Hammer throw

The hammer throw (Abbreviated as HT) is one of the four throwing events in regular outdoor track-and-field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and javelin.

Athletics Hammer throw
World records
Men	Yuriy Sedykh 86.74 m (284 ft 6 in) (1986)
Women	Anita Włodarczyk 82.98 m (272 ft 2 in) (2016)
Olympic records
Men	Sergey Litvinov 84.80 m (278 ft 2 in) (1988)
Women	Anita Włodarczyk 82.29 m (269 ft 11 in) (2016)
World Championship records
Men	Ethan Katzberg 84.70 m (277 ft 10 in) (2025)
Women	Anita Włodarczyk 80.85 m (265 ft 3 in) (2015)

The hammer used in this sport is not like any of the tools also called by that name. It consists of a metal ball attached by a steel wire to a grip. These three components are each separate and can move independently. Both the size and weight of the ball vary between men's and women's events. The men's hammer weighs 7.26 kilograms (16 lb) for college and professional meets; the women's hammer weighs 4 kilograms (8.8 lb).

History

Tradition traces it to the Tailteann Games in Tara, Ireland, around the year 1830 BC. Some time later the Celtic warrior Culchulainn reputedly took a chariot axle with a wheel still attached, spun it around and hurled it a long way. The wheel was later replaced by a rock with a wooden handle attached. A sledgehammer began to be used for the sport in Scotland and England during the Middle Ages. In current times, the hammer has changed to the more modern 16 lb. ball attached to a wire and a handle, but the Scottish hammer throw as seen in Highland Games still feature the older style of hammer throw with the rock and the solid wood handle.

While the men's hammer throw has been part of the Olympics since 1900, the International Association of Athletics Federations did not start ratifying women's marks until 1995. Women's hammer throw was first included in the Olympics at the 2000 summer games in Sydney, Australia, after having been included in the World Championships a year earlier.^{[citation needed]}

Competition

The men's hammer weighs 7.26 kilograms (16 lb) and the women's weighs 4 kg (8.8 lb), with the wire in either case no more than 122 centimetres (48 in) in length. Like the other throwing events, the competition is decided by who can throw the implement the farthest.

The throwing motion starts with the thrower swinging the hammer back-and-forth about two times to generate momentum. The thrower then makes three, four or (rarely) five full rotations using a complex heel-toe foot movement, spinning the hammer in a circular path and increasing its angular velocity with each rotation. Rather than spinning the hammer horizontally, it is instead spun in a plane that angles up towards the direction in which it will be launched. The thrower releases the hammer as its velocity is upward and toward the target.

Throws are made from a throwing circle. The thrower is not allowed to step outside the throwing circle before the hammer has landed and may only enter and exit from the rear of the throwing circle. The hammer must land within a 34.92º throwing sector that is centered on the throwing circle. The sector angle was chosen because it provides a sector whose bounds are easy to measure and lay out on a field (10 metres out from the center of the ring, 6 metres across). A violation of the rules results in a foul and the throw not being counted.^{[citation needed]}

As of 2025^[update] the men's hammer world record is held by Yuriy Sedykh, who threw 86.74 m (284 ft 6+3⁄4 in) at the 1986 European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, West Germany on 30 August. The world record for the women's hammer is held by Anita Włodarczyk, who threw 82.98 m (272 ft 2+3⁄4 in) during the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial on 28 August 2016.^{[citation needed]} Sedykh's 1986 world record has been noted for its longevity, and for dating from "a time when track and field was starting to realize the scale of performance-enhancing drug use" (AP). According to Russian doping whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov, Sedykh was a heavy user of steroids, which Sedykh denied.

The throwing distance depends on the velocity and height at which the hammer is released, but also on other factors that are not under the athlete's control. In particular, Earth's rotation affects it via the location's latitude (due to the centrifugal force, the hammer will fly a bit further in a location closer to the equator) and to a lesser extent also via the throw's azimuth (i.e. its compass direction, due to Coriolis forces). According to a 2023 study, such effects are large enough that the top 20 world-record rankings for both men and women at the time could somewhat change if they were adjusted for latitude and azimuth.

