2002 European Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw

Events at the 2002 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
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
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The final of the Men's hammer throw event at the 2002 European Championships in Munich, Germany was held on August 7, 2002. There were a total number of 31 participating athletes. The qualifying rounds were staged a day earlier, on August 6, with the mark set in 79.00 metres.

Medalists

Gold	Adrián Annus Hungary (HUN)
Silver	Vladyslav Piskunov Ukraine (UKR)
Bronze	Alexandros Papadimitriou Greece (GRE)

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 2002 European Athletics Championships
World Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	86.74 m	August 30, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany
Event Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	86.74 m	August 30, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany

Qualification

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	1	Aleksey Zagornyi (RUS)				80.16 m
2	3	Adrián Annus (HUN)				79.82 m
3	7	Nicolas Figère (FRA)				78.50 m
4	8	Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE)				78.39 m
5	9	Ivan Tikhon (BLR)				78.24 m
6	10	Miloslav Konopka (SVK)				78.16 m
7	11	Vladyslav Piskunov (UKR)				78.06 m
8	13	Nicola Vizzoni (ITA)				77.57 m
9	14	Karsten Kobs (GER)				77.44 m
10	15	Szymon Ziółkowski (POL)				77.17 m
11	17	Holger Klose (GER)				76.98 m
12	20	Ilya Konovalov (RUS)				76.79 m
13	23	David Söderberg (FIN)				74.64 m
14	24	Vladimír Maška (CZE)				74.52 m
15	28	Bengt Johansson (SWE)				71.27 m
16	30	Dorian Collaku (ALB)				67.47 m

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	2	Andriy Skvaruk (UKR)				79.96 m
2	4	Balázs Kiss (HUN)				79.32 m
3	5	Libor Charfreitag (SVK)				79.18 m
4	6	Tibor Gécsek (HUN)				79.03 m
5	12	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN)				77.78 m
6	16	Vadim Khersontsev (RUS)				77.00 m
7	18	Oleksandr Krykun (UKR)				76.92 m
8	19	Jan Bielecki (DEN)				76.82 m
9	21	Christophe Épalle (FRA)				76.27 m
10	22	Maciej Pałyszko (POL)				75.51 m
11	25	Primož Kozmus (SLO)				72.60 m
12	26	Vítor Costa (POR)				72.43 m
13	27	Christos Polychroniou (GRE)				71.70 m
14	29	Markus Esser (GER)				70.15 m
—	—	András Haklits (CRO)	X	X	X	NM

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Adrián Annus (HUN)	76.00	78.65	80.62	81.17	80.37	—	81.17 m
	Vladyslav Piskunov (UKR)	X	78.23	79.58	X	80.39	X	80.39 m
	Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE)	76.81	78.31	78.51	77.86	80.21	78.61	80.21 m
4	Balázs Kiss (HUN)	80.13	X	80.17	X	80.06	80.05	80.17 m
5	Andriy Skvaruk (UKR)	79.22	X	80.15	78.68	X	79.23	80.15 m
6	Tibor Gécsek (HUN)	79.25	78.62	X	X	76.91	78.52	79.25 m
7	Libor Charfreitag (SVK)	79.20	X	X	X	76.93	X	79.20 m
8	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN)	X	78.41	78.57	X	X	X	78.57 m
9	Ivan Tsikhan (BLR)	72.60	77.86	X				77.86 m
10	Miloslav Konopka (SVK)	76.69	76.94	77.33				77.33 m
11	Aleksey Zagornyi (RUS)	77.01	X	X				77.01 m
12	Nicolas Figère (FRA)	76.17	X	76.49				76.49 m

See also

• 2000 Men's Olympic Hammer Throw (Sydney)
• 2001 Men's World Championships Hammer Throw (Edmonton)
• 2002 Hammer Throw Year Ranking
• 2003 Men's World Championships Hammer Throw (Paris)
• 2004 Men's Olympic Hammer Throw (Athens)

References

• Results
• todor66
• athletix
• hammerthrow.wz