World Rankings — Men’s Hammer

Oft-injured really spread out his 4 No. 1s, topping the charts in ’01, ’04, ’06 & ’10

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1947 1949 1...... Imre Németh () 1...... Imre Németh (Hungary) 2...... Bo Ericson () 2...... Aleksandr Kanaki () 3...... Ivan Gubijan (Yugoslavia) 3...... Karl Storch (West ) 4...... Karl Hein (West Germany) 4...... Karl Wolf (West Germany) 5...... Karl Storch (West Germany) 5...... Ivan Gubijan (Yugoslavia) 6...... Bob Bennett (US) 6...... Teseo Taddia (Italy) 7...... Jaroslav Knotek (Czechoslovakia) 7...... Sam Felton (US) 8.....Aleksandr Shekhtyel (Soviet Union) 8...... Henry Dreyer (US) 9...... Karl Wolf (West Germany) 9...... Sverre Strandli (Norway) 10...... Reino Kuivamäki (Finland) 10...... Bo Ericson (Sweden) 1948 1950 1...... Imre Németh (Hungary) 1...... Imre Németh (Hungary) 2...... Karl Storch (West Germany) 2...... Sverre Strandli (Norway) 3...... Aleksandr Kanaki (Soviet Union) 3...... Teseo Taddia (Italy) 4...... Bo Ericson (Sweden) 4...... Karl Storch (West Germany) 5...... Ivan Gubijan (Yugoslavia) 5...... Aleksandr Kanaki (Soviet Union) 6...... Karl Wolf (West Germany) 6...... Karl Wolf (West Germany) 7...... Karl Hein (West Germany) 7...... Sam Felton (US) 8.....Aleksandr Shekhtyel (Soviet Union) 8...... Jiří Dadák (Czechoslovakia) 9...... Sam Felton (US) 9...... Duncan Clark (Great Britain) 10...... Bob Bennett (US) 10..... Jaroslav Knotek (Czechoslovakia)

© Track & Field News 2018 — 1 — World Rankings — Men’s Hammer 1951 1955 1...... Sverre Strandli (Norway) 1...... Mikhail Krivonosov (Soviet Union) 2...... Imre Németh (Hungary) 2...... (US) 3...... Karl Wolf (West Germany) 3...... József Csermák (Hungary) 4...... Karl Storch (West Germany) 4...... Nikolay Ryedkin (Soviet Union) 5...... Jiří Dadák (Czechoslovakia) 5...... Miloš Máca (Czechoslovakia) 6...... Danilo Žerjal (Yugoslavia) 6...... Tadeusz Rut (Poland) 7...... Sam Felton (US) 7...... Sverre Strandli (Norway) 8...... Teseo Taddia (Italy) 8...... Fyodor Tkachev (Soviet Union) 9...... József Csermák (Hungary) 9.... Stanislav Nyenashev (Soviet Union) 10...... Georgiy Dybenko (Soviet Union) 10.Vladimir Plyechenkov (Soviet Union) 1952 1956 1...... Karl Storch (West Germany) 1...... Hal Connolly (US) 2...... Imre Németh (Hungary) 2...... Mikhail Krivonosov (Soviet Union) 3...... József Csermák (Hungary) 3.Anatoliy Samotsvyetov (Soviet Union) 4...... Sverre Strandli (Norway) 4...... Al Hall (US) 5...... Mikhail Krivonosov (Soviet Union) 5...... Dmitriy Yegorov (Soviet Union) 6...... Karl Wolf (West Germany) 6...... Tadeusz Rut (Poland) 7...... Jiří Dadák (Czechoslovakia) 7...... József Csermák (Hungary) 8...... Nikolay Ryedkin (Soviet Union) 8...... Sverre Strandli (Norway) 9...... Danilo Cereali (Italy) 9...... Krešimir Račić (Yugoslavia) 10...... Georgiy Dybenko (Soviet Union) 10...... Cliff Blair (US) 1953 1957 1...... Sverre Strandli (Norway) 1...... Mikhail Krivonosov (Soviet Union) 2...... József Csermák (Hungary) 2...... Al Hall (US) 3...... Mikhail Krivonosov (Soviet Union) 3...... Hal Connolly (US) 4...... Ivan Gubijan (Yugoslavia) 4...... Zvonko Bezjak (Yugoslavia) 5...... Miloš Máca (Czechoslovakia) 5...... Mike Ellis (Great Britain) 6...... Imre Németh (Hungary) 6.Anatoliy Samotsvyetov (Soviet Union) 7.... Stanislav Nyenashev (Soviet Union) 7...... Tadeusz Rut (Poland) 8...... Marty Engel (US) 8...... Fyodor Tkachev (Soviet Union) 9...... Karl Storch (West Germany) 9...... Olgierd Ciepły (Poland) 10...... Constantin Spiridon (Romania) 10...... Gyula Zsivótzky (Hungary) 1954 1958 1...... Mikhail Krivonosov (Soviet Union) 1...... Tadeusz Rut (Poland) 2...... Sverre Strandli (Norway) 2...... Hal Connolly (US) 3...... József Csermák (Hungary) 3...... Al Hall (US) 4...... Tadeusz Rut (Poland) 4...... Mikhail Krivonosov (Soviet Union) 5...... Nikolay Ryedkin (Soviet Union) 5.Anatoliy Samotsvyetov (Soviet Union) 6...... Karl Storch (West Germany) 6...... Vasiliy Rudenkov (Soviet Union) 7...... Miloš Máca (Czechoslovakia) 7...... Yuriy Nikulin (Soviet Union) 8.... Stanislav Nyenashev (Soviet Union) 8...... Gyula Zsivótzky (Hungary) 9...... Ivan Gubijan (Yugoslavia) 9...... Olgierd Ciepły (Poland) 10...... Muhammad Iqbal (Pakistan) 10...... Zvonko Bezjak (Yugoslavia)

© Track & Field News 2018 — 2 — World Rankings — Men’s Hammer 1959 1963 1...... Vasiliy Rudenkov (Soviet Union) 1...... Gyula Zsivótzky (Hungary) 2...... Hal Connolly (US) 2...... Hal Connolly (US) 3...... Birger Asplund (Sweden) 3...... Heinrich Thun (Austria) 4...... Gyula Zsivótzky (Hungary) 4. Gennadiy Kondrashov (Soviet Union) 5...... Tadeusz Rut (Poland) 5...... Josef Matoušek (Czechoslovakia) 6.Anatoliy Samotsvyetov (Soviet Union) 6...... Yuriy Bakarinov (Soviet Union) 7...... Yuriy Nikulin (Soviet Union) 7...... Takeo Sugawara () 8...... Olgierd Ciepły (Poland) 8...... Olgierd Ciepły (Poland) 9...... Mike Ellis (Great Britain) 9...... Romuald Klim (Soviet Union) 10...... John Lawlor (Ireland) 10...... Yuriy Nikulin (Soviet Union) 1960 1964 1...... Vasiliy Rudenkov (Soviet Union) 1...... Romuald Klim (Soviet Union) 2...... Hal Connolly (US) 2...... Gyula Zsivótzky (Hungary) 3...... Gyula Zsivótzky (Hungary) 3...... Yuriy Bakarinov (Soviet Union) 4...... Tadeusz Rut (Poland) 4...... Hal Connolly (US) 5.Anatoliy Samotsvyetov (Soviet Union) 5...... Heinrich Thun (Austria) 6...... Yuriy Nikulin (Soviet Union) 6...... Yuriy Nikulin (Soviet Union) 7...... Aleksey Baltovskiy (Soviet Union) 7...... Uwe Beyer (West Germany) 8...... John Lawlor (Ireland) 8...... Sándor Eckschmidt (Hungary) 9...... Zvonko Bezjak (Yugoslavia) 9. Gennadiy Kondrashov (Soviet Union) 10...... Yuriy Bakarinov (Soviet Union) 10...... Vasiliy Rudenkov (Soviet Union) 1961 1965 1...... Vasiliy Rudenkov (Soviet Union) 1...... Gyula Zsivótzky (Hungary) 2...... Hal Connolly (US) 2...... Romuald Klim (Soviet Union) 3...... Heinrich Thun (Austria) 3...... Hal Connolly (US) 4...... Yuriy Bakarinov (Soviet Union) 4...... Ed Burke (US) 5...... Birger Asplund (Sweden) 5. Gennadiy Kondrashov (Soviet Union) 6...... Gyula Zsivótzky (Hungary) 6...... Uwe Beyer (West Germany) 7...... Tadeusz Rut (Poland) 7...... Yuriy Nikulin (Soviet Union) 8...... Aleksey Baltovskiy (Soviet Union) 8...... Aleksey Baltovskiy (Soviet Union) 9.Anatoliy Samotsvyetov (Soviet Union) 9...... Josef Matoušek (Czechoslovakia) 10...... Noboru Okamoto (Japan) 10...... Martin Lotz (East Germany) 1962 1966 