• The traditional Highland games version of the event
• Thrower inside a hammer cage, with the markings for the throwing circle and the throwing sector visible on the ground
• Scottish hammer throw illustration from Frank R. Stockton's book Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy
• John Flanagan in the hammer throw competition at the Summer Olympics 1908 in London
• The contemporary version of the hammer throw
• Athlete practicing the hammer throw event
• Men's Hammer Throw Final – 28th Summer Universiade

Safety issues

Hammer throwing has been described as involving "inherent danger [...]. Athletes, coaches, and spectators participating in the event are at risk; steel hammers [...] are hurled through the air at great speeds, [travel] far distances, and [are] sometimes difficult to spot in flight." For example, hammer throws resulted in four deaths in Europe in 2000 alone, and have caused deaths and permanent brain damage injuries in the United States too.

To mitigate such risks, a C-shaped "hammer cage" was introduced, which is built around the throwing circle, preventing the hammer from flying off in unwanted directions. In 2004, the IAAF changed its rules to increase the mandatory height of hammer cages to 10m and reduce their "danger zone" angle to around 53°. The change also moved the cage gates further away from the throwing circle, thus reducing the risk of a misdirected hammer bouncing back on the thrower.

All-time top 25

Tables show data for two definitions of "Top 25" - the top 25 hammer throw marks and the top 25 athletes:

- denotes top performance for athletes in the top 25 hammer throw marks

- denotes lesser performances, still in the top 25 hammer throw marks, by repeat athletes

- denotes top performance (only) for other top 25 athletes who fall outside the top 25 hammer throw marks

Men

• Correct as of September 2025.

Ath.#	Perf.#	Mark	Athlete	Nation	Date	Place	Ref.
1	1	86.74 m (284 ft 6 in)	Yuriy Sedykh	Soviet Union	30 August 1986	Stuttgart
	2	86.66 m (284 ft 3 in)	Sedykh #2		22 June 1986	Tallinn
	3	86.34 m (283 ft 3 in)	Sedykh #3		3 July 1984	Cork
2	4	86.04 m (282 ft 3 in)	Sergey Litvinov	Soviet Union	3 July 1986	Dresden
	5	85.74 m (281 ft 3 in)	Litvinov #2		30 August 1986	Stuttgart
	6	85.68 m (281 ft 1 in)	Sedykh #4		11 August 1986	Budapest
	7	85.60 m (280 ft 10 in)	Sedykh #5		13 July 1984	London
			Sedykh #6		17 August 1984	Moscow
