# 2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw

The men's hammer throw at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 22 and 23 August.
Returning champion and current world leader Paweł Fajdek looked to be the favorite. In the first round it was David Söderberg who took the lead. The second round saw Dilshod Nazarov and Sergej Litvinov get off 77 metre throws to take the top two spots. Then in the third round, Fajdek let out 80.64 and calmly walked out of the ring. Nobody else could get in that range, but Fajdek launched 80.88 on his next throw for the win. Nazarov got off a 78.55 in the fifth round to move into second, but that was matched exactly by Wojciech Nowicki on his final throw. With an exact tie for the silver medal, the second best throw became the tiebreaker, Nazarov's 78.06 in the fourth round being superior to Nowicki's third round 77.20.
The world championships also incorporated the 2015 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge and Fajdek was the series winner.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
| World record | Yuriy Sedykh (URS) | 86.74 | Stuttgart, West Germany | 30 August 1986 |
| Championship record | Ivan Tsikhan (BLR) | 83.63 | Osaka, Japan | 27 August 2007 |
| World leading | Paweł Fajdek (POL) | 83.93 | Szczecin, Poland | 9 August 2015 |
| African record | Mostafa Al-Gamel (EGY) | 81.27 | Cairo, Egypt | 21 March 2014 |
| Asian record | Koji Murofushi (JPN) | 84.86 | Prague, Czech Republic | 29 June 2003 |
| North, Central American and Caribbean record | Lance Deal (USA) | 82.52 | Milan, Italy | 7 September 1996 |
| South American record | Juan Ignacio Cerra (ARG) | 76.42 | Trieste, Italy | 25 July 2001 |
| European record | Yuriy Sedykh (URS) | 86.74 | Stuttgart, West Germany | 30 August 1986 |
| Oceanian record | Stuart Rendell (AUS) | 79.29 | Varaždin, Croatia | 6 July 2002 |

## Qualification standards

* Entry standards
* 76.00

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| 22 August 2015 | 09:30 | Qualification |
| 23 August 2015 | 18:30 | Final |
All times are local times (UTC+8)

## Results

| KEY: | Q | Qualified | q | 12 best performers | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |

### Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 77.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.
| Rank | Group | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | Mark | Notes |
| 1 | A | Paweł Fajdek | Poland (POL) | 76.46 | 78.38 | | 78.38 | Q |
| 2 | A | Nick Miller | Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | 77.42 | | | 77.42 | Q |
| 3 | B | Sergej Litvinov | Russia (RUS) | 74.75 | 76.79 | – | 76.79 | q |
| 4 | B | Wojciech Nowicki | Poland (POL) | 75.52 | x | 76.72 | 76.72 | q |
| 5 | B | Ashraf Amgad Elseify | Qatar (QAT) | 72.01 | 75.03 | 76.51 | 76.51 | q |
| 6 | A | David Söderberg | Finland (FIN) | 73.30 | 75.96 | 75.42 | 75.96 | q |
| 7 | A | Dilshod Nazarov | Tajikistan (TJK) | 74.86 | 75.56 | – | 75.56 | q |
| 8 | B | Mostafa Al-Gamel | Egypt (EGY) | 75.48 | x | 74.06 | 75.48 | q |
| 9 | B | Krisztián Pars | Hungary (HUN) | 75.37 | 74.41 | 75.02 | 75.37 | q |
| 10 | B | Roberto Janet | Cuba (CUB) | x | 74.77 | 75.28 | 75.28 | q |
| 11 | B | Tuomas Seppänen | Finland (FIN) | 74.74 | x | 73.43 | 74.74 | q, SB |
| 12 | A | Marcel Lomnický | Slovakia (SVK) | 73.10 | x | 74.51 | 74.51 | q |
| 13 | B | Conor McCullough | United States (USA) | 72.40 | 72.05 | 74.31 | 74.31 | |
| 14 | A | Yevhen Vynohradov | Ukraine (UKR) | 71.01 | x | 74.09 | 74.09 | |
| 15 | B | Mark Dry | Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | 72.13 | 71.24 | 73.87 | 73.87 | |
| 16 | A | Kibwe Johnson | United States (USA) | 71.72 | 73.75 | 73.33 | 73.75 | |
| 17 | B | Eşref Apak | Turkey (TUR) | 73.01 | x | x | 73.01 | |
| 18 | A | Yury Shayunou | Belarus (BLR) | x | 72.07 | 72.87 | 72.87 | |
| 19 | A | Marco Lingua | Italy (ITA) | 72.01 | x | 72.85 | 72.85 | |
| 20 | A | Lukáš Melich | Czech Republic (CZE) | 71.89 | 70.11 | 72.12 | 72.12 | |
| 21 | B | Ivan Tsikhan | Belarus (BLR) | 70.30 | 71.88 | x | 71.88 | |
| 22 | A | Wagner Domingos | Brazil (BRA) | 71.35 | 71.82 | x | 71.82 | |
| 23 | B | Serghei Marghiev | Moldova (MDA) | x | 71.61 | 71.45 | 71.61 | |
| 24 | A | A. G. Kruger | United States (USA) | x | 71.56 | x | 71.56 | |
| 25 | A | Pavel Bareisha | Belarus (BLR) | x | 71.41 | 71.23 | 71.41 | |
| 26 | A | Suhrob Khodjaev | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 70.45 | 70.99 | 71.24 | 71.24 | |
| 27 | B | Ákos Hudi | Hungary (HUN) | 71.15 | x | x | 71.15 | |
| 28 | A | Bence Pásztor | Hungary (HUN) | 71.10 | 70.68 | 71.14 | 71.14 | |
| 29 | B | Javier Cienfuegos | Spain (ESP) | 69.38 | 68.37 | 70.96 | 70.96 | |
| 30 | B | Roberto Sawyers | Costa Rica (CRC) | x | 65.53 | 66.64 | 66.64 | |

### Final

The final was started at 18:30.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | # 1 | # 2 | # 3 | # 4 | # 5 | # 6 | Mark | Notes |
| | Paweł Fajdek | Poland (POL) | 76.40 | x | 80.64 | 80.88 | 79.34 | 78.29 | 80.88 | |
| | Dilshod Nazarov | Tajikistan (TJK) | 76.83 | 77.61 | 76.17 | 78.06 | 78.55 | 76.60 | 78.55 | |
| | Wojciech Nowicki | Poland (POL) | 76.14 | 76.73 | 77.20 | x | 75.80 | 78.55 | 78.55 | |
| 4 | Krisztián Pars | Hungary (HUN) | 76.33 | 75.98 | 77.32 | x | 76.40 | 77.05 | 77.32 | |
| 5 | Sergej Litvinov | Russia (RUS) | 70.75 | 77.09 | 77.24 DQ | x | 77.04 | x | 77.24 (DQ) | |
| 6 | David Söderberg | Finland (FIN) | 76.92 | 74.75 | 75.70 | 75.48 | 75.32 | 75.19 | 76.92 | SB |
| 7 | Mostafa Al-Gamel | Egypt (EGY) | 74.70 | 76.25 | 76.81 | x | x | 75.77 | 76.81 | |
| 8 | Marcel Lomnický | Slovakia (SVK) | 73.71 | 74.36 | 75.62 | 75.79 | 75.72 | 74.82 | 75.79 | |
| 9 | Ashraf Amgad Elseify | Qatar (QAT) | x | 72.90 | 74.09 | | | | 74.09 | |
| 10 | Tuomas Seppänen | Finland (FIN) | x | 71.85 | 73.18 | | | | 73.18 | |
| 11 | Nick Miller | Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | x | x | 72.94 | | | | 72.94 | |
| 12 | Roberto Janet | Cuba (CUB) | x | 72.50 | 71.79 | | | | 72.50 | |