1912 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Men
Attendees	25 athletes from 7 countries
Competition location	Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 14, 1912
Medalist Eric Lemming ( SWE )   Juho Saaristo ( FIN )   Mór Kóczán ( HUN )

The men's javelin throw at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm was held on July 14, 1912 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. 25 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Swede Eric Lemming ahead of the Finn Juho Saaristo and the Hungarian Mór Kóczán .

The German-speaking participants placed themselves at the end of the ranking list. Josef Waitzer was the best of them 19th, Karl von Halt 22nd and Paul Willführ 23rd. The Austrian Gustav Krojer did not make a valid distance and was not placed. Swiss athletes did not take part.

Existing records

World record	Juho Saaristo ( Grand Duchy of Finland )	61.45 m	Helsinki	May 25, 1912
Olympic record	Eric Lemming ( Sweden )	54.83 m	London	July 17, 1908

Conducting the competition

All 25 athletes had three attempts. The best three throwers then completed another three attempts, whereby the results of the first three rounds were included in the evaluation.

Note: The best widths are shown in bold.

Result

space	Surname	nation	result	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	annotation
1	Eric Lemming	Sweden	60.64 m	53.02	54.78	57.42	60.64 m	-	59.00	OR - before already OR in the 3rd attempt
2	Juho Saaristo	Grand Duchy of Finland	58.66 m	54.75	55.37	-	56.21	-	58.66	OR in the 2nd attempt
3	Mór Kóczán	Hungary	55.50 m	54.06	-	54.99	-	-	55.50
4th	Juho Halme	Grand Duchy of Finland	54.65 m	53.81	54.65	-
5	Väinö Siikaniemi	Grand Duchy of Finland	52.43 m	52.19	-	52.43
6th	Richard Åbrink	Sweden	52.20 m	46.56	48.25	52.20
7th	Arne Halse	Norway	51.98 m	51.98	-	-
8th	Jonni Myyra	Grand Duchy of Finland	51.33 m	48.77	51.33	-
9	Urho Peltonen	Grand Duchy of Finland	49.20 m	49.20	-	-
10	Otto Nilsson	Sweden	49.18 m	47.59	48.01	49.18
11	Karl Sun	Sweden	47.85 m	-	47.85	-
12	Daniel Johansen	Norway	47.61 m	46.18	46.87	47.61
13	Svante Olsson	Sweden	46.94 m	46.94	-	-
14th	Not so Krigsman	Sweden	46.71 m	45.14	45.48	46.71
15th	Janne Dahl	Sweden	45.67 m	-	44.09	45.67
16	Arvid Ohrling	Sweden	45.32 m	45.00	45.32	-
17th	Nikolai Neklapayev	Russia	44.98 m	-	44.78	44.98
18th	Emil Kukko	Grand Duchy of Finland	44.66 m	44.50	-	44.66
19th	Josef Waitzer	German Empire	43.71 m	41.99	43.20	43.71
20th	Nikolajs Švedrēvics	Russia	43.21 m	-	43.21	-
21st	Algot Larsson	Sweden	43.18 m	43.18	-	-
22nd	Karl von Halt	German Empire	41.99 m	-	41.99	-
23	Paul Willführ	German Empire	41.05 m	41.05	-	-
ogV	Eskil Falk	Sweden	-	-	-	-
	Gustav Krojer	Austria		-	-	-

Date: July 14, 1912

In the javelin throw , there was a duel between the Finnish world record holder Juho Saaristo, who had achieved the world record distance of 61.45 m in June 1912 , and the Swedish Olympic champion from 1908 , Eric Lemming, whose annual best before these Olympic Games was 57.45 m . In the first attempt Saaristo took the lead in front of the Hungarian Mór Kóczán and the Finn Juho Halme, Lemming was fourth. In the second attempt, Lemming moved up to second place, Halme pushed the Hungarian to fourth. Saaristo extended its lead with a new Olympic record . In the third attempt, Lemming then took the lead. Kóczán also improved and pushed Halme to fourth.

In the final, Lemming started with another Olympic record. Saaristo was also able to improve by more than three meters in the fourth and sixth attempts, but it was not enough for victory. Kóczán was also able to gain another half a meter, but stayed on the bronze rank.

14 starters from the top 15 - the only exception being the Hungarian Kóczán - came from Scandinavia: seven from Sweden, five from Finland and two from Norway.

In the second Olympic javelin competition, Eric Lemming was able to repeat his Olympic victory in 1908.

Three days later, Saaristo improved the Olympic record with a two-armed javelin throw to a distance of 61.00 m.

Picture gallery

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  Olympic Champion Eric Lemming (SWE)

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  Juho Saaristo (FIN) wins silver

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  Group picture of the Finnish starters (from left): Peltonen (9th), Saaristo (2nd), Siikaniemi (5th)

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  Another Finn in 8th place: Jonni Myyrä

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 122f

Web links

• SportsReference Javelin , accessed August 29, 2017
• Official report , engl. (PDF), accessed on August 29, 2017

Video

• Eric Lemming Wins First Olympic Javelin Gold - Stockholm 1912 Olympics on YouTube , accessed February 18, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ description in the official report, page 403 (Engl.) ( Memento of the original on February 7, 2014 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.