	9	85.20 m (279 ft 6 in)	Litvinov #3		3 July 1984	Cork
	10	85.14 m (279 ft 3 in)	Litvinov #4		11 July 1986	London
			Sedykh #7		4 September 1988	Moscow
	12	85.02 m (278 ft 11 in)	Sedykh #8		20 August 1984	Budapest
	13	84.92 m (278 ft 7 in)	Sedykh #9		3 July 1986	Dresden
3	14	84.90 m (278 ft 6 in)	Vadim Devyatovskiy	Belarus	21 July 2005	Minsk
	15	84.88 m (278 ft 5 in)	Litvinov #5		10 September 1986	Rome
4	16	84.86 m (278 ft 4 in)	Koji Murofushi	Japan	29 June 2003	Prague
	17	84.80 m (278 ft 2 in)	Litvinov #6		26 September 1988	Seoul
	18	84.72 m (277 ft 11 in)	Sedykh #10		9 July 1986	Moscow
5	19	84.70 m (277 ft 10 in)	Ethan Katzberg	Canada	16 September 2025	Tokyo
	20	84.64 m (277 ft 8 in)	Litvinov #7		9 July 1986	Moscow
6	21	84.62 m (277 ft 7 in)	Igor Astapkovich	Belarus	6 June 1992	Seville
	22	84.60 m (277 ft 6 in)	Sedykh #11		14 September 1984	Tokyo
	23	84.58 m (277 ft 5 in)	Sedykh #12		8 June 1986	Leningrad
7	24	84.51 m (277 ft 3 in)	Ivan Tsikhan	Belarus	9 July 2008	Grodno
8	25	84.48 m (277 ft 1 in)	Igor Nikulin	Soviet Union	12 July 1990	Lausanne
9		84.40 m (276 ft 10 in)	Jüri Tamm	Soviet Union	9 September 1984	Banská Bystrica
10		84.19 m (276 ft 2 in)	Adrián Annus	Hungary	10 August 2003	Szombathely
11		83.93 m (275 ft 4 in)	Paweł Fajdek	Poland	9 August 2015	Szczecin
12		83.68 m (274 ft 6 in)	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	19 September 1998	Zalaegerszeg
13		83.46 m (273 ft 9 in)	Andrey Abduvaliyev	Soviet Union	26 May 1990	Adler
14		83.43 m (273 ft 8 in)	Aleksey Zagornyi	Russia	10 February 2002	Adler
15		83.40 m (273 ft 7 in)	Ralf Haber	East Germany	16 May 1988	Athens
16		83.38 m (273 ft 6 in)	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	5 August 2001	Edmonton
17		83.30 m (273 ft 3 in)	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland	14 July 2004	Lahti
18		83.18 m (272 ft 10 in)	Bence Halasz	Hungary	12 August 2025	Budapest
19		83.16 m (272 ft 10 in)	Rudy Winkler	United States	5 July 2025	Eugene
20		83.04 m (272 ft 5 in)	Heinz Weis	Germany	29 June 1997	Frankfurt
21		83.00 m (272 ft 3 in)	Balázs Kiss	Hungary	4 June 1998	Saint-Denis
22		82.78 m (271 ft 7 in)	Karsten Kobs	Germany	26 June 1999	Dortmund
23		82.77 m (271 ft 6 in)	Merlin Hummel	Germany	16 September 2025	Tokyo
24		82.69 m (271 ft 3 in)	Krisztián Pars	Hungary	16 August 2014	Zürich
25		82.64 m (271 ft 1 in)	Günther Rodehau	East Germany	3 August 1985	Dresden

