Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw
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McGrath on the way to win the gold medal.
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| Date | July 14 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 14 from 4 nations | ||||||||||||
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Matt McGrath |
 United States
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Duncan Gillis |
 Canada
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Clarence Childs |
United States
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The men's hammer throw was a track and field athletics event held as part of the athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fourth appearance of the event, which had been won all three previous times by John Flanagan. The competition was held on Sunday, July 14, 1912.
Fourteen hammer throwers from four nations competed.
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 1912 Summer Olympics.
(*) unofficial
Matt McGrath set a new Olympic record in the qualification with 54.13 metres and improved his record in the final with 54.74 metres.
Flanagan, who had won all three prior editions of the Olympic hammer throw and held the Olympic record of 51.92 metres, had retired since the 1908 Olympic Games. McGrath took the gold medal, besting Flanagan's Olympic record with all four of his legal marks. No other thrower beat Flanagan's Olympic mark.
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