1981 in hammer throw

This page lists the World Best Year Performances in the year 1981 in the Men's Hammer Throw. (The women did not compete in the hammer throw until the early 1990s.) The world record was broken in the previous (1980) year by Soviet Union's Yuriy Sedykh at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union.

Standing records prior to the 1981 season in track and field
World Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	81.80 m	July 31, 1980	Moscow, Soviet Union

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Venue	Date	Note
1	80.56 m	Klaus Ploghaus (FRG)	Obersühl, West Germany	27.06.1981	PB
2	80.18 m	Yuriy Syedikh (URS)	Tbilisi, Soviet Union	27.06.1981
3	79.60 m	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	Gateshead, United Kingdom	18.07.1981
4	78.72 m	Roland Steuk (GDR)	Berlin, East Germany	20.06.1981	PB
	78.72 m	Karl-Hans Riehm (FRG)	Gelsenkirchen, West Germany	19.07.1981
6	77.84 m	Pavel Ryepin (URS)	Leningrad, Soviet Union	30.08.1981	PB
7	77.50 m	Igor Nikulin (URS)	Leningrad, Soviet Union	27.12.1981
8	77.26 m	Jüri Tamm (URS)	Budapest, Hungary	18.08.1981
9	77.14 m	Mariusz Tomaszewski (POL)	Poznań, Poland	28.07.1981	PB
10	76.84 m	Aleksandr Kozlov (URS)	Stavropol, Soviet Union	05.06.1981
11	76.76 m	Harri Huhtala (FIN)	Ylivieska, Finland	19.07.1981	PB
12	76.68 m	Anatoliy Yefimov (URS)	Kaunas, Soviet Union	29.06.1981	PB
13	76.64 m	Juha Tiainen (FIN)	Stockholm, Sweden	29.08.1981	PB
14	76.34 m	Aleksandr Bunyeyev (URS)	Gorkiy, Soviet Union	08.06.1981
15	75.84 m	Emanuil Dyulgerov (BUL)	Sofia, Bulgaria	06.06.1981	PB
16	75.74 m	Aleksey Spiridonov (URS)	Leningrad, Soviet Union	19.08.1981
17	75.66 m	Manfred Hüning (FRG)	Nancy, France	23.05.1981
18	75.56 m	Giampaolo Urlando (ITA)	Palo Alto, United States	28.03.1981
19	75.54 m	Olyeg Dyatlov (URS)	Stavropol, Soviet Union	05.06.1981
20	75.30 m	Aleksandr Gurmazhenko (URS)	Kyiv, Soviet Union	02.10.1981	PB
21	75.04 m	Anatoliy Prokopyenko (URS)	unknown	??.??.1981
22	75.02 m	Mikhail Rusanovskiy (URS)	Kharkiv, Soviet Union	27.08.1981	PB
23	74.90 m	Aleksey Malyukov (URS)	Sochi, Soviet Union	31.05.1981
24	74.86 m	Yuriy Tarasyuk (URS)	Kyiv, Soviet Union	27.08.1981
25	74.80 m	Leszek Woderski (POL)	Chorzów, Poland	20.09.1981	PB

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