2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw

Medalists

Gold	Ivan Tsikhan Belarus (BLR)
Silver	Adrián Annus Hungary (HUN)
Bronze	Koji Murofushi Japan (JPN)

Schedule

• All times are
  UTC+1
  )

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Records

Standing records prior to the 2003 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	86.74 m	August 30, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany
Event Record	Szymon Ziółkowski (POL)	83.38 m	August 5, 2001	Edmonton, Canada
Season Best	Koji Murofushi (JPN)	84.86 m	June 29, 2003	Prague, Czech Republic

Qualification

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	1	Igor Astapkovich (BLR)	77.11	77.48	79.66	79.66 m
2	3	Koji Murofushi (JPN)	77.50	79.45	—	79.45 m
3	5	Ilya Konovalov (RUS)	78.45	—	—	78.45 m
4	8	Primož Kozmus (SLO)	X	76.88	78.10	78.10 m
5	8	Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE)	75.82	77.53	75.95	77.53 m
6	10	Nicolas Figère (FRA)	76.79	76.26	X	76.79 m
7	13	Libor Charfreitag (SVK)	76.52	76.14	X	76.52 m
8	14	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN)	X	76.20	75.79	76.20 m
9	15	Nicola Vizzoni (ITA)	74.25	73.86	75.76	75.76 m
10	18	Maciej Pałyszko (POL)	75.20	X	75.42	75.42 m
11	19	Péter Botfa (HUN)	73.10	74.75	74.74	74.75 m
12	20	Sergey Kirmasov (RUS)	X	74.17	72.91	74.17 m
13	21	Oleksandr Krykun (UKR)	70.38	72.97	73.58	73.58 m

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	2	Ivan Tsikhan (BLR)	X	79.64	—	79.64 m
2	4	Andriy Skvaruk (UKR)	76.77	78.50	—	78.50 m
3	2	Adrián Annus (HUN)	78.20	—	—	78.20 m
4	7	Vadim Devyatovskiy (BLR)	75.07	76.46	78.12	78.12 m
5	11	Miloslav Konopka (SVK)	76.58	73.55	75.81	76.58 m
6	12	Stuart Rendell (AUS)	75.57	76.56	X	76.56 m
7	16	Vladyslav Piskunov (UKR)	73.43	74.73	75.65	75.65 m
8	17	Karsten Kobs (GER)	75.21	74.90	75.55	75.55 m
9	22	Aleksey Zagornyi (RUS)	X	72.36	73.30	73.30 m
10	23	Christophe Épalle (FRA)	X	72.82	X	72.82 m
11	24	Juan Ignacio Cerra (ARG)	72.70	X	71.86	72.70 m
12	25	Wojciech Kondratowicz (POL)	X	70.79	X	70.79 m
—	—	Vladimír Maška (CZE)	X	X	X	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Ivan Tsikhan (BLR)	X	80.69	81.77	X	X	83.05	83.05 m
	Adrián Annus (HUN)	77.26	78.48	79.22	79.01	78.49	80.36	80.36 m
	Koji Murofushi (JPN)	79.87	78.64	79.99	79.91	80.12	79.07	80.12 m
4	Andriy Skvaruk (UKR)	78.80	79.68	77.70	X	X	X	79.68 m
5	Primož Kozmus (SLO)	78.16	X	78.00	74.76	78.72	79.68	79.68 m
6	Ilya Konovalov (RUS)	76.49	X	76.06	76.81	76.10	78.55	78.55 m
7	Vadim Devyatovskiy (BLR)	78.13	76.81	77.63	X	73.99	X	78.13 m
8	Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE)	75.62	77.79	77.05	77.70	X	75.62	77.79 m
9	Miloslav Konopka (SVK)	75.86	75.18	X				75.86 m
10	Stuart Rendell (AUS)	73.14	75.72	75.54				75.72 m
11	Nicolas Figère (FRA)	73.97	70.98	74.06				74.06 m
—	Igor Astapkovich (BLR)	X	X	X				NM

See also

• Athletics at the 2003 Pan American Games - Men's hammer throw
• 2003 Hammer Throw Year Ranking

References

• Results
• hammerthrow.wz