1908 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Free Style Javelin Throw (Men)
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sport | athletics |
discipline | Javelin throw (free style) |
gender | Men |
place | White City Stadium |
Attendees | 33 athletes from 9 countries |
Competition phase | July 15, 1908 |
Medalist | |
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gold | Eric Lemming ( SWE ) |
silver | Michalis Dorizas ( GRE ) |
bronze | Arne Halse ( NOR ) |
The men's javelin throw in the free style at the 1908 London Olympics was decided on July 15, 1908 at White City Stadium . On the morning of the same day, a qualification took place from which three throwers qualified for the competition.
This competition was only on the program at the 1908 Olympic Games. As with the discus throw , Greek style, there are different representations to carry out this throwing .
- In his literature below, Kluge states that the majority of the participants used the “middle grip” that is common today and that no special technique was prescribed.
- According to the book by zur Megede mentioned below , the throwers held the spear at the rear end with an outstretched arm. During the approach, the throwing device was leaned against the front shoulder and held with the free hand - hence the term "free technique". When it was thrown, the athlete finally hurled the javelin from the back of his arm, which was still extended, up and forward. The technique is hinted at in the photo below with Imre Mudin.
Records
Since this discipline disappeared from the competition calendar soon after these games and, unlike the javelin throwing with a center grip, never played a major role, there were no official world records and no Olympic record either , because the competition had never been in the Olympic program before.
The following records were set or set in this discipline at the 1908 Olympic Games:
OR | 46.04 m | Finland | Arma's people | qualification |
51.36 m | Greece | Michalis Dorizas | ||
54.44 m | Sweden | Eric Lemming |
Results
qualification
The qualification was held in five staggered groups. The results of these groups were combined. Only the three best throwers in the qualification - highlighted in light green - were able to 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
athlete | country | Width (m) |
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Arma's people | Finland | 46.04 OR |
Jalmari Sauli | Finland | 43.30 |
Juho Halme | Finland | 39.88 |
Henry Leeke | Great Britain | k. A. |
Walter Henderson | Great Britain | |
Ernest May | Great Britain |
Group B
athlete | country | Width (m) |
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Michalis Dorizas | Greece | 51.36 OR |
Arne Halse | Norway | 49.73 |
Charalambos Zouras | Greece | 48.61 |
Nikolaos Georgandas | Greece | k. A. |
Conrad Carlsrud | Norway | |
Istvan Mudin | Hungary | |
Alfred Flaxman | Great Britain | |
Edward Barrett | Great Britain |
Group C
athlete | country | Width (m) |
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Imre Mudin | Hungary | 45.96 |
Johan Kemp | Finland | k. A. |
Aarne Salovaara | Finland | |
Evert Jakobsson | Finland | |
Ferenc Jesina | Hungary | |
György Luntzer | Hungary |
Group D
athlete | country | Width (m) |
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Eric Lemming | Sweden | 54.44 OR |
Bruno Söderström | Sweden | k. A. |
Knut Lindberg | Sweden | |
Otto Nilsson | Sweden | |
František Souček | Bohemia |
Group E
athlete | country | Width (m) |
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Hugo Wieslander | Sweden | 47.56 |
Jarl Jakobsson | Finland | k. A. |
Verner Järvinen | Finland | |
Ludwig Uettwiller | Germany | |
Emil Welz | Germany | |
Mór Kóczán | Hungary | |
Emilio Brambilla | Italy | |
John Johansen | Norway |
Final and final result of the best nine
space | athlete | country | Width (m) |
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1 | Eric Lemming | Sweden | 54.44 OR |
2 | Michalis Dorizas | Greece | 51.36 |
3 | Arne Halse | Norway | 49.73 |
4th | Charalambos Zouras | GRE | 48.61 |
5 | Hugo Wieslander | SWE | 47.55 |
6th | Arma's people | FIN | 46.04 |
7th | Imre Mudin | HUN | 45.96 |
8th | Jalmari Sauli | FIN | 43.30 |
9 | Juho Halme | FIN | 39.88 |
None of the three finalists managed to improve on the first three rounds. Eric Lemming won over and won his first gold medal. Two days later he was also Olympic champion in the middle grip competition and in 1912 won Olympic gold in the javelin throw for the third time in Stockholm . Second place went to the Greek Michalis Dorizas, ahead of the Norwegian silver medalist for javelin throwing with a center grip, Arne Halse. Another Greek came in fourth with Charalambos Zouras. The Swedish decathlon Olympic champion of 1912, Hugo Wieslander, achieved his best placement at the London Games with fifth place . Behind him, the Finn Armas Pesonen took sixth place.
The Swedish decathlon Olympic champion from 1912 Hugo Wieslander finished fifth
The Finnish Olympic eighth Jalmari Sauli - here in a picture from around 1929 - was also seventh in the shot put
The Hungarian István Mudin - here at the hammer throw - also seventh in the discus throw , Greek style, was eliminated in the qualification
The Swedish bronze medalist in the pole vault Bruno Söderström was eliminated from the qualification
The Swedish sprinter Knut Lindberg - over 100 meters second in his heat - also failed in 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: Javelin Throw, Freestyle , English, accessed September 3, 2018
- Olympic Games London 1908, Athletics , IOC page on athletics at the 1908 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed 3 September 2018