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Men's Hammer throw - Athletics |  | ||||
 Men's Hammer throw 1956
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| Final | |||||||||
 | Harold Connolly |  | USA | 63,19 | OR | ||||
 | Mikhail Krivonosov |  | URS | 63,03 | |||||
 | Anatoly Samotsvetov | | URS | 62,56 | |||||
| 4. | Albert Hall | | USA | 61,96 | |||||
| 5. | Jozsef Csermak |  | HUN | 60,70 | |||||
| 6. | Kresimir Racic |  | YUG | 60,36 | |||||
| 7. | Dmitri Yegorov | | URS | 60,22 | |||||
| 8. | Sverre Strandli |  | NOR | 59,21 | |||||
| 9. | Peter Allday |  | GBR | 58,00 | |||||
| 10. | Alfons Niklas |  | POL | 57,70 | |||||
| 11. | Muhammad Iqbal |  | PAK | 56,97 | |||||
| 12. | Donald Anthony | | GBR | 56,72 | |||||
| 13. | Guy Husson |  | FRA | 55,02 | |||||
| 14. | Tadeusz Rut | | POL | 53,43 | |||||
| Birger Asplund |  | SWE | nm | ||||||
| Qualification | |||||||||
| 1. | Anatoly Samotsvetov | | URS | 59,53 | Q | ||||
| 2. | Kresimir Racic | | YUG | 59,06 | Q | ||||
| 3. | Harold Connolly | | USA | 59,05 | Q | ||||
| 4. | Alfons Niklas | | POL | 58,46 | Q | ||||
| 5. | Tadeusz Rut | | POL | 58,07 | Q | ||||
| 6. | Jozsef Csermak | | HUN | 57,95 | Q | ||||
| 7. | Albert Hall | | USA | 57,50 | Q | ||||
| 8. | Dmitri Yegorov | | URS | 57,03 | Q | ||||
| 9. | Sverre Strandli | | NOR | 56,32 | Q | ||||
| 10. | Birger Asplund | | SWE | 55,03 | Q | ||||
| 11. | Guy Husson | | FRA | 54,98 | Q | ||||
| 11. | Peter Allday | | GBR | 54,98 | Q | ||||
| 13. | Donald Anthony | | GBR | 54,89 | Q | ||||
| 14. | Muhammad Iqbal | | PAK | 54,59 | Q | ||||
| 15. | Mikhail Krivonosov | | URS | 54,53 | Q | ||||
| 16. | Song Kyo-sik |  | KOR | 53,74 | |||||
| 17. | Yoshio Kojima |  | JPN | 53,48 | |||||
| 18. | Alejandro Diaz |  | CHI | 52,23 | |||||
| 19. | Charles Morris |  | AUS | 49,35 | |||||
| 20. | Neville Gadsden | | AUS | 48,84 | |||||
| 21. | Martin Crowe | | AUS | 48,43 | |||||
| 22. | Fumio Kamamoto | | JPN | 44,70 | |||||
Men's Hammer throw - Athletics - Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics
Event Format: Athletes competed in a qualifying round followed by the final. Top twelve and ties in the qualifying round and all those reaching the announced qualification limit advanced to the final. In the final all finalists were given three tries. The top eight were then given three more. Event facts: Men's Hammer throw competition was held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and 22 athletes participated in the event. |
| These results for Men's Hammer throw - Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics - are based on the official Olympic reports and the Olympian Database |
