The men's hammer throw was an event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

The Soviet trio that had swept the Olympic medals in both 1980 and 1988, and won the World Championships in 1983 (Sergey Litvinov), 1987 (Litvinov), and 1991 (Yuriy Sedykh), had been replaced by new throwers on the Unified Team, though Tamm continued to compete for Estonia (which was not part of the Unified Team).

The new team, led by 1990 European champion Andrey Abduvaliyev, was still dominant and heavily favored.

The competition used the two-round format introduced in 1936, with the qualifying round completely separate from the divided final.

In qualifying, each athlete received three attempts; those recording a mark of at least 76.00 metres advanced to the final.