European Athletics Championships 2010 / men's javelin

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20th European Athletics Championships
Logo of the 20th European Athletics Championships
discipline Javelin throw
gender Men
Attendees 23 athletes from 14 countries
venue SpainSpain Barcelona
Competition location Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Competition phase July 30th (qualification)
July 31st (final)
Medalist
gold medal Andreas Thorkildsen ( NOR ) NorwayNorway 
Silver medal Matthias de Zordo ( GER ) GermanyGermany 
Bronze medal Tero Pitkämäki ( FIN ) FinlandFinland 
The Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona in 2007

The men's javelin throw at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held on July 30 and 31, 2010 at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in the city of Barcelona .

European champion became with the Norwegian Andreas Thorkildsen clearly the best javelin thrower of the last years. He was the defending champion, Olympic champion in 2004 / 2008 , Vice World Champion 2005 / 2007 and reigning world champion . Second place went to the German Matthias de Zordo . The Finnish world champion from 2007 and Olympic third from 2004 Tero Pitkämäki won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record 98.48 m Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jan Železný Jena , Germany May 25, 1996
European record
Championship record 89.72 m United KingdomUnited Kingdom Steve Backley EM Budapest , Hungary 23rd August 1994

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

- waived
x invalid

qualification

23 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 81.00 m. Three athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the nine next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 76.69 m was enough for the final.

Group A

July 30, 2010, 10:20 am

  • Jakub Vadlejch retired with 76.04 m in the qualification

  • 71.56 m were by far not enough for Jiannis Smalios to take part in the final

space Surname nation Result (noun) 1st attempt (m) 2. attempt (m) 3rd attempt (m)
1 Teemu Wirkkala FinlandFinland Finland 83.57 76.89 83.57 -
2 Matthias de Zordo GermanyGermany Germany 82.34 74.89 77.82 82.34
3 Ainārs Kovals LatviaLatvia Latvia 79.32 78.58 78.22 79.32
4th Andreas Thorkildsen NorwayNorway Norway 78.82 x x 78.82
5 Roman Avramenko UkraineUkraine Ukraine 78.11 x 74.84 78.11
6th Vítězslav Veselý Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 77.76 x 74.99 77.76
7th Sergei Makarov RussiaRussia Russia 76.69 76.69 74.13 74.54
8th Csongor Oltean HungaryHungary Hungary 76.53 76.53 75.05 x
9 Gabriel Wallin SwedenSweden Sweden 76.12 71.85 x 76.12
10 Jakub Vadlejch Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 76.04 x 76.04 x
11 Jiannis Smalios GreeceGreece Greece 71.57 71.57 x -

Group B

Vadims Vasiļevskis, 2004 Olympic runner-up, failed here with 67.56 m in the qualification

July 30, 2010, 12:00 p.m.

space Surname nation Result (noun) 1st attempt (m) 2. attempt (m) 3rd attempt (m)
1 Tero Pitkämäki FinlandFinland Finland 83.15 76.65 83.15 -
2 Dmytro Kossynskyi UkraineUkraine Ukraine 79.29 x 71.30 79.29
3 Ēriks Rags LatviaLatvia Latvia 78.45 x x 78.45
4th Petr Frydrych Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 77.56 77.56 x 75.96
5 Oleksandr Pyatnytsya UkraineUkraine Ukraine 77.54 77.20 x 77.54
6th Uladzimir Kazlou BelarusBelarus Belarus 76.29 x 76.29 72.33
7th Harri Haatainen FinlandFinland Finland 75.83 75.83 x x
8th Jérôme Haeffler FranceFrance France 75.60 67.60 75.60 x
9 Rafael Baraza SpainSpain Spain 73.34 72.96 68.22 73.34
10 Martin Benák SlovakiaSlovakia Slovakia 73.18 73.18 x x
11 Ilya Korotkov RussiaRussia Russia 72.04 72.04 x 71.07
12 Vadim's Vasiļevskis LatviaLatvia Latvia 67.56 x x 67.56

final

July 31, 2010, 8:05 pm

The clearly favored reigning world and Olympic champion Andreas Thorkildsen from Norway won the gold medal with 88.37 m. The German left-hander Matthias de Zordo took a surprising second place, just 56 centimeters behind, with a season best of 87.81 m. The Finn Tero Pitkämäki, world champion in Osaka 2007 , won the bronze medal with 86.67 m.

space Surname nation Result (noun) 1st attempt (m) 2. attempt (m) 3rd attempt (m) 4th attempt (m) 5th attempt (m) 6th attempt (m)
1 Andreas Thorkildsen NorwayNorway Norway 88.37 86.32 88.37 86.30 84.12 - 83.40
2 Matthias de Zordo GermanyGermany Germany 87.81 86.22 87.81 87.06 x x 84.12
3 Tero Pitkämäki FinlandFinland Finland 86.67 81.47 x 82.30 83.96 86.67 86.31
4th Oleksandr Pyatnytsya UkraineUkraine Ukraine 82.01 81.24 80.91 78.91 82.01 76.59 x
5 Teemu Wirkkala FinlandFinland Finland 81.76 78.52 76.94 81.76 x 81.14 81.31
6th Ainārs Kovals LatviaLatvia Latvia 81.19 81.19 x x x 75.19 80.55
7th Sergei Makarov RussiaRussia Russia 80.86 80.86 78.31 78.89 x x -
8th Roman Avramenko UkraineUkraine Ukraine 79.52 x x 78.65 x x 79.52
9 Vítězslav Veselý Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 77.83 69.42 x 77.83 not in the final of the
eight best throwers
10 Petr Frydrych Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 77.30 77.30 76.69 76.76
11 Ēriks Rags LatviaLatvia Latvia 76.93 x 76.93 76.08
12 Dmytro Kossynskyi UkraineUkraine Ukraine 73.26 x 73.26 73.11

  • Andreas Thorkildsen won his second European Championship title - he was also the Olympic champion in 2004 / 2008 , Vice World Champion 2005 / 2007 and World Champion  in 2009

  • Vice European champion Matthias de Zordo - the following year he became world champion

  • Tero Pitkämäki, 2007 world champion and 2004 Olympic knight, won the bronze medal

  • Fourth place for Oleksandr Pyatnytsja

  • Teemu Wirkkala reached number five

  • Vítězslav Veselý came in tenth place

  • Ēriks Rags finished eleventh

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References and comments

  1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin Men , Retrieved December 26, 2019