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Last updated on February 1, 2009
Hammer Throw| Year | | Distance | |
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| 1900 | John Flanagan, USA | 163- 1 | | | 1904 | John Flanagan, USA | 168- 1 | OR | | 1908 | John Flanagan, USA | 170- 4 | OR | | 1912 | Matt McGrath, USA | 179- 7 | OR | | 1920 | Pat Ryan, USA | 173- 5 | | | 1924 | Fred Tootell, USA | 174-10 | | | 1928 | Pat O'Callaghan, IRE | 168- 7 | | | 1932 | Pat O'Callaghan, IRE | 176-11 | | | 1936 | Karl Hein, GER | 185- 4 | OR | | 1948 | Imre Németh, HUN | 183-11 | | | 1952 | József Csérmák, HUN | 197-11 | WR | | 1956 | Harold Connolly, USA | 207- 3 | OR | | 1960 | Vasily Rudenkov, USSR | 220- 2 | OR | | 1964 | Romuald Klim, USSR | 228-10 | OR | | 1968 | Gyula Zsivótzky, HUN | 240- 8 | OR | | 1972 | Anatoly Bondarchuk, USSR | 247- 8 | OR | | 1976 | Yuri Sedykh, USSR | 254- 4 | OR | | 1980 | Yuri Sedykh, USSR | 268- 4 | WR | | 1984 | Juha Tiainen, FIN | 256- 2 | | | 1988 | Sergey Litvinov, USSR | 278- 2 | OR | | 1992 | Andrei Abduvaliyev, UT | 270- 9 | | | 1996 | Balazs Kiss, HUN | 266- 6 | | | 2000 | Szymon Ziolkowski, POL | 262- 6 | | | 2004 | Koji Murofushi, JPN* | 272-0 | |
Hungary’s Adrian Annus was initially awarded the gold medal for his throw of 272-11, but after questions were raised about the legitimacy of his post-competition drug test, and he failed to submit to a follow-up test, he was disqualified and stripped of the gold.
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