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Men    Women 100 y 100 m 200 m 400 m 800 m 1500 m 1 Mile 5000 m 10000 m Marathon 110 m Hurdles 400 m Hurdles 3000 m Steeplechase 4 x 100 m Relay 4 x 400 m Relay 10 km Track Walk 20 km Road Walk 50 km Road Walk 35 km Road Walk High Jump Pole Vault Long Jump Triple Jump Shot Put Discus Throw Hammer Throw Javelin Throw Decathlon 4 x 400 m Mixed

Men, Hammer Throw World    World Indoor    Europe    Olympic    World Champ.    Europe Champ. All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons. •   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated Chart     27.74 Adam Wilson GBR Hunter`s Tryst May 10, 1828   31.75 Robert Nevis GBR Etal Oct 12, 1836   33.00 George Scott GBR Etal Oct 25, 1839   33.36 John Stevenson GBR Etal Oct 05, 1841   34.01 Henry Leeke GBR London Mar 27, 1872   37.34 Stephen Brown GBR London Mar 31, 1873   38.63 George Hales GBR London Mar 27, 1874   39.40 William Barry IRL New York Aug 12, 1888   40.46 James Mitchell USA Bayonne Jun 12, 1889   40.74 James Mitchell USA Elkton Oct 10, 1889   40.80 James Mitchell USA New York Jun 13, 1891   42.41 James Mitchell USA New York Sep 12, 1891   42.63 James Mitchell USA Detroit Sep 29, 1891   43.06 James Mitchel USA New York Oct 10, 1891   43.20 James Mitchell USA New York Jun 18, 1892   44.21 James Mitchell USA New York Oct 08, 1892   44.46 John Flanagan IRL Clonmel Sep 09, 1895   44.80 John Flanagan IRL London Apr 06, 1896   45.94 John Flanagan IRL Bayonne May 31, 1897   46.81 John Flanagan IRL New Orleans May 15, 1898   46.84 Josiah McCracken USA New York May 30, 1898   47.18 John Flanagan IRL New York Jun 11, 1898   48.26 John Flanagan IRL New York Jun 11, 1898   48.27 John Flanagan IRL Boston Jul 23, 1898   49.38 Thomas Kiely IRL Limerick Jun 08, 1899   50.01 John Flanagan IRL New York Jul 22, 1899   50.24 John Flanagan IRL New York Jul 30, 1899   50.82 John Flanagan IRL New York Sep 23, 1899   51.10 John Flanagan IRL New York Sep 23, 1899   51.61 John Flanagan IRL New York Sep 29, 1900   52.35 John Flanagan USA New York Sep 02, 1901   52.71 John Flanagan USA New York Jul 31, 1904   52.91 Matthew McGrath USA Montreal Sep 21, 1907   53.38 John Flanagan USA Torrington Jun 20, 1908   56.18 John Flanagan USA New Haven Jul 24, 1909   57.10 Matthew McGrath USA New York Oct 29, 1911 • 57.77 Patrick James Ryan USA New York Aug 17, 1913   59.56 Patrick O'Callaghan IRL Fermoy Aug 22, 1937 • 59.57 Imre Németh HUN Katowice Sep 04, 1949 • 59.88 Imre Németh HUN Budapest May 19, 1950 • 60.34 Jozsef Csermak HUN Helsinki Jul 24, 1952 • 61.25 Sverre Strandli NOR Oslo Sep 14, 1952 • 62.36 Sverre Strandli NOR Oslo Sep 05, 1953 • 63.34 Mikhail Krivonosov URS Bern Aug 29, 1954 • 64.05 Stanislav Nyenashev URS Baku Dec 12, 1954 • 64.33 Mikhail Krivonosov URS Warsaw Aug 04, 1955 • 64.52 Mikhail Krivonosov URS Belgrad Sep 19, 1955 • 65.85 Mikhail Krivonosov URS Nalchik Apr 25, 1956   65.95 Clifford Blair USA Needham Jul 05, 1956 • 66.38 Mikhail Krivonosov URS Minsk Jul 08, 1956   66.71 Harold Connolly USA Boston Oct 03, 1956   66.85 Mikhail Krivonosov URS Tashkent Oct 22, 1956 • 67.32 Mikhail Krivonosov URS Tashkent Oct 22, 1956 • 68.54 Harold Connolly USA Los Angeles Nov 02, 1956 • 68.68 Harold Connolly USA Bakersfield Jun 20, 1958 • 70.33 Harold Connolly USA Walnut Aug 12, 1960 • 70.67 Harold Connolly USA Palo Alto Jul 21, 1962 • 71.06 Harold Connolly USA Ceres,USA May 29, 1965 • 71.26 Harold Connolly USA Walnut Jun 20, 1965 • 73.74 Gyula Zsivótzky HUN Debrecen Sep 04, 1965 • 73.76 Gyula Zsivótzky HUN Budapest Sep 14, 1968 • 74.52 Romuald Klim URS Budapest Jun 15, 1969 • 74.68 Anatoliy Bondarchuk URS Athens Sep 20, 1969 • 75.48 Anatoliy Bondarchuk URS Rovno Oct 12, 1969 • 76.40 Walter Schmidt FRG Lahr Sep 04, 1971 • 76.60 Reinhard Theimer GDR Leipzig Jul 04, 1974 • 76.66 Aleksey Spiridonov URS München Sep 11, 1974 • 76.70 Karl-Hans Riehm FRG Rehlingen May 19, 1975 • 77.56 Karl-Hans Riehm FRG Rehlingen May 19, 1975 • 78.50 Karl-Hans Riehm FRG Rehlingen May 19, 1975 • 79.30 Walter Schmidt FRG Darmstadt Aug 14, 1975 • 80.14 Boris Zaychuk URS Moscow Jul 09, 1978 • 80.32 Karl-Hans Riehm FRG Heidenheim Aug 06, 1978 • 80.38 Yuriy Sedykh URS Leselidze May 16, 1980 • 80.46 Juri Tamm URS Leselidze May 16, 1980 • 80.64 Yuriy Sedykh URS Leselidze May 16, 1980 • 81.66 Sergey Litvinov URS Sotshi May 24, 1980 • 81.80 Yuriy Sedykh URS Moscow Jul 31, 1980 • 83.98 Sergey Litvinov URS Moscow Jun 04, 1982 • 84.14 Sergey Litvinov URS Moscow Jun 21, 1983 • 86.34 Yuriy Sedykh URS Cork Jul 03, 1984 • 86.66 Yuriy Sedykh URS Tallinn Jun 22, 1986 • 86.74 Yuriy Sedykh URS Stuttgart Aug 30, 1986