World Athletics Championships 1987 / men's javelin

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Men
Attendees	37 athletes from 24 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 29th (qualification) August 30th (final)
Medalist Seppo Räty ( FIN )   Viktor Jewsjukov ( URS )   Jan Železný ( TCH )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

The men's javelin at the World Athletics Championships 1987 was held on August 29 and 30, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

For the first time at the World Championships, a modified spear with a forward shifted center of gravity was used in 1986. The two main reasons for this were the ever larger distances achieved and the measurement problems that arose from the flat angle of impact of the old spear models. Often there was no mark or a mark that was difficult to recognize that the spear left on impact, which often made measuring the distance very difficult or sometimes even made the throw invalid. Moving the center of gravity forward on the new spear fixed both problems. The Finn Seppo Räty became world champion . Before the third in the European Championship in 1986, he won Viktor Jewsjukow from the Soviet Union . The Czechoslovak world record holder Jan Železný , who was extremely successful in the following years, won his first medal at a major international championship with bronze .

Records

Existing records

World record	87.66 m	Jan Železný	Nitra , Czechoslovakia	May 31, 1987
World championship record	new spear used for the first time, therefore previous record no longer valid

New world championship record

The world championship record with the new javelin was gradually increased to 83.54 m ( Seppo Räty , Finland in the final on August 30, 1987).

Jan Železný (here in 2007) was at the beginning of a great career and won his first medal with bronze at an important international championship

qualification

August 29, 1987

37 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 79.00 m. Five athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with seven three next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 77.78 m had to be achieved for the final.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Viktor Jewsyukov	Soviet Union	81.36 CR	77.30	73.90	81.36 CR
2	Pascal Lefèvre	France	80.60	76.30	80.60 CR	-
3	Jan Železný	Czechoslovakia	79.20	70.86	79.20	-
4th	Duncan Atwood	United States	78.92	78.92 CR	76.62	-
5	Mick Hill	Great Britain	78.88	77.98	78.88	77.42
6th	Peter Borglund	Sweden	78.30	78.30	75.76	76.62
7th	Seppo Räty	Finland	78.22	78.22	76.50	77.59
8th	Antonios Papadimitriou	Greece	76.48	70.12	x	76.48
9	Sejad Krdžali	Yugoslavia	75.94	70.02	x	75.94
10	Roald Bradstock	Great Britain	75.86	71.28	75.86	73.90
11	Emil Tsvetanov	Bulgaria	75.48	73.88	75.48	72.24
12	Masami Yoshida	Japan	74.90	72.48	74.90	73.34
13	Juan de la Garza	Mexico	73.36	73.36	71.56	68.56
14th	Andreas Linden	BR Germany	72.22	72.22	71.48	71.80
15th	Kim Jae-sang	South Korea	71.88	71.88	66.60	68.06
16	Zakayo Malekwa	Tanzania	71.74	71.74	68.50	70.30
17th	Tarak Chaabani	Tunisia	64.66	61.86	64.32	64.66
18th	Bassam Alshater	Syria	61.64	x	59.56	61.64
19th	Romeo Montanes	Philippines	58.38	54.62	57.18	58.38

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Tom Petranoff	United States	81.26	81.26	-	-
2	Kazuhiro Mizoguchi	Japan	80.58	71.62	80.58	-
3	David Ottley	Great Britain	78.64	72.40	78.64	70.42
4th	Lev Shatilo	Soviet Union	78.20	73.44	73.42	78.20
5	Dag Wennlund	Sweden	77.78	77.78	75.80	76.64
6th	Einar Vilhjálmsson	Iceland	77.46	74.98	75.54	77.46
7th	Klaus Tafelmeier	BR Germany	76.46	75.94	74.78	76.46
8th	Marek Kaleta	Soviet Union	76.10	72.28	76.10	73.26
9	Jyrki Blom	Finland	75.74	75.64	75.74	69.10
10	Sigurdur Einarsson	Iceland	75.52	75.52	73.54	x
11	Gavin Lovegrove	New Zealand	74.16	74.16	x	x
12	Mirosaw Witek	Poland	73.62	69.82	73.26	73.62
13	Ivan Mustapic	Yugoslavia	73.34	71.00	73.34	70.02
14th	Justin Arop	Uganda	71.76	67.08	68.36	71.76
15th	Mark Babich	United States	70.76	67.94	70.76	70.62
16	Fabio de Gaspari	Italy	70.76	70.44	70.76	65.84
17th	Zdenk Adamec	Czechoslovakia	70.72	x	x	70.72
18th	Mike Mahovlich	Canada	67.64	67.64	65.92	66.20

final

August 30, 1987

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Seppo Räty	Finland	83.54 CR	79.86	78.08	82.32 CR	76.52	79.44	83.54 CR
2	Viktor Jewsyukov	Soviet Union	82.52	82.10	80.36	x	x	82.52 CR	80.34
3	Jan Železný	Czechoslovakia	82.20	80.56	82.20 CR	79.50	x	79.38	x
4th	Tom Petranoff	United States	81.28	75.48	80.46	81.28	x	80.76	x
5	Lev Shatilo	Soviet Union	81.02	69.84	81.02	76.84	71.42	x	x
6th	Kazuhiro Mizoguchi	Japan	80.24	80.24	x	77.98	77.26	77.28	77.72
7th	Mick Hill	Great Britain	79.66	78.14	79.66	74.72	x	74.64	75.52
8th	Dag Wennlund	Sweden	78.40	72.52	75.68	78.40	76.76	x	77.48
9	David Ottley	Great Britain	77.64	74.48	76.78	77.64	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Pascal Lefèvre	France	77.14	75.94	75.62	77.14
11	Peter Borglund	Sweden	75.46	75.22	74.98	75.46
12	Duncan Atwood	United States	72.54	67.86	72.54	x

Video

• Men's Javelin Final - 1997 IAAF World Championships on youtube.com, accessed March 29, 2020

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 29, 2020
• Men Javelin Throw Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed March 29, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Javelin Throw, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 201), English, accessed on March 29, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ Dr. Jürgen Schiffer: "Why did the senior javelin specification have to be changed?" - Article in IAAF / New Studies in athletics 3 / 4.00 (English) , accessed on August 2, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 29, 2020