1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Javelin throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 25 athletes from 17 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Tokyo Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | October 14, 1964 | ||||||||
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The men's javelin throw at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo was held on October 14, 1964 in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 25 athletes took part in the first athletics decision of these Olympic Games.
Olympic champion was Pauli Nevala from Finland . He won before the Hungarians Gergely Kulcsár and Jānis Lūsis from the Soviet Union.
While athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part, three Germans and one Swiss competed. Hermann Salomon , who failed in the qualification, started for Germany , as well as Rolf Herings and Hans Schenk, who both reached the finals, as did Swiss Urs von Wartburg . Herings came in seventh and Schenk came in twelfth. Von Wartburg finished the competition fifth.
Existing records
World record | 91.72 m | Terje Pedersen ( Norway ) | Oslo , Norway | 2nd September 1964 |
Olympic record | 85.71 m | Egil Danielsen ( Denmark ) | Melbourne finals , Australia | November 26, 1956 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in a qualifying round on October 14th. Each participant had three attempts. The top twelve and all starters who reached 77.00 m or more qualified for the final on the afternoon of the same day. There, each participant initially had three attempts. The six best athletes were then allowed three more attempts.
Time schedule
October 14, 10 a.m .: Qualification
October 14, 2 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)
Best widths are printed in bold.
The athletes qualified over the distance are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.
qualification
Date: October 14, 1960, 10:00 a.m.
Weather conditions: rainy, approx. 17 ° C, 92–94% humidity
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Urs von Wartburg | Switzerland | 74.55 m | 79.92 m | - | 79.92 m | |
2 | Janusz Sidło | Poland | 75.33 m | 74.45 m | 76.93 m | 76.93 m | |
3 | Jorma Kinnunen | Finland | 68.13 m | 73.20 m | 75.52 m | 75.52 m | |
4th | Vladimir Kuznetsov | Soviet Union | x | 68.98 m | 75.01 m | 75.01 m | |
5 | Gergely Kulcsár | Hungary | 74.32 m | 72.62 m | x | 74.32 m | |
6th | Pauli Nevala | Finland | 71.49 m | 72.72 m | 74.19 m | 74.19 m | |
7th | Jānis Lūsis | Soviet Union | 72.79 m | x | 73.48 m | 73.48 m | |
8th | Wladyslaw Nikiciuk | Poland | 73.45 m | 67.56 m | 71.17 m | 73.45 m | |
9 | Christos Pierrakos | Greece | x | 72.91 m | 68.98 m | 72.91 m | |
10 | Hans Schenk | Germany | 72.55 m | 66.97 m | x | 72.55 m | |
11 | Rolf Herings | Germany | 72.47 m | 68.02 m | 71.74 m | 72.47 m | |
12 | Ed Red | United States | x | 72.31 m | 66.24 m | 72.31 m | |
13 | Terje Pedersen | Norway | 61.39 m | 66.78 m | 72.10 m | 72.10 m | |
14th | Hermann Salomon | Germany | 67.82 m | 69.84 m | 71.92 m | 71.92 m | |
15th | Carlo Lievore | Italy | 70.71 m | 68.04 m | 70.88 m | 70.88 m | |
16 | Les Tipton | United States | 65.95 m | 70.74 m | 70.03 m | 70.74 m | |
17th | Viktor Aksyonov | Soviet Union | 68.30 m | x | 69.46 m | 69.46 m | |
18th | Michel Macquet | France | 63.34 m | 65.36 m | 69.35 m | 69.35 m | |
19th | Takashi Miki | Japan | 68.70 m | 63.56 m | 62.80 m | 68.70 m | |
20th | Willy Rasmussen | Norway | 68.43 m | 67.37 m | 63.88 m | 68.43 m | |
21st | Frank Covelli | United States | x | 68.08 m | x | 68.08 m | |
22nd | Hideta Kinai | Japan | 63.40 m | x | 65.85 m | 65.85 m | |
23 | Park Soo-kwon | South Korea | 58.51 m | x | 62.50 m | 62.50 m | |
24 | Patricio Etcheverry | Chile | 59.35 m | 60.77 m | 54.19 m | 60.77 m | |
25th | Nashatar Singh Sidhu | Malaysia | 45.49 m | 51.63 m | 49.49 m | 51.63 m |
final
Date: October 14, 1960, 2 p.m.
Weather conditions: clearing, approx. 18 ° C, 85–90% humidity
Both in the morning qualification and in the final in the afternoon, strong changing winds made life difficult for the throwers. This makes some services understandable. The Norwegian Terje Pedersen, the first person to throw over 90 meters, for example, failed early in the qualification. With the Swiss Urs von Wartburg only one thrower exceeded the qualifying distance. Pole Janusz Sidło and Soviet thrower Jānis Lūsis became the favorites.
In the final, Sidło first took the lead, in second place was the convincing von Wartburg, who was able to use a good wind even now, in second place, followed by Pauli Nevala, Gergely Kulcsár and Wladimir Kuznetsov. In the second round, Lūsis took the lead, followed by Sidło, Nevala and Kulcsár. In the third round, Kulcsár improved by one meter, but remained in third place. With the fourth attempts the decision was made. Pauli Nevala climbed from fourth to the leading position, followed by Gergely Kulcsár in second, Jānis Lūsis in third and Janusz Sidło in fourth. After that there was no more change in the classification.
In these conditions, records were unthinkable, greater distances were simply not possible.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Pauli Nevala | Finland | 76.42 m | 78.39 m | x | 82.66 m | x | x | 82.66 m | |
2 | Gergely Kulcsár | Hungary | 75.00 m | 77.28 m | 78.28 m | 82.32 m | 78.57 m | 79.78 m | 82.32 m | |
3 | Jānis Lūsis | Soviet Union | 72.51 m | 80.57 m | 79.85 m | 78.94 m | 78.07 m | x | 80.57 m | |
4th | Janusz Sidło | Poland | 80.17 m | x | x | x | 76.97 m | 78.17 m | 80.17 m | |
5 | Urs von Wartburg | Switzerland | 78.72 m | 76.84 m | 76.36 m | 73.08 m | 73.12 m | x | 78.72 m | |
6th | Jorma Kinnunen | Finland | 72.32 m | 76.36 m | 71.81 m | 76.94 m | x | 72.45 m | 76.94 m | |
7th | Rolf Herings | Germany | 66.22 m | x | 74.72 m | not in the final of the six best throwers |
74.72 m | |||
8th | Vladimir Kuznetsov | Soviet Union | 73.90 m | 68.89 m | 74.26 m | 74.26 m | ||||
9 | Wladyslaw Nikiciuk | Poland | 71.01 m | x | 73.11 m | 73.11 m | ||||
10 | Christos Pierrakos | Greece | 70.24 m | 72.65 m | 72.02 m | 72.65 m | ||||
11 | Ed Red | United States | 69.39 m | 68.15 m | 71.52 m | 71.52 m | ||||
12 | Hans Schenk | Germany | 69.82 m | 66.44 m | 68.51 m | 69.82 m |
Picture gallery
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 286f, accessed on October 29, 2017
Video
- 1964 GIAVELLOTTO ORO A PAULI NEVALA , published March 26, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed October 29, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference Javelin , accessed October 29, 2017
- Official report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 56f engl. (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 559 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 29 October 2017.
- ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. P. 17 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017.
- ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. P. 56f (English) from library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017.
- ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. P. 57 (English) from library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017.
- ↑ Sport Reference (Engl.) ( Memento of 10 October 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 29 October 2017.