Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw

Men's hammer throw at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	17–18 October
Competitors	25 from 14 nations
Medalists
Romuald Klim  Soviet Union Gyula Zsivótzky  Hungary Uwe Beyer  United Team of Germany

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Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's hammer throw was one of four men's throwing events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 17 October and 18 October 1964, with the qualification on the first day and the final the next. 25 athletes from 14 nations entered, with 1 not starting in the qualification round.^[1]

Results

Qualification

The qualification standard was 63.00 metres. Each thrower had three attempts to reach that standard.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Best mark		Throw 1	Throw 2	Throw 3
1	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	67.99 metres OR		67.99	—
2	Harold Vincent Connolly	United States	67.40 metres		67.40	—
3	Romuald Klim	Soviet Union	67.10 metres		67.10	—
4	Zdzisław Smoliński	Poland	66.00 metres		66.00	—
5	Yury Nikulin	Soviet Union	65.64 metres		65.64	—
6	Tadeusz Rut	Poland	65.03 metres		65.03	—
7	Uwe Beyer	United Team of Germany	65.01 metres		65.01	—
8	Edward Burke	United States	64.94 metres		62.23	64.94	—
9	Heinrich Thun	Austria	64.73 metres		64.73	—
10	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	64.64 metres		64.64	—
11	Albert William Hall	United States	64.31 metres		64.31	—
12	Yury Bakarinov	Soviet Union	63.86 metres		63.86	—
13	Takeo Sugawara	Japan	63.84 metres		63.84	—
14	Olgierd Cieply	Poland	63.66 metres		X	63.66	—
15	Josef Matoušek	Czechoslovakia	63.53 metres		59.61	63.53	—
16	Hans Fahsl	United Team of Germany	62.35 metres		58.90	X	62.35
17	Howard Payne	Great Britain	61.90 metres		61.90	X	61.74
18	Martin Lotz	United Team of Germany	61.88 metres		60.97	61.88	58.66
19	Shohei Kasahara	Japan	61.87 metres		56.38	61.87	X
20	Noboru Okamoto	Japan	61.51 metres		58.99	60.78	61.51
21	Karl Birger Asplund	Sweden	61.15 metres		60.60	61.15	60.91
22	Guy Husson	France	60.04 metres		60.04	59.86	X
23	John Francis Lawlor	Ireland	59.12 metres		X	58.22	59.12
24	Im Dong-sil	South Korea	56.43 metres		X	53.71	56.43
—	Nicolae Murafa	Romania	Did not start		—

Final

Zsivótzky threw 69.09 in the first throw, beating his own Olympic record from the qualifier. Klim's fourth throw overtook that record and held for the gold medal distance.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Best mark		Throw 1	Throw 2	Throw 3	Throw 4	Throw 5	Throw 6
1	Romuald Klim	Soviet Union	69.74 metres OR		67.19	64.64	68.59	69.74	68.81	68.17
2	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	69.09 metres		69.09	66.20	68.47	67.41	67.85	67.32
3	Uwe Beyer	United Team of Germany	68.09 metres		68.09	65.64	62.91	X	65.71	X
4	Yury Nikulin	Soviet Union	67.69 metres		67.08	67.01	67.69	X	X	65.61
5	Yury Bakarinov	Soviet Union	66.72 metres		65.91	66.50	65.39	65.25	66.72	X
6	Harold Vincent Connolly	United States	66.65 metres		X	62.95	66.65	X	64.73	X
7	Edward Burke	United States	65.66 metres		65.66	65.06	62.68
8	Olgierd Cieply	Poland	64.83 metres		64.83	X	X
9	Josef Matousek	Czechoslovakia	64.59 metres		64.49	64.59	63.29
10	Tadeusz Rut	Poland	64.52 metres		61.03	61.94	64.52
11	Sandor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	63.83 metres		63.83	63.19	X
12	Albert William Hall	United States	63.82 metres		59.72	62.35	63.82
13	Takeo Sugawara	Japan	63.69 metres		X	62.66	63.69
14	Zdzislaw Smolinski	Poland	62.90 metres		X	X	62.90
15	Heinrich Thun	Austria	62.76 metres		62.76	62.42	X

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