World Athletics Championships 2001 / men's javelin

8th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Men
Attendees	27 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Edmonton
Competition location	Commonwealth Stadium
Competition phase	August 10th (qualification) August 12th (final)
Medalist Jan Železný ( CZE )   Aki Parviainen ( FIN )   Konstandinos Gatsioudis ( GRE )

The Commonwealth Stadium by Edmonton in 2005

The javelin men in the 2001 World Championships in Athletics was on 10 and 12 August 2001 at Commonwealth Stadium, the Canadian city of Edmonton held.

The Czech world record holder and triple Olympic champion ( 1992 / 1996 / 2000 ) Jan Železný was after 1993 and 1995 for the third time world champion. He also had two World Cup -Bronze ( 87 / 1999 ) and 1994 European Championship won -Bronze. The Finnish defending champion Aki Parviainen came in second . Bronze went to the Greek vice world champion from 1999 and World Cup third from 1997 Konstandinos Gatsioudis .

Records

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

Record improvement

The Czech world champion Jan Železný improved the existing world championship record in the final on August 12th by 2.68 m to 92.80 m.

In addition, a national record was set.

• 81.66 m - Scott Russell , Canada : Qualifying on August 10

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid
r	Competition not continued (retired)

qualification

27 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 84.00 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 81.78 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

Dariusz Trafas was missing forty centimeters with his 81.38 m to participate in the final

August 10, 2001, 7:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Konstandinos Gatsioudis	Greece	87.81	87.81	-	-
2	Raymond Hecht	Germany	84.90	84.90	-	-
3	Ēriks Rags	Latvia	84.13	81.99	77.86	84.13
4th	Alexander Ivanov	Russia	83.18	83.18	78.04	x
5	Li Rongxiang	People's Republic of China	81.78	81.39	81.78	80.71
6th	Steve Backley	Great Britain	81.50	81.50	80.63	81.40
7th	Harri Haatainen	Finland	81.43	x	79.61	81.43
8th	Dariusz Trafas	Poland	81.38	79.06	81.38	81.07
9	Peter Blank	Germany	80.96	80.96	79.11	x
10	Emeterio González	Cuba	79.71	74.38	79.71	72.96
11	Tom Pukstys	United States	78.10	78.10	x	72.88
12	Vadim Bavikin	Israel	77.91	77.91	x	71.59
13	Sergey Voynov	Uzbekistan	76.76	76.76	x	x
NM	Matti Narhi	Finland	ogV	x	x	x

Group B

Andreas Thorkildsen, at the beginning of what later became a very successful career, scored 68.41 m and was eliminated

August 10, 2001, 9:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Jan Železný	Czech Republic	90.76	90.76	-	-
2	Boris Henry	Germany	86.53	86.53	-	-
3	Mick Hill	Great Britain	84.88	84.88	-	-
4th	Breaux Greer	United States	83.60	83.60	79.26	-
5	Sergei Makarov	Russia	82.92	81.80	82.92	80.10
6th	Voldemārs Lūsis	Latvia	81.85	76.13	x	81.85
7th	Aki Parviainen	Finland	81.83	81.83	x	81.17
8th	Scott Russell	Canada	81.66 NO	79.98	80.04	81.66
9	Juha Laukkanen	Finland	78.28	78.28	x	x
10	Nick Nieland	Great Britain	78.02	78.02	71.61	x
11	Terry McHugh	Ireland	75.49	71.99	75.49	73.12
12	Marc Van Mensel	Belgium	71.89	71.89	x	x
13	Andreas Thorkildsen	Norway	68.41	66.42	x	68.41

final

August 12, 2001, 3:40 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	92.80 CR	81.76	92.80	89.45	x	87.28	x
2	Aki Parviainen	Finland	91.31	91.31	x	x	x	x	x
3	Konstandinos Gatsioudis	Greece	89.95	x	88.39	87.54	89.95	x	x
4th	Breaux Greer	United States	87.00	87.00	85.61	x	x	x	x
5	Raymond Hecht	Germany	86.46	80.61	80.24	86.46	x	81.59	x
6th	Boris Henry	Germany	85.52	80.70	85.52	84.52	x	85.51	86.33
7th	Sergei Makarov	Russia	83.64	83.64	78.59	x	x	r
8th	Ēriks Rags	Latvia	82.82	77.83	79.56	82.82	x	79.66	x
9	Li Rongxiang	People's Republic of China	81.80	79.98	81.80	81.70	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Alexander Ivanov	Russia	80.56	x	78.85	80.56
11	Voldemārs Lūsis	Latvia	79.70	x	x	79.70
12	Mick Hill	Great Britain	77.81	77.81	x	x

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  With the triple Olympic champion ( 1992 / 1996 / 2000 ) and world record holder Jan Železný was one of the best javelin thrower in sports history here for the third time world champion

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  Breaux Greer (right, at the 2007 World Cup awards ceremony ) took fourth place

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  Eighth place Ēriks Rags

Video

• JT-Zelezny / 92.80 / 2001 World Championships on youtube.com, accessed August 16, 2020

Web links

• 8th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 24, 2020
• Men Javelin Throw Athletics VIII World Championship 2001 Edmonton (CAN) on todor66.com, accessed August 16, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Javelin Throw, Edmonton 2001, p. 204 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on August 16, 2020

References and comments

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