Japan's Koji Murofushi put his Sydney Olympics nightmare behind him Sunday by capturing the men's hammer throw silver medal at the Athens Games.
Koji Murofushi prepares to launch the hammer in Athens. Murofushi earned the silver medal
while Hungary's Adrian Annus picked up the gold.
Murofushi failed to live up to his billing as Asia's "Iron Man" when he finished ninth in the final four years ago, but he laid those ghosts to rest with a dramatic final throw of 82.91 meters that was his best of the season and just 28 cm short of gold.
World silver medalist Adrian Annus of Hungary took the gold medal with a third-round throw of 83.19. World champion Ivan Tikhon of Belarus threw 79.81 for bronze.