1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw

Events at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
5000 m walk				women
10,000 m walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's hammer throw event at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Annecy, France, at Parc des Sports on 31 July and 1 August.^[1][2] A 7257g (senior implement) hammer was used.

Medalists

Gold	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen  Finland
Silver	Yury Voronkin  Russia
Bronze	Wojciech Kondratowicz  Poland

Results

Final

1 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts						Result	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland	x	72.40	72.31	x	x	71.85	72.40
	Yury Voronkin	Russia	66.97	67.98	67.51	x	69.66	x	69.66
	Wojciech Kondratowicz	Poland	68.93	67.90	66.75	x	x	x	68.93
4	Ioánnis Barlís	Greece	66.31	x	x	67.59	68.36	67.81	68.36
5	Miloslav Konopka	Slovakia	64.69	x	66.36	66.58	67.09	x	67.09
6	Nicolas Figère	France	x	63.50	65.98	62.15	x	65.21	65.98
7	Péter Botfa	Hungary	64.15	64.26	65.08	62.84	x	63.36	65.08
8	Marcin Szeszula	Poland	64.42	63.83	64.75	62.51	63.43	63.05	64.75
9	Aleksey Mukhortov	Russia	61.59	63.07	63.39				63.39
10	Lukáš Melich	Czech Republic	57.81	61.51	60.44				61.51
11	Éric Albert	France	x	60.20	x				60.20
12	Markus Esser	Germany	x	54.09	59.58				59.58

Qualifications

31 Jul

Group A

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts			Result	Notes
			1	2	3
1	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland	69.39	-	-	69.39	Q
2	Miloslav Konopka	Slovakia	65.93	-	-	65.93	Q
3	Nicolas Figère	France	63.76	65.13	-	65.13	Q
4	Yury Voronkin	Russia	58.77	x	64.36	64.36	q
5	Lukáš Melich	Czech Republic	62.26	62.78	61.00	62.78	q
6	Marcin Szeszula	Poland	59.29	60.50	62.52	62.52	q
7	Dmitriy Shako	Belarus	62.08	61.25	61.14	62.08
8	Dilshod Nazarov	Tajikistan	x	58.98	60.02	60.02
9	Ross Corner	Australia	58.46	x	56.53	58.46
10	Christian Fernández	Argentina	x	55.58	54.58	55.58
11	Hrístos Tsintsos	Greece	54.50	53.16	51.77	54.50

Group B

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts			Result	Notes
			1	2	3
1	Ioánnis Barlís	Greece	66.15	-	-	66.15	Q
2	Markus Esser	Germany	x	65.87	-	65.87	Q
3	Wojciech Kondratowicz	Poland	65.86	-	-	65.86	Q
4	Péter Botfa	Hungary	64.36	x	65.34	65.34	Q
5	Aleksey Mukhortov	Russia	63.87	62.53	64.07	64.07	q
6	Éric Albert	France	60.82	61.66	62.33	62.33	q
7	Fatih Eryildirim	Turkey	59.91	60.99	x	60.99
8	John Badovinac	United States	58.27	57.27	x	58.27
9	Hamad Saleh Al-Mahdi	Qatar	55.57	55.25	57.52	57.52
10	Marco Felice	Italy	x	55.95	55.37	55.95
11	Nabil Amroune	Algeria	54.49	x	x	54.49
12	Dovletgeldy Mamedov	Turkmenistan	38.80	x	43.73	43.73

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.

•  Algeria (1)
•  Argentina (1)
•  Australia (1)
•  Belarus (1)
•  Czech Republic (1)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (2)
•  Germany (1)
•  Greece (2)
•  Hungary (1)
•  Italy (1)
•  Poland (2)
•  Qatar (1)
•  Russia (2)
•  Slovakia (1)
•  Tajikistan (1)
•  Turkey (1)
•  Turkmenistan (1)
•  United States (1)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1998 Annecy FRA Jul 28-Aug 2, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 3 Dec 2013, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015