Athletics — Hammer Throw, Men

Times held 34
Total participants 454
Total countries 75

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1900 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 5 2
1904 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 6 1
1904 Hammer Throw (AAU Championship), Men Olympic (non-medal) 3 1
1904 Hammer Throw (Olympic Collegiate Championship), Men Olympic (non-medal) 4 1
1904 Hammer Throw (Olympic Irish Sports), Men Olympic (non-medal) 3 2
1904 Hammer Throw (Western AAU Championship), Men Olympic (non-medal) 3 1
1904 Hammer Throw (YMCA Championship), Men Olympic (non-medal) 3 1
1908 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 19 8
1912 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 14 4
1920 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 12 5
1924 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 15 10
1928 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 16 11
1932 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 14 9
1936 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 27 16
1948 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 24 17
1952 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 33 18
1956 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 22 14
1960 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 28 18
1964 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 24 13
1968 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 22 12
1972 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 31 17
1976 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 20 13
1980 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 17 12
1984 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 23 13
1988 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 30 16
1992 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 27 19
1996 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 37 22
2000 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 44 24
2004 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 35 24
2008 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 33 26
2012 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 41 32
2016 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 32 24
2020 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 31 21
2024 Hammer Throw, Men Olympic 32 21

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1900 John FlanaganUSA Truxtun HareUSA Josiah McCrackenUSA
1904 John FlanaganUSA John DeWittUSA Ralph RoseUSA
1908 John FlanaganUSA Matt McGrathUSA Con WalshCAN
1912 Matt McGrathUSA Duncan GillisCAN Clarence ChildsUSA
1920 Paddy RyanUSA Carl Johan LindSWE Basil BennettUSA
1924 Fred TootellUSA Matt McGrathUSA Malcolm NokesGBR
1928 Pat O'CallaghanIRL Ossian SkiöldSWE Ed BlackUSA
1932 Pat O'CallaghanIRL Ville PörhöläFIN Pete ZarembaUSA
1936 Karl HeinGER Erwin BlaskGER Fred WarngårdSWE
1948 Imre NémethHUN Ivan GubijanYUG Bob BennettUSA
1952 József CsermákHUN Karl StorchGER Imre NémethHUN
1956 Hal ConnollyUSA Mikhail KrivonosovURS Anatoly SamotsvetovURS
1960 Vasily RudenkovURS Gyula ZsivótzkyHUN Tadeusz RutPOL
1964 Romuald KlimURS Gyula ZsivótzkyHUN Uwe BeyerGER
1968 Gyula ZsivótzkyHUN Romuald KlimURS Lázár LovászHUN
1972 Anatoly BondarchukURS Jochen SachseGDR Vasily KhmelevskyURS
1976 Yury SedykhURS Aleksey SpiridonovURS Anatoly BondarchukURS
1980 Yury SedykhURS Sergey LitvinovURS Jüri TammURS
1984 Juha TiainenFIN Karl-Hans RiehmFRG Klaus PloghausFRG
1988 Sergey LitvinovURS Yury SedykhURS Jüri TammURS
1992 Andrey AbduvaliyevEUN Ihar AstapkovichEUN Igor NikulinEUN
1996 Balázs KissHUN Lance DealUSA Oleksandr KrykunUKR
2000 Szymon ZiółkowskiPOL Nicola VizzoniITA Ihar AstapkovichBLR
2004 Koji MurofushiJPN
2008 Primož KozmusSLO Vadzim DzeviatouskiBLR Ivan TsikhanBLR
2012 Krisztián ParsHUN Primož KozmusSLO Koji MurofushiJPN
2016 Dilshod NazarovTJK Ivan TsikhanBLR Wojciech NowickiPOL
2020 Wojciech NowickiPOL Eivind HenriksenNOR Paweł FajdekPOL
2024 Ethan KatzbergCAN Bence HalászHUN Mykhailo KokhanUKR

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
United States USA 7 5 7 19
Soviet Union URS 6 5 5 16
Hungary HUN 5 3 2 10
Poland POL 2 0 3 5
Ireland IRL 2 0 0 2
Germany GER 1 2 1 4
Canada CAN 1 1 1 3
Unified Team EUN 1 1 1 3
Finland FIN 1 1 0 2
Slovenia SLO 1 1 0 2
Japan JPN 1 0 1 2
Tajikistan TJK 1 0 0 1
Belarus BLR 0 2 2 4
Sweden SWE 0 2 1 3
West Germany FRG 0 1 1 2
East Germany GDR 0 1 0 1
Italy ITA 0 1 0 1
Norway NOR 0 1 0 1
Yugoslavia YUG 0 1 0 1
Ukraine UKR 0 0 2 2
Great Britain GBR 0 0 1 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
John Flanagan USA 3 0 0 3
Yury Sedykh URS 2 1 0 3
Pat O'Callaghan IRL 2 0 0 2
Gyula Zsivótzky HUN 1 2 0 3
Matt McGrath USA 1 2 0 3