1...... Hal Connolly (US) 1...... Romuald Klim (Soviet Union) 2...... Gyula Zsivótzky (Hungary) 2...... Gyula Zsivótzky (Hungary) 3...... Aleksey Baltovskiy (Soviet Union) 3...... Hal Connolly (US) 4...... Yuriy Bakarinov (Soviet Union) 4...... Ed Burke (US) 5...... Heinrich Thun (Austria) 5...... Uwe Beyer (West Germany) 6...... Vasiliy Rudenkov (Soviet Union) 6. Gennadiy Kondrashov (Soviet Union) 7...... Josef Matoušek (Czechoslovakia) 7...... Enrique Samuel (Cuba) 8...... Al Hall (US) 8...... Manfred Losch (East Germany) 9...... Olgierd Ciepły (Poland) 9...... Vladimir Tribunskiy (Soviet Union) 10...... Yuriy Nikulin (Soviet Union) 10..... Aleksey Baltovskiy (Soviet Union)

© Track & Field News 2018 — 3 — World Rankings — Men’s Hammer 1967 1971 1...... Romuald Klim (Soviet Union) 1...... Uwe Beyer (West Germany) 2...... Ed Burke (US) 2.... (Soviet Union) 3...... Uwe Beyer (West Germany) 3...... Reinhard Theimer (East Germany) 4...... Gyula Zsivótzky (Hungary) 4...... Romuald Klim (Soviet Union) 5. Gennadiy Kondrashov (Soviet Union) 5...... Iosif Gamskiy (Soviet Union) 6...... Sándor Eckschmidt (Hungary) 6...... Walter Schmidt (West Germany) 7...... Vladimir Tribunskiy (Soviet Union) 7...... Gyula Zsivótzky (Hungary) 8...... Yuriy Nikulin (Soviet Union) 8...... (East Germany) 9.Anatoliy Shchuplyakov (Soviet Union) 9....Vasiliy Khmyelevskiy (Soviet Union) 10...... Guy Husson () 10...... István Encsi (Hungary) 1968 1972 1...... Gyula Zsivótzky (Hungary) 1....Anatoliy Bondarchuk (Soviet Union) 2...... Romuald Klim (Soviet Union) 2...... Jochen Sachse (East Germany) 3. Gennadiy Kondrashov (Soviet Union) 3....Vasiliy Khmyelevskiy (Soviet Union) 4...... Reinhard Theimer (East Germany) 4...... Uwe Beyer (West Germany) 5...... Lázár Lovász (Hungary) 5...... Edwin Klein (West Germany) 6...... Takeo Sugawara (Japan) 6...... Karl-Hans Riehm (West Germany) 7.Anatoliy Shchuplyakov (Soviet Union) 7...... Valentin Dmitrenko (Soviet Union) 8....Anatoliy Bondarchuk (Soviet Union) 8...... Sándor Eckschmidt (Hungary) 9...... Sándor Eckschmidt (Hungary) 9...... Gyula Zsivótzky (Hungary) 10...... Uwe Beyer (West Germany) 10..... Reinhard Theimer (East Germany) 1969 1973 1....Anatoliy Bondarchuk (Soviet Union) 1....Anatoliy Bondarchuk (Soviet Union) 2...... Romuald Klim (Soviet Union) 2...... Valentin Dmitrenko (Soviet Union) 3...... Reinhard Theimer (East Germany) 3...... (Soviet Union) 4...... Gyula Zsivótzky (Hungary) 4...... Reinhard Theimer (East Germany) 5.Anatoliy Shchuplyakov (Soviet Union) 5...... Karl-Hans Riehm (West Germany) 6...... George Frenn (US) 6...... Uwe Beyer (West Germany) 7...... Uwe Beyer (West Germany) 7...... Edwin Klein (West Germany) 8...... Hans Fahsl (West Germany) 8...... Jochen Sachse (East Germany) 9...... Hal Connolly (US) 9....Vasiliy Khmyelevskiy (Soviet Union) 10...... Takeo Sugawara (Japan) 10...... Iosif Gamskiy (Soviet Union) 1970 1974 1....Anatoliy Bondarchuk (Soviet Union) 1...... Aleksey Spiridonov (Soviet Union) 2...... Uwe Beyer (West Germany) 2...... Reinhard Theimer (East Germany) 3...... Romuald Klim (Soviet Union) 3...... Valentin Dmitrenko (Soviet Union) 4...... Reinhard Theimer (East Germany) 4...... Jochen Sachse (East Germany) 5...... Gyula Zsivótzky (Hungary) 5... Dzhumber Pkhakadze (Soviet Union) 6...... Jochen Sachse (East Germany) 6....Anatoliy Bondarchuk (Soviet Union) 7...... Anatoliy Maksimov (Soviet Union) 7...... Edwin Klein (West Germany) 8...... Walter Schmidt (West Germany) 8...... Uwe Beyer (West Germany) 9....Vasiliy Khmyelevskiy (Soviet Union) 9...... Manfred Hüning (West Germany) 10...... István Encsi (Hungary) 10...... Karl-Heinz Beilig (East Germany)

