Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw

Men's hammer throw at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
Dates	August 3
Competitors	27 from 16 nations
Medalists
Karl Hein  Germany Erwin Blask  Germany Fred Warngård  Sweden

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeple	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's hammer throw event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on August 3, 1936. The final was won by Karl Hein of Germany.^[1]

Results

Qualifying

Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
Karl Hein	Germany		Q
Erwin Blask	Germany		Q
Fred Warngård	Sweden		Q
Gustaf Alfons Koutonen	Finland		Q
William Rowe	United States		Q
Donald Favor	United States		Q
Bernhard Greulich	Germany		Q
Koit Annamaa	Estonia		Q
Henry Dreyer	United States		Q
Sulo Heino	Finland		Q
Ville Pörhölä	Finland		Q
Gunnar Jansson	Sweden		Q
Isao Abe	Japan		Q
Evert Linné	Sweden		Q
Giovanni Cantagalli	Italy		Q
Joseph Wirtz	France		Q
Anton Barticevic	Chile		Q
Assis Naban	Brazil
Christos Dimitropoulos	Greece
Eiichiro Matsuno	Japan
Emil Janausch	Austria
Jaroslav Eliáš	Czechoslovakia
Jaroslav Knotek	Czechoslovakia
Hans Houtzager	Netherlands
Milan Stepišnik	Yugoslavia
Norman Drake	Great Britain
Pedro Goić	Yugoslavia

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Karl Hein	Germany	52.13	52.44	x	54.70	54.85	56.49	56.49	OR
	Erwin Blask	Germany	52.55	55.04	x	54.10	54.48	x	55.04
	Fred Warngård	Sweden	52.05	52.98	54.03	54.83	53.30	50.61	54.83
4	Gustaf Alfons Koutonen	Finland	x	50.01	51.90	49.11	49.91	x	51.90
5	William Rowe	United States	51.53	51.04	49.29	50.32	51.66	x	51.66
6	Donald Favor	United States	50.78	50.02	51.01	48.48	50.33	47.71	51.01
7	Bernhard Greulich	Germany	50.19	x	50.61				50.61
8	Koit Annamaa	Estonia	48.77	49.54	50.46				50.46
9	Henry Dreyer	United States	49.81	x	50.42				50.42
10	Sulo Heino	Finland	49.93	47.15	48.30				49.93
11	Ville Pörhölä	Finland	45.35	x	49.89				49.89
12	Gunnar Jansson	Sweden	49.21	48.49	49.28				49.28
13	Isao Abe	Japan	47.40	41.83	49.01				49.01
14	Evert Linné	Sweden	x	47.25	47.61				47.61
15	Giovanni Cantagalli	Italy	45.21	47.42	45.08				47.42
16	Joseph Wirtz	France	x	44.82	45.69				45.69
17	Anton Barticevic	Chile	x	43.02	45.23				45.23

Key: OR = Olympic record

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