Men's Hammer Throw Olympic Medalists

The gold, silver, and bronze medal winners in the men’s hammer throw from the Summer Olympic games.

• 1900
  GOLD John Flanagan, USA 51.01
  SILVER Truxton Hare, USA 46.25
  BRONZE Josiah McCracken, USA 44.50

• 1904
  GOLD John Flanagan, USA 51.23
  SILVER John DeWitt, USA 50.265
  BRONZE Ralph Rose, USA 45.73

• 1908
  GOLD John Flanagan, USA 51.92
  SILVER Matt McGrath, USA 51.18
  BRONZE Con Walsh, USA 48.50

• 1912
  GOLD Matt McGrath, USA 54.74
  SILVER Duncan Gillis, CAN 48.39
  BRONZE Clarence Childs, USA 48.17

• 1920
  GOLD Patrick Ryan, USA 52.875
  SILVER Carl-Johan Lind, SWE 48.43
  BRONZE Basil Bennet, USA 48.25

• 1924
  GOLD Fred Tootell, USA 53.29
  SILVER Matt McGrath, USA 50.84
  BRONZE Malcolm Nokes, GBR 48.87

• 1928
  GOLD Pat O’Callaghan, IRL 51.39
  SILVER Ossian Skiöld, SWE 51.29
  BRONZE Edmund Black, USA 49.03

• 1932
  GOLD Pat O’Callaghan, IRL 53.92
  SILVER Ville Pörhölä, FIN 52.27
  BRONZE Peter Zaremba, USA 50.33

• 1936
  GOLD Karl Hein, GER 56.49
  SILVER Erwin Blask, GER 55.04
  BRONZE Fred Warngard, SWE 54.83

• 1948
  GOLD Imre Németh, HUN 56.07
  SILVER Ivan Gubijan, YUG 54.27
  BRONZE Robert Bennett, USA 53.73

• 1952
  GOLD Jόzsef Csermák, HUN 60.34
  SILVER Karl Storch, GER 58.86
  BRONZE Imre Németh, HUN 57.74

• 1956
  GOLD Harold Connolly, USA 63.19
  SILVER Mikhail Krivonosov, URS 63.03
  BRONZE Anatoliy Samotsvetov, URS 62.56

• 1960
  GOLD Vasiliy Rudenkov, URS 67.10
  SILVER Gyula Zsivόtzky, HUN 65.79
  BRONZE Tadeusz Rut, POL 65.64

• 1964
  GOLD Romuald Klim, URS 69.74
  SILVER Gyula Zsivόtzky, HUN 69.09
  BRONZE Uwe Beyer, FRG 68.09

• 1968
  GOLD Gyula Zsivόtzky, HUN 73.36
  SILVER Romuald Klim, URS 73.28
  BRONZE Lázár Lovász, HUN 69.78

• 1972
  GOLD Anatoliy Bondarchuk, URS 75.50
  SILVER Jochen Sachse, GDR 74.96
  BRONZE Vasiliy Khmelevskiy, URS 74.04

• 1976
  GOLD Yuriy Sedykh, URS 77.52
  SILVER Aleksey Spiridonov, URS 76.08
  BRONZE Anatoliy Bondarchuk, URS 75.48

• 1980
  GOLD Yuriy Sedykh, URS 81.80
  SILVER Sergey Litvinov, URS 80.64
  BRONZE Jϋri Tamm, URS 78.96

• 1984
  GOLD Juha Tiainen, FIN 78.08
  SILVER Karl-Hans Riehm, FRG 77.98
  BRONZE Klaus Ploghaus, FRG 76.68

• 1988
  GOLD Sergey Litvinov, URS 84.40
  SILVER Yuriy Sedykh, URS 83.76
  BRONZE Jϋri Tamm, URS 81.16

• 1992
  GOLD Andrey Abduvaliyev, EUN 82.54
  SILVER Igor Astapkovich, EUN 81.96
  BRONZE Igor Nikulin, EUN 81.38

• 1996
  GOLD Balázs Kiss, HUN 81.24
  SILVER Lance Deal, USA 81.12
  BRONZE Aleksey Krykun, UKR 80.02

• 2000
  GOLD Szymon Ziόlkowski, POL 80.02
  SILVER Nicola Vizzoni, ITA 79.64
  BRONZE Igor Astapkovich, BLR 79.17

• 2004
  GOLD Koji Murofushi, JPN 82.91
  SILVER Ivan Tikhon, BLR 79.81
  BRONZE Esfref Apak, TUR 79.51

• 2008*
  GOLD Primož Kozmus, SLO 82.02
  SILVER Krisztián Pars, HUN 80.96
  BRONZE Koji Murofushi, JPN 80.71

• 2012
  GOLD Krisztián Pars, HUN 80.59
  SILVER Primož Kozmus, SLO 79.36
  BRONZE Koji Murofushi, JPN 78.71



* Second-place finisher Vadim Devyatovskiy and third-place finisher Ivan Tsikhan were stripped of their medals due to doping violations.

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