Annulled marks

• Ivan Tsikhan of Belarus also threw 86.73 in Brest on 3 July 2005. This performance was annulled due to doping offences.

Women

• Correct as of September 2025.

Ath.#	Perf.#	Mark	Athlete	Nation	Date	Place	Ref.
1	1	82.98 m (272 ft 2 in)	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland	28 August 2016	Warsaw
	2	82.87 m (271 ft 10 in)	Włodarczyk #2		29 July 2017	Władysławowo
	3	82.29 m (269 ft 11 in)	Włodarczyk #3		15 August 2016	Rio de Janeiro
	4	81.08 m (266 ft 0 in)	Włodarczyk #4		1 August 2015	Władysławowo
	5	80.85 m (265 ft 3 in)	Włodarczyk #5		27 August 2015	Beijing
	6	80.79 m (265 ft 0 in)	Włodarczyk #6		23 July 2017	Białystok
2	7	80.51 m (264 ft 1 in)	Camryn Rogers	Canada	15 September 2025	Tokyo
3	8	80.31 m (263 ft 5 in)	DeAnna Price	United States	26 June 2021	Eugene
	9	80.26 m (263 ft 3 in)	Włodarczyk #7		12 July 2016	Władysławowo
4	10	80.17 m (263 ft 0 in)	Brooke Andersen	United States	20 May 2023	Tucson
	11	79.92 m (262 ft 2 in)	Andersen #2		4 May 2024	Tucson
	12	79.80 m (261 ft 9 in)	Włodarczyk #8		15 August 2017	Warsaw
			Andersen #3		20 April 2023	Charlottesville
	14	79.73 m (261 ft 6 in)	Włodarczyk #9		6 May 2017	Doha
	15	79.72 m (261 ft 6 in)	Włodarczyk #10		27 June 2017	Ostrava
	16	79.61 m (261 ft 2 in)	Włodarczyk #11		18 June 2016	Szczecin
	17	79.59 m (261 ft 1 in)	Włodarczyk #12		22 July 2018	Lublin
	18	79.58 m (261 ft 1 in)	Włodarczyk #13		31 August 2014	Berlin
	19	79.48 m (260 ft 9 in)	Włodarczyk #14		21 May 2016	Halle
	20	79.45 m (260 ft 7 in)	Włodarczyk #15		29 May 2016	Forbach
5	21	79.42 m (260 ft 6 in)	Betty Heidler	Germany	21 May 2011	Halle
	22	79.29 m (260 ft 1 in)	Andersen #4		24 May 2025	Tucson
	23	79.24 m (259 ft 11 in)	Andersen #5		8 June 2025	Lucca
	24	79.02 m (259 ft 3 in)	Andersen #6		30 April 2022	Tucson
	25	78.96 m (259 ft 0 in)	Andersen #7		17 July 2022	Eugene
6		78.80 m (258 ft 6 in)	Rachel Richeson	United States	11 April 2025	Ramona
7		78.51 m (257 ft 6 in)	Tatyana Lysenko	Russia	5 July 2012	Cheboksary
8		78.00 m (255 ft 10 in)	Janee' Kassanavoid	United States	21 May 2022	Tucson
9		77.78 m (255 ft 2 in)	Gwen Berry	United States	8 June 2018	Chorzów
10		77.68 m (254 ft 10 in)	Wang Zheng	China	29 March 2014	Chengdu
11		77.60 m (254 ft 7 in)	Zhao Jie	China	15 September 2025	Tokyo
12		77.33 m (253 ft 8 in)	Zhang Wenxiu	China	28 September 2014	Incheon
13		77.32 m (253 ft 8 in)	Aksana Miankova	Belarus	29 June 2008	Minsk
14		77.26 m (253 ft 5 in)	Gulfiya Agafonova	Russia	12 June 2006	Tula
15		77.24 m (253 ft 4 in)	Zhang Jiale	China	2 August 2025	Quzhou
16		77.14 m (253 ft 1 in)	Krista Tervo	Finland	11 June 2025	Lahti
17		77.13 m (253 ft 0 in)	Oksana Kondratyeva	Russia	30 June 2013	Zhukovskiy
18		77.10 m (252 ft 11 in)	Hanna Skydan	Azerbaijan	23 August 2023	Budapest
19		77.07 m (252 ft 10 in)	Silja Kosonen	Finland	15 March 2025	Nicosia
20		76.90 m (252 ft 3 in)	Martina Hrašnová	Slovakia	16 May 2009	Trnava
21		76.85 m (252 ft 1 in)	Malwina Kopron	Poland	26 August 2017	Taipei City
22		76.83 m (252 ft 0 in)	Kamila Skolimowska	Poland	11 May 2007	Doha
23		76.72 m (251 ft 8 in)	Mariya Bespalova	Russia	23 June 2012	Zhukovsky
24		76.66 m (251 ft 6 in)	Volha Tsander	Belarus	21 July 2005	Minsk
25		76.63 m (251 ft 4 in)	Yekaterina Khoroshikh	Russia	24 June 2006	Zhukovsky

