1936 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Javelin throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 29 athletes from 19 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympiastadion Berlin | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 6, 1936 | ||||||||
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The men's javelin at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin was held on August 6, 1936 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. 29 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the German Gerhard Stöck . He won ahead of the Finns Yrjö Nikkanen and Kalervo Toivonen .
Existing records
- World record : 77.23 m - Matti Järvinen ( Finland ), Helsinki , June 18, 1936
- Olympic record : 72.71 m - Matti Järvinen ( Finland ), Los Angeles final , August 4, 1932
Conducting the competition
The athletes began with a qualifying round. To qualify for the semi-finals, the participants had to create at least 60.00 meters. In the semifinals, each participant had three attempts. The best six athletes then qualified for another three attempts in the final. The result of the semi-finals was included in the final result. All partial competitions were held on August 6th.
Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The order and width of the trial series in the qualifying round are not known.
qualification
August 6, 1936, 10.30 a.m.
Weather conditions: overcast, 16 ° C, tail wind at approx. 2.4 m / s.
Semifinals
August 6, 1936, 3.15 p.m.
Weather conditions: clearing, 18 ° C, tail wind of approx. 1.9 m / s.
Note: The best sizes are printed in bold. Of the throwers who could not qualify for the final, only the best distances are known.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | result | annotation |
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1 | Yrjö Nikkanen | Finland | x | 70.77 m | x | 70.77 m | |
2 | Lennart Atterwall | Sweden | 67.15 m | 69.20 m | x | 69.20 m | |
3 | Matti Järvinen | Finland | 68.30 m | 69.18 m | x | 69.18 m | |
4th | Kalervo Toivonen | Finland | 62.00 m | 67.00 m | 68.76 m | 68.76 m | |
5 | Gerhard Stock | German Empire | x | 68.11 m | 65.50 m | 68.11 m | |
6th | Alton Terry | United States | 67.10 m | 67.15 m | x | 67.15 m | |
7th | Eugeniusz Lokajski | Poland | k. A. | 66.39 m | |||
8th | József Várszegi | Hungary | 65.30 m | ||||
9 | Gottfried Weimann | German Empire | 63.58 m | ||||
10 | Walter Turczyk | Poland | 63.36 m | ||||
11 | Gustav Sule | Estonia | 63.26 m | ||||
12 | Lee Bartlett | United States | 61.15 m | ||||
13 | Oto Jurģis | Latvia | 60.71 m | ||||
14th | Jim Courtright | Canada | 60.54 m | ||||
15th | Malcolm Metcalf | United States | 58.20 m | ||||
16 | Jaap van der Poll | Netherlands | 56.25 m | ||||
17th | Friedrich Gerdes | German Empire | 55.93 m |
final
August 6, 1936
Weather conditions: clearing, 18 ° C, tail wind of approx. 1.9 m / s.
The world rankings of 1936 were led by the Finn Matti Järvinen with his world record of 77.23 m by a clear margin. Behind them were throwers from Finland, Germany, Poland and Sweden with a narrow gap between them. Järvinen, also Olympic champion from 1932 , was not in the condition for very long distances because of a back injury and ended up in fifth place. World number two, Yrjö Nikkanen, was the first to surpass the 70-meter mark in the second round, which his compatriot Kalervo Toivonen also did in the fifth attempt. But Gerhard Stöck, who had already won the bronze medal in the shot put , also caught a good wind in round five and used the conditions for a throw at 71.84 m, which brought him the Olympic victory in third place in the world, ahead of the two Finns.
Stöck benefited from having correctly assessed the wind conditions and having thrown the spear flat.
Gerhard Stöck achieved the first German Olympic victory and at the same time the first medal for Germany in the javelin throw .
Note: The best sizes are printed in bold. In the final, distances that were clearly less than the previous maximum distance of the thrower were not measured exactly, but only estimated.
final | ||||||||
space | Surname | nation | Qualification range | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
1 | Gerhard Stock | German Empire | 68.11 m | approx. 66.00 m | 71.84 m | approx. 65.00 m | 71.84 m | |
2 | Yrjö Nikkanen | Finland | 70.77 m | approx. 62.00 m | approx. 62.00 m | approx. 63.00 m | 70.77 m | |
3 | Kalervo Toivonen | Finland | 68.76 m | x | 70.72 m | x | 70.72 m | |
4th | Lennart Atterwall | Sweden | 69.20 m | approx. 65.00 m ' | approx. 61.00 m | approx. 62.00 m | 69.20 m | |
5 | Matti Järvinen | Finland | 69.18 m | approx. 64.00 m | x | x | 69.18 m | |
6th | Alton Terry | United States | 67.15 m | approx. 64.00 m | approx. 65.00 m | approx. 62.00 m | 67.15 m | |
7th | Eugeniusz Lokajski | Poland | 66.39 m | not in the final | 66.39 m | |||
8th | József Várszegi | Hungary | 65.30 m | 65.30 m |
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 298f
Web links
- SportsReference Javelin , accessed September 21, 2017
- Official report pp. 673–675, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 21, 2017
- 1936, Javelin, Men, Olympic Games, Berlin , published August 2, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed September 21, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 559 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c Official report p. 674, engl. (PDF)
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)
- ↑ Article in Der Spiegel 16/1985