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Olympic history -- Track and field men's hammer
Men's hammer throw
Olympics Medal Athlete Country Distance
Atlanta 1996Gold
Silver
Bronze
Balazs Kiss
Lance Deal
Alexandr Krykun
Hungary
United States
Ukraine
81.24
81.12
80.02
Barcelona 1992Gold
Silver
Bronze
Andrei Abduvaliyev
Igor Astapkovich
Igor Nikulin
Tadzhikstan
Belarus
Belarus
82.54
81.96
81.38
Seoul 1988Gold
Silver
Bronze
Sergei Litvinov
Yuri Sedykh
Iouri Tamm
Soviet Union
Soviet Union
Soviet Union
84.80
83.76
81.16
Los Angeles 1984Gold
Silver
Bronze
Juha Tiainen
Karl-Hans Riehm
Klaus Ploghaus
Finland
West Germany
West Germany
78.0
77.9
76.68
Moscow 1980Gold
Silver
Bronze
Yuri Sedykh
Sergei Litvinov
Iouri Tamm
Soviet Union
Soviet Union
Soviet Union
81.80
80.64
78.96
Montreal 1976Gold
Silver
Bronze
Yuri Sedykh
Aleksei Spiridonov
Anatoli Bondarchuk
Soviet Union
Soviet Union
Soviet Union
77.52
76.08
75.48
Munich 1972Gold
Silver
Bronze
Anatoli Bondarchuk
Jochen Sachse
Vasily Khmelevski
Soviet Union
East Germany
Soviet Union
75.50
74.96
74.04
Mexico City 1968Gold
Silver
Bronze
Gyula Zsivotzky
Romuald Klim
Lazar Lovasz
Hungary
Soviet Union
Hungary
73.36
73.28
69.78
Tokyo 1964Gold
Silver
Bronze
Romuald Klim
Gyula Zsivotzky
Uwe Beyer
Soviet Union
Soviet Union
West Germany
69.74
69.09
68.09
Rome 1960Gold
Silver
Bronze
Vasily Rudenkov
Gyula Zsivotzky
Tadeusz Rut
Soviet Union
Hungary
Poland
67.10
65.79
65.64
Melbourne 1956Gold
Silver
Bronze
Harold Connolly
Mikhail Krivonosov
Anatoly Samotsvetov
United States
Soviet Union
Soviet Union
63.19
63.03
62.56
Helsinki 1952Gold
Silver
Bronze
Joszef Csermak
Karl Storch
Imre Nemeth
Hungary
West Germany
Hungary
60.34
58.86
57.74
London 1948Gold
Silver
Bronze
Imre Nemeth
Ivan Gubijan
Robert Bennett
Hungary
Yugoslavia
United States
56.07
54.27
53.73
Berlin 1936Gold
Silver
Bronze
Karl Hein
Erwin Blask
Fred Warngard
Germany
Germany
Sweden
56.49
55.04
54.83
Los Angeles 1932Gold
Silver
Bronze
Patrick O'Callaghan
Ville Porhola
Peter Zaremba
Ireland
Finland
United States
53.92
52.27
50.33
Amsterdam 1928Gold
Silver
Bronze
Patrick O'Callaghan
Ossian Skiold
Edmund Black
Ireland
Sweden
United States
51.39
51.29
49.03
Paris 1924Gold
Silver
Bronze
Frederick Tootell
Matthew McGrath
Malcolm Nokes
United States
United States
Great Britain
53.29
50.84
48.87
Antwerp 1920Gold
Silver
Bronze
Patrick Ryan
Carl Johan Lind
Basil Benet
United States
Sweden
United States
52.87
48.43
48.25
Stockholm 1912Gold
Silver
Bronze
Matthew McGrath
Duncan Gillis
Clarence Childs
United States
Canada
United States
54.74
48.39
48.17
London 1908Gold
Silver
Bronze
John Flanagan
Matthew McGrath
Cornelius Walsh
United States
United States
United States
51.92
51.18
48.51
St. Louis 1904Gold
Silver
Bronze
John Flanagan
John DeWitt
Ralph Rose
United States
United States
United States
51.23
50.26
45.73
Paris 1900Gold
Silver
Bronze
John Flanagan
Thomas Truxtun Hare
Josiah McCracken
United States
United States
United States
49.73
49.13
42.46


 



 
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