1920 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Men
Attendees	25 athletes from 12 countries
Competition location	Antwerp Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 15, 1920
Medalist Jonni Myyrä ( FIN )   Urho Peltonen ( FIN )   Pekka Johansson ( FIN )

The men's javelin throw at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp was held on August 15, 1920 in the Antwerp Olympic Stadium. 25 athletes took part.

The four Finnish participants took the first four places. Olympic champion was Jonni Myyrä ahead of Urho Peltonen and Pekka Johansson . Juho Saaristo , 1912 silver medalist , finished fourth.

Athletes from Switzerland did not take part. Germany and Austria were excluded from these games.

Existing records

World record	Jonni Myyrä ( Finland )	66.10 m	Stockholm	August 25, 1919
Olympic record	Juho Saaristo ( Finland )	61.00 m	Stockholm	July 9, 1912

Saaristo reached the size of the Olympic record in the two-armed javelin throwing discipline .

Conducting the competition

All 25 throwers had to complete a qualifying round on August 15th. The top ten athletes advanced to the final, which took place on the same day.

Note: The qualified throwers are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: August 15, 1920

The existing Olympic record was broken twice in the qualifying round .

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Urho Peltonen	Finland	63.61 m	OR
2	Pekka Johansson	Finland	63.10 m
3	Jonni Myyra	Finland	60.63 m
4th	Gunnar Lindström	Sweden	60.52 m
5	Juho Saaristo	Finland	60.05 m
6th	Aleksander Klumberg	Estonia	59.03 m
7th	Erik Blomqvist	Sweden	58.18 m
8th	James Lincoln	United States	57.86 m
9	Milton Angier	United States	57.58 m
10	Hugo Lilliér	Sweden	56.77 m
11	Arthur Tuck	United States	53.78 m
12	Jack Mahan	United States	53.52 m
13	Elof Lindström	Sweden	51.53 m
14th	Pierre Grany	France	47.90 m
15th	Arthur Picard	France	47.09 m
16	Arthur MacKey	Chile	43.90 m
17th	Oprando Bottura	Italy	42.70 m
18th	Adolphe Hauman	Belgium	42.58 m
19th	Frederik Petersen	Denmark	42.13 m
20th	Émile Muller	Belgium	40.24 m
21st	Alex Servais	Luxembourg	40.08 m
22nd	Jean Lefèvre	Belgium	39.00 m
23	Ignacio Izaguirre	Spain	38.92 m
24	Ardy Vydra	Czechoslovakia	37.75 m
25th	Arthur Delaender	Belgium	36.25 m

final

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Jonni Myyra	Finland	65,780 m	OR
2	Urho Peltonen	Finland	63.605 m
3	Pekka Johansson	Finland	63,095 m
4th	Juho Saaristo	Finland	62.395 m
5	Aleksander Klumberg	Estonia	62.390 m
6th	Gunnar Lindström	Sweden	60,520 m
7th	Milton Angier	United States	59.275 m
8th	Erik Blomqvist	Sweden	58.180 m
9	James Lincoln	United States	57.860 m
10	Hugo Lilliér	Sweden	56.445 m

Date: August 15, 1920

In the final, the old Olympic record of 61.00 meters was broken three more times. Despite a shoulder injury, Jonni Myyrä improved the mark by 4.78 meters and just missed his own world record of 66.10 meters. Myyrä had suffered a wound while warming up when a spear thrown by the American James Lincoln hit him in the shoulder.

The Finnish triple triumph was the first triple victory of a nation in this discipline. It was actually a quadruple victory, because the 1912 Olympic champion Juho Saaristo also took fourth place. It was also the only triple success of any country's track and field competitions at these games alongside the US 400 meter win .

Picture gallery

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  Olympic champion Jonni Myyrä (FIN)

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  Juho Saaristo (FIN) takes 4th place (photo from 1912)

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  The Estonian Aleksander Klumberg comes in 5th place

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  Arthur Tuck (USA) retires in 11th place after qualifying

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  The best Swede in 6th place: Gunnar Lindström

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 148

Web links

• SportsReference Javelin , accessed September 3, 2017
• Official report French (PDF), accessed on September 3, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 559 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Official report ( Memento of October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) p. 115, French. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)