Farthest hammer throw (men)

Farthest hammer throw (men)
Who
Yuriy Sedykh
What
86.74 metre(s)
Where
Germany (Stuttgart)
When

The farthest hammer throw by a male athlete is 86.74 m (284 ft 6.9 in), by Yuriy Sedykh (USSR) at the European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, on 30 August 1986. It was his sixth world record in the hammer.