# 1998 European Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw

These are the official results of the Men's hammer throw event at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Thirty-six athletes took part. The qualification mark was set at 77.00 metres.

## Medalists

| Gold | Tibor Gécsek Hungary (HUN) |
| Silver | Balázs Kiss Hungary (HUN) |
| Bronze | Karsten Kobs Germany (GER) |

## Schedule

* All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)
Qualification Round :
| Group A | Group B |
| 18.08.1998 – ??:??h | 18.08.1998 – ??:??h |
| Final Round ||
| 19.08.1998 – ??:??h ||

## Abbreviations

* All results shown are in metres
| Q | automatic qualification |
| q | qualification by rank |
| DNS | did not start |
| NM | no mark |
| WR | world record |
| AR | area record |
| NR | national record |
| PB | personal best |
| SB | season best |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 1998 European Athletics Championships :
| World Record | Yuriy Sedykh (URS) | 86.74 m | August 30, 1986 | Stuttgart, West Germany |
| Event Record | Yuriy Sedykh (URS) | 86.74 m | August 30, 1986 | Stuttgart, West Germany |

## Qualification
### Group A

| Rank | Overall | Athlete | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Distance |
| Rank | Overall | Athlete | 1 | 2 | 3 | Distance |
| 1 | 1 | Adrián Annus (HUN) | 76.29 | 79.52 | | 79.52 m |
| 2 | 5 | Hristos Polihroniou (GRE) | 77.99 | | | 77.99 m |
| 3 | 6 | Heinz Weis (GER) | 77.46 | | | 77.46 m |
| 4 | 7 | Igor Astapkovich (BLR) | 77.43 | | | 77.43 m |
| 5 | 8 | Szymon Ziółkowski (POL) | 76.66 | | | 76.66 m |
| 6 | 10 | Vladyslav Piskunov (UKR) | | | | 76.24 m |
| 7 | 13 | Vasiliy Sidorenko (RUS) | 75.07 | 75.60 | 75.56 | 75.56 m |
| 8 | 14 | Andrey Skvaruk (UKR) | | | | 75.56 m |
| 9 | 15 | Loris Paoluzzi (ITA) | | | | 75.00 m |
| 10 | 16 | Enrico Sgrulletti (ITA) | | | | 74.91 m |
| 11 | 18 | Sergey Kirmasov (RUS) | | | | 74.50 m |
| 12 | 21 | Gilles Dupray (FRA) | 73.92 | 73.21 | | 73.92 m |
| 13 | 22 | András Haklits (CRO) | 71.18 | x | 73.41 | 73.41 m |
| 14 | 25 | Pavel Sedláček (CZE) | | | | 72.68 m |
| 15 | 28 | Vítor Costa (POR) | | | | 72.28 m |
| 16 | 30 | Ivan Tikhon (BLR) | | | | 71.50 m |
| 17 | 33 | Paddy McGrath (IRL) | | | | 66.25 m |
| — | — | Marko Wahlman (FIN) | x | x | x | NM |

### Group B

| Rank | Overall | Athlete | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Distance |
| Rank | Overall | Athlete | 1 | 2 | 3 | Distance |
| 1 | 2 | Tibor Gécsek (HUN) | 79.44 | | | 79.44 m |
| 2 | 3 | Ilya Konovalov (RUS) | | | | 78.09 m |
| 3 | 4 | Balázs Kiss (HUN) | x | 78.06 | | 78.06 m |
| 4 | 9 | Karsten Kobs (GER) | | | | 76.67 m |
| 5 | 11 | Oleksandr Krykun (UKR) | | | | 75.90 m |
| 6 | 12 | Christophe Épalle (FRA) | | | | 75.75 m |
| 7 | 17 | Nicola Vizzoni (ITA) | | | | 74.65 m |
| 8 | 19 | Vladimír Maška (CZE) | | | | 74.12 m |
| 9 | 20 | Holger Klose (GER) | | | | 74.05 m |
| 10 | 23 | David Chaussinand (FRA) | | | | 73.30 m |
| 11 | 24 | Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN) | | | | 73.13 m |
| 12 | 26 | Jan Bielecki (DEN) | | | | 72.48 m |
| 13 | 27 | Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE) | | | | 72.47 m |
| 14 | 29 | Maciej Pałyszko (POL) | | | | 72.03 m |
| 15 | 31 | Nikolay Avlasevich (BLR) | | | | 69.11 m |
| 16 | 32 | Per Karlsson (SWE) | | | | 67.20 m |
| 17 | 34 | Dorian Collaku (ALB) | | | | 64.88 m |
| 18 | 35 | Roman Linscheid (IRL) | | | | 63.75 m |

## Final

| Rank | Athlete | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Distance | Note |
| Rank | Athlete | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Distance | Note |
| | Tibor Gécsek (HUN) | 80.94 | X | 81.66 | X | 82.87 | 82.25 | 82.87 m | |
| | Balázs Kiss (HUN) | 80.96 | 80.71 | X | 78.87 | 80.38 | 81.26 | 81.26 m | |
| | Karsten Kobs (GER) | X | 77.83 | 75.22 | X | 80.13 | X | 80.13 m | |
| 4 | Heinz Weis (GER) | 76.89 | 80.04 | 78.79 | X | 77.28 | 77.15 | 80.04 m | |
| 5 | Szymon Ziółkowski (POL) | X | X | 77.37 | X | X | 78.16 | 78.16 m | |
| 6 | Hristos Polihroniou (GRE) | X | 77.97 | X | 74.95 | 77.43 | X | 77.97 m | |
| 7 | Igor Astapkovich (BLR) | X | X | 77.81 | X | X | 76.93 | 77.81 m | |
| 8 | Adrián Annus (HUN) | 75.77 | 76.19 | X | 77.29 | 76.43 | 76.09 | 77.29 m | |
| 9 | Ilya Konovalov (RUS) | 76.11 | 75.66 | 75.32 | | | | 76.11 m | |
| 10 | Vladyslav Piskunov (UKR) | X | 74.30 | 75.10 | | | | 75.10 m | |
| 11 | Oleksandr Krykun (UKR) | 74.34 | 73.41 | X | | | | 74.34 m | |
| 12 | Christophe Épalle (FRA) | 70.33 | 74.00 | 73.82 | | | | 74.00 m | |