1908 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin throw center grip (men)
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sport | athletics |
discipline | Javelin throw (center grip) |
gender | Men |
place | White City Stadium |
Attendees | 15 athletes from 6 countries |
Competition phase | July 14, 1908 |
Medalist | |
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Eric Lemming ( SWE )
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Arne Halse ( NOR )
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Otto Nilsson ( SWE )
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The men's javelin throw at the 1908 Olympic Games in London , using today's central grip technique , was decided on July 17, 1908 in the White City Stadium . On the morning of the same day, a qualification took place from which three throwers qualified for the competition.
The javelin was first part of the Olympic program in London . There were even two different javelin competitions. With the “center grip” variant described here, the thrower had to hold the spear in the middle and throw it from this grip position, which corresponds to the throwing style commonly used today.
In this discipline, the athletes from Scandinavia dominated. The Swede Eric Lemming became Olympic champion, the Norwegian Arne Halse won the silver medal. Bronze went to Lemming's compatriot Otto Nilsson .
Records
The world records that existed at the time were still unofficial. Since the javelin throw was Olympic for the first time, there was actually no Olympic record yet . However, a javelin competition was held at the Athens Intermediate Games in 1906 . The victory distance achieved in this way is named here as the Olympic record.
World record | 56.55 m |
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Eric Lemming | Falun ( Sweden ), September 29, 1907 |
Olympic record - achieved in the interludes | 53.90 m | Athens Final ( Greece ), April 26, 1906 |
The following records were broken or set in the javelin throw (center grip) at the 1908 Olympic Games:
OR | 54.83 m |
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Eric Lemming | final |
Results
The information on the achieved widths differ in the individual sources. Sometimes the deviations are as little as an inch, but in some cases there are more pronounced differences. The overviews below illustrate these differences.
qualification
The qualification was held in two staggered groups. The results of these groups were combined. Only the best three throwers in the qualification - highlighted in light green - could contest the final competition. However, the performance achieved in the qualification was taken into account in the evaluation of the final result. In both the qualification and the final, the participants had three attempts each.
Group A
Result according to Kluge and Sports Reference
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Result to the Megede
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For Aarne Salovaara two different widths are given in two different tables for the same result in Sports-Reference . In addition to the 46.81 m listed above, there are also 45.89 m. However, this has no effect on the placement in the qualification or the final result.
Group B
athlete | country | Width (m) |
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Eric Lemming |
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53.69 |
Arne Halse |
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50.57 |
Evert Jakobsson |
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k. A. |
Jarl Jakobsson |
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Ernest May |
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Final and final result
The best five according to Kluge and Sports-Reference
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The best six after the Megede
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The Swede Eric Lemming took part in his third Olympic Games here since 1900 , not counting the Athens Intermediate Games of 1906 . So far, his Olympic appearances have been of rather moderate success. In Athens, Lemming's special discipline was on the program for the first time. There he had won with a new world record . Here in London , Lemming had already won the first free-style javelin throwing competition and has now won his second gold medal in the competition based on today's grip variant. In doing so, he set a new Olympic record . The spelling of his first name is not clear despite his success - he won Olympic gold again in 1912 . In the various sources there is a “c” at the end with “Eric”, but often it is also called “Erik” with a “k” at the end.
Overall, there was a great Scandinavian superiority in this competition. The first six were exclusively Swedes, Norwegians and Finns.
The double javelin thrower from London , Eric Lemming, Sweden
Juho Halme from Finland - here in the shot put - was sixth in the Olympics
The Swedish decathlon Olympic champion from 1912 Hugo Wieslander did not get beyond the qualification
literature
- Volker Kluge , Olympic Summer Games - The Chronicle I, Berlin 1997 ( ISBN 3-328-00715-6 )
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The history of Olympic athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970
Web links
- Sports-Reference, Athletics at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Javelin Throw , accessed September 2, 2018
- Olympic Games London 1908, Athletics , IOC page on athletics at the 1908 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed September 2, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 91