World Athletics Championships 1999 / men's javelin

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Men
Attendees	29 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 27 (qualifying) August 29 (final)
Medalist Aki Parviainen ( FIN )   Konstandinos Gatsioudis ( GRE )   Jan Železný ( CZE )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The men's javelin throw at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 27 and 29, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

The Finn Aki Parviainen became world champion . He won Konstandinos Gatsioudis before the Greek World Cup third in 1997 . The bronze went to the Czech world record holder Jan Železný , who both Olympic Games ( 1992 / 1996 ) as well as World Championships ( 1993 / 1995 won) per two golds and beyond 1988 Olympic silver medalist, 1987 World Cup -Dritter and 1994 European Championship was -Dritter.

Existing records

World record	98.48 m	Jan Železný	Jena , Germany	May 25, 1996
World championship record	90.12 m		World Cup 1995 in Gothenburg , Sweden	August 11, 1995

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

Three national records were set.

• 79.56 m - Arūnas Burkšas , Lithuania : Qualification on August 27th
• 86.24 m - Pål Arne Fagernes , Norway : Final on August 29th
• 84.32 m - Emeterio González , Cuba : Final on August 29th

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

29 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 83.50 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 81.61 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

Dariusz Trafas was eliminated in qualification with 78.43 m

August 27, 1999, 6:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Jan Železný	Czech Republic	84.31	84.31	-	-
2	Raymond Hecht	Germany	83.41	81.54	83.41	-
3	Aki Parviainen	Finland	82.84	81.25	82.84	x
4th	Harri Haatainen	Finland	81.83	78.40	81.83	79.44
5	Steve Backley	Great Britain	81.68	x	81.68	x
6th	Ēriks Rags	Latvia	81.61	81.61	x	77.06
7th	Uladzimir Sassimovich	Belarus	80.18	80.18	79.44	76.34
8th	Dariusz Trafas	Poland	78.43	78.43	74.19	76.05
9	Sergey Voynov	Uzbekistan	77.35	x	75.79	77.35
10	Terry McHugh	Ireland	77.23	x	73.09	77.23
11	Andrew Currey	Australia	76.34	70.92	76.34	75.37
12	Marius Corbett	South Africa	76.34	x	73.28	76.34
13	Patrik Bodén	Sweden	75.66	72.26	73.61	75.66
14th	Ali Saleh Al-Jadani	Saudi Arabia	72.19	x	69.86	72.19
DNS	Tom Pukstys	United States

Group B

August 27, 1999, 8:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Konstandinos Gatsioudis	Greece	87.97	87.97	-	-
2	Matti Narhi	Finland	85.05	x	78.79	85.05
3	Boris Henry	Germany	83.25	80.27	80.82	83.35
4th	Emeterio González	Cuba	82.86	82.86	81.48	82.74
5	Sergei Makarov	Russia	82.25	78.79	82.25	x
6th	Pål Arne Fagernes	Norway	81.74	x	80.23	81.74
7th	Peter Blank	Germany	80.89	80.89	x	74.37
8th	Mick Hill	Great Britain	80.75	80.75	x	79.61
9	Arūnas Burkšas	Lithuania	79.56 NO	79.56	74.35	70.85
10	Li Rongxiang	People's Republic of China	79.24	78.09	79.24	78.63
11	Gregor Högler	Austria	75.94	75.94	73.55	74.30
12	Johan Kloeck	Belgium	74.87	72.60	74.87	69.83
13	Yu Nam-Sung	South Korea	72.87	72.87	x	65.41
14th	Nick Nieland	Great Britain	72.12	72.12	x	x
15th	Nery Kennedy	Paraguay	71.74	70.88	68.25	71.74

final

August 29, 1999, 6:55 pm

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Aki Parviainen	Finland	89.52	81.63	86.08	83.78	85.00	89.52	-
2	Konstandinos Gatsioudis	Greece	89.18	89.18	83.35	81.72	81.68	x	87.16
3	Jan Železný	Czech Republic	87.67	83.60	87.67	x	x	x	-
4th	Pål Arne Fagernes	Norway	86.24 NO	82.99	86.24	78.98	81.74	x	x
5	Raymond Hecht	Germany	85.92	85.92	85.24	x	79.23	79.01	81.38
6th	Boris Henry	Germany	85.43	83.28	83.38	83.67	82.98	85.43	x
7th	Emeterio González	Cuba	84.32 NO	76.41	83.00	84.32	78.37	81.97	78.55
8th	Steve Backley	Great Britain	83.84	83.84	82.60	81.20	x	x	x
9	Sergei Makarov	Russia	83.20	77.24	77.50	83.20	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Ēriks Rags	Latvia	82.64	x	82.64	77.04
11	Harri Haatainen	Finland	80.92	80.92	x	77.97
12	Matti Narhi	Finland	79.47	79.47	76.98	x

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  Konstandinos Gatsioudis - 1997 World Cup third and now vice world champion

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  After numerous medals and victories, there was bronze for world record holder Jan Železný, as in 1987

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  Pål Arne Fagernes achieved the Norwegian national record with 86.24 m and came in fourth

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  Tenth place for Ēriks Rags

Video

• Aki Parviainen Javelin World Champion 1999 on youtube.com, accessed July 19, 2020

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 4, 2020
• Men Javelin Throw Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 19, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Javelin Throw, Seville 1999, p. 203 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on July 19, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 20, 2020