© Track & Field News 2018 — 4 — World Rankings — Men’s Hammer 1975 1979 1...... Karl-Hans Riehm (West Germany) 1...... Sergey Litvinov (Soviet Union) 2...... Valentin Dmitrenko (Soviet Union) 2...... Karl-Hans Riehm (West Germany) 3...... Jochen Sachse (East Germany) 3...... Manfred Hüning (West Germany) 4...... Aleksey Spiridonov (Soviet Union) 4...... (West Germany) 5...... Walter Schmidt (West Germany) 5...... Roland Steuk (East Germany) 6... Dzhumber Pkhakadze (Soviet Union) 6...... Yuriy Syedikh (Soviet Union) 7...... Manfred Hüning (West Germany) 7...... Aleksey Malyukov (Soviet Union) 8...... Aleksey Malyukov (Soviet Union) 8...... Detlef Gerstenberg (East Germany) 9...... Valeriy Valentyuk (Soviet Union) 9...... Boris Zaichuk (Soviet Union) 10...... Adam Barnard (South Africa) 10...Aleksandr Bunyeyev (Soviet Union) 1976 1980 1...... Yuriy Syedikh (Soviet Union) 1...... Yuriy Syedikh (Soviet Union) 2...... Aleksey Spiridonov (Soviet Union) 2...... Karl-Hans Riehm (West Germany) 3....Anatoliy Bondarchuk (Soviet Union) 3...... Sergey Litvinov (Soviet Union) 4...... Karl-Hans Riehm (West Germany) 4...... Igor Nikulin (Soviet Union) 5... Dzhumber Pkhakadze (Soviet Union) 5...... Jüri Tamm (Soviet Union) 6...... Walter Schmidt (West Germany) 6...... Boris Zaichuk (Soviet Union) 7...... Valentin Dmitrenko (Soviet Union) 7...... Aleksey Malyukov (Soviet Union) 8...... Jochen Sachse (East Germany) 8...... Klaus Ploghaus (West Germany) 9...... Anatoliy Yakunin (Soviet Union) 9...... Aleksandr Kozlov (Soviet Union) 10...... Chris Black (Great Britain) 10...... Roland Steuk (East Germany) 1977 1981 1...... Karl-Hans Riehm (West Germany) 1...... Yuriy Syedikh (Soviet Union) 2...... Valentin Dmitrenko (Soviet Union) 2...... Karl-Hans Riehm (West Germany) 3...... Boris Zaichuk (Soviet Union) 3...... Klaus Ploghaus (West Germany) 4...... Jochen Sachse (East Germany) 4...... Sergey Litvinov (Soviet Union) 5...... Roland Steuk (East Germany) 5...... Roland Steuk (East Germany) 6...... Emanuil Dyulgerov (Bulgaria) 6...... Jüri Tamm (Soviet Union) 7...... Yuriy Syedikh (Soviet Union) 7...... Harri Huhtala (Finland) 8...... Aleksandr Kozlov (Soviet Union) 8...... Igor Nikulin (Soviet Union) 9...... Manfred Seidel (East Germany) 9...... Pavel Ryepin (Soviet Union) 10...... Chris Black (Great Britain) 10...... Juha Tiainen (Finland) 1978 1982 1...... Yuriy Syedikh (Soviet Union) 1...... Yuriy Syedikh (Soviet Union) 2...... Karl-Hans Riehm (West Germany) 2...... Igor Nikulin (Soviet Union) 3...... Roland Steuk (East Germany) 3...... Sergey Litvinov (Soviet Union) 4...... Boris Zaichuk (Soviet Union) 4...... Yuriy Tarasyuk (Soviet Union) 5...... Detlef Gerstenberg (East Germany) 5...... Detlef Gerstenberg (East Germany) 6...... Valentin Dmitrenko (Soviet Union) 6...... Klaus Ploghaus (West Germany) 7...... Manfred Hüning (West Germany) 7...... Ireneusz Golda (Poland) 8...... Aleksey Malyukov (Soviet Union) 8...... Harri Huhtala (Finland) 9.....Aleksandr Bunyeyev (Soviet Union) 9...... Roland Steuk (East Germany) 10...... Sergey Litvinov (Soviet Union) 10...... Karl-Hans Riehm (West Germany)

