Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw

Men's hammer throw at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	17–18 October
Competitors	25 from 14 nations
Medalists
Romuald Klim   Soviet Union   Gyula Zsivótzky   Hungary   Uwe Beyer   Germany

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Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's hammer throw was one of four men's throwing events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 17 October and 18 October 1964, with the qualification on the first day and the final the next. 25 athletes from 14 nations entered, with 1 not starting in the qualification round.

Results

Qualification

The qualification standard was 63.00 metres. Each thrower had three attempts to reach that standard.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Best mark		Throw 1	Throw 2	Throw 3
1	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	67.99 metres OR		67.99	—
2	Harold Vincent Connolly	United States	67.40 metres		67.40	—
3	Romuald Klim	Soviet Union	67.10 metres		67.10	—
4	Zdzislaw Smolinski	Poland	66.00 metres		66.00	—
5	Yury Nikulin	Soviet Union	65.64 metres		65.64	—
6	Tadeusz Rut	Poland	65.03 metres		65.03	—
7	Uwe Beyer	Germany	65.01 metres		65.01	—
8	Edward Burke	United States	64.94 metres		62.23	64.94	—
9	Heinrich Thun	Austria	64.73 metres		64.73	—
10	Sandor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	64.64 metres		64.64	—
11	Albert William Hall	United States	64.31 metres		64.31	—
12	Yury Bakarinov	Soviet Union	63.86 metres		63.86	—
13	Takeo Sugawara	Japan	63.84 metres		63.84	—
14	Olgierd Cieply	Poland	63.66 metres		X	63.66	—
15	Josef Matoušek	Czechoslovakia	63.53 metres		59.61	63.53	—
16	Hans Fahsl	Germany	62.35 metres		58.90	X	62.35
17	Howard Payne	Great Britain	61.90 metres		61.90	X	61.74
18	Martin Lotz	Germany	61.88 metres		60.97	61.88	58.66
19	Shohei Kasahara	Japan	61.87 metres		56.38	61.87	X
20	Noboru Okamoto	Japan	61.51 metres		58.99	60.78	61.51
21	Karl Birger Asplund	Sweden	61.15 metres		60.60	61.15	60.91
22	Guy Husson	France	60.04 metres		60.04	59.86	X
23	John Francis Lawlor	Ireland	59.12 metres		X	58.22	59.12
24	Rim Dong Sil	South Korea	56.43 metres		X	53.71	56.43
—	Nicolae Murafa	Romania	Did not start		—

Final

Zsivótzky threw 69.09 in the first throw, beating his own Olympic record from the qualifier. Klim's fourth throw overtook that record and held for the gold medal distance.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Best mark		Throw 1	Throw 2	Throw 3	Throw 4	Throw 5	Throw 6
1	Romuald Klim	Soviet Union	69.74 metres OR		67.19	64.64	68.59	69.74	68.81	68.17
2	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	69.09 metres		69.09	66.20	68.47	67.41	67.85	67.32
3	Uwe Beyer	Germany	68.09 metres		68.09	65.64	62.91	X	65.71	X
4	Yury Nikulin	Soviet Union	67.69 metres		67.08	67.01	67.69	X	X	65.61
5	Yury Bakarinov	Soviet Union	66.72 metres		65.91	66.50	65.39	65.25	66.72	X
6	Harold Vincent Connolly	United States	66.65 metres		X	62.95	66.65	X	64.73	X
7	Edward Burke	United States	65.66 metres		65.66	65.06	62.68
8	Olgierd Cieply	Poland	64.83 metres		64.83	X	X
9	Josef Matousek	Czechoslovakia	64.59 metres		64.49	64.59	63.29
10	Tadeusz Rut	Poland	64.52 metres		61.03	61.94	64.52
11	Sandor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	63.83 metres		63.83	63.19	X
12	Albert William Hall	United States	63.82 metres		59.72	62.35	63.82
13	Takeo Sugawara	Japan	63.69 metres		X	62.66	63.69
14	Zdzislaw Smolinski	Poland	62.90 metres		X	X	62.90
15	Heinrich Thun	Austria	62.76 metres		62.76	62.42	X

References

• sports-reference
• Official Report