# 2023 World Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw

The men's hammer throw at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 19 and 20 August 2023.

## Summary

Ethan Katzberg arrived at these championships with a respectable personal best of 78.73m set earlier in the season. As the fourth thrower in the preliminary rounds, he threw an 81.18m National Record, while no other athlete cleared 78.50 in the preliminaries.
Five time defending champion Paweł Fajdek started off the finals with an exact 80 metre throw. With the home crowd cheering, Bence Halász took the lead with an 80.82m. Katzberg closed off the first round with an 80.18m. In the second round, Olympic Champion Wojciech Nowicki knocked his teammate Fajdek off the podium with an 80.70m. He improved that to 80.83m in the fourth round to knock Halász off the top by a single cm. In the fifth round, Katzberg jumped into the lead with an 81.25 m (266 ft 6 in). On the next throw, Nowicki improved, but 81.02m wasn't enough to get back to the lead. Neither were able to improve in the final round, but Katzberg's 81.11m would have also won the competition.
Through two days of competition, Katzberg landed 6 legal throws, all of them more than a metre longer than he had ever thrown before. He took home a World Championship and set his National Record twice. He became the first athlete from NACAC to win a medal at a Men's Hammer throw in the World Athletics Championships.

## Records

Before the competition records were as follows:
| Record | Athlete & Nat. | Perf. | Location | Date |
| World record | Yuriy Sedykh (URS) | 86.74 m | Stuttgart, West Germany | 30 August 1986 |
| Championship record | Ivan Tsikhan (BLR) | 83.63 m | Osaka, Japan | 27 August 2007 |
| World Leading | Wojciech Nowicki (POL) | 81.92 m | Oslo, Norway | 15 June 2023 |
| African Record | Mostafa Elgamel (EGY) | 81.27 m | Cairo, Egypt | 21 March 2014 |
| Asian Record | Koji Murofushi (JPN) | 84.86 m | Prague, Czech Republic | 29 June 2003 |
| North, Central American and Caribbean record | Rudy Winkler (USA) | 82.71 m | Eugene, United States | 20 June 2021 |
| South American Record | Wagner Domingos (BRA) | 78.63 m | Celje, Slovenia | 19 June 2016 |
| European Record | Yuriy Sedykh (URS) | 86.74 m | Stuttgart, West Germany | 30 August 1986 |
| Oceanian record | Stuart Rendell (AUS) | 79.29 m | Varaždin, Croatia | 6 July 2002 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Distance | Record |
| 19 August | Qualification | Ethan Katzberg | Canada (CAN) | 81.18 | NR |
| 20 August | Final | Ethan Katzberg | Canada (CAN) | 81.25 | NR |

## Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 78.00.

## Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (CEST), was as follows:
| Date | Time | Round |
| 19 August | 13:00 | Qualification |
| 19 August | 14:45 | Qualification |
| 20 August | 17:49 | Final |