Best performance by country

Olympic and Intercalated results only.
Country Games Athlete/Team Placement
Albania ALB 2008 Summer Olympics Dorian Çollaku 28 r1/2 See all
Algeria ALG 1984 Summer Olympics Hakim Toumi 17 r1/2 See all
Argentina ARG 1932 Summer Olympics Federico Kleger 6 See all
Australia AUS 1992 Summer Olympics Sean Carlin 8 See all
Austria AUT 1960 Summer Olympics Heinrich Thun 9 See all
1992 Summer Olympics Hans Lindner 9
Azerbaijan AZE 2012 Summer Olympics Dmitri Marşin 18 r1/2 See all
Bahrain BRN 1992 Summer Olympics Rashid Riyadh Al-Ameeri 26 r1/2 See all
Belarus BLR 2008 Summer Olympics Vadzim Dzeviatouski 2 Silver See all
2016 Summer Olympics Ivan Tsikhan 2 Silver
Belgium BEL 1952 Summer Olympics Henri Haest 22 See all
Bohemia BOH 1912 Summer Olympics Miroslav Šustera DNS See all
Brazil BRA 2016 Summer Olympics Wagner Domingos 12 See all
Bulgaria BUL 1980 Summer Olympics Emanuil Dyulgerov 6 See all
Canada CAN 2024 Summer Olympics Ethan Katzberg 1 Gold See all
Chile CHI 1928 Summer Olympics Ricardo Bayer 8 r1/2 See all
Costa Rica CRC 2016 Summer Olympics Roberto Sawyers =24 r1/2 See all
Croatia CRO 2008 Summer Olympics Andraš Haklić 10 See all
Cuba CUB 1980 Summer Olympics Armando Orozco 11 See all
Cyprus CYP 2012 Summer Olympics Konstantinos Stathelakos 30 r1/2 See all
Czechia CZE 2012 Summer Olympics Lukáš Melich 5 See all
Czechoslovakia TCH 1952 Summer Olympics Jiří Dadák 4 See all
Denmark DEN 1948 Summer Olympics Svend Aage Frederiksen 10 See all
East Germany GDR 1972 Summer Olympics Jochen Sachse 2 Silver See all
Egypt EGY 2020 Summer Olympics Mostafa Al-Gamel 23 r1/2 See all
El Salvador ESA 1968 Summer Olympics Carlos Hasbún 22 r1/2 See all
Estonia EST 1992 Summer Olympics Jüri Tamm 5 See all
Finland FIN 1984 Summer Olympics Juha Tiainen 1 Gold See all
France FRA 2020 Summer Olympics Quentin Bigot 5 See all
Germany GER 1936 Summer Olympics Karl Hein 1 Gold See all
Greece GRE 2000 Summer Olympics Alexandros Papadimitriou 12 See all
2024 Summer Olympics Christos Frantzeskakis 12
Hungary HUN 1948 Summer Olympics Imre Németh 1 Gold See all
1952 Summer Olympics József Csermák 1 Gold
1968 Summer Olympics Gyula Zsivótzky 1 Gold
1996 Summer Olympics Balázs Kiss 1 Gold
2012 Summer Olympics Krisztián Pars 1 Gold
Iceland ISL 2008 Summer Olympics Bergur Pétursson 25 r1/2 See all
India IND 1968 Summer Olympics Praveen Kumar 20 r1/2 See all
Ireland IRL 1928 Summer Olympics Pat O'Callaghan 1 Gold See all
1932 Summer Olympics Pat O'Callaghan 1 Gold
Islamic Republic of Iran IRI 2012 Summer Olympics Kaveh Mousavi 20 r1/2 See all
Italy ITA 2000 Summer Olympics Nicola Vizzoni 2 Silver See all
Japan JPN 2004 Summer Olympics Koji Murofushi 1 Gold See all
Kuwait KUW 2012 Summer Olympics Ali Al-Zinkawi 16 r1/2 See all
Kyrgyzstan KGZ 2000 Summer Olympics Nikolay Davydov AC r1/2 See all
Latvia LAT 2008 Summer Olympics Igors Sokolovs 19 r1/2 See all
2012 Summer Olympics Igors Sokolovs 19 r1/2
