Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw

Men's hammer throw at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Lenin Stadium
Dates	30 & 31 July
Competitors	17 from 13 nations
Winning distance	81.80 OR
Medalists
Yuriy Sedykh  Soviet Union Sergey Litvinov  Soviet Union Jüri Tamm  Soviet Union

Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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
10,000 m	men
100 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	women
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 event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union had an entrylist of 17 competitors, with one qualifying group before the final (12) took place on 31 July 1980. Top 12 and ties and all those reaching 72.00 metres advanced to the final.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Yuriy Sedykh  Soviet Union
Silver	Sergey Litvinov  Soviet Union
Bronze	Jüri Tamm  Soviet Union

Abbreviations

Records

Standing records prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics
World Record	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	81.66 m	May 24, 1980	Sochi, Soviet Union
Olympic Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	77.52 m	July 28, 1976	Montréal, Canada
Season Best	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	81.66 m	May 24, 1980	Sochi, Soviet Union
Standing records after the 1980 Summer Olympics
World Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	81.80 m	July 31, 1980	Moscow, Soviet Union
Olympic Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	81.80 m	July 31, 1980	Moscow, Soviet Union
Season Best	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	81.80 m	July 31, 1980	Moscow, Soviet Union

Qualification

Rank	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
		1	2	3
1	Yury Sedykh (URS)	78.22	—	—	78.22 m	OR
2	Jüri Tamm (URS)	76.24	—	—	76.24 m
3	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	X	75.24	—	75.24 m
4	Detlef Gerstenberg (GDR)	75.04	—	—	75.04 m
5	Roland Steuk (GDR)	X	73.52	—	73.52 m
6	Harri Huhtala (FIN)	71.42	72.46	—	72.46 m
7	Armando Orozco (CUB)	X	X	72.28	72.28 m
8	Giampaolo Urlando (ITA)	68.40	72.20	—	72.20 m
9	Ireneusz Golda (POL)	X	69.98	70.88	70.88 m
10	Juha Tiainen (FIN)	70.64	70.46	70.82	70.82 m
11	Emanuil Dyulgerov (BUL)	X	69.24	70.60	70.60 m
12	Jiří Chamrád (TCH)	X	67.44	69.38	69.38 m
13	Peter Farmer (AUS)	68.52	69.16	X	69.16 m
14	Chris Black (GBR)	66.02	66.74	X	66.74 m
15	Paul Dickenson (GBR)	X	64.22	63.90	64.22 m
16	Seán Egan (IRL)	63.34	63.94	X	63.94 m
17	Khaled Ghaloum (KUW)	X	47.40	47.00	47.40 m

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	81.80	81.46	79.68	X	80.98	80.70	81.80 m	WR
	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	80.64	X	X	X	X	X	80.64 m
	Jüri Tamm (URS)	77.84	78.96	77.92	77.26	X	76.86	78.96 m
4	Roland Steuk (GDR)	74.34	76.00	75.58	77.26	77.54	X	77.54 m
5	Detlef Gerstenberg (GDR)	73.64	74.60	73.98	X	X	73.40	74.60 m
6	Emanuil Dyulgerov (BUL)	70.14	71.34	71.82	71.34	74.04	X	74.04 m
7	Giampaolo Urlando (ITA)	73.60	73.90	73.18	73.30	X	X	73.90 m
8	Ireneusz Golda (POL)	72.38	73.74	X	X	X	X	73.74 m
9	Harri Huhtala (FIN)	69.78	X	71.82	71.96	71.82	71.02	71.96 m
10	Juha Tiainen (FIN)	X	71.38	71.08				71.38 m
11	Armando Orozco (CUB)	X	67.76	68.68				68.68 m
12	Jiří Chamrád (TCH)	68.16	65.94	66.58				68.16 m

See also

• 1978 Men's European Championships Hammer Throw (Prague)
• 1980 Hammer Throw Year Ranking
• 1983 Men's World Championships Hammer Throw (Helsinki)

References

External links

• (in English) Official Report
• (in English) hammerthrow.wz