Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw

Men's hammer throw at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	July 31 (qualifying and final)
Medalists
Imre Nemeth  Hungary Ivan Gubijan  Yugoslavia Robert Bennett  United States

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The men's hammer throw event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on July 31. The final was won by Hungarian Imre Nemeth.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Erwin Blask (GER)	59.02 m	Stockholm, Sweden	27 August 1938
Olympic record	Karl Hein (GER)	56.49 m	Berlin, Germany	3 August 1936

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Date	Time	Round
Saturday, 31 July 1948	10:00	Qualifications
Saturday, 31 July 1948	15:30	Finals

Results

Qualifying Round

Qual. rule: qualification standard 49.00m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Imre Németh	Hungary	54.02	Q
2	Einar Söderqvist	Sweden	52.39	Q
3	Bo Ericson	Sweden	52.28	Q
4	Svend Aage Frederiksen	Denmark	51.35	Q
5	Robert Bennett	United States	51.13	Q
6	Teseo Taddia	Italy	51.06	Q
7	Hans Houtzager	Netherlands	50.91	Q
8	Ivan Gubijan	Yugoslavia	50.44	Q
9	Henry Dreyer	United States	50.37	Q
10	Lauri Tamminen	Finland	49.82	Q
11	Duncan Clark	Great Britain	49.76	Q
12	Ging Gang-hwan	South Korea	49.49	Q
13	Sam Felton	United States	49.20	Q
14	Reino Kuivamäki	Finland	48.99
15	Poul Cederquist	Denmark	48.16
16	Ewan Douglas	Great Britain	47.77
17	Norman Drake	Great Britain	47.75
18	Pierre Legrain	France	47.60
19	Dan Coyle	Ireland	47.11
20	Juan Fusé	Argentina	46.95
21	Edmundo Zúñiga	Chile	46.95
22	Jaroslav Knotek	Czechoslovakia	42.46
23	Nat Singh Somnath	India	41.36
24	Francisco González	Mexico	39.50

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Imre Németh	Hungary	53.59	55.44	54.94	50.05	x	56.07	56.07
	Ivan Gubijan	Yugoslavia	x	x	54.27	51.76	54.22	x	54.27
	Robert Bennett	United States	52.53	51.11	52.08	53.73	51.21	49.81	53.73
4	Sam Felton	United States							53.66
5	Lauri Tamminen	Finland							53.08
6	Bo Ericson	Sweden							52.98
7	Teseo Taddia	Italy							51.74
8	Einar Söderqvist	Sweden							51.48
9	Henry Dreyer	United States							51.37
10	Svend Aage Frederiksen	Denmark							50.07
11	Duncan Clark	Great Britain							48.35
12	Hans Houtzager	Netherlands							45.69
13	Gin Gang-hwan	South Korea							43.93

External links

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Men's hammer throw, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-07-16.
• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 5 September 2016.