World Athletics Championships 1991 / men's javelin

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Men
Attendees	41 athletes from 25 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 25 (qualifying) August 26 (final)
Medalist Kimmo Kinnunen ( FIN )   Seppo Räty ( FIN )   Uladzimir Sassimovich ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The men's javelin throw at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held on August 25 and 26, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

The Finnish javelin throwers recorded a double victory in this competition. Kimmo Kinnunen became world champion . He won ahead of defending champion Seppo Räty . Bronze went to Uladsimir Sassimowitsch from the Soviet Union .

Records

Existing records

World record	96.96 m	Seppo Räty	Punkalaidun , Finland	June 2, 1991
World championship record	83.54 m		World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	August 30, 1987

Note to the world record:
The IAAF had allowed from 1990 until September 21, 1991 on a trial basis with spears roughening the back, have been improved so that the flight characteristics. The records and best performances achieved with these spears were retrospectively canceled by the IAAF, including the world records achieved with them, including the above-mentioned record by the Finn Seppo Räty. As an official world record then the width of 89.58 m was again achieved by the British Steve Backley on 2 July 1990 in the Swedish Stockholm .

Record improvements

The Finnish world champion Kimmo Kinnunen improved the existing world championship record twice:

• 88.48 m - qualification on August 25, 2nd attempt
• 90.82 m - final on August 26th, 1st attempt

Kimmo Kinnunen's world championship record was later canceled by the IAAF because the Finn had also used the spear approved on a trial basis described above, which then finally lost its approval.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

41 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 82.00 m. Six athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the six next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 79.54 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

Jan Železný (here in 2012) , second in the 1988 Olympics and third in the 1987 World Cup , did not reach the final with his 76.26 m - his great successes were still in the future

August 25, 1991, 9:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Kimmo Kinnunen	Finland	88.48 CR	80.68	88.48	-
2	Gavin Lovegrove	New Zealand	82.08	74.54	76.46	82.08
3	Einar Vilhjálmsson	Iceland	80.10	80.10	79.64	78.56
4th	Dmitri Polyunin	Soviet Union	78.50	78.50	78.08	77.84
5	Steve Backley	Great Britain	78.24	75.34	78.24	73.96
6th	Ramón González	Cuba	77.72	77.00	77.72	72.54
7th	Pascal Lefèvre	France	77.26	77.00	77.26	72.54
8th	Jan Železný	Czechoslovakia	76.26	x	76.26	x
9	Ari Pakarinen	Finland	76.14	75.08	67.82	76.14
10	Masami Yoshida	Japan	75.96	x	x	75.96
11	Dave Stephens	United States	75.10	75.10	71.10	72.80
12	Peter Borglund	Sweden	74.40	67.84	74.40	68.00
13	Sejad Krdžalić	Yugoslavia	73.84	67.92	x	73.84
14th	Juan de la Garza	Mexico	72.84	72.84	66.34	66.18
15th	Viktor Saizew	Soviet Union	72.48	x	72.48	69.82
16	Klaus Tafelmeier	Germany	72.42	x	x	72.42
17th	Rodrigo Zelaya	Chile	70.70	68.76	70.70	62.38
18th	Angel Manchukov	Bulgaria	69.78	66.26	69.78	x
19th	Julián Sotelo	Spain	65.74	x	x	65.74
20th	Trevor Modeste	Grenada	62.68	62.68	60.28	x

Group B

August 25, 1991, 10:30 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Seppo Räty	Finland	87.34	80.50	87.34	-
2	Peter Blank	Germany	82.56	82.56	-	-
3	Dag Wennlund	Sweden	82.46	82.46	-	-
4th	Uladzimir Sassimovich	Soviet Union	82.38	82.38	-	-
5	Raymond Hecht	Germany	81.92	77.80	78.48	81.92
6th	Vadim Bavikin	Israel	81.56	76.68	81.56	k. A.
7th	Sigurdur Einarsson	Iceland	80.60	78.02	78.84	80.60
8th	Patrik Bodén	Sweden	79.64	79.64	77.84	79.22
9	Mick Hill	Great Britain	79.54	79.54	x	x
10	Zhang Lianbiao	People's Republic of China	78.94	76.28	71.60	78.94
11	Radoman Šćekić	Yugoslavia	76.10	76.10	x	x
12	Sigurdur Matthiasson	Iceland	76.02	76.02	73.64	71.70
13	Colin Mackenzie	Great Britain	75.12	x	74.74	75.12
14th	Mike Barrett	United States	75.02	71.02	72.44	75.02
15th	Tom Pukstys	United States	74.72	74.72	x	x
16	Kazuhiro Mizoguchi	Japan	73.72	73.72	x	73.42
17th	Kim Ki-hun	South Korea	73.68	73.68	69.22	70.94
18th	Luis Lucumi	Colombia	70.48	69.64	70.48	66.44
19th	Frederick Morgan	American Samoa	66.98	66.98	x	65.52
20th	Frans Mahuse	Indonesia	66.20	66.20	63.56	k. A.
21st	Benjamin Cawicaan	Philippines	61.38	59.56	58.54	61.38

final

August 26, 1991, 6:10 p.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	Kimmo Kinnunen	Finland	90.82 CR	90.82	-	x	82.12	82.74	x
2	Seppo Räty	Finland	88.12	81.04	81.22	84.14	x	x	88.12
3	Uladzimir Sassimovich	Soviet Union	87.08	x	87.08	x	x	x	x
4th	Gavin Lovegrove	New Zealand	84.24	76.16	75.54	82.30	82.02	x	84.24
5	Mick Hill	Great Britain	84.12	84.12	x	x	x	76.44	79.94
6th	Sigurdur Einarsson	Iceland	83.46	75.76	72.00	83.46	x	81.54	82.60
7th	Dag Wennlund	Sweden	81.14	x	74.26	81.14	75.56	78.02	x
8th	Patrik Bodén	Sweden	78.58	74.16	x	78.12	x	73.62	78.58
9	Einar Vilhjálmsson	Iceland	77.28	77.28	x	k. A.	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Vadim Bavikin	Israel	77.18	77.18	x	68.98
11	Peter Blank	Germany	72.62	68.02	72.62	66.92
12	Raymond Hecht	Germany	70.58	66.46	70.58	k. A.

Video links

• Fainal javelin mens in world champion 1991 on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2020
• Kimmo Kinnunen Javelin World Champion 1991 on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 26, 2020
• Men Javelin ThrowAthletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) 1991 at todor66.com, accessed April 26, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Javelin Throw, Tokyo 1991, p. 201f (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on April 26, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 26, 2020