Annulled marks

The following athletes had their performances (over 77.00 m) annulled due to doping offences:

• Tatyana Lysenko (Russia) 78.80 (2013) and 78.15 (2013).
• Aksana Miankova (Belarus) 78.69 and 78.19 (both 2012).
• Gulfiya Agafonova (Russia) 77.36 (2007).

Olympic medalists

Men

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Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1900 Paris details	John Flanagan  United States	Truxtun Hare  United States	Josiah McCracken  United States
1904 St. Louis details	John Flanagan  United States	John DeWitt  United States	Ralph Rose  United States
1908 London details	John Flanagan  United States	Matt McGrath  United States	Con Walsh  Canada
1912 Stockholm details	Matt McGrath  United States	Duncan Gillis  Canada	Clarence Childs  United States
1920 Antwerp details	Patrick Ryan  United States	Carl Johan Lind  Sweden	Basil Bennett  United States
1924 Paris details	Fred Tootell  United States	Matt McGrath  United States	Malcolm Nokes  Great Britain
1928 Amsterdam details	Pat O'Callaghan  Ireland	Ossian Skiöld  Sweden	Edmund Black  United States
1932 Los Angeles details	Pat O'Callaghan  Ireland	Ville Pörhölä  Finland	Peter Zaremba  United States
1936 Berlin details	Karl Hein  Germany	Erwin Blask  Germany	Fred Warngård  Sweden
1948 London details	Imre Németh  Hungary	Ivan Gubijan  Yugoslavia	Robert Bennett  United States
1952 Helsinki details	József Csermák  Hungary	Karl Storch  Germany	Imre Németh  Hungary
1956 Melbourne details	Hal Connolly  United States	Mikhail Krivonosov  Soviet Union	Anatoliy Samotsvetov  Soviet Union
1960 Rome details	Vasily Rudenkov  Soviet Union	Gyula Zsivótzky  Hungary	Tadeusz Rut  Poland
1964 Tokyo details	Romuald Klim  Soviet Union	Gyula Zsivótzky  Hungary	Uwe Beyer  United Team of Germany
1968 Mexico City details	Gyula Zsivótzky  Hungary	Romuald Klim  Soviet Union	Lázár Lovász  Hungary
1972 Munich details	Anatoliy Bondarchuk  Soviet Union	Jochen Sachse  East Germany	Vasiliy Khmelevskiy  Soviet Union
1976 Montreal details	Yuriy Sedykh  Soviet Union	Aleksey Spiridonov  Soviet Union	Anatoliy Bondarchuk  Soviet Union
1980 Moscow details	Yuriy Sedykh  Soviet Union	Sergey Litvinov  Soviet Union	Jüri Tamm  Soviet Union
1984 Los Angeles details	Juha Tiainen  Finland	Karl-Hans Riehm  West Germany	Klaus Ploghaus  West Germany
1988 Seoul details	Sergey Litvinov  Soviet Union	Yuriy Sedykh  Soviet Union	Jüri Tamm  Soviet Union
1992 Barcelona details	Andrey Abduvaliyev  Unified Team	Igor Astapkovich  Unified Team	Igor Nikulin  Unified Team
1996 Atlanta details	Balázs Kiss  Hungary	Lance Deal  United States	Oleksandr Krykun  Ukraine
2000 Sydney details	Szymon Ziółkowski  Poland	Nicola Vizzoni  Italy	Igor Astapkovich  Belarus
2004 Athens details	Koji Murofushi  Japan	Not awarded	Not awarded
2008 Beijing details	Primož Kozmus  Slovenia	Vadim Devyatovskiy  Belarus	Ivan Tsikhan  Belarus
2012 London details	Krisztián Pars  Hungary	Primož Kozmus  Slovenia	Koji Murofushi  Japan
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Dilshod Nazarov  Tajikistan	Ivan Tsikhan  Belarus	Wojciech Nowicki  Poland
2020 Tokyo details	Wojciech Nowicki  Poland	Eivind Henriksen  Norway	Paweł Fajdek  Poland
2024 Paris details	Ethan Katzberg  Canada	Bence Halász  Hungary	Mykhaylo Kokhan  Ukraine

Women

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Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2000 Sydney details	Kamila Skolimowska  Poland	Olga Kuzenkova  Russia	Kirsten Münchow  Germany
2004 Athens details	Olga Kuzenkova  Russia	Yipsi Moreno  Cuba	Yunaika Crawford  Cuba
2008 Beijing details	Yipsi Moreno  Cuba	Zhang Wenxiu  China	Manuela Montebrun  France
2012 London details	Anita Włodarczyk  Poland	Betty Heidler  Germany	Zhang Wenxiu  China
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Anita Włodarczyk  Poland	Zhang Wenxiu  China	Sophie Hitchon  Great Britain
2020 Tokyo details	Anita Włodarczyk  Poland	Wang Zheng  China	Malwina Kopron  Poland
2024 Paris details	Camryn Rogers  Canada	Annette Echikunwoke  United States	Zhao Jie  China

