World Athletics Championships 1995 / men's javelin

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Men
Attendees	30 athletes from 27 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 11th (qualification) August 13th (final)
Medalist Jan Železný ( CZE )   Steve Backley ( GBR )   Boris Henry ( GER )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The men's javelin throw at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 11 and 13, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

World champion was the Czech defending champion, Olympic champion in 1992 , Olympic second in 1988 , World Cup third in 1987 , European Championship third in 1994 and world record holder Jan Železný . Silver went to the British Olympic bronze medalists from 1992 and two-time European champion ( 1990 /1994) Steve Backley . The German Boris Henry , later Boris Obergföll, won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	95.66 m	Jan Železný	Sheffield , UK	April 29, 1993
World championship record	85.98 m		World Cup 1993 in Stuttgart , Germany	August 16, 1993

Record improvement

The existing World Cup record was improved twice, each time in qualification group B on August 11th.

• 87.60 m - Boris Henry ( Germany ), 1st round 
• 90.12 m - Jan Železný ( Czech Republic ), 2nd round 

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

37 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 82.00 m. Seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the five next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 79.00 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

August 11, 1995, 9:30 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Mick Hill	Great Britain	83.54	x	83.20	-
2	Andreas Linden	Germany	80.16	66.30	80.16	-
3	Raymond Hecht	Germany	79.82	79.82	x	78.32
4th	Harri Hakkarainen	Finland	79.66	79.66	78.70	79.04
5	Uladzimir Sassimovich	Belarus	78.94	78.40	78.94	76.54
6th	Vladimir Ovchinnikov	Russia	78.28	77.48	78.28	x
7th	Patrik Bodén	Sweden	77.62	x	75.10	77.62
8th	Andrew Currey	Australia	76.84	76.84	72.50	74.50
9	Tom Pukstys	United States	76.12	75.08	76.12	75.06
10	Gavin Lovegrove	New Zealand	74.98	74.98	x	x
11	Kenneth Petersen	Denmark	74.22	x	69.32	74.98
12	Phillip Spies	South Africa	74.06	x	x	74.06
13	Ivan Mustapic	Croatia	73.12	x	73.12	71.34
14th	Edgar Baumann	Paraguay	72.90	72.90	71.40	70.78
15th	Viktor Saizew	Uzbekistan	71.08	x	x	71.08
16	Aleksandr Fingert	Israel	70.94	68.30	66.46	70.94
17th	Kazuhiro Mizoguchi	Japan	68.66	x	68.66	x
18th	Frans Mahuse	Indonesia	68.18	62.62	68.18	x
19th	Fernando Palomo	El Salvador	62.90	x	62.90	x

Group B

August 11, 1995, 11:30 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Jan Železný	Czech Republic	90.12 CR	78.98	90.12 CR	-
2	Boris Henry	Germany	87.60	87.60 CR	-	-
3	Andrei Moruev	Russia	85.60	85.60	-	-
4th	Steve Backley	Great Britain	83.20	83.20	-	-
5	Seppo Räty	Finland	82.42	79.82	82.42	-
6th	Yuri Rybin	Russia	82.14	x	x	82.14
7th	Aki Parviainen	Finland	80.98	72.74	80.98	-
8th	Dag Wennlund	Sweden	79.00	74.02	77.42	79.00
9	Emeterio González	Cuba	76.54	x	x	76.54
10	Gregor Högler	Austria	76.40	76.12	76.08	76.40
11	Terry McHugh	Ireland	74.58	74.58	73.90	71.64
12	Sigurdur Einarsson	Iceland	74.10	74.10	73.74	71.18
13	Vladimir Parfyonov	Uzbekistan	73.64	x	67.22	73.64
14th	Fikret Özsoy	Turkey	73.50	73.50	x	x
15th	Ed Kaminski	United States	71.92	x	70.64	71.92
16	Kim Ki-hoon	South Korea	70.20	67.46	70.20	66.62
17th	Juan Gerardo de la Garza	Mexico	70.20	x	x	70.20
NM	Donald-Aik Sild	Estonia	ogV	x	x	x

final

Jan Železný (photo: 2012) successfully defended his title - he was one of the best javelin throwers in sports history. among other things, three times Olympic champion ( 1992 / 1996 /
2000 ), three times world champion ( 1993 / 1995 / 2001 ) and holder of the world record

August 13, 1995, 4:00 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	89.58	80.52	83.02	82.92	88.92	89.06	89.58
2	Steve Backley	Great Britain	86.30	81.10	x	78.30	x	84.92	86.30
3	Boris Henry	Germany	86.08	83.10	85.16	84.30	80.36	84.06	86.08
4th	Raymond Hecht	Germany	83.30	83.30	x	82.80	83.02	81.48	81.74
5	Dag Wennlund	Sweden	82.04	x	78.68	82.04	-	-	-
6th	Mick Hill	Great Britain	81.06	79.06	79.88	81.06	x	79.06	x
7th	Yuri Rybin	Russia	81.00	x	75.76	81.00	x	79.54	x
8th	Andreas Linden	Germany	80.76	x	80.76	x	79.72	-	78.16
9	Aki Parviainen	Finland	79.58	79.58	x	x	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Andrei Moruev	Russia	79.14	x	78.30	79.14
11	Seppo Räty	Finland	78.76	78.66	78.76	74.94
12	Harri Hakkarainen	Finland	78.16	74.74	76.00	78.16

Video

• 5667 World Track and Field 1995 Hammer Men Tibor Gécsek , video posted March 25, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed June 3, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on June 3, 2020
• Men Javelin Throw Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com, accessed June 3, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Javelin Throw, Gothenborg 1995, p. 202 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on June 3, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 3, 2020