## Results
### Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 77.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.
| Rank | Group | Name | Nationality | Round | Round | Round | Mark | Notes |
| Rank | Group | Name | Nationality | 1 | 2 | 3 | Mark | Notes |
| 1 | A | Ethan Katzberg | Canada (CAN) | 81.18 | | | 81.18 | Q, NR |
| 2 | B | Mykhaylo Kokhan | Ukraine (UKR) | 76.59 | 78.47 | | 78.47 | Q |
| 3 | A | Bence Halász | Hungary (HUN) | 78.13 | | | 78.13 | Q |
| 4 | A | Wojciech Nowicki | Poland (POL) | 78.04 | | | 78.04 | Q |
| 5 | B | Paweł Fajdek | Poland (POL) | 77.98 | | | 77.98 | Q |
| 6 | B | Rudy Winkler | United States (USA) | 75.37 | 77.06 | | 77.06 | Q |
| 7 | A | Daniel Haugh | United States (USA) | x | x | 76.64 | 76.64 | q |
| 8 | B | Michail Anastasakis | Greece (GRE) | x | 73.43 | 75.76 | 75.76 | q |
| 9 | B | Eivind Henriksen | Norway (NOR) | 71.61 | 74.37 | 75.37 | 75.37 | q |
| 10 | A | Gabriel Kehr | Chile (CHI) | 75.10 | 72.88 | 73.63 | 75.10 | q |
| 11 | B | Diego del Real | Mexico (MEX) | 73.28 | 74.91 | 73.30 | 74.91 | q |
| 12 | A | Adam Keenan | Canada (CAN) | 74.56 | 72.97 | 73.32 | 74.56 | q |
| 13 | B | Rowan Hamilton | Canada (CAN) | 71.81 | 70.42 | 74.14 | 74.14 | |
| 14 | A | Christos Frantzeskakis | Greece (GRE) | 74.05 | 73.30 | x | 74.05 | |
| 15 | B | Dániel Rába | Hungary (HUN) | x | 71.93 | 73.17 | 73.17 | SB |
| 16 | A | Thomas Mardal | Norway (NOR) | 72.40 | 73.13 | 72.62 | 73.13 | |
| 17 | B | Aaron Kangas [fi] | Finland (FIN) | x | 72.15 | 72.96 | 72.96 | |
| 18 | B | Serghei Marghiev | Moldova (MDA) | 72.91 | 68.76 | 71.50 | 72.91 | |
| 19 | A | Jerome Vega | Puerto Rico (PUR) | 71.61 | x | 72.87 | 72.87 | |
| 20 | B | Humberto Mansilla | Chile (CHI) | 72.32 | 72.80 | 72.01 | 72.80 | |
| 21 | B | Joaquín Gómez | Argentina (ARG) | 68.66 | 72.77 | 68.57 | 72.77 | |
| 22 | A | Sören Klose | Germany (GER) | 72.23 | x | x | 72.23 | |
| 23 | B | Yann Chaussinand | France (FRA) | x | 72.17 | x | 72.17 | |
| 24 | B | Ragnar Carlsson [sv] | Sweden (SWE) | 70.94 | 72.02 | x | 72.02 | |
| 25 | B | Donát Varga | Hungary (HUN) | x | x | 72.02 | 72.02 | |
| 26 | B | Ronald Mencía | Cuba (CUB) | 71.72 | 70.74 | x | 71.72 | |
| 27 | A | Alexandros Poursanidis | Cyprus (CYP) | 71.63 | x | 71.58 | 71.63 | |
| 28 | B | Mostafa Elgamel | Egypt (EGY) | x | 71.36 | x | 71.36 | |
| 29 | A | Denzel Comenentia | Netherlands (NED) | 69.46 | x | 70.16 | 70.16 | |
| 30 | A | Konstantinos Zaltos | Greece (GRE) | 69.98 | x | 69.67 | 69.98 | |
| 31 | A | Alex Young | United States (USA) | 69.10 | x | 67.40 | 69.10 | |
| 32 | A | Patrik Hájek | Czech Republic (CZE) | 67.36 | 66.30 | 68.77 | 68.77 | |
| 33 | A | Marcin Wrotyński [pl] | Poland (POL) | 67.57 | x | 68.65 | 68.65 | |
| | B | Merlin Hummel | Germany (GER) | x | x | x | NM | |
| | A | Hilmar Örn Jónsson | Iceland (ISL) | x | x | x | NM | |

### Final

The final was started on 20 August at 17:52.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Round | Round | Round | Round | Round | Round | Mark | Notes |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Mark | Notes |
| | Ethan Katzberg | Canada (CAN) | 80.18 | 80.02 | x | 79.82 | 81.25 | 81.11 | 81.25 | NR |
| | Wojciech Nowicki | Poland (POL) | 79.14 | 80.70 | 78.94 | 80.83 | 81.02 | 80.36 | 81.02 | |
| | Bence Halász | Hungary (HUN) | 80.82 | x | x | 80.59 | 79.94 | x | 80.82 | SB |
| 4 | Paweł Fajdek | Poland (POL) | 80.00 | x | 77.06 | x | x | 77.99 | 80.00 | SB |
| 5 | Mykhaylo Kokhan | Ukraine (UKR) | x | 77.41 | 79.34 | 78.37 | 79.59 | 79.52 | 79.59 | SB |
| 6 | Daniel Haugh | United States (USA) | 76.07 | 77.38 | 75.66 | 78.64 | 74.83 | x | 78.64 | SB |
| 7 | Eivind Henriksen | Norway (NOR) | 75.85 | 77.06 | x | x | 76.81 | x | 77.06 | SB |
| 8 | Rudy Winkler | United States (USA) | x | x | 76.04 | x | 75.83 | x | 76.04 | |
| 9 | Gabriel Kehr | Chile (CHI) | 75.99 | 75.54 | 74.24 | | | | 75.99 | |
| 10 | Michail Anastasakis | Greece (GRE) | 74.62 | 73.04 | 75.49 | | | | 75.49 | |
| 11 | Adam Keenan | Canada (CAN) | 74.49 | 73.96 | 72.58 | | | | 74.49 | |
| 12 | Diego del Real | Mexico (MEX) | 72.39 | 71.84 | 72.56 | | | | 72.56 | |