World Championships medalists

Men

Championships	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1983 Helsinki details	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	Zdzisław Kwaśny (POL)
1987 Rome details	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	Jüri Tamm (URS)	Ralf Haber (GDR)
1991 Tokyo details	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	Igor Astapkovich (URS)	Heinz Weis (GER)
1993 Stuttgart details	Andrey Abduvaliyev (TJK)	Igor Astapkovich (BLR)	Tibor Gécsek (HUN)
1995 Gothenburg details	Andrey Abduvaliyev (TJK)	Igor Astapkovich (BLR)	Tibor Gécsek (HUN)
1997 Athens details	Heinz Weis (GER)	Andriy Skvaruk (UKR)	Vasiliy Sidorenko (RUS)
1999 Seville details	Karsten Kobs (GER)	Zsolt Németh (HUN)	Vladyslav Piskunov (UKR)
2001 Edmonton details	Szymon Ziółkowski (POL)	Koji Murofushi (JPN)	Ilya Konovalov (RUS)
2003 Saint-Denis details	Ivan Tsikhan (BLR)	Adrián Annus (HUN)	Koji Murofushi (JPN)
2005 Helsinki details	Szymon Ziółkowski (POL)	Markus Esser (GER)	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN)
2007 Osaka details	Ivan Tsikhan (BLR)	Primož Kozmus (SLO)	Libor Charfreitag (SVK)
2009 Berlin details	Primož Kozmus (SLO)	Szymon Ziółkowski (POL)	Aleksey Zagornyi (RUS)
2011 Daegu details	Koji Murofushi (JPN)	Krisztián Pars (HUN)	Primož Kozmus (SLO)
2013 Moscow details	Paweł Fajdek (POL)	Krisztián Pars (HUN)	Lukáš Melich (CZE)
2015 Beijing details	Paweł Fajdek (POL)	Dilshod Nazarov (TJK)	Wojciech Nowicki (POL)
2017 London details	Paweł Fajdek (POL)	Valeriy Pronkin (ANA)	Wojciech Nowicki (POL)
2019 Doha details	Paweł Fajdek (POL)	Quentin Bigot (FRA)	Bence Halász (HUN)  Wojciech Nowicki (POL)
2022 Eugene details	Paweł Fajdek (POL)	Wojciech Nowicki (POL)	Eivind Henriksen (NOR)
2023 Budapest details	Ethan Katzberg (CAN)	Wojciech Nowicki (POL)	Bence Halász (HUN)
2025 Tokyo details	Ethan Katzberg (CAN)	Merlin Hummel (GER)	Bence Halász (HUN)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Poland (POL)	7	3	4	14
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	3	0	6
3	Germany (GER)	2	2	1	5
4	Belarus (BLR)	2	2	0	4
5	Tajikistan (TJK)	2	1	0	3
6	Canada (CAN)	2	0	0	2
7	Japan (JPN)	1	1	1	3
	Slovenia (SLO)	1	1	1	3
9	Hungary (HUN)	0	4	5	9
10	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	1	2
11	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
–	Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)	0	1	0	1
12	Russia (RUS)	0	0	3	3
13	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		20	20	21	61

Women

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Championships	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1999 Seville details	Mihaela Melinte (ROU)	Olga Kuzenkova (RUS)	Lisa Misipeka (ASA)
2001 Edmonton details	Yipsi Moreno (CUB)	Olga Kuzenkova (RUS)	Bronwyn Eagles (AUS)
2003 Saint-Denis details	Yipsi Moreno (CUB)	Olga Kuzenkova (RUS)	Manuela Montebrun (FRA)
2005 Helsinki details	Yipsi Moreno (CUB)	Tatyana Lysenko (RUS)	Manuela Montebrun (FRA)
2007 Osaka details	Betty Heidler (GER)	Yipsi Moreno (CUB)	Zhang Wenxiu (CHN)
2009 Berlin details	Anita Włodarczyk (POL)	Betty Heidler (GER)	Martina Hrašnová (SVK)
2011 Daegu details	Tatyana Lysenko (RUS)	Betty Heidler (GER)	Zhang Wenxiu (CHN)
2013 Moscow details	Anita Włodarczyk (POL)	Zhang Wenxiu (CHN)	Wang Zheng (CHN)
2015 Beijing details	Anita Włodarczyk (POL)	Zhang Wenxiu (CHN)	Alexandra Tavernier (FRA)
2017 London details	Anita Włodarczyk (POL)	Wang Zheng (CHN)	Malwina Kopron (POL)
2019 Doha details	DeAnna Price (USA)	Joanna Fiodorow (POL)	Wang Zheng (CHN)
2022 Eugene details	Brooke Andersen (USA)	Camryn Rogers (CAN)	Janee' Kassanavoid (USA)
2023 Budapest details	Camryn Rogers (CAN)	Janee' Kassanavoid (USA)	DeAnna Price (USA)
2025 Tokyo details	Camryn Rogers (CAN)	Zhao Jie (PRC)	Zhang Jiale (PRC)

