2002 European Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw

Events at the 2002 European
Athletics Championships
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
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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
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Field events
High jump men women
Pole vault men women
Long jump men women
Triple jump men women
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Hammer throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men

The final of the Men's hammer throw event at the 2002 European Championships in Munich, Germany was held on August 7, 2002. There were a total number of 31 participating athletes. The qualifying rounds were staged a day earlier, on August 6, with the mark set in 79.00 metres.

Contents

Medalists

Gold Adrián Annus
Hungary (HUN)
Silver Vladyslav Piskunov
Ukraine (UKR)
Bronze Alexandros Papadimitriou
Greece (GRE)

Abbreviations

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 2002 European Athletics Championships
World Record  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) 86.74 m August 30, 1986 Stuttgart, West Germany
Event Record  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) 86.74 m August 30, 1986 Stuttgart, West Germany

Qualification

Group A

Rank Overall Athlete Attempts Distance
1 2 3
1 1  Aleksey Zagornyi (RUS) 80.16 m
2 3  Adrián Annus (HUN) 79.82 m
3 7  Nicolas Figère (FRA) 78.50 m
4 8  Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE) 78.39 m
5 9  Ivan Tikhon (BLR) 78.24 m
6 10  Miloslav Konopka (SVK) 78.16 m
7 11  Vladyslav Piskunov (UKR) 78.06 m
8 13  Nicola Vizzoni (ITA) 77.57 m
9 14  Karsten Kobs (GER) 77.44 m
10 15  Szymon Ziółkowski (POL) 77.17 m
11 17  Holger Klose (GER) 76.98 m
12 20  Ilya Konovalov (RUS) 76.79 m
13 23  David Söderberg (FIN) 74.64 m
14 24  Vladimír Maška (CZE) 74.52 m
15 28  Bengt Johansson (SWE) 71.27 m
16 30  Dorian Collaku (ALB) 67.47 m

Group B

Rank Overall Athlete Attempts Distance
1 2 3
1 2  Andriy Skvaruk (UKR) 79.96 m
2 4  Balázs Kiss (HUN) 79.32 m
3 5  Libor Charfreitag (SVK) 79.18 m
4 6  Tibor Gécsek (HUN) 79.03 m
5 12  Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN) 77.78 m
6 16  Vadim Khersontsev (RUS) 77.00 m
7 18  Oleksandr Krykun (UKR) 76.92 m
8 19  Jan Bielecki (DEN) 76.82 m
9 21  Christophe Épalle (FRA) 76.27 m
10 22  Maciej Pałyszko (POL) 75.51 m
11 25  Primož Kozmus (SLO) 72.60 m
12 26  Vítor Costa (POR) 72.43 m
13 27  Christos Polychroniou (GRE) 71.70 m
14 29  Markus Esser (GER) 70.15 m
— —  András Haklits (CRO) X X X NM

Final

Rank Athlete Attempts Distance Note
1 2 3 4 5 6
 Adrián Annus (HUN) 76.00 78.65 80.62 81.17 80.37 — 81.17 m
 Vladyslav Piskunov (UKR) X 78.23 79.58 X 80.39 X 80.39 m
 Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE) 76.81 78.31 78.51 77.86 80.21 78.61 80.21 m
4  Balázs Kiss (HUN) 80.13 X 80.17 X 80.06 80.05 80.17 m
5  Andriy Skvaruk (UKR) 79.22 X 80.15 78.68 X 79.23 80.15 m
6  Tibor Gécsek (HUN) 79.25 78.62 X X 76.91 78.52 79.25 m
7  Libor Charfreitag (SVK) 79.20 X X X 76.93 X 79.20 m
8  Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN) X 78.41 78.57 X X X 78.57 m
9  Ivan Tikhon (BLR) 72.60 77.86 X 77.86 m
10  Miloslav Konopka (SVK) 76.69 76.94 77.33 77.33 m
11  Aleksey Zagornyi (RUS) 77.01 X X 77.01 m
12  Nicolas Figère (FRA) 76.17 X 76.49 76.49 m

See also

References

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