© Track & Field News 2018 — 5 — World Rankings — Men’s Hammer 1983 1987 1...... Sergey Litvinov (Soviet Union) 1...... Sergey Litvinov (Soviet Union) 2...... Yuriy Syedikh (Soviet Union) 2...... Igor Nikulin (Soviet Union) 3...... Igor Nikulin (Soviet Union) 3...... Jüri Tamm (Soviet Union) 4...... Zdzisław Kwaśny (Poland) 4...... (Soviet Union) 5...... Yuriy Tarasyuk (Soviet Union) 5...... Ralf Haber (East Germany) 6...... Anatoliy Chyuzhas (Soviet Union) 6...... (West Germany) 7...... Grigoriy Shevtsov (Soviet Union) 7...... Yuriy Syedikh (Soviet Union) 8...... Günther Rodehau (East Germany) 8..... Benjaminas Viluckis (Soviet Union) 9...... Karl-Hans Riehm (West Germany) 9...... (West Germany) 10...... Juha Tiainen (Finland) 10...... Günther Rodehau (East Germany) 1984 1988 1...... Yuriy Syedikh (Soviet Union) 1...... Sergey Litvinov (Soviet Union) 2...... Igor Nikulin (Soviet Union) 2...... Yuriy Syedikh (Soviet Union) 3...... Sergey Litvinov (Soviet Union) 3...... Jüri Tamm (Soviet Union) 4...... Jüri Tamm (Soviet Union) 4...... Igor Astapkovich (Soviet Union) 5...... Juha Tiainen (Finland) 5...... Ralf Haber (East Germany) 6...... Yuriy Tarasyuk (Soviet Union) 6...... Igor Nikulin (Soviet Union) 7...... Detlef Gerstenberg (East Germany) 7...... Heinz Weis (West Germany) 8...... Günther Rodehau (East Germany) 8...... Tibor Gécsek (Hungary) 9...... Ralf Haber (East Germany) 9...... Vasiliy Sidorenko (Soviet Union) 10...... Karl-Hans Riehm (West Germany) 10...... Ivan Tanev (Bulgaria) 1985 1989 1...... Jüri Tamm (Soviet Union) 1...... Heinz Weis (West Germany) 2...... Yuriy Syedikh (Soviet Union) 2...... Igor Astapkovich (Soviet Union) 3...... Matthias Moder (East Germany) 3...... Yuriy Syedikh (Soviet Union) 4...... Christoph Sahner (West Germany) 4...... Vasiliy Sidorenko (Soviet Union) 5...... Günther Rodehau (East Germany) 5...... Tore Gustafsson (Sweden) 6...... František Vrbka (Czechoslovakia) 6...... Christoph Sahner (West Germany) 7...... Igor Grigorash (Soviet Union) 7...... Ralf Haber (East Germany) 8...... Klaus Ploghaus (West Germany) 8...... Sergey Alay (Soviet Union) 9...... Vasiliy Sidorenko (Soviet Union) 9...... Jüri Tamm (Soviet Union) 10...... Jorg Schaefer (West Germany) 10...... Donatas Plunge (Soviet Union) 1986 1990 1...... Yuriy Syedikh (Soviet Union) 1...... Igor Astapkovich (Soviet Union) 2...... Sergey Litvinov (Soviet Union) 2...... (Soviet Union) 3...... Igor Nikulin (Soviet Union) 3...... Igor Nikulin (Soviet Union) 4...... Jüri Tamm (Soviet Union) 4...... Yuriy Syedikh (Soviet Union) 5..... Benjaminas Viluckis (Soviet Union) 5...... Sergey Litvinov (Soviet Union) 6...... Günther Rodehau (East Germany) 6...... Tibor Gécsek (Hungary) 7...... Jorg Schaefer (West Germany) 7...... Vasiliy Sidorenko (Soviet Union) 8...... Ralf Haber (East Germany) 8...... Heinz Weis (West Germany) 9...... Christoph Sahner (West Germany) 9...... Jüri Tamm (Soviet Union) 10...... Klaus Ploghaus (West Germany) 10. Aleksandr Seleznyov (Soviet Union)