Season's bests

Men Year Mark Athlete Place 1971 76.40 m (250 ft 7 in)  Walter Schmidt (FRG) Lahr 1972 75.88 m (248 ft 11 in)  Anatoliy Bondarchuk (URS) Kyiv 1973 75.20 m (246 ft 8 in)  Anatoliy Bondarchuk (URS) Moscow 1974 76.66 m (251 ft 6 in)  Aleksey Spiridonov (URS) Munich 1975 79.30 m (260 ft 2 in)  Walter Schmidt (FRG) Frankfurt 1976 78.86 m (258 ft 8 in)  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) Sochi 1977 77.60 m (254 ft 7 in)  Karl-Hans Riehm (FRG) Gelsenkirchen 1978 80.32 m (263 ft 6 in)  Karl-Hans Riehm (FRG) Heidenheim 1979 79.82 m (261 ft 10 in)  Sergey Litvinov (URS) Leipzig 1980 81.80 m (268 ft 4 in)  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) Moscow 1981 80.56 m (264 ft 3 in)  Klaus Ploghaus (FRG) Obersühl 1982 83.98 m (275 ft 6 in)  Sergey Litvinov (URS) Moscow 1983 84.14 m (276 ft 0 in)  Sergey Litvinov (URS) Moscow 1984 86.34 m (283 ft 3 in)  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) Cork 1985 84.08 m (275 ft 10 in)  Jüri Tamm (URS) Budapest 1986 86.74 m (284 ft 6 in)  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) Stuttgart 1987 83.48 m (273 ft 10 in)  Sergey Litvinov (URS) Karl-Marx-Stadt 1988 85.14 m (279 ft 3 in)  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) Moscow 1989 82.84 m (271 ft 9 in)  Heinz Weis (FRG) Berlin 1990 84.48 m (277 ft 1 in)  Igor Nikulin (URS) Lausanne 1991 84.26 m (276 ft 5 in)  Igor Astapkovich (BLR) Reims 1992 84.62 m (277 ft 7 in)  Igor Astapkovich (BLR) Seville 1993 82.78 m (271 ft 7 in)  Andrey Abduvaliyev (TJK) Nitra 1994 83.36 m (273 ft 5 in)  Andrey Abduvaliyev (TJK) Budapest 1995 83.10 m (272 ft 7 in)  Andrey Abduvaliyev (TJK) Tashkent 1996 82.52 m (270 ft 8 in)  Lance Deal (USA) Milan 1997 83.04 m (272 ft 5 in)  Heinz Weis (GER) Frankfurt 1998 83.68 m (274 ft 6 in)  Tibor Gécsek (HUN) Zalaegerszeg 1999 82.78 m (271 ft 7 in)  Karsten Kobs (GER) Dortmund 2000 82.58 m (270 ft 11 in)  Igor Astapkovich (BLR) Staiki 2001 83.47 m (273 ft 10 in)  Koji Murofushi (JPN) Toyota 2002 83.43 m (273 ft 8 in)  Aleksey Zagornyi (RUS) Adler 2003 84.86 m (278 ft 4 in)  Koji Murofushi (JPN) Prague 2004 84.46 m (277 ft 1 in)  Ivan Tsikhan (BLR) Minsk 2005 84.90 m (278 ft 6 in)  Vadim Devyatovskiy (BLR) Minsk 2006 82.95 m (272 ft 1 in)  Vadim Devyatovskiy (BLR) Minsk 2007 83.63 m (274 ft 4 in)  Ivan Tsikhan (BLR) Osaka 2008 84.51 m (277 ft 3 in)  Ivan Tsikhan (BLR) Grodno 2009 82.58 m (270 ft 11 in)  Primož Kozmus (SLO) Celje 2010 80.99 m (265 ft 8 in)  Koji Murofushi (JPN) Rieti 2011 81.89 m (268 ft 8 in)  Krisztián Pars (HUN) Szombathely 2012 82.81 m (271 ft 8 in)  Ivan Tsikhan (BLR) Brest 2013 82.40 m (270 ft 4 in)  Krisztián Pars (HUN) Dubnica 2014 83.48 m (273 ft 10 in)  Pawel Fajdek (POL) Warsaw 2015 83.93 m (275 ft 4 in)  Pawel Fajdek (POL) Szczecin 2016 81.87 m (268 ft 7 in)  Pawel Fajdek (POL) Bydgoszcz 2017 83.44 m (273 ft 9 in)  Pawel Fajdek (POL) Ostrava 2018 81.85 m (268 ft 6 in)  Wojciech Nowicki (POL) Székesfehérvár 2019 81.74 m (268 ft 2 in)  Wojciech Nowicki (POL) Poznań 2020 80.70 m (264 ft 9 in)  Rudy Winkler (USA) Wallkill 2021 82.98 m (272 ft 2 in)  Pawel Fajdek (POL) Chorzów 2022 82.00 m (269 ft 0 in)  Wojciech Nowicki (POL) Munich 2023 81.92 m (268 ft 9 in)  Wojciech Nowicki (POL) Oslo 2024 84.38 m (276 ft 10 in)  Ethan Katzberg (CAN) Nairobi 2025 84.70 m (277 ft 10 in)  Ethan Katzberg (CAN) Tokyo

