1952 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Men
Attendees	26 athletes from 16 countries
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 23, 1952
Medalist Cy Young ( USA )   Bill Miller ( USA )   Toivo Hyytiäinen ( FIN )

The men's javelin at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki was held on July 23, 1952. 26 athletes took part.

The American Cy Young became Olympic champion . He won ahead of his compatriot Bill Miller and Toivo Hyytiäinen from Finland .

Existing records

World record	78.70 m	Yrjö Nikkanen ( Finland )	Kotka , Finland	October 16, 1938
Olympic record	72.71 m	Matti Järvinen ( Finland )	Los Angeles , USA	4th August 1932

Conducting the competition

The participants competed in two groups for a qualifying round on July 23, the qualifying distance was 64.00 meters. Should fewer than twelve athletes manage the required distance, the starting field would be filled to twelve jumpers according to the best distance achieved. This rule did not have to apply here, 17 throwers made it over the qualifying distance into the final round. The results achieved in the qualification were not counted for the final.
In the final, all participants initially had three attempts. The six best athletes were then allowed to make three more attempts.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Time schedule

July 23, 10:00 am: Qualification
July 23, 4:00 pm: Final

qualification

Date: July 23, 1952, 10:00 a.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
01	Toivo Hyytiäinen	Finland	71.29 m
02	Per-Arne Berglund	Sweden	71.28 m
03	Bud hero	United States	68.62 m
04th	Otto Bengtsson	Sweden	67.58 m
05	Herbert Koschel	BR Germany	67.22 m
06th	Ragnar Ericzon	Sweden	66.68 m
07th	Branko Dangubic	Yugoslavia	66.58 m
08th	Ricardo Héber	Argentina	64.82 m
09	Eino Leppänen	Finland	64.47 m
10	Vladimir Kuznetsov	Soviet Union	64.38 m
11	Michael Denley	Great Britain	61.58 m
12	Jalal Khan	Pakistan	55.56 m
13	Brígido Iriarte	Venezuela	52.13 m

Group B

The Pole Janusz Sidło failed because of the required qualification distance

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
01	Viktor Zybulenko	Soviet Union	69.42 m
02	Cy Young	United States	67.26 m
03	Soini Nikkinen	Finland	67.15 m
04th	Richard Miller	Great Britain	64.81 m
	Bill Miller	United States
06th	Amos Matteucci	Italy	64.50 m
07th	Yuri Shcherbakov	Soviet Union	64.39 m
08th	Janusz Sidło	Poland	62.16 m
09	Zbigniew Radziwonowicz	Poland	61.50 m
10	Halil Zıraman	Turkey	61.19 m
11	Aristidis Roubanis	Greece	60.55 m
12	József Várszegi	Hungary	56.82 m
13	Reinaldo Oliver	Puerto Rico	52.40 m

Final and final result

Date: July 23, 1952, 4:00 p.m.

						final
space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Cy Young	United States	68.45 m	73.78 m	72.80 m	65.73 m	71.73 m	x	73.78 m	OR
2	Bill Miller	United States	72.46 m	71.65 m	63.95 m	65.41 m	66.97 m	70.45 m	72.46 m
3	Toivo Hyytiäinen	Finland	71.89 m	71.24 m	70.25 m	70.00 m	69.55 m	71.16 m	71.89 m
4th	Viktor Zybulenko	Soviet Union	71.72 m	70.44 m	66.48 m	71.37 m	66.49 m	x	71.72 m
5	Branko Dangubic	Yugoslavia	66.21 m	61.09 m	70.55 m	58.94 m	x	x	70.55 m
6th	Vladimir Kuznetsov	Soviet Union	70.37 m	65.71 m	64.81 m	56.16 m	58.08 m	60.10 m	70.37 m
7th	Ragnar Ericzon	Sweden	69.04 m	64.55 m	68.02 m	not in the final of the six best throwers			69.04 m
8th	Soini Nikkinen	Finland	68.80 m	64.08 m	61.58 m				68.80 m
9	Bud hero	United States	68.42 m	x	x				68.42 m
10	Per-Arne Berglund	Sweden	58.93 m	67.47 m	64.13 m				67.47 m
11	Otto Bengtsson	Sweden	65.50 m	63.92 m	64.58 m				65.50 m
12	Herbert Koschel	BR Germany	x	64.54 m	64.06 m				64.54 m
13	Yuri Shcherbakov	Soviet Union	64.52 m	60.09 m	60.79 m				64.52 m
14th	Richard Miller	Great Britain	x	63.75 m	59.64 m				63.75 m
15th	Ricardo Héber	Argentina	60.43 m	62.70 m	62.82 m				62.82 m
16	Eino Leppänen	Finland	58.28 m	62.61 m	x				62.61 m
17th	Amos Matteucci	Italy	59.75 m	61.67 m	61.38 m				61.67 m

None of the finalists had a decidedly favorite role. The Finns, especially the European champion Toivo Hyytiäinen, were rated as strong. But, surprisingly, it was the Americans who set the tone.
After Bill Miller took the lead in the first attempt, Cyrus Young improved the twenty-year-old Olympic record of Finn Matti Järvinen in the second attempt . Since no one could improve, the gold and silver medal went to the USA, Hyytiäinen won the bronze medal.
The third American Franklin "Bud" Held entered handicapped by a shoulder injury and so did not get past ninth place. He later became known for the construction of a new type of spear, the "hero cigar".

Cyrus Young achieved the first US victory in the Olympic javelin throw.

Note: The best size is printed in bold.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 97f.

Web links

• SportsReference Javelin , accessed September 28, 2017
• Official report pp. 320–322, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 28, 2017
• 1952 OLYMPIC GAMES , range: 1:00 min to 1:09 min, published on January 29, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on September 28, 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. 266, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)
4. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 97