© Track & Field News 2018 — 6 — World Rankings — Men’s Hammer 1991 1995 1...... Yuriy Syedikh (Soviet Union) 1...... Igor Astapkovich () 2...... Igor Astapkovich (Soviet Union) 2...... Andrey Abduvaliyev (Tajikistan) 3...... Tibor Gécsek (Hungary) 3...... Balázs Kiss (Hungary) 4...... Heinz Weis (Germany) 4...... Tibor Gécsek (Hungary) 5...... Andrey Abduvaliyev (Soviet Union) 5...... (US) 6...... Igor Nikulin (Soviet Union) 6...... Ilya Konovalov (Russia) 7.... Aleksandr Seleznyov (Soviet Union) 7...... Aleksandr Seleznyov (Russia) 8...... Vasiliy Sidorenko (Soviet Union) 8...... Sergey Alay (Belarus) 9...... (US) 9...... Aleksey Krykun (Ukraine) 10...... Jüri Tamm () 10...... Raphaël Piolanti (France) 1992 1996 1...... Igor Astapkovich (Belarus) 1...... Lance Deal (US) 2...... Igor Nikulin (Russia) 2...... Balázs Kiss (Hungary) 3...... Andrey Abduvaliyev (Tajikistan) 3...... Igor Astapkovich (Belarus) 4...... Yuriy Syedikh (Russia) 4...... Andrey Skvaruk (Ukraine) 5...... Tibor Gécsek (Hungary) 5...... Heinz Weis (Germany) 6...... Jüri Tamm (Estonia) 6...... Aleksey Krykun (Ukraine) 7...... Heinz Weis (Germany) 7...... Ilya Konovalov (Russia) 8...... Lance Deal (US) 8...... Sergey Alay (Belarus) 9...... Andrey Skvaruk (Ukraine) 9...... Enrico Sgrulletti (Italy) 10...... Sergey Kirmasov (Russia) 10...... Szymon Ziółkowski (Poland) 1993 1997 1...... Andrey Abduvaliyev (Tajikistan) 1...... Heinz Weis (Germany) 2...... Igor Astapkovich (Belarus) 2...... Balázs Kiss (Hungary) 3...... Sergey Litvinov (Russia) 3...... Igor Astapkovich (Belarus) 4...... Sergey Alay (Belarus) 4...... Andrey Skvaruk (Ukraine) 5...... Tibor Gécsek (Hungary) 5...... Vasiliy Sidorenko (Russia) 6...... Vasiliy Sidorenko (Russia) 6...... Ilya Konovalov (Russia) 7...... Aleksandr Seleznyov (Russia) 7...... Vadim Khersontsev (Russia) 8...... Sergey Kirmasov (Russia) 8...... Aleksey Krykun (Ukraine) 9...... Lance Deal (US) 9...... Raphaël Piolanti (France) 10...... Christophe Épalle (France) 10...... (Germany) 1994 1998 1...... Andrey Abduvaliyev (Tajikistan) 1...... Tibor Gécsek (Hungary) 2...... Igor Astapkovich (Belarus) 2...... Balázs Kiss (Hungary) 3...... Vasiliy Sidorenko (Russia) 3...... Heinz Weis (Germany) 4...... Lance Deal (US) 4...... Andrey Abduvaliyev (Uzbekistan) 5...... Heinz Weis (Germany) 5...... Igor Astapkovich (Belarus) 6...... Igor Nikulin (Russia) 6...... Vasiliy Sidorenko (Russia) 7...... Tibor Gécsek (Hungary) 7...... (Germany) 8...... Yuriy Syedikh (Russia) 8...... Adrián Annus (Hungary) 9...... Christophe Épalle (France) 9...... Szymon Ziółkowski (Poland) 10...... Andrey Skvaruk (Ukraine) 10...... Lance Deal (US)

