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This is a list of NCAA Division I outdoor champions in the hammer throw. Measurement was conducted in imperial distances (feet and inches) until 1975. Metrication occurred in 1976, so all subsequent championships were measured in metric distances. The women's event began in 1996.

Winners[edit]

Key: A=Altitude assisted

Women's hammer throw winners^[1]
Year	Athlete	Team	Distance
1996	Dawn Ellerbe	South Carolina	63.76 m (209 ft 2 in)
1997	Dawn Ellerbe	South Carolina	63.20 m (207 ft 4 in)
1998	Lisa Misipeka (ASA)	South Carolina	63.82 m (209 ft 4 in)
1999	Florence Ezeh (FRA)	SMU	63.14 m (207 ft 1 in)
2000	Florence Ezeh (FRA)	SMU	64.58 m (211 ft 10 in)
2001	Florence Ezeh (FRA)	SMU	66.85 m (219 ft 3 in)
2002	Jamine Moton	Clemson	67.21 m (220 ft 6 in)
2003	Candice Scott (TRI)	Florida	69.79 m (228 ft 11 in)
2004	Candice Scott (TRI)	Florida	68.83 m (225 ft 9 in)
2005	Loree Smith	Colorado St	68.47 m (224 ft 7 in)
2006	Jennifer Dahlgren (ARG)	Georgia	69.00 m (226 ft 4 in)
2007	Jennifer Dahlgren (ARG)	Georgia	70.72 m (232 ft 0 in)
2008	Eva Orban (HUN)	USC	68.71 m (225 ft 5 in)
2009	Stevi Large	Akron	68.08 m (223 ft 4 in)
2010	Nikola Lomnicka (SLO)	Georgia	65.57 m (215 ft 1 in)
2011	Dorotea Habazin	Virginia Tech	68.15 m (223 ft 7 in)
2012	Jeneva McCall	Southern Ill.	68.67 m (225 ft 3 in)
2013	Chelsea Cassulo	Arizona St.	69.12 m (226 ft 9 in)
2014	Julia Ratcliffe (NZL)	Princeton	66.88 m (219 ft 5 in)
2015	DeAnna Price	Southern Illinois	71.48 m (234 ft 6 in)
2016	DeAnna Price	Southern Illinois	71.53 m (234 ft 8 in)
2017	Maggie Ewen	Arizona State	73.32 m (240 ft 7 in)
2018	Janeah Stewart	Ole Miss	72.92 m (239 ft 3 in)
2019	Camryn Rogers (CAN)	California	71.50 m (234 ft 7 in)
2020	Not held due to COVID-19
2021	Camryn Rogers (CAN)	California	75.52 m (247 ft 9 in)
2022	Camryn Rogers (CAN)	California Golden Bears	77.67 m (254 ft 9 in)
2023	Stephanie Ratcliffe (AUS)	Harvard Crimson	73.63 m (241 ft 6 in)

