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Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
30 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's hammer throw event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games was held on 6 August at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Peter Farmer	Australia	71.10
	Scott Neilson	Canada	69.92
	Chris Black	Scotland	68.14
4	Derek Dickenson	England	66.42
5	James Whitehead	England	65.48
6	Ian Chipchase	England	64.80
7	Martin Girvan	Northern Ireland	60.86
8	Agostino Puopolo	Australia	59.74
9	Absalom Simiti	Kenya	43.38
	Harold Willers	Canada	NM

References

1. "Results". Archived from the original on 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2018-02-27.

• Final results (The Canberra Times)

• Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
• Hammer throw at the Commonwealth Games