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Hammer Throw

Find the Olympic gold-medal times for the men's hammer throw competition from 1900 to the present.

Year		Distance	Record
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
2008	Primoz Kozmus, SLO	269- 1
2012	Krisztian Pars, HUN	264-4 3/4

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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