World Athletics Championships 1993 / men's javelin

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Men
Attendees	47 athletes from 31 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 15 (qualifying) August 16 (final)
Medalist Jan Železný ( CZE )   Kimmo Kinnunen ( FIN )   Mick Hill ( GBR )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The men's javelin throw at the 1993 World Athletics Championships was held on August 15 and 16, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

World champion was the Czech Olympic champion in 1992 , Olympic second in 1988 , World Cup third in 1987 and world record holder Jan Železný . Silver went to the Finnish defending champion Kimmo Kinnunen . The Briton Mick Hill won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	95.54 m	Jan Železný	Saint Petersburg , Russia	April 6, 1993
World championship record	83.54 m	Seppo Räty	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	August 30, 1987

Note about the World Cup 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 javelins were retrospectively canceled by the IAAF, including the world championship record of the Finn Kimmo Kinnunen on August 26, 1991 with 90.82 m . The above-mentioned width of 83.54 m of the Finn Seppo Räty from 1987 was then again the official World Cup record .

Record improvement

The Czech world champion Jan Železný improved the existing world championship record in the final on August 16 by 2.44 m to 85.98 m.

doping

There was a doping case in the javelin.

The initially third-placed Uzbek Dmitri Polyunin was stripped of his bronze medal because his doping sample contained the anabolic steroid stanozolol .

There were mainly three athletes who were particularly affected by this doping fraud:

• The Briton Mick Hill received his bronze medal only after the end of the world championships and was unable to attend the award ceremony.
• The Swede Patrik Bodén, who was eighth in the final ranking, would have allowed three more attempts in the final.
• The Russian Vladimir Ovchinnikov , who moved up one place to twelfth place in the final qualifying standings after Puljunin's disqualification, could have participated in the final.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

47 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), including Dmitri Polyunin, who was disqualified for doping reasons. The final field was filled with the nine next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 78.10 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

Konstantinos Gatsioudis scored 76.70 m and was eliminated

August 15, 1993, 10:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Jan Železný	Czech Republic	83.22	83.22	-	-
2	Ari Pakarinen	Finland	83.06	x	83.06	-
3	Mick Hill	Great Britain	80.78	79.80	80.06	80.78
4th	Kimmo Kinnunen	Finland	78.86	x	78.40	78.86
5	Patrik Bodén	Sweden	78.34	77.04	78.34	75.80
6th	Konstantinos Gatsioudis	Greece	76.70	76.70	75.88	x
7th	Yuri Rybin	Russia	76.58	x	74.94	76.58
8th	Ed Kaminski	United States	75.70	69.60	74.36	75.70
9	Ivan Mustapic	Croatia	75.64	74.92	75.64	74.98
10	Colin Mackenzie	Great Britain	75.34	74.10	75.34	x
11	Tom Petranoff	South Africa	75.26	75.26	x	x
12	Marek Kaleta	Estonia	74.80	x	74.80	x
13	Sigurdur Einarsson	Iceland	74.40	73.20	x	74.40
14th	Fabio De Gaspari	Italy	74.34	73.54	74.34	73.50
15th	Peter Blank	Germany	74.10	73.76	x	74.10
16	Rodrigo Zelaya	Chile	73.26	71.50	73.26	x
17th	Dainis Kūla	Latvia	73.18	69.22	73.18	x
18th	Wook-Jong Lee	South Korea	72.04	72.04	x	72.02
19th	Radoman Šcekic	IWP	71.50	71.50	x	x
20th	Kind of skipper	United States	68.72	67.14	x	68.72
21st	Andrew Currey	Australia	66.72	x	x	66.72
22nd	Edgar Baumann	Paraguay	59.82	x	x	59.82
DOP	Dmitri Polyunin	Uzbekistan	admitted to the finals

