Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw

Men's hammer throw at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	20–22 August
Competitors	35 from 24 nations
Winning distance	82.91
Medalists
Koji Murofushi  Japan Eşref Apak  Turkey Vadim Devyatovskiy  Belarus

Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men
Wheelchair races

The men's hammer throw competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20–22 August.

The competition had originally been won by Adrián Annus of Hungary but soon after he was found guilty of tampering with his sample at the doping control and subsequently lost his gold medal. The original runner-up Koji Murofushi was elevated to the status of 2004 Olympic champion.

Silver medal winner Ivan Tsikhan had his samples from 2004 retested in May 2012. A banned substance was found, and he withdrew from the 2012 Summer Olympics as a result, stripping of his silver medal on December 5, 2012, after drug re-testings of his sample on methandienone had been discovered positive. Tsikhan was stripped of his silver medal on 5 December 2012 after drug re-tests of their samples were found positive. No decision was taken on reallocation of medals, leaving the only medallists as Murofushi with gold and Eşref Apak of Turkey with the bronze. The athlete in a position to be elevated to the Olympic bronze medal, Vadim Devyatovskiy of Belarus, has previously been subject to a court case by the International Olympic Committee regarding doping at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Competition format

Each athlete receives three throws in the qualifying round. All who achieve the qualifying distance progress to the final. If less than twelve athletes achieve this mark, then the twelve furthest throwing athletes reach the final. Each finalist is allowed three throws in last round, with the top eight athletes after that point being given three further attempts.

Schedule

All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
Friday, 20 August 2004	09:15	Qualification
Sunday, 22 August 2004	21:15	Final

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	86.74 m	Stuttgart, West Germany	30 August 1986
Olympic record	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	84.80 m	Seoul, South Korea	26 September 1988

No new records were set during the competition.

Results

Qualifying round

Rule: Qualifying standard 78.00 (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	B	Ivan Tsikhan	Belarus	77.85	77.12	80.78	80.78	Q
2	A	Adrián Annus	Hungary	79.59	—	—	79.59	Q
3	B	Krisztián Pars	Hungary	77.43	80.50	—	80.50	Q
4	B	Koji Murofushi	Japan	79.55	—	—	79.55	Q
5	B	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia	76.97	78.81	—	78.81	Q, SB
6	A	Markus Esser	Germany	76.39	75.29	77.49	77.49	q
7	B	Libor Charfreitag	Slovakia	x	x	77.30	77.30	q
8	A	Igor Astapkovich	Belarus	76.70	76.08	76.88	76.88	q
9	B	Nicola Vizzoni	23x15px Italy	76.84	75.35	75.03	76.84	q
10	A	Eşref Apak	Turkey	x	x	76.74	76.74	q
11	B	Vadim Devyatovskiy	Belarus	71.69	74.81	76.72	76.72	q
12	B	Karsten Kobs	Germany	76.69	x	x	76.69	q
13	A	Ilya Konovalov	Russia	75.40	x	76.36	76.36
14	A	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	76.12	74.55	76.17	76.17
15	B	Miloslav Konopka	Slovakia	74.42	x	76.16	76.16
16	A	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland	x	74.51	76.11	76.11
17	B	Sergey Kirmasov	Russia	75.12	73.68	75.83	75.83
18	A	Aléxandros Papadimitríou	Greece	x	x	75.55	75.55
19	A	Oleksandr Krykun	Ukraine	x	75.42	74.37	75.42
20	B	Artem Rubanko	Ukraine	75.08	x	x	75.08
21	B	James Parker	United States	73.15	74.09	75.04	75.04
22	B	András Haklits	Croatia	x	73.51	74.43	74.43
23	B	David Söderberg	Finland	x	x	74.14	74.14
24	A	Patric Suter	Switzerland	72.45	x	73.54	73.54
25	B	Yuriy Voronkin	Russia	73.47	71.97	x	73.47
26	A	Stuart Rendell	Australia	x	72.61	x	72.61
27	A	Juan Ignacio Cerra	Argentina	69.10	72.53	68.64	72.53
28	A	Vítor Costa	Portugal	72.47	72.44	x	72.47
29	A	Roman Rozna	Moldova	x	x	71.78	71.78
30	A	Vladimír Maška	Czech Republic	71.76	x	x	71.76
31	B	Ali Al-Zinkawi	Kuwait	70.67	71.06	70.68	71.06
32	B	Dorian Çollaku	Albania	70.06	69.27	67.61	70.06
33	A	A.G. Kruger	United States	69.38	68.03	x	69.38
	A	Vladyslav Piskunov	Ukraine	x	x	x	NM
	A	Dilshod Nazarov	Tajikistan	x	x	x	NM

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Koji Murofushi	Japan	79.90	81.60	81.16	82.35	x	82.91	82.91	SB
	Eşref Apak	Turkey	75.79	79.51	x	79.23	75.15	76.34	79.51
	Vadim Devyatovskiy	Belarus	78.67	78.82	x	75.41	76.61	x	78.82
4	Krisztián Pars	Hungary	76.94	78.16	77.55	78.73	x	77.26	78.73
5	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia	75.82	77.08	76.45	78.56	77.61	78.24	78.56
6	Libor Charfreitag	Slovakia	74.93	77.52	77.30	75.60	77.54	73.06	77.54
7	Karsten Kobs	Germany	75.72	75.97	76.30				76.30
8	Igor Astapkovich	Belarus	x	x	76.22				76.22
9	Nicola Vizzoni	23x15px Italy	74.27	72.97	73.02				74.27
10	Markus Esser	Germany	72.51	x	71.31				72.51
	Adrián Annus	Hungary	80.53	82.32	83.19	82.64	82.04	—	83.19	DSQ
	Ivan Tsikhan	Belarus	x	x	78.55	78.31	79.81	x	79.81	DSQ

External links

• Official Olympic Report