16-lb Hammer Throw

Updated September 27, 2017 | Infoplease Staff
1900 John Flanagan, United States 167 ft 4 in
1904 John Flanagan, United States 168 ft 1 in
1908 John Flanagan, United States 170 ft 4.25 in
1912 Matt McGrath, United States 179 ft 7.125 in
1920 Pat Ryan, United States 173 ft 5.625 in
1924 Fred Tootell, United States 174 ft 10.25 in
1928 Patrick O'Callaghan, Ireland 168 ft 7.5 in
1932 Patrick O'Callaghan, Ireland 176 ft 11.125 in
1936 Karl Hein, Germany 185 ft 4 in
1948 Imre Nemeth, Hungary 183 ft 11.5 in
1952 Jozsef Csermak, Hungary 197 ft 11.5625 in
1956 Harold Connolly, United States 207 ft 2.75 in
1960 Vasily Rudenkov, USSR 220 ft 1.625 in
1964 Romuald Klim, USSR 228 ft 9.5 in
1968 Gyula Zsivotzky, Hungary 240 ft 8 in
1972 Anatoly Bondarchuk, USSR 247 ft 8.5 in
1976 Yuri Sedykh, USSR 254 ft 4 in
1980 Yuri Sedykh, USSR 268 ft 4.5 in
1984 Juha Tiainen, Finland 256 ft 2 in
1988 Sergei Litvinov, USSR 278 ft 2.5 in
1992 Andrey Abduvaliyev, Unified Team1 270 ft 9.5 in
1996 Balazs Kiss, Hungary 266 ft 6 in
2000 Szymon Ziolkowski, Poland 262 ft 6 in
2004 Koji Murofushi, Japan 272 ft 0.17 in
2008 Primoz Kozmus, Slovenia 269 ft 1.13 in
1. Former Soviet Union team.

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