Lithuania LTU 1992 Summer Olympics Benjaminas Viluckis 20 r1/2 See all
Luxembourg LUX 1912 Summer Olympics Marcel Pelletier DNS See all
Mauritius MRI 1984 Summer Olympics Dominique Béchard AC r1/2 See all
Mexico MEX 2016 Summer Olympics Diego del Real 4 See all
Netherlands NED 1928 Summer Olympics Henk Kamerbeek 10 r1/2 See all
New Zealand NZL 1976 Summer Olympics Murray Cheater 16 r1/2 See all
Nicaragua NCA 1968 Summer Olympics Gustavo Morales 21 r1/2 See all
Norway NOR 2020 Summer Olympics Eivind Henriksen 2 Silver See all
Pakistan PAK 1956 Summer Olympics Muhammad Iqbal 11 See all
People's Republic of China CHN 1992 Summer Olympics Bi Zhong 12 r1/2 See all
Poland POL 2000 Summer Olympics Szymon Ziółkowski 1 Gold See all
2020 Summer Olympics Wojciech Nowicki 1 Gold
Portugal POR 2004 Summer Olympics Vítor Costa 26 r1/2 See all
Puerto Rico PUR 2024 Summer Olympics Jerome Vega 26 QR See all
Qatar QAT 2016 Summer Olympics Ashraf El-Seify 6 See all
ROC ROC 2020 Summer Olympics Valery Pronkin 8 See all
Republic of Korea KOR 1948 Summer Olympics Gin Gang-Hwan 13 See all
Republic of Moldova MDA 2016 Summer Olympics Serghei Marghiev 10 See all
Romania ROU 1952 Summer Olympics Constantin Dumitru 12 See all
Russian Federation RUS 2000 Summer Olympics Ilya Konovalov 5 See all
Slovakia SVK 2016 Summer Olympics Marcel Lomnický 5 See all
Slovenia SLO 2008 Summer Olympics Primož Kozmus 1 Gold See all
Soviet Union URS 1960 Summer Olympics Vasily Rudenkov 1 Gold See all
1964 Summer Olympics Romuald Klim 1 Gold
1972 Summer Olympics Anatoly Bondarchuk 1 Gold
1976 Summer Olympics Yury Sedykh 1 Gold
1980 Summer Olympics Yury Sedykh 1 Gold
1988 Summer Olympics Sergey Litvinov 1 Gold
Spain ESP 2020 Summer Olympics Javier Cienfuegos 10 See all
Sweden SWE 1920 Summer Olympics Carl Johan Lind 2 Silver See all
1928 Summer Olympics Ossian Skiöld 2 Silver
Switzerland SUI 1968 Summer Olympics Ernst Ammann 19 r1/2 See all
Tajikistan TJK 2016 Summer Olympics Dilshod Nazarov 1 Gold See all
Turkmenistan TKM 2016 Summer Olympics Amanmyrat Hommadow 30 r1/2 See all
2020 Summer Olympics Mergen Mämmedow 30 r1/2
Türkiye TUR 2004 Summer Olympics Eşref Apak 2 See all
Ukraine UKR 1996 Summer Olympics Oleksandr Krykun 3 Bronze See all
2024 Summer Olympics Mykhailo Kokhan 3 Bronze
Unified Team EUN 1992 Summer Olympics Andrey Abduvaliyev 1 Gold See all
United States USA 1900 Summer Olympics John Flanagan 1 Gold See all
1904 Summer Olympics John Flanagan 1 Gold
1908 Summer Olympics John Flanagan 1 Gold
1912 Summer Olympics Matt McGrath 1 Gold
1920 Summer Olympics Paddy Ryan 1 Gold
1924 Summer Olympics Fred Tootell 1 Gold
1956 Summer Olympics Hal Connolly 1 Gold
Uruguay URU 1972 Summer Olympics Darwin Piñeyrúa 31 r1/2 See all
Uzbekistan UZB 2000 Summer Olympics Andrey Abduvaliyev 15 r1/2 See all
West Germany FRG 1984 Summer Olympics Karl-Hans Riehm 2 Silver See all
Yugoslavia YUG 1948 Summer Olympics Ivan Gubijan 2 Silver See all