European Athletics Championships 2010 / men's javelin
20th European Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | Javelin throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 23 athletes from 14 countries | ||||||||
venue | Barcelona | ||||||||
Competition location | Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 30th (qualification) July 31st (final) |
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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 | Jan Železný | Jena , Germany | May 25, 1996 |
European record | ||||
Championship record | 89.72 m | 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
space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) |
1 | Teemu Wirkkala | Finland | 83.57 | 76.89 | 83.57 | - |
2 | Matthias de Zordo | Germany | 82.34 | 74.89 | 77.82 | 82.34 |
3 | Ainārs Kovals | Latvia | 79.32 | 78.58 | 78.22 | 79.32 |
4th | Andreas Thorkildsen | Norway | 78.82 | x | x | 78.82 |
5 | Roman Avramenko | Ukraine | 78.11 | x | 74.84 | 78.11 |
6th | Vítězslav Veselý | Czech Republic | 77.76 | x | 74.99 | 77.76 |
7th | Sergei Makarov | Russia | 76.69 | 76.69 | 74.13 | 74.54 |
8th | Csongor Oltean | Hungary | 76.53 | 76.53 | 75.05 | x |
9 | Gabriel Wallin | Sweden | 76.12 | 71.85 | x | 76.12 |
10 | Jakub Vadlejch | Czech Republic | 76.04 | x | 76.04 | x |
11 | Jiannis Smalios | Greece | 71.57 | 71.57 | x | - |
Group B
July 30, 2010, 12:00 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) |
1 | Tero Pitkämäki | Finland | 83.15 | 76.65 | 83.15 | - |
2 | Dmytro Kossynskyi | Ukraine | 79.29 | x | 71.30 | 79.29 |
3 | Ēriks Rags | Latvia | 78.45 | x | x | 78.45 |
4th | Petr Frydrych | Czech Republic | 77.56 | 77.56 | x | 75.96 |
5 | Oleksandr Pyatnytsya | Ukraine | 77.54 | 77.20 | x | 77.54 |
6th | Uladzimir Kazlou | Belarus | 76.29 | x | 76.29 | 72.33 |
7th | Harri Haatainen | Finland | 75.83 | 75.83 | x | x |
8th | Jérôme Haeffler | France | 75.60 | 67.60 | 75.60 | x |
9 | Rafael Baraza | Spain | 73.34 | 72.96 | 68.22 | 73.34 |
10 | Martin Benák | Slovakia | 73.18 | 73.18 | x | x |
11 | Ilya Korotkov | Russia | 72.04 | 72.04 | x | 71.07 |
12 | Vadim's Vasiļevskis | 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 | Norway | 88.37 | 86.32 | 88.37 | 86.30 | 84.12 | - | 83.40 |
2 | Matthias de Zordo | Germany | 87.81 | 86.22 | 87.81 | 87.06 | x | x | 84.12 |
3 | Tero Pitkämäki | Finland | 86.67 | 81.47 | x | 82.30 | 83.96 | 86.67 | 86.31 |
4th | Oleksandr Pyatnytsya | Ukraine | 82.01 | 81.24 | 80.91 | 78.91 | 82.01 | 76.59 | x |
5 | Teemu Wirkkala | Finland | 81.76 | 78.52 | 76.94 | 81.76 | x | 81.14 | 81.31 |
6th | Ainārs Kovals | Latvia | 81.19 | 81.19 | x | x | x | 75.19 | 80.55 |
7th | Sergei Makarov | Russia | 80.86 | 80.86 | 78.31 | 78.89 | x | x | - |
8th | Roman Avramenko | Ukraine | 79.52 | x | x | 78.65 | x | x | 79.52 |
9 | Vítězslav Veselý | Czech Republic | 77.83 | 69.42 | x | 77.83 | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
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10 | Petr Frydrych | Czech Republic | 77.30 | 77.30 | 76.69 | 76.76 | |||
11 | Ēriks Rags | Latvia | 76.93 | x | 76.93 | 76.08 | |||
12 | Dmytro Kossynskyi | Ukraine | 73.26 | x | 73.26 | 73.11 |
Vice European champion Matthias de Zordo - the following year he became world champion
Videos
- Mens Javelin Throw European Champs 2010 Barcelona on youtube.com, accessed December 26, 2019
- 2010 European Champs Javelin - Thorkildsen vs. De Zordo on youtube.com (English), accessed December 26, 2019
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Barcelona 2010 at european-athletics.org, accessed December 26, 2019
- 2010 European Championship Barcelona, Men Javelin Throw on todor66.com, accessed December 26, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 2010 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on December 26, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Javelin Throw European Championship 2010 Barcelona, p. 503 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on December 26, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2010, javelin men on sportschau.de, accessed on December 26, 2019
- 20th European Athletics Championships 2010 in Barcelona, Spain from ifosta.de, accessed on December 26, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin Men , Retrieved December 26, 2019