1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw

Events at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men
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
5000 m walk				women
10,000 m walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's hammer throw event at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sydney, Australia, at International Athletic Centre on 23 and 24 August.^[1][2] A 7257g (senior implement) hammer was used.

Medalists

Gold	Maciej Pałyszko  Poland
Silver	Vadim Devyatovskiy  Belarus
Bronze	Roman Konevtsov  Russia

Results

Final

24 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts						Result	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Maciej Pałyszko	Poland	69.54	70.90	70.58	70.46	70.22	71.24	71.24
	Vadim Devyatovskiy	Belarus	68.26	70.88	65.56	67.66	68.40	69.24	70.88
	Roman Konevtsov	Russia	x	69.44	x	70.32	x	68.84	70.32
4	Sergey Martemyanov	Belarus	66.42	x	x	68.22	x	x	68.22
5	Mikko Dannbäck	Finland	63.80	66.70	66.06	67.68	67.34	63.70	67.68
6	Yosmel Montes	Cuba	x	67.34	x	x	64.90	65.70	67.34
7	Oleg Sergeyev	Russia	65.90	67.12	63.64	x	64.78	63.04	67.12
8	Ioánnis Barlís	Greece	x	65.38	65.10	66.14	65.02	66.52	66.52
9	Samu-Petri Simo	Finland	64.88	x	65.18				65.18
10	Xavier Tison	France	64.12	62.82	x				64.12
11	Roman Tcherkachine	Ukraine	58.82	60.90	x				60.90
12	Frank Caspers	Germany	x	x	x				NM

Qualifications

23 Aug

Group A

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts			Result	Notes
			1	2	3
1	Maciej Pałyszko	Poland	67.14	-	-	67.14	Q
2	Mikko Dannbäck	Finland	66.20	-	-	66.20	Q
3	Xavier Tison	France	x	63.18	64.74	64.74	Q
4	Ioánnis Barlís	Greece	x	64.06	-	64.06	Q
5	Sergey Martemyanov	Belarus	x	64.04	-	64.04	Q
6	Yosmel Montes	Cuba	62.28	63.70	63.76	63.76	q
7	Frank Caspers	Germany	62.76	61.48	60.02	62.76	q
8	Oleg Sergeyev	Russia	61.88	x	x	61.88	q
9	Libor Charfreitag	Slovakia	61.52	59.22	x	61.52
10	Cameron Grant	Australia	x	57.64	58.32	58.32
11	Patric Suter	Switzerland	56.36	x	x	56.36
12	David Spitz	United States	x	x	53.48	53.48
13	Hamoud Al-Anzi	Kuwait	x	x	42.00	42.00

Group B

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts			Result	Notes
			1	2	3
1	Vadim Devyatovskiy	Belarus	65.38	-	-	65.38	Q
2	Roman Konevtsov	Russia	64.72	-	-	64.72	Q
3	Samu-Petri Simo	Finland	64.44	-	-	64.44	Q
4	Roman Tcherkachine	Ukraine	58.72	60.72	61.78	61.78	q
5	Thomas Bourgeois	France	60.14	61.18	x	61.18
6	András Haklits	Hungary	60.30	x	x	60.30
7	Patrick Hiemer	Germany	56.10	60.14	58.54	60.14
8	Dorian Çollaku	Albania	59.58	59.08	59.72	59.72
9	Anscar Salgado	Spain	59.24	58.92	x	59.24
10	Nuno Coelho	Portugal	x	53.88	57.68	57.68
11	Theoharis Hatziadamidis	Greece	52.92	54.30	57.06	57.06
12	Yamine Hussein	Egypt	50.34	52.20	56.30	56.30
13	Alexandre Kojokar	Moldova	x	53.04	53.14	53.14
14	Oleg Toulaev	Tajikistan	x	44.30	x	44.30

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 27 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event.

•  Albania (1)
•  Australia (1)
•  Belarus (2)
•  Cuba (1)
•  Egypt (1)
•  Finland (2)
•  France (2)
•  Germany (2)
•  Greece (2)
•  Hungary (1)
•  Kuwait (1)
•  Moldova (1)
•  Poland (1)
•  Portugal (1)
•  Russia (2)
•  Slovakia (1)
•  Spain (1)
•   Switzerland (1)
•  Tajikistan (1)
•  Ukraine (1)
•  United States (1)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1996 Sydney AUS Aug 20-25, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 31 Oct 2013, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015