Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw

Men's hammer throw
at the Games of the XI Olympiad

Dates

August 3

Medalists

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeple	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's hammer throw event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on August 3, 1936. The final was won by German Karl Hein.

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
1 !	Karl Hein	Germany	52.13	52.44	00.00 !x	54.70	54.85	56.49	56.49	OR
2 !	Erwin Blask	Germany	52.55	55.04	00.00 !x	54.10	54.48	00.00 !x	55.04
3 !	Fred Warngård	Sweden	52.05	52.98	54.03	54.83	53.30	50.61	54.83
4	Gustaf Alfons Koutonen	Finland	00.00 !x	50.01	51.90	49.11	49.91	00.00 !x	51.90
5	William Rowe	United States	51.53	51.04	49.29	50.32	51.66	00.00 !x	51.66
6	Donald Favor	United States	50.78	50.02	51.01	48.48	50.33	47.71	51.01
7	Bernhard Greulich	Germany	50.19	00.00 !x	50.61				50.61
8	Koit Annamaa	Estonia	48.77	49.54	50.46				50.46
9	Henry Dreyer	United States	49.81	00.00 !x	50.42				50.42
10	Sulo Heino	Finland	49.93	47.15	48.30				49.93
11	Ville Pörhölä	Finland	45.35	00.00 !x	49.89				49.89
12	Gunnar Jansson	Sweden	49.21	48.49	49.28				49.28
13	Isao Abe	Japan	47.40	41.83	49.01				49.01
14	Evert Linné	Sweden	00.00 !x	47.25	47.61				47.61
15	Giovanni Cantagalli	Italy	45.21	47.42	45.08				47.42
16	Joseph Wirtz	France	00.00 !x	44.82	45.69				45.69
17	Anton Barticevic	Chile	00.00 !x	43.02	45.23				45.23

Key: OR = Olympic record

Hammer throw at the Athletics at the Summer Olympics

Men's	1900 • 1904 • 1908 • 1912 • 1920 • 1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008

Women's	2000 • 2004 • 2008