Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:[3]

World record	Walter Schmidt	76.40 m	Lahr, Germany	September 4, 1971
Olympic record	Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN)	73.63 m	Mexico City, Mexico	October 17, 1968

All throwers reaching 66.00 m (216 ft 6 ¹⁄₂ in) and the top 12 including ties advanced to the finals. All qualifiers are shown in blue. All distances are listed in metres.

Qualifying

Rank	Name	Nationality	Group	Mark	1st throw	2nd throw	3rd throw
1	Anatoliy Bondarchuk	Soviet Union	B	72.88	72.88	p	p
2	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	B	71.20	71.20	p	p
3	Reinhard Theimer	East Germany	A	70.66	70.66	p	p
4	Vasiliy Khmelevskiy	Soviet Union	A	70.00	70.00	p	p
5	Jochen Sachse	East Germany	B	69.94	69.94	p	p
6	Strećko Štiglić	Yugoslavia	A	69.60	65.52	69.60	p
7	Tom Gage	United States	B	69.40	65.32	65.14	69.40
8	Mario Vecchiato	Italy	A	68.12	68.12	p	p
9	Jacques Accambray	France	B	68.00	68.00	p	p
10	Karl-Hans Riehm	West Germany	A	67.64	64.44	67.64	p
11	István Encsi	Hungary	A	67.38	67.38	p	p
12	Shigenobu Murofushi	Japan	B	67.26	65.94	67.26	p
13	Stavros Moutaftsidis	Greece	A	67.22	67.22	p	p
14	Edwin Klein	West Germany	A	67.14	67.14	p	p
15	Uwe Beyer	West Germany	B	67.04	67.04	p	p
16	Peter Sternad	Austria	B	66.74	x	66.74	p
17	Iosyp Hamskiy	Soviet Union	B	66.72	x	x	66.72
18	Takeo Sugawara	Japan	A	66.50	65.94	64.56	66.50
19	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	B	66.44	66.44	p	p
20	Barry Williams	Great Britain	A	66.32	x	66.32	p
21	Todor Manolov	Bulgaria	B	65.62	x	x	65.62
22	Al Schoterman	United States	A	65.18	65.18	63.74	64.06
23	Stanisław Lubiejewski	Poland	A	64.80	60.34	64.80	x
24	Howard Payne	Great Britain	B	64.56	63.58	64.56	64.10
25	Yoshihisa Ishida	Japan	B	63.82	63.00	63.82	x
26	Georgios Georgiadis	Greece	B	63.58	63.58	x	x
27	George Frenn	United States	A	62.14	57.28	62.14	58.86
28	William Silen	Puerto Rico	B	62.02	x	x	62.02
29	Vladimir Prikhodko	France	A	61.78	60.80	61.78	59.58
30	José Alberto Vallejo	Argentina	B	60.08	x	60.08	x
31	Darwin Piñeyrúa	Uruguay	A	59.84	59.84	x	58.50
-	Jorge Nuñez	Mexico	B	DNS

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1st throw	2nd throw	3rd throw	4th throw	5th throw	6th throw	Notes
	Anatoliy Bondarchuk	Soviet Union	75.50	75.50	72.62	71.76	73.78	73.50	72.90	OR
	Jochen Sachse	East Germany	74.96	71.54	x	73.70	71.26	x	74.96
	Vasiliy Khmelevskiy	Soviet Union	74.04	68.82	71.62	74.04	68.16	x	x
4	Uwe Beyer	West Germany	71.52	70.32	71.52	x	68.98	69.90	x
5	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	71.38	71.38	70.44	70.48	x	70.66	70.20
6	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	71.20	71.20	x	67.26	69.24	67.90	68.86
7	Edwin Klein	West Germany	71.14	71.14	x	x	69.70	70.26	x
8	Shigenobu Murofushi	Japan	70.88	69.36	70.88	70.32	65.70	69.08	68.54
9	Mario Vecchiato	Italy	70.58	x	69.46	70.58
10	Karl-Hans Riehm	West Germany	70.12	70.12	68.98	69.44
11	István Encsi	Hungary	70.06	66.32	69.82	70.06
12	Tom Gage	United States	69.50	66.94	69.50	x
13	Reinhard Theimer	East Germany	69.16	x	69.16	x
14	Strećko Štiglić	Yugoslavia	68.34	67.60	68.34	67.60
15	Stavros Moutaftsidis	Greece	68.30	68.14	68.30	67.04
16	Barry Williams	Great Britain	68.18	68.18	66.56	x
17	Peter Sternad	Austria	66.64	65.60	65.94	66.64
18	Iosyp Hamskiy	Soviet Union	66.26	66.26	x	65.34
19	Jacques Accambray	France	65.06	x	65.06	x
20	Takeo Sugawara	Japan	64.70	55.82	64.56	64.70

Key: OR = Olympic record; p = pass; x = fault; NM = no mark; DNS = did not start

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