European Athletics Championships 1934 / men's javelin

1st European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's javelin throw
city	Turin
Stadion	Stadio Benito Mussolini
Attendees	8 athletes from 6 countries
Competition phase	7th of September
Medalist
gold	Matti Järvinen ( FIN )
silver	Matti Sippala ( ITA )
bronze	Gustav Sule ( EST )

Turin Olympic Stadium - then called
Stadio Benito Mussolini

The men's javelin at the 1934 European Athletics Championships was held on September 7, 1934 in the Turin Stadio Benito Mussolini .

There was a Finnish one-two. European champion was Matti Järvinen . With his victory distance he set a new world record . Matti Sippala won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Estonian Gustav Sule .

Records

Existing records

World record	76.10 m	Matti Järvinen	Helsinki , Finland	June 15, 1933
Championship record	There was not yet a European championship record.

Record improvement

 Matti Järvinen improved his own world record by 56 centimeters in the final.

execution

Since only eight athletes took part in the javelin throw, the competitors entered the finals without prior qualification. It is not clear whether after the third round, as was common at the Olympic Games, with the best six throwers in a final with three more rounds.

At the Olympic Games during this period, it was common practice in the jumping and throwing disciplines to first conduct a qualifying round on the morning of the competition day if the number of participants was not too small. This preliminary round was held in two groups. The final with the qualified athletes usually took place in the afternoon of the same day.

final

September 7, 1934

space	Surname	nation	Expanse
1	Matti Järvinen	Finland	76.66 m WR
2	Matti Sippala	Finland	69.97 m PB
3	Gustav Sule	Estonia	69.31 m SB
4th	Oto Jurģis	Latvia	67.60 m PB
5	József Várszegi	Hungary	65.81 m SB
6th	Gottfried Weimann	German Empire	65.69 m PB
7th	Mario Agosti	Italy	58.41 m PB
8th	Gino Ricci	Italy	56.63 m PB

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  European champion Matti Järvinen won with a world record and dominated this competition with great superiority

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  Silver medalist Matti Sippala

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Torino 1934 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 6, 2019
• Men Javelin Throw Athletics I European Championships 1934 Torino (ITA) on todor66.com, accessed March 9, 2019
• I European Championship, Turin 1934 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed March 6, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1934, javelin men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 6, 2019
• 1st European Men's Athletics Championships 1934 in Turin, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on March 6, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin throw , accessed March 7, 2019