Group B

August 15, 1993, 12:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	annotation
1	Tom Pukstys	United States	79.84	78.76	76.64	79.84
2	Steve Backley	Great Britain	79.64	76.20	78.48	79.64
3	Dag Wennlund	Sweden	78.48	78.48	77.02	x
4th	Terry McHugh	Ireland	78.28	75.26	78.28	x
5	Uladzimir Sassimovich	Belarus	78.24	78.24	77.28	77.10
6th	Miloš climb	Czech Republic	78.10	78.10	x	x
7th	Vladimir Ovchinnikov	Russia	77.98	77.98	75.66	75.16	actually qualified for the final
8th	Boris Henry	Germany	77.42	76.58	73.14	77.42
9	Gavin Lovegrove	New Zealand	77.08	74.16	75.14	77.08
10	Vadim Bavikin	Israel	76.98	73.30	x	76.98
11	Raymond Hecht	Germany	75.00	71.84	x	75.00
12	Peter Borglund	Sweden	74.58	71.94	74.58	x
13	Seppo Räty	Finland	74.30	74.30	73.62	73.16
14th	Pascal Lefévre	France	73.34	73.34	x	x
15th	Viktor Saizew	Uzbekistan	73.22	73.22	71.64	70.54
16	Kenneth Petersen	Denmark	72.00	72.00	x	x
17th	Viktor Jewsyukov	Kazakhstan	71.12	71.12	x	67.60
18th	Vladimir Parfyonov	Uzbekistan	70.88	x	x	70.88
19th	Juan Gerardo de la Garza	Mexico	70.86	70.86	x	x
20th	Ambrosi Matiashvili	Georgia	69.54	69.54	x	64.74
21st	Steve Feraday	Canada	68.40	67.74	65.76	68.40
22nd	Marcis Shtrobinders	Latvia	68.38	x	68.38	x
23	Ryan Haylock	Cayman Islands	56.76	56.76	x	x
NM	Phillip Spies	South Africa	ogV	x	x	x

final

World champion became the dominant javelin thrower of his time with Jan Železný - he was Olympic champion in 1992 , Olympic second in 1988 , third in 1987 World Cup , world record holder and numerous other successes were still to be achieved

August 16, 1993, 7:30 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	Jan Železný	Czech Republic	85.98 CR	81.86	x	x	83.82	85.98	84.62
2	Kimmo Kinnunen	Finland	84.78	77.46	77.68	84.78	x	81.72	82.46
3	Mick Hill	Great Britain	82.96	82.80	80.18	80.08	x	81.48	82.96
4th	Steve Backley	Great Britain	81.80	79.78	81.66	79.00	81.16	80.18	81.80
5	Ari Pakarinen	Finland	81.08	81.08	76.62	x	x	x	80.44
6th	Dag Wennlund	Sweden	80.52	80.52	75.10	x	77.34	75.90	75.82
7th	Uladzimir Sassimovich	Belarus	78.70	75.88	78.70	x	77.34	75.90	75.82
8th	Patrik Bodén	Sweden	78.00	75.18	78.00	76.84	actually entitled to 3 more throws
9	Tom Pukstys	United States	77.92	75.54	75.68	77.92	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Terry McHugh	Ireland	76.22	76.06	73.38	76.22
11	Miloš climb	Czech Republic	70.78	x	x	70.78
DOP	Dmitri Polyunin	Uzbekistan

Video

• Jan Zelezny, Stuttgart 1993 , video published on August 1, 2007 on youtube.com, accessed on May 15, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 15, 2020
• Men Javelin Throw Athletics IV World Championship 1993 Stuttgart (GER) on todor66.com (English), accessed on May 15, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Javelin Throw, Stuttgart 1993, p. 202 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on May 15, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 15, 2020
2. ↑ Phil Hersh, DOPERS, EX-DOPERS AND `HMMM 'TAKE SPOTLIGHT , August 22, 1993 at www.chicagotribune.com , accessed May 15, 2020
3. ↑ Yugoslavia was during the Yugoslav wars according to the UN administrative penalties ( RESOLUTIONS AND DECISIONS OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL 1993 on www.un.org (PDF, 10.2 MB), accessed on May 7, 2020) by the IAAF by the WM suspended -participation . Individual athletes from this area were allowed to start with a special permit.