The men's hammer throw at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene on 15 and 16 July 2022.

Seven throwers were over 77 metres while Fajdek only managed 74.71m to find himself in a non-qualifying 9th place.

Then the next thrower Eivind Henriksen pushed him to second position by throwing an 80.87m.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce would duplicate the feat, non-consecutively at 100m the following day.

Before the competition records were as follows:[2] The following records were established during the competition: The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 77.50 m.[3] The event schedule, in local time (UTC−7), was as follows: Qualification: Qualifying Performance 77.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.