2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw
The men's hammer throw at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 22 and 23 August.
Returning champion and current world leader Paweł Fajdek looked to be the favorite. In the first round it was David Söderberg who took the lead. The second round saw Dilshod Nazarov and Sergej Litvinov get off 77 metre throws to take the top two spots. Then in the third round, Fajdek let out 80.64 and calmly walked out of the ring. Nobody else could get in that range, but Fajdek launched 80.88 on his next throw for the win. Nazarov got off a 78.55 in the fifth round to move into second, but that was matched exactly by Wojciech Nowicki on his [|final] throw. With an exact tie for the silver medal, the second best throw became the tiebreaker, Nazarov's 78.06 in the fourth round being superior to Nowicki's third round 77.20.
The world championships also incorporated the 2015 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge and Fajdek was the series winner.
Records
Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:| World record | 86.74 | Stuttgart, West Germany | 30 August 1986 | |
| Championship record | 83.63 | Osaka, Japan | 27 August 2007 | |
| World leading | 83.93 | Szczecin, Poland | 9 August 2015 | |
| African record | 81.27 | Cairo, Egypt | 21 March 2014 | |
| Asian record | 84.86 | Prague, Czech Republic | 29 June 2003 | |
| North, Central American and Caribbean record | 82.52 | Milan, Italy | 7 September 1996 | |
| South American record | 76.42 | Trieste, Italy | 25 July 2001 | |
| European record | 86.74 | Stuttgart, West Germany | 30 August 1986 | |
| Oceanian record | 79.29 | Varaždin, Croatia | 6 July 2002 |
Qualification standards
Schedule
Results
Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 77.00 or at least 12 best performers advanced to the final.| Rank | Group | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | Mark | Notes |
| 1 | A | Paweł Fajdek | 76.46 | 78.38 | 78.38 | |||
| 2 | A | Nick Miller | 77.42 | 77.42 | ||||
| 3 | B | Sergej Litvinov | 74.75 | 76.79 | 76.79 | |||
| 4 | B | Wojciech Nowicki | 75.52 | 76.72 | 76.72 | |||
| 5 | B | Ashraf Amgad Elseify | 72.01 | 75.03 | 76.51 | 76.51 | ||
| 6 | A | David Söderberg | 73.30 | 75.96 | 75.42 | 75.96 | ||
| 7 | A | Dilshod Nazarov | 74.86 | 75.56 | 75.56 | |||
| 8 | B | Mostafa Al-Gamel | 75.48 | 74.06 | 75.48 | |||
| 9 | B | Krisztián Pars | 75.37 | 74.41 | 75.02 | 75.37 | ||
| 10 | B | Roberto Janet | 74.77 | 75.28 | 75.28 | |||
| 11 | B | Tuomas Seppänen | 74.74 | 73.43 | 74.74 | , | ||
| 12 | A | Marcel Lomnický | 73.10 | 74.51 | 74.51 | |||
| 13 | B | Conor McCullough | 72.40 | 72.05 | 74.31 | 74.31 | ||
| 14 | A | Yevhen Vynohradov | 71.01 | 74.09 | 74.09 | |||
| 15 | B | Mark Dry | 72.13 | 71.24 | 73.87 | 73.87 | ||
| 16 | A | Kibwe Johnson | 71.72 | 73.75 | 73.33 | 73.75 | ||
| 17 | B | Eşref Apak | 73.01 | 73.01 | ||||
| 18 | A | Yury Shayunou | 72.07 | 72.87 | 72.87 | |||
| 19 | A | Marco Lingua | 72.01 | 72.85 | 72.85 | |||
| 20 | A | Lukáš Melich | 71.89 | 70.11 | 72.12 | 72.12 | ||
| 21 | B | Ivan Tsikhan | 70.30 | 71.88 | 71.88 | |||
| 22 | A | Wagner Domingos | 71.35 | 71.82 | 71.82 | |||
| 23 | B | Serghei Marghiev | 71.61 | 71.45 | 71.61 | |||
| 24 | A | A. G. Kruger | 71.56 | 71.56 | ||||
| 25 | A | Pavel Bareisha | 71.41 | 71.23 | 71.41 | |||
| 26 | A | Suhrob Khodjaev | 70.45 | 70.99 | 71.24 | 71.24 | ||
| 27 | B | Ákos Hudi | 71.15 | 71.15 | ||||
| 28 | A | Bence Pásztor | 71.10 | 70.68 | 71.14 | 71.14 | ||
| 29 | B | Javier Cienfuegos | 69.38 | 68.37 | 70.96 | 70.96 | ||
| 30 | B | Roberto Sawyers | 65.53 | 66.64 | 66.64 |
Final
The final was started at 18:30.| Rank | Name | Nationality | # 1 | # 2 | # 3 | # 4 | # 5 | # 6 | Mark | Notes |
| Paweł Fajdek | 76.40 | 80.64 | 80.88 | 79.34 | 78.29 | 80.88 | ||||
| Dilshod Nazarov | 76.83 | 77.61 | 76.17 | 78.06 | 78.55 | 76.60 | 78.55 | |||
| Wojciech Nowicki | 76.14 | 76.73 | 77.20 | 75.80 | 78.55 | 78.55 | ||||
| Krisztián Pars | 76.33 | 75.98 | 77.32 | 76.40 | 77.05 | 77.32 | ||||
| Sergej Litvinov | 70.75 | 77.09 | 77.24 | 77.04 | 77.24 | |||||
| David Söderberg | 76.92 | 74.75 | 75.70 | 75.48 | 75.32 | 75.19 | 76.92 | |||
| Mostafa Al-Gamel | 74.70 | 76.25 | 76.81 | 75.77 | 76.81 | |||||
| Marcel Lomnický | 73.71 | 74.36 | 75.62 | 75.79 | 75.72 | 74.82 | 75.79 | |||
| Ashraf Amgad Elseify | 72.90 | 74.09 | 74.09 | |||||||
| 10 | Tuomas Seppänen | 71.85 | 73.18 | 73.18 | ||||||
| 11 | Nick Miller | 72.94 | 72.94 | |||||||
| 12 | Roberto Janet | 72.50 | 71.79 | 72.50 |