Women Year Mark Athlete Place 1988 58.94 m (193 ft 4 in)  Carol Cady (USA) Los Gatos 1989 61.50 m (201 ft 9 in)  Yelena Pichugina (URS) Frunze 1990 61.96 m (203 ft 3 in)  Larisa Baranova (URS) Adler 1991 64.44 m (211 ft 5 in)  Alla Davydova (URS) Adler 1992 65.40 m (214 ft 6 in)  Olga Kuzenkova (RUS) Bryansk 1993 64.64 m (212 ft 0 in)  Olga Kuzenkova (RUS) Krasnodar 1994 67.34 m (220 ft 11 in)  Svetlana Sudak (BLR) Minsk 1995 68.16 m (223 ft 7 in)  Olga Kuzenkova (RUS) Moscow 1996 69.46 m (227 ft 10 in)  Olga Kuzenkova (RUS) Sydney 1997 73.10 m (239 ft 9 in)  Olga Kuzenkova (RUS) Munich 1998 73.80 m (242 ft 1 in)  Olga Kuzenkova (RUS) Tolyatti 1999 76.07 m (249 ft 6 in)  Mihaela Melinte (ROM) Rüdlingen 2000 75.68 m (248 ft 3 in)  Olga Kuzenkova (RUS) Tula 2001 73.62 m (241 ft 6 in)  Olga Kuzenkova (RUS) Adler 2002 73.07 m (239 ft 8 in)  Olga Kuzenkova (RUS) Annecy 2003 75.14 m (246 ft 6 in)  Yipsi Moreno (CUB) Savona 2004 75.18 m (246 ft 7 in)  Yipsi Moreno (CUB) Havana 2005 77.06 m (252 ft 9 in)  Tatyana Lysenko (RUS) Moscow 2006 77.80 m (255 ft 2 in)  Tatyana Lysenko (RUS) Tallinn 2007 77.30 m (253 ft 7 in)  Tatyana Lysenko (RUS) Adler 2008 77.32 m (253 ft 8 in)  Aksana Miankova (BLR) Minsk 2009 77.96 m (255 ft 9 in)  Anita Włodarczyk (POL) Berlin 2010 78.30 m (256 ft 10 in)  Anita Włodarczyk (POL) Bydgoszcz 2011 79.42 m (260 ft 6 in)  Betty Heidler (GER) Halle 2012 78.69 m (258 ft 2 in)  Aksana Miankova (BLR) Minsk 2013 78.80 m (258 ft 6 in)  Tatyana Lysenko (RUS) Moscow 2014 79.58 m (261 ft 1 in)  Anita Włodarczyk (POL) Berlin 2015 81.08 m (266 ft 0 in)  Anita Włodarczyk (POL) Władysławowo 2016 82.98 m (272 ft 2 in)  Anita Włodarczyk (POL) Warsaw 2017 82.87 m (271 ft 10 in)  Anita Włodarczyk (POL) Cetniewo 2018 79.59 m (261 ft 1 in)  Anita Włodarczyk (POL) Lublin 2019 78.24 m (256 ft 8 in)  DeAnna Price (USA) Des Moines 2020 75.45 m (247 ft 6 in)  Hanna Malyshik (BLR) Minsk 2021 80.31 m (263 ft 5 in)  DeAnna Price (USA) Eugene 2022 79.02 m (259 ft 3 in)  Brooke Andersen (USA) Tucson 2023 80.17 m (263 ft 0 in)  Brooke Andersen (USA) Tucson 2024 79.92 m (262 ft 2 in)  Brooke Andersen (USA) Tucson 2025 80.51 m (264 ft 1 in)  Camryn Rogers (CAN) Tokyo

See also

• Sport of athletics portal

• List of hammer throwers
• Keg-tossing

Notes and references

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