1932 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Men
Attendees	13 athletes from 7 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	4th August 1932
Medalist Matti Järvinen ( FIN )   Matti Sippala ( FIN )   Eino Penttilä ( FIN )

The men's javelin throw at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 4, 1932 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 13 athletes took part.

In this discipline there was a Finnish triple success. Matti Järvinen won ahead of Matti Sippala and Eino Penttilä .

Existing records

• World record : 74.02 m - Matti Järvinen ( Finland ), Turku , June 27, 1932
• Olympic record : 66.60 m - Erik Lundqvist ( Sweden ), Amsterdam qualifying round , August 2, 1928

Conducting the competition

All athletes went into a qualifying round with three attempts each on August 4th. The best six competitors had three more attempts in the final, which was held on the same day. The result of the qualification was included in the final result.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: August 4, 1932

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	result	annotation
1	Matti Järvinen	Finland	71.25 m	70.42 m	72.71 m	72.71 m	OR
2	Gottfried Weimann	German Empire	68.18 m	57.58 m	60.41 m	68.18 m
3	Matti Sippala	Finland	68.14 m	63.18 m	66.53 m	68.14 m
4th	Lee Bartlett	United States	64.46 m	64.44 m	62.62 m	64.46 m
5	Eino Penttila	Finland	60.04 m	64.13 m	64.28 m	64.28 m
6th	Kenneth Churchill	United States	63.24 m	61.19 m	58.88 m	63.24 m
7th	Malcolm Metcalf	United States	61.89 m	58.34 m	61.29 m	61.89 m
8th	Kosaku Sumiyoshi	Japan	X	61.14 m	60.13 m	61.14 m
9	Olav Sunde	Norway	59.85 m	53.35 m	60.81 m	60.81 m
10	Saburo Nagao	Japan	59.34 m	59.83 m	59.01 m	59.83 m
11	Heitor Medina	Brazil	58.00 m	48.33 m	X	58.00 m
12	Adolfo Clouthier	Mexico	44.57 m	X	46.38 m	46.38 m
13	Miguel Camberos	Mexico	41.71 m	X	38.60 m	41.71 m

Bottom line

Olympic champion Matti Järvinen (FIN)

Date: August 4, 1932

The winner Matti Järvinen brought five of his six attempts over the 70-meter mark. Any of these five attempts would have been enough for victory. Even the last weakest attempt landed further than the previous Olympic record . Nobody except Järvinen reached 70 meters.

The German Gottfried Weimann opened this competition with the new Olympic record of 68.18 m. But this width was ultimately only enough for fourth place. Weimann could not improve any more and had to watch as Järvinen's compatriots Matti Sippala and Eino Penttilä still overtook him in rounds five and six, so that all medals in the javelin went to Finland.

Järvinen achieved the third Finnish victory in this discipline.

Finnish athletes have won eight medals (3/3/2) in the six Olympic competitions to date.

Of the 24 medals awarded so far, only three have gone to non-Scandinavians.

				final
space	Surname	nation	Qualification range	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Matti Järvinen	Finland	72.71 m	71.31 m	72.56 m	67.93 m	72.71 m	OR
2	Matti Sippala	Finland	68.14 m	62.98 m	61.22 m	69.80 m	69.80 m
3	Eino Penttila	Finland	64.28 m	65.40 m	68.70 m	66.86 m	68.70 m
4th	Gottfried Weimann	German Empire	68.18 m	61.19 m	61.45 m	65.24 m	68.18 m
5	Lee Bartlett	United States	64.46 m	57.30 m	61.57 m	59.55 m	64.46 m
6th	Kenneth Churchill	United States	63.24 m	X	58.07 m	X	63.24 m
7th	Malcolm Metcalf	United States	61.89 m	not in the final			61.89 m
8th	Kosaku Sumiyoshi	Japan	61.14 m				61.14 m

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 243f

Web links

• SportsReference javelin , accessed September 18, 2017
• Official report p. 451, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 18, 2017
• Matti Järvinen 1932 Olympics , published August 26, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed September 18, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 559 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)