Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw

Men's hammer throw at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Stadio Olimpico
Dates	September 2 (qualifications) September 3 (final)
Competitors	28 from 18 nations
Medalists
Vasily Rudenkov  Soviet Union Gyula Zsivótzky  Hungary Tadeusz Rut  Poland

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The Men's hammer throw at the 1960 Summer Olympics took place on September 2 (qualifications) and September 3 (final) at the Stadio Olimpico.

The qualifying standards for the 1960 event were .

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record	Harold Connolly	70.33 m	Walnut, United States	June 20, 1960
Olympic record	Harold Connolly (USA)	63.19 m	Melbourne, Australia	November 24, 1956

Results

Qualifying round

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 60.00 m (Q) advance to the Final.

Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
Eduardo Martins	Portugal	53.26	54.31	54.92	54.92
Tadeusz Rut	Poland	60.73			60.73	Q
Takeo Sugawara	Japan	58.40	59.32	57.66	59.32
Manfred Losch	Germany	x	58.85	59.38	59.38
Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	64.80			64.80	Q
Albert Hall	United States	57.43	x	60.76	60.76	Q
Antun Bezjak	Yugoslavia	60.90			60.90	Q
Heinz Thun	Austria	62.73			62.73	Q
József Csermák	Hungary	x	x	62.73	59.72
Harold Connolly	United States	63.02			63.02	Q
Sverre Strandli	Norway	58.67	61.41		61.41	Q
Michael Ellis	Great Britain	63.21			63.21	Q
José Falcón Echegoyen	23x15px Spain	51.26	57.24	x	57.24
Yuriy Nikulin	Soviet Union	60.40			60.40	Q
Karl Birger Asplund	Sweden	57.27	x	x	57.27
Klaus Peter	Germany	x	59.83	x	59.83
Krešimir Račić	Yugoslavia	57.27	x	x	57.27
Siegfried Lorenz	Germany	x	59.06	x	59.06
Edward Bagdonas	United States	x	59.48	x	59.48
Muhammad Iqbal	Pakistan	57.84	60.86		60.86	Q
John Lawlor	Ireland	x	62.10		62.10	Q
Andreas Kouveloyannis	Greece	53.43	x	55.18	55.18
Noboru Okamoto	Japan	x	x	61.95	61.95	Q
Olgierd Cieply	Poland	60.61			60.61	Q
Vasily Rudenkov	Soviet Union	67.03			67.03	Q, OR
Anatoli Samotsvetov	Soviet Union	64.67			64.67	Q
Guy Husson	France	59.31	x	59.83	59.83
Hans Jost	Switzerland	55.09	57.07	59.12	59.12
Erman Bastian	India	x	x	x	x	DNC

Q - Qualified with score of 60.00 or higher

x - Fault

OR - Olympic Record

DNC - Did not compete

Finals

The six highest-ranked competitors after three rounds qualified for the final three throws to decide the medals.

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Vasily Rudenkov	Soviet Union	65.60	64.98	67.10	66.62	64.58	66.23	67.10	OR
	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	60.83	63.83	64.87	65.79	x	65.11	65.79
	Tadeusz Rut	Poland	64.51	65.64	64.95	x	64.85	63.54	65.64
4	John Lawlor	Ireland	x	62.59	64.09	64.95	x	x	64.95
5	Olgierd Cieply	Poland	60.03	64.07	62.27	64.57	62.48	62.06	64.57
6	Antun Bezjak	Yugoslavia	61.96	64.21	63.54	63.95	62.86	x	64.21
7	Anatoli Samotsvetov	Soviet Union	x	63.60	x				63.60
8	Harold Connolly	United States	63.05	62.57	63.59				63.59
9	Heinz Thun	Austria	62.23	x	63.53				63.53
10	Yuriy Nikulin	Soviet Union	61.56	63.10	62.23				63.10
11	Sverre Strandli	Norway	x	62.02	63.05				63.05
12	Muhammad Iqbal	Pakistan	60.55	61.79	60.80				61.79
13	Noboru Okamoto	Japan	x	60.08	x				60.08
14	Albert Hall	United States	59.64	x	59.76				59.76
15	Michael Ellis	Great Britain	x	54.22	x				54.22

External links

• Olympic Games Official Report 1960 Rome-Volume I
• Olympic Games Official Report 1960 Rome-Volume II