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
Medalist Pauli Nevala ( FIN )   Gergely Kulcsár ( HUN )   Jānis Lūsis ( URS )

Award ceremony: Gold for Pauli Nevala (center) , silver for Gergely Kulcsár (left) , bronze for Jānis Lūsis  (right)

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
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

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  Olympic champion Pauli Nevala, Finland

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  Fourth place for Janusz Sidło from Poland

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  Urs von Wartburg from Switzerland came in fifth

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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 559 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 29 October 2017.
2. ↑ 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. 
3. ↑ 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. 
4. ↑ 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. 
5. ↑ Sport Reference (Engl.) ( Memento of 10 October 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 29 October 2017.