The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Athletics - Hammer Throw

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

UNITED STATES - 19 Medals
SOVIET UNION - 16 Medals
POLAND - 10 Medals

Medal Table
Hammer Throw 100 Meters
 200 Meters
400 Meters
 800 Meters
 1500 Meters
5000 Meters
 10000 Meters
 100 Meter Hurdles
110 Meter Hurdles 400 Meter Hurdles 3000 Meter Steeplechase
4X100 Relay 4X400 Relay Marathon
20 KM Walk 50 KM Walk High Jump
Pole Vault Long Jump Triple Jump
Shot Put
 Discus Javelin
Decathlon Heptathlon

Men's  Women's  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games
YEAR
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
1900
 John Flanagan - United States
 Truxton Hare - United States
 Josiah McCracken - United States
1904
 John Flanagan - United States
 John DeWitt - United States
 Ralph Rose - United States
1908
 John Flanagan - United States
 Matt McGrath - United States
 Con Walsh - Canada
1912
 Matt McGrath - United States
 Duncan Gillis - Canada
 Clarence Childs - United States
1920
 Patrick Ryan - United States
 Carl Johan Lind - Sweden
 Basil Bennett - United States
1924
 Fred Tootell - United States
 Matt McGrath - United States
 Mlacolm Nokes - Great Britain
1928
 Pat O'Callaghan - Ireland
 Ossian Skiold - Sweden
 Edmund Black - United States
1932
 Pat O'Callaghan - Ireland
 Ville Porhola - Finland
 Peter Zaremba - United States
1936
 Karl Hein - Germany
 Erwin Blask - Germany
 Fred Warngard - Sweden
1948
 Imre Nemeth - Hungary
 Ivan Gubijan - Yugoslavia
 Robert Bennett - United States
1952
 Jozsef Csermak - Hungary
 Karl Storch - Germany
 Imre Nemeth - Hungary
1956
 Harold Connolly - United States
 Mikhail Krivonosov - Soviet Union
 Anatoli Samotsvetov - Soviet Union
1960
 Vasili Rudenkov - Soviet Union
 Gyula Zsivotzky - Hungary
 Tadeusz Rut - Poland
1964
 Romuald Klim - Soviet Union
 Gyula Zsivotzky - Hungary
 Uwe Beyer - United Team of Germany
1968
 Gyula Zsivotzky - Hungary
 Romuald Klim - Soviet Union
 Lazar Lovasz - Hungary
1972
 Anatoliy Bondarchuk - Soviet Union
 Jochen Sachse - East Germany
 Vasili Khmelevski - Soviet Union
1976
 Yuriy Sedykh - Soviet Union
 Aleksei Spiridonov - Soviet Union
 Anatoliy Bondarchuk - Soviet Union
1980
 Yuriy Sedykh - Soviet Union
 Sergey Litvinov - Soviet Union
 Juri Tamm - Soviet Union
1984
 Juha Tiainen - Finland
 Karl-Hans Riehm - West Germany
 Klaus Ploghaus - West Germany
1988
 Sergey Litinov - Soviet Union
 Yuriy Sedykh - Soviet Union
 Juri Tamm - Soviet Union
1992
 Andrey Abduvaliyev - Unified Team
 Igor Astapkovich - Unified Team
 Igor Nikulin - Unified Team
1996
 Balazs Kiss - Hungary
 Lance Deal - United States
 Oleksandr Krykun - Ukraine
2000
 Szymon Ziolkowski - Poland
 Nicola Vizzoni - Italy
 Igor Astapkovich - Belarus
2004
 Koji Murofushi - Japan
 Ivan Tsikhan - Belarus
 Esref Apak - Turkey
2008
 Primoz Kozmus - Slovenia
 Vadim Devyatovskiy - Belarus
 Ivan Tsikan - Belarus
2012
 Krisztian Pars - Hungary
 Primoz Kozmus - Slovenia
 Koji MuroFushi - Japan
2016
 Dilshod Nazarov - Tajikistan
 Ivan Tsikan - Belarus Wojciech Nowicki - Poland
2020
 Wojciech Nowicki - Poland Eivind Henriksen - Norway Paweł Fajdek - Poland

Women's  Men's  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games
YEAR
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
2000
 Kamila Skolimowska - Poland
 Olga Kuzenkova - Russia
 Kirsten Munchow - Germany
2004
 Olga Kuzenkova - Russia
 Yipsi Moreno - Cuba
 Yunaika Crawford - Cuba
2008
 Yipsi Moreno - Cuba Zhang Wenxiu - China Manuela Montebrun - France
2012
 Anita Włodarczyk - Poland Betty Heidler - Germany Zhang Wenxiu - China
2016
 Anita Włodarczyk - Poland Zhang Wenxiu - China
 Sophie Hitchon - Great Britain
2020
 Anita Włodarczyk - Poland Zheng Wang - China Malwina Kopron - Poland

Medal Total  Women's  Men's
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 United States
 7
 5
 7
 19
2
 Soviet Union
 6
 5
 5
 16
3
 Poland 6
 0
 4
 10
4
 Hungary
 5
 2
 2
 9
5
 Germany
 1
 3
 1
 5
6
 Belarus 0
 3
 2
 5
7
 China 0
 3
 1
 4
8
 Cuba 1
 1
 1
 3
9
 Unified Team
 1
 1
 1
 3
10
 Sweden
 0
 2
 1
 3
11
 Ireland
 2
 0
 0
 2
12
 Finland
 1
 1
 0
 2
13
 Slovenia
 1
 1
 0
 2
14
 Russia 1
 1
 0
 2
15
 Japan
 1
 0
 1
 2
16
 Canada
 0
 1
 1
 2
17
 West Germany
 0
 1
 1
 2
18
 Great Britain
 0
 0
 2
 2
19
 Tajikistan
 1
 0
 0
 1
20
 Italy
 0
 1
 0
 1
21
 Norway
 0
 1
 0
 1
22
 Yugoslavia
 0
 1
 0
 1
23
 East Germany
 0
 1
 0
 1
24
 Ukraine
 0
 0
 1
 1
25
 Turkey
 0
 0
 1
 1
26
 France
 0
 0
 1
 1
27
 United Team of Germany 0
 0
 1
 1