2022 World Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw

The men's hammer throw at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene on 15 and 16 July 2022.^[1]

Men's hammer throw at the 2022 World Championships
Venue	Hayward Field
Dates	15 July (qualification) 16 July (final)
Competitors	32 from 21 nations
Winning distance	81.98
Medalists
Paweł Fajdek    Poland   Wojciech Nowicki    Poland   Eivind Henriksen    Norway
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Summary

Back in 2011, Paweł Fajdek finished 11th and last in the final. Since then, the results have been the same, Paweł Fajdek World Champion. He was back for another spin.

In the first round, Rudy Winkler was the first to throw over 78 with a 78.91m. Quentin Bigot threw 79.52m to take the lead and Bence Halász was in second with 79.12m. Seven throwers were over 77 metres while Fajdek only managed 74.71m to find himself in a non-qualifying 9th place. Leading off the second round, Olympic Champion and World Leader Wojciech Nowicki threw 80.07m to take the lead. Then Fajdek put one out to 80.58m, that's more like it. Then the next thrower Eivind Henriksen pushed him to second position by throwing an 80.87m. Nowicki led off the third round with an 81.03m to take the lead. Later Fajdek threw 81.98 m (268 ft 11 in) to take the lead back. Bigot and Halász both threw beyond 80 metres in the third round. And that decided the medals. Nobody threw over 80 the rest of the finals.

For the fifth time in a row, Fajdek won the Championships, to become the first five time gold medalist. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce would duplicate the feat, non-consecutively at 100m the following day.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:^[2]

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	86.74 m	Stuttgart, West Germany	30 August 1986
Championship record	Ivan Tsikhan (BLR)	83.63 m	Osaka, Japan	27 August 2007
World Leading	Wojciech Nowicki (POL)	81.58 m	Chorzów, Poland	5 June 2022
African Record	Mostafa Elgamel (EGY)	81.27 m	Cairo, Egypt	21 March 2014
Asian Record	Koji Murofushi (JPN)	84.86 m	Prague, Czech Republic	29 June 2003
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Lance Deal (USA)	82.52 m	Milan, Italy	7 September 1996
South American Record	Wagner Domingos (BRA)	78.63 m	Celje, Slovenia	19 June 2016
European Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	86.74 m	Stuttgart, West Germany	30 August 1986
Oceanian record	Stuart Rendell (AUS)	79.29 m	Varaždin, Croatia	6 July 2002

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Distance	Record
17 July	Final	Paweł Fajdek	POL	81.98	WL

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 77.50 m.^[3]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC−7), was as follows:

Date	Time	Round
15 July	09:05	Qualification
16 July	12:00	Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 77.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.^[4]

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	Round			Mark	Notes
				1	2	3
1	B	Paweł Fajdek	Poland (POL)	74.63	80.09		80.09	Q
2	A	Daniel Haugh	United States (USA)	74.56	77.13	79.34	79.34	Q
3	A	Wojciech Nowicki	Poland (POL)	79.22			79.22	Q
4	B	Bence Halász	Hungary (HUN)	79.13			79.13	Q
5	B	Rudy Winkler	United States (USA)	76.97	78.61		78.61	Q
6	A	Eivind Henriksen	Norway (NOR)	78.12			78.12	Q
7	B	Quentin Bigot	France (FRA)	75.62	77.95		77.95	Q
8	B	Mykhaylo Kokhan	Ukraine (UKR)	76.62	74.95	77.58	77.58	Q
9	A	Nick Miller	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	77.13	x	x	77.13	q, SB
10	A	Christos Frantzeskakis	Greece (GRE)	76.03	74.47	75.79	76.03	q
11	B	Humberto Mansilla	Chile (CHI)	72.85	74.39	75.33	75.33	q
12	B	Alex Young	United States (USA)	74.67	x	72.97	74.67	q
13	A	Adam Keenan	Canada (CAN)	74.38	74.44	72.24	74.44
14	B	Javier Cienfuegos	Spain (ESP)	73.16	72.43	74.25	74.25
15	B	Serghei Marghiev	Moldova (MDA)	70.13	73.46	74.17	74.17
16	A	Diego del Real	Mexico (MEX)	73.96	74.12	73.23	74.12
17	B	Rowan Hamilton	Canada (CAN)	73.58	74.02	72.26	74.02
18	A	Yann Chaussinand	France (FRA)	72.62	73.95	x	73.95
19	A	Marcin Wrotyński [pl]	Poland (POL)	73.00	73.55	73.26	73.55
20	B	Ragnar Carlsson	Sweden (SWE)	x	72.26	73.45	73.45
21	B	Thomas Mardal	Norway (NOR)	70.31	x	72.90	72.90
22	A	Tristan Schwandke	Germany (GER)	71.94	72.87	71.02	72.87
23	A	Tuomas Seppänen	Finland (FIN)	72.63	72.29	72.81	72.81
24	A	Hilmar Örn Jónsson	Iceland (ISL)	72.36	72.72	x	72.72
25	B	Michail Anastasakis	Greece (GRE)	70.35	70.03	72.40	72.40
26	B	Allan Wolski	Brazil (BRA)	x	69.56	71.27	71.27
27	B	Aaron Kangas [de]	Finland (FIN)	69.69	69.64	68.35	69.69
28	A	Joaquín Gómez	Argentina (ARG)	69.03	68.41	x	69.03
	A	Denzel Comenentia	Netherlands (NED)	x	x	x	NM
	A	Gabriel Kehr	Chile (CHI)					DNS

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Round						Mark	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Paweł Fajdek	Poland (POL)	74.71	80.58	81.98	79.13	x	x	81.98	WL
	Wojciech Nowicki	Poland (POL)	77.40	80.07	81.03	x	79.45	79.53	81.03
	Eivind Henriksen	Norway (NOR)	78.89	80.87	x	75.55	77.74	78.19	80.87	SB
4	Quentin Bigot	France (FRA)	79.52	78.86	80.24	79.94	79.85	79.38	80.24
5	Bence Halász	Hungary (HUN)	79.12	79.46	80.15	x	78.77	79.07	80.15	PB
6	Rudy Winkler	United States (USA)	78.91	77.49	x	78.51	78.99	78.89	78.99
7	Mykhaylo Kokhan	Ukraine (UKR)	78.07	78.83	x	77.94	78.16	77.97	78.83	SB
8	Daniel Haugh	United States (USA)	76.80	78.10	x	76.52	77.71	x	78.10
9	Christos Frantzeskakis	Greece (GRE)	77.04	74.34	76.85				77.04
10	Humberto Mansilla	Chile (CHI)	73.91	71.71	73.05				73.91
11	Nick Miller	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	x	x	73.74				73.74
12	Alex Young	United States (USA)	73.60	73.53	x				73.60