1924 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Men
Attendees	29 athletes from 15 countries
Competition location	Stade de Colombes
Competition phase	July 6, 1924
Medalist Jonni Myyrä ( FIN )   Gunnar Lindström ( SWE )   Eugene Oberst ( USA )

The men's javelin at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris was held on July 6, 1924. 29 athletes took part.

As in the last games in 1920 , the Finn Jonni Myyrä won the gold medal. Second and thus silver medalist went to Swede Gunnar Lindström , bronze went to US athlete Eugene Oberst .

Existing records

• World record : 66.10 m - Jonni Myyrä ( Finland ), Stockholm , June 19, 1919
• Olympic record : 65.78 m - Jonni Myyrä ( Finland ), Olympic javelin final in Antwerp , August 15, 1920

Conducting the competition

The athletes completed a qualifying round in two groups on July 6th. For the final, which took place on the same day, the six best throwers from these two groups qualified. The distances achieved in the preliminary fight were included in the final result.

Note: The qualified throwers are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: July 6, 1924

Group 1

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Gunnar Lindström	Sweden	60.81 m
2	Jonni Myyra	Finland	59.30 m
3	Eugene Colonel	United States	57.98 m
4th	Yrjö Ekqvist	Finland	56.15 m
5	Lajos Csejthey	Hungary	54.86 m
6th	Lee priest	United States	54.51 m
7th	Hugo Lilliér	Sweden	52.95 m
8th	Georgios Zacharopoulos	Greece	51.17 m
9	Willy Seewald	Brazil	49.39 m
10	Taki N'Dio	France	48.92 m
11	Ciré Samba	France	48.65 m
12	Jock Dalrymple	Great Britain	46.92 m
13	Willi Moser	Switzerland	46.80 m
14th	Sławosz Szydłowski	Poland	46.00 m
k. A.	Jiří Svoboda	Czechoslovakia

Group 2

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	William Neufeld	United States	56.96 m
2	Erik Blomqvist	Sweden	56.15 m
3	Urho Peltonen	Finland	55.66 m
4th	Pekka Johansson	Finland	55.10 m
5	Taka Gangué	France	54.65 m
6th	Homer Whelchel	United States	52.98 m
7th	Carlo Clemente	Italy	52.95 m
8th	Arvīds Ķibilds	Latvia	50.15 m
9	Aleksander Klumberg	Estonia	49.61 m
10	Hans Wipf	Switzerland	48.57 m
11	Emmanuel Degland	France	48.57 m
12	Mór Kóczán	Czechoslovakia	48.39 m
13	Henri Dauban de Silhouette	Great Britain	44.70 m
14th	Victor Pickard	Canada	46.59 m

final

space	Surname	nation	Qualification range	Final width	result	annotation
1	Jonni Myyra	Finland	59.30 m	62.96 m	62.96 m
2	Gunnar Lindström	Sweden	60.81 m	60.92 m	60.92 m
3	Eugene Colonel	United States	57.98 m	58.35 m	58.35 m
4th	Yrjö Ekqvist	Finland	56.15 m	57.56 m	57.56 m
5	William Neufeld	United States	56.96 m	no improvement in the final	56.96 m
6th	Erik Blomqvist	Sweden	56.15 m	56.85 m	56.85 m
7th	Urho Peltonen	Finland	55.66 m	not in the final	55.66 m
8th	Pekka Johansson	Finland	55.10 m	not in the final	55.10 m

Date: July 6, 1924

The performance in the javelin did not reach the level of the last Olympic Games . Six throwers had exceeded the 60-meter mark in Antwerp , here in Paris there were only two. In the final, two Americans, two Finns and two Swedes competed against each other. Jonni Myyrä repeated his Olympic victory in 1920 with 62.96 m, defeating fellow favorite Gunnar Lindström, who achieved 60.92 m and then set a new world record with 66.62 m in October of the Olympic year . The bronze medal went to the American Eugene Oberst.

Eugene Oberst won the first US medal in the javelin throw.

Picture gallery

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  Olympic champion Jonni Myyrä (FIN)

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  Gunnar Lindström (SWE) won silver.

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  The Hungarian Lajos Csejthey failed in the qualification.

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  Aleksander Klumberg (EST) also failed in the preliminary round.

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  Even the Canadian Victor Pickard (in a recording from 1928) did not reach the final.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 171

Web links

• SportsReference Javelin , accessed September 10, 2017

Video

• Jonni Myyra Wins Another Scandinavian Javelin Gold - Paris 1924 Olympics , published January 31, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed September 10, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 171
2. ↑ Official report ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Pp. 138-139, fr. (PDF)