16-lb Hammer Throw

Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff Updated by an Factmonster Editor on February 21, 2017

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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