Men's hammer throw winners^[2]
Year	Athlete	Team	Distance
1921	Charles Redmon	Chicago	40.79
1922	Jack Merchant	California	49.17
1923	Fred Tootell	Bowdoin	53.37
1924	not held
1925	Ray Bunker	Ohio St	45.73
1926	Harry Hawkins	Michigan	45.12
1927	Donald Gwinn	Pittsburgh	47.47
1928	Wilford Ketz	Michigan	49.9
1929	Donald Gwinn	Pittsburgh	49.93
1930	Holley Campbell	Michigan	49.59
1931	Ivan Dykeman	Colorado St	49.41
1932	Grant McDougall	Pennsylvania	48.71
1933	Roderick H. Cox	Michigan	47.57
1934	Henry Dreyer	Rhode Island	51.72
1935	Anton Kishon	Bates	51.43
1936	not held
1937	not held
1938	not held
1939	not held
1940	not held
1941	not held
1942	not held
1943	not held
1944	not held
1945	not held
1946	not held
1947	not held
1948	Samuel Felton	Harvard	52.05
1949	not held
1950	not held
1951	not held
1952	Gil Borjeson	Brown	53.76
1953	not held
1954	not held
1955	not held
1956	Bill McWilliams	Bowdoin	59.51
1957	not held
1958	not held
1959	John Lawlor (IRL)	Boston	63.22
1960	John Lawlor (IRL)	Boston	63.75
1961	Tom Pagani	Cal Poly SLO	59.4
1962	Edward Bailey	Harvard	59.11
1963	George Desnoyers	Boston Coll	57.96A
1964	Alex Schulten	Bowdoin	58.37
1965	John Fiore	Boston Coll	61.21
1966	John Fiore	Boston Coll	61.35
1967	Bob Narcessian	Rhode Island	60.06A
1968	Bob Narcessian	Rhode Island	61.59
1969	Steve DeAutremont	Oregon St	58.04
1970	Steve DeAutremont	Oregon St	62.1
1971	Jacques Accambray (FRA)	Kent State	69.44
1972	Al Schoterman	Kent State	70.48
1973	Jacques Accambray (FRA)	Kent State	67.51
1974	Peter Farmer (AUS)	UTEP	70.26
1975	Boris Djerassi	Northeastern	68.78A
1976	Scott Neilson (CAN)	Washington	66.04
1977	Scott Neilson (CAN)	Washington	69.6
1978	Scott Neilson (CAN)	Washington	72.36
1979	Scott Neilson (CAN)	Washington	72.32
1980	Thommie Sjöholm (SWE)	UTEP	68.58
1981	Richard Olsen (NOR)	Southern Meth	72.24
1982	Richard Olsen (NOR)	Southern Meth	73.30A
1983	Robert Weir (GBR)	Southern Meth	74.42
1984	Matt Mileham (GBR)	Fresno St	73.74
1985	Tore Gustafsson (SWE)	Wash St	75.24
1986	Ken Flax	Oregon	78.34
1987	Stefan Jönsson (SWE)	Wash St	68.48
1988	Stefan Jönsson (SWE)	Wash St	71.08
1989	Christoph Koch (FRG)	NE Louisiana	71.08A
1990	Scott McGee	Oregon	66.36
1991	Christophe Épalle (FRA)	Southern Meth	72.7
1992	Mika Laaksonen (FIN)	UTEP	71.3
1993	Balázs Kiss (HUN)	Southern Cal	75.24
1994	Balázs Kiss (HUN)	Southern Cal	74.84
1995	Balázs Kiss (HUN)	Southern Cal	79.62
1996	Balázs Kiss (HUN)	Southern Cal	80.86
1997	Bengt Johansson (SWE)	Southern Cal	70.12
1998	Libor Charfreitag (SVK)	Southern Meth	72.3
1999	Andras Haklits (CRO)	NE Louisiana	74.09
2000	Libor Charfreitag (SVK)	Southern Meth	77.22
2001	Andras Haklits (CRO)	Georgia	75.5
2002	Andras Haklits (CRO)	Georgia	77.32
2003	Lucais MacKay	Georgia	70.19
2004	Thomas Freeman	Manhattan	70.77
2005	Spyridon Jullien (GRE)	Virginia Tech	70.43
2006	Spyridon Jullien (GRE)	Virginia Tech	72.29
2007	Jake Dunkleberger	Auburn	71.87 m (235 ft 9 in)
2008	Cory Martin	Auburn	74.12 m (243 ft 2 in)
2009	Marcel Lomnický (SVK)	Virginia Tech	71.78 m (235 ft 5 in)
2010	Walter Henning	LSU	72.79 m (238 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
2011	Alexander Ziegler (GER)	Virginia Tech	72.69 m (238 ft 5 in)
2012	Alexander Ziegler (GER)	Virginia Tech Hokies	75.78 m (248 ft 7 in)
2013	Tomáš Kružliak (SVK)	Virginia Tech Hokies	69.26 m (227 ft 2 in)
2014	Matthias Tayala	Kent State	73.57
2015	Conor McCullough	USC	76.91 m (252 ft 3 in)
2016	Nick Miller (GBR)	Oklahoma State	73.98 m (242 ft 8 in)
2017	Rudy Winkler	Cornell	74.12 m (243 ft 2 in)
2018	Denzel Comenentia (NED)	Georgia Bulldogs	76.41 m (250 ft 8 in)
2019	Daniel Haugh	Kennesaw State Owls	74.63 m (244 ft 10 in)
2021	Thomas Mardal (NOR)	Florida Gators	76.74 m (251 ft 9 in)
2022	Logan Blomquist	Southeast Missouri State Redhawks	73.37 m (240 ft 8 in)
2023	Kenneth Ikeji (GBR)	Harvard Crimson	77.92 m (255 ft 7 in)