Most World Athletics Championships gold medals won in the hammer throw (male)

Most World Athletics Championships gold medals won in the hammer throw (male)
Who
Paweł Fajdek
What
5 total number
Where
United States (Eugene)
When
16 July 2022

The most World Athletics Championships gold medals won in the hammer throw (male) is five, achieved by Paweł Fajdek (Poland) consecutively in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022.

Fajdek secured his fifth consecutive hammer world title with an 81.98-m throw on 16 July 2022 in Eugene, Oregon, USA. Only Sergei Bubka had won more world championship gold medals in a single event – six, in the pole vault.