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
Medalist Gerhard Stöck ( GER ) Yrjö Nikkanen ( FIN ) Kalervo Toivonen ( FIN )
← 1932 1948 →

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.

Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
Lennart Atterwall	Sweden	k. A.
Lee Bartlett	United States
Jim Courtright	Canada
Friedrich Gerdes	German Empire
Matti Järvinen	Finland
Oto Jurģis	Latvia
Eugeniusz Lokajski	Poland
Malcolm Metcalf	United States
Yrjö Nikkanen	Finland
Jaap van der Poll	Netherlands
Gerhard Stock	German Empire
Gustav Sule	Estonia
Kalervo Toivonen	Finland
Walter Turczyk	Poland
Alton Terry	United States
József Várszegi	Hungary
Gottfried Weimann	German Empire
Hoh Chunde	China	k. A.
Pascal Gutiérrez	Mexico
Josef Klein	Czechoslovakia
Pavol Mal'a	Czechoslovakia
Rudolf Markušić	Yugoslavia
Konstantinos Metaxas	Greece
Josef Neumann	Switzerland
Ibrahim Okasha	Egypt
Napoleon Papageorgiou	Greece
Noboru Ueno	Japan
Kristjan Vattnes	Iceland

Semifinals

The Pole Eugeniusz Lokajski injured himself and failed in seventh in the 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
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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 559 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Official report p. 674, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)
4. ↑ Article in Der Spiegel 16/1985