.75 | X | 73.04 | 73.04 m | ||
| 10 | 19 | 72.93 | X | 69.67 | 72.93 m | ||
| 11 | 20 | X | 71.25 | 72.45 | 72.45 m | ||
| 12 | 21 | 71.70 | 70.71 | X | 71.70 m | ||
| 13 | 27 | 66.63 | 68.30 | 63.86 | 68.30 m | SB 2007 Hammer Throw Year Ranking This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2007 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 27, 2007... |
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| — | — | X | X | X | NM | ||
Group B
| Rank | Overall | Athlete | Attempts | Distance | Note | ||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||
| 1 | 2 | X | 79.83 | — | 79.83 m | Q / SB 2007 Hammer Throw Year Ranking This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2007 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 27, 2007... |
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| 2 | 5 | 73.87 | 78.90 | — | 78.90 m | Q | |
| 3 | 6 | 77.93 | — | — | 77.93 m | Q | |
| 4 | 7 | X | 77.75 | — | 77.75 m | Q | |
| 5 | 9 | X | 76.49 | X | 76.49 m | q | |
| 6 | 10 | 76.36 | 74.12 | X | 76.36 m | q | |
| 7 | 11 | 75.04 | X | 76.12 | 76.12 m | q | |
| 8 | 14 | X | 72.95 | 73.92 | 73.92 m | ||
| 9 | 17 | 73.19 | 69.39 | X | 73.19 m | ||
| 10 | 22 | 71.58 | X | X | 71.58 m | ||
| 11 | 23 | 70.43 | 71.49 | 69.42 | 71.49 m | ||
| 12 | 24 | 71.07 | X | X | 71.07 m | ||
| 13 | 25 | X | X | 70.94 | 70.94 m | ||
| 14 | 26 | 67.57 | 69.89 | X | 69.89 m | ||
| 15 | 28 | 67.87 | 67.62 | 66.09 | 67.87 m | ||
Final
| Rank | Athlete | Attempts | Distance | Note | |||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| X | X | 79.35 | X | 80.77 | 83.63 | 83.63 m | SB 2007 Hammer Throw Year Ranking This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2007 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 27, 2007... |
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| 80.68 | 79.62 | 82.12 | X | X | 82.29 | 82.29 m | |||
| X | 80.93 | 79.10 | 76.88 | 81.60 | 80.48 | 81.60 m | SB 2007 Hammer Throw Year Ranking This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2007 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 27, 2007... |
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| 4 | 76.28 | 80.95 | X | 81.22 | 81.57 | 81.20 | 81.57 m | ||
| 5 | 78.29 | 79.49 | 79.55 | 79.63 | 77.29 | 80.93 | 80.93 m | ||
| 6 | 76.94 | 79.46 | 80.38 | 79.56 | 80.13 | 80.46 | 80.46 m | SB 2007 Hammer Throw Year Ranking This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2007 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 27, 2007... |
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| 7 | 79.81 | 80.09 | 78.58 | 79.87 | X | 77.53 | 80.09 m | ||
| 8 | 78.67 | 79.66 | 78.37 | X | 79.19 | 79.46 | 79.66 m | ||
| 9 | 78.15 | 78.27 | 78.35 | 78.35 m | SB 2007 Hammer Throw Year Ranking This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2007 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 27, 2007... |
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| 10 | X | 78.09 | X | 78.09 m | |||||
| 11 | 75.67 | X | 76.59 | 76.59 m | |||||
| 12 | X | 72.88 | 76.04 | 76.04 m | |||||