© Track & Field News 2018 — 7 — World Rankings — Men’s Hammer 1999 2003 1...... Karsten Kobs (Germany) 1...... Ivan Tikhon (Belarus) 2...... Tibor Gécsek (Hungary) 2...... Adrián Annus (Hungary) 3...... Zsolt Németh (Hungary) 3...... Koji Murofushi (Japan) 4...... Adrián Annus (Hungary) 4...... Andrey Skvaruk (Ukraine) 5...... Vladislav Piskunov (Ukraine) 5...... Ilya Konovalov (Russia) 6...... Andrey Skvaruk (Ukraine) 6...... Libor Charfreitag (Slovakia) 7...... Hrístos Polihroníou () 7...... Primož Kozmus (Slovenia) 8...... (Italy) 8...... Igor Astapkovich (Belarus) 9...... Vadim Khersontsev (Russia) 9...... (Belarus) 10...... Igor Astapkovich (Belarus) 10... Aléxandros Papadimitríou (Greece) 2000 2004 1...... Szymon Ziółkowski (Poland) 1...... Koji Murofushi (Japan) 2...... Tibor Gécsek (Hungary) 2...... Krisztián Pars (Hungary) 3...... Koji Murofushi (Japan) 3...... Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (Finland) 4...... Andrey Skvaruk (Ukraine) 4...... Eşref Apak (Turkey) 5...... Igor Astapkovich (Belarus) 5...... Vadim Devyatovskiy (Belarus) 6...... Nicola Vizzoni (Italy) 6...... Primož Kozmus (Slovenia) 7...... Ivan Tikhon (Belarus) 7...... Libor Charfreitag (Slovakia) 8...... Ilya Konovalov (Russia) 8...... Karsten Kobs (Germany) 9...... Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (Finland) 9...... Igor Astapkovich (Belarus) 10... Aléxandros Papadimitríou (Greece) 10...... Chris Harmse (South Africa) 2001 2005 1...... Koji Murofushi (Japan) 1...... Vadim Devyatovskiy (Belarus) 2...... Szymon Ziółkowski (Poland) 2...... Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (Finland) 3...... Nicola Vizzoni (Italy) 3...... Szymon Ziółkowski (Poland) 4...... Tibor Gécsek (Hungary) 4...... (Germany) 5...... Balázs Kiss (Hungary) 5...... Krisztián Pars (Hungary) 6...... Ilya Konovalov (Russia) 6...... Ilya Konovalov (Russia) 7...... Andrey Skvaruk (Ukraine) 7...... Libor Charfreitag (Slovakia) 8...... Adrían Annus (Hungary) 8...... Karsten Kobs (Germany) 9...... Nicolas Figère (France) 9...... (Russia) 10...... David Chaussinand (France) 10...... Vadim Khersontsev (Russia 2002 2006 1...... Adrián Annus (Hungary) 1...... Koji Murofushi (Japan) 2...... Koji Murofushi (Japan) 2...... Ivan Tikhon (Belarus) 3...... Igor Astapkovich (Belarus) 3...... Vadim Devyatovskiy (Belarus) 4...... Balázs Kiss (Hungary) 4...... Szymon Ziółkowski (Poland) 5...... Vladislav Piskunov (Ukraine) 5...... Krisztián Pars (Hungary) 6...... Andrey Skvaruk (Ukraine) 6...... Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (Finland) 7..... Aléxandros Papadimitríou (Greece) 7...... Markus Esser (Germany) 8...... Tibor Gécsek (Hungary) 8...... Primož Kozmus (Slovenia) 9...... Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (Finland) 9...... Karsten Kobs (Germany) 10...... Karsten Kobs (Germany) 10...... Andrey Vorontsov (Belarus)

© Track & Field News 2018 — 8 — World Rankings — Men’s Hammer 2007 2011 1...... Ivan Tikhon (Belarus) 1...... Krisztián Pars (Hungary) 2...... Primož Kozmus (Slovenia) 2...... Koji Murofushi (Japan) 3...... Krisztián Pars (Hungary) 3...... Primož Kozmus (Slovenia) 4...... Libor Charfreitag (Slovakia) 4...... Markus Esser (Germany) 5...... Koji Murofushi (Japan) 5...... Aleksey Zagorniy (Russia) 6...... Vadim Devyatovskiy (Belarus) 6...... Pavel Kryvitski (Belarus) 7...... Szymon Ziółkowski (Poland) 7...... Kirill Ikonnikov (Russia) 8...... Markus Esser (Germany) 8...... Dilshod Nazarov (Tajikistan) 9...... Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (Finland) 9...... Nicola Vizzoni (Italy) 10...... Miloslav Konopka (Slovakia) 10...... Szymon Ziółkowski (Poland) 2008 2012 1...... Primož Kozmus (Slovenia) 1...... Krisztián Pars (Hungary) 2...... Krisztián Pars (Hungary) 2...... Aleksey Sokirskiy (Ukraine) 3...... Vadim Devyatovskiy (Belarus) 3...... Primož Kozmus (Slovenia) 4...... Ivan Tikhon (Belarus) 4...... Koji Murofushi (Japan) 5...... Koji Murofushi (Japan) 5...... Sergey Litvinov (Russia) 6...... Libor Charfreitag (Slovakia) 6...... Pawel Fajdek (Poland) 7...... Szymon Ziółkowski (Poland) 7...... Lukás Melich (Czech Republic) 8...... Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (Finland) 8...... Szymon Ziółkowski (Poland) 9...... Markus Esser (Germany) 9...... Nicola Vizzoni (Italy) 10...... Marco Lingua (Italy) 10...... Dilshod Nazarov (Tajikistan) 2009 2013 1...... Primož Kozmus (Slovenia) 1...... Krisztián Pars (Hungary) 2...... Krisztián Pars (Hungary) 2...... Paweł Fajdek (Poland) 3...... Aleksey Zagornyi (Russia) 3...... Lukáš Melich (Czech Republic) 4...... Szymon Ziółkowski (Poland) 4...... Primož Kozmus (Slovenia) 5...... Igors Sokolovs (Latvia) 5...... Dilshod Nazarov (Tajikistan) 6...... Dilshod Nazarov (Tajikistan) 6...... Marcel Lomnický (Slovakia) 7...... Nicola Vizzoni (Italy) 7...... Szymon Ziółkowski (Poland) 8...... Markus Esser (Germany) 8...... Markus Esser (Germany) 9...... Yuriy Shayunov (Belarus) 9...... Sergey Litvinov (Russia) 10...... Ali Mohamed Al-Zankawi (Kuwait) 10...... Koji Murofushi (Japan) 2010 2014 1...... Koji Murofushi (Japan) 1...... Krisztián Pars (Hungary) 2...... Libor Charfreitag (Slovakia) 2...... Paweł Fajdek (Poland) 3...... Krisztián Pars (Hungary) 3...... Dilshod Nazarov (Tajikistan) 4...... Dilshod Nazarov (Tajikistan) 4...... Mostafa Hicham Al-Gamal (Egy) 5...... Sergey Litvinov II (Germany) 5...... Pavel Krivitski (Belarus) 6...... Nicola Vizzoni (Italy) 6...... Marcel Lomnický (Slovakia) 7...... Pavel Krivitskiy (Belarus) 7...... Sergey Litvinov (Russia) 8...... Yuriy Shayunov (Belarus) 8...... Primož Kozmus (Slovenia) 9...... Valeriy Svyatokho (Belarus) 9...... David Söderberg (Finland) 10...... Wojciech Kondratowicz (Poland) 10...... Markus Esser (Germany)

© Track & Field News 2018 — 9 — World Rankings — Men’s Hammer 2015 2017 1...... Paweł Fajdek (Poland) 1...... Paweł Fajdek (Poland) 2...... Krisztián Pars (Hungary) 2...... Wojciech Nowicki (Poland) 3...... Dilshod Nazarov (Tajikistan) 3...... Valeriy Pronkin (Russia) 4...... Wojciech Nowicki (Poland) 4...... Quentin Bigot (France) 5...... Mostafa Hicham Al-Gamal (Egypt) 5...... Pavel Bareisha (Belarus) 6...... Marcel Lomnický (Slovakia) 6...... Nick Miller (Great Britain) 7...... Sergey Litvinov (Russia) 7...... Dilshod Nazarov (Tajikistan) 8...... Nick Miller (Great Britain) 8...... Aleksey Sokirskiy (Russia) 9...... David Söderberg (Finland) 9...... Serghei Marghiev (Moldova) 10...... Ashraf Amjad Al-Saifi (Qatar) 10...... Marcel Lomnický (Slovakia) 2016 1...... Paweł Fajdek (Poland) 2...... Dilshod Nazarov (Tajikistan) 3...... Ivan Tikhon (Belarus) 4...... Wojciech Nowicki (Poland) 5...... Ashraf Amjad Al-Saifi (Qatar) 6...... Marcel Lomnický (Slovakia) 7...... David Söderberg (Finland) 8...... Sergey Litvinov (Russia) 9...... Aleksey Sokirskiy (Russia) 10...... Diego Del Real (Mexico)

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