1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Men
Attendees	23 athletes from 15 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Munich
Competition phase	September 2, 1972 (qualification) September 3, 1972 (final)
Medalist Klaus Wolfermann ( FRG )   Jānis Lūsis ( URS )   Bill Schmidt ( USA )

The men's javelin throw at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was held on September 2nd and 3rd, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 23 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Klaus Wolfermann from the Federal Republic of Germany. The silver medal went to the Soviet thrower Jānis Lūsis , while the bronze went to the American Bill Schmidt .

For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - in addition to Olympic champion Wolfermann, Günter Glasauer also competed , who was eliminated in the qualification.
The GDR was represented by Manfred Stolle . He reached the finals and finished ninth there.
The Swiss Urs von Wartburg failed in the qualification.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	93.80 m	Jānis Lūsis ( Soviet Union )	Stockholm , Sweden	July 6, 1972
Olympic record	90.10 m		Mexico City Final , Mexico	October 16, 1968

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round on September 2nd. The qualification distance for reaching the final on September 3rd was 80.00 m. Since fewer than twelve athletes exceeded this distance, the final field was filled to twelve participants according to the next best distance.
In the final, each thrower initially had three attempts. The best eight participants were then given a further three attempts.

Time schedule

September 2nd, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification
September 3rd, 3:30 p.m .: Final

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the following athletes in light green.

qualification

Date: September 2, 1972, from 10 a.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Klaus Wolfermann	BR Germany	86.22 m	-	-	86.22 m
2	Hannu Siitonen	Finland	81.80 m	-	-	81.80 m
3	Fred Luke	United States	81.34 m	-	-	81.34 m
4th	Jorma Kinnunen	Finland	80.10 m	-	-	80.10 m
5	Bill Schmidt	United States	75.28 m	75.90 m	78.96 m	78.96 m
6th	Lolésio Tuita	France	75.36 m	78.78 m	77.34 m	78.78 m
7th	Bjorn Grimnes	Norway	x	77.54 m	x	77.54 m
8th	Gergely Kulcsár	Hungary	x	x	77.24 m	77.24 m
9	André Claude	Canada	75.56 m	x	x	75.56 m
10	Renzo Cramerotti	Italy	71.12 m	x	x	71.12 m
11	Abdul Atif Al-Qahtani	Saudi Arabia	x	x	53.06 m	53.06 m
DNS	Edmund Jaworski	Poland					accidentally reported for competition

The Pole Edmund Jaworski was accidentally registered for this competition. He was accredited in Munich as the trainer of the two Polish javelin throwers Ewa Gryziecka and Daniela Jaworska .

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Jānis Lūsis	Soviet Union	82.92 m	-	-	82.92 m
2	Miklós Németh	Hungary	70.90 m	81.78 m	-	81.78 m
3	Manfred Stolle	GDR	80.78 m	-	-	80.78 m
4th	Milt Sonsky	United States	79.96 m	78.78 m	74.24 m	79.96 m
5	József Csík	Hungary	79.08 m	x	x	79.08 m
6th	Rick Dowswell	Canada	66.54 m	72.52 m	77.42 m	77.42 m
7th	Urs von Wartburg	Switzerland	76.36 m	x	76.20 m	76.36 m
8th	Dave Travis	Great Britain	74.68 m	70.10 m	74.30 m	74.68 m
9	Günter Glasauer	BR Germany	x	x	73.12 m	73.12 m
10	Jacques Ayé Abehi	Ivory Coast	72.20 m	x	x	72.20 m
11	Donald Velez	Nicaragua	x	63.74 m	x	63.74 m
ogV	Leo Pusa	Finland	x	x	x		without space

final

Date: September 3, 1972, 3:30 p.m.

The top favorite was the Soviet Olympic champion from 1968 and world record holder Jānis Lūsis from Latvia, u. a. also European champions of the last four European championships. The West German thrower Klaus Wolfermann had set a new world record for the year with 90.68 m shortly before the games in Munich and was considered the Latvian’s main competitor.

The final turned into a duel between the two favored throwers. The bronze medalist was more than five and a half meters behind in the end. Lūsis took the lead in the first lap with 88.88 m, followed by Wolfermann - 86.68 m - and the Finn Hannu Siitonen - 84.32 m, who should not succeed in any valid attempt in the following period. The US athlete Bill Schmidt passed the Finn in the second round with 84.92 m. The next two rounds brought no changes in the top positions. In the fifth attempt, Wolfermann achieved the new Olympic record distance of 90.48 m with his best litter . Lūsi's last attempt also clearly exceeded the 90-meter mark and the audience waited with great excitement for the result of the distance measurement. At 90.46 m, the result was just two centimeters below Wolfermann's result. With that the medals were distributed. Klaus Wolfermann became Olympic champion, the silver medal went to Jānis Lūsis and Bill Schmidt won the bronze medal with his litter from round two.

Klaus Wolfermann was the first German Olympic champion in the javelin throw - Gerhard Stöck had won the gold medal in 1936 as a participant for what was then undivided Germany.

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  Manfred Stolle from the GDR

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  Urs von Wartburg, Switzerland

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Klaus Wolfermann	BR Germany	86.68 m	85.14 m	x	88.40 m	90.48 m OR	84.70 m	90.48 m	OR
2	Jānis Lūsis	Soviet Union	88.88 m	x	89.54 m	x	81.66 m	90.46 m	90.46 m
3	Bill Schmidt	United States	75.96 m	84.92 m	x	79.92 m	84.12 m	x	84.92 m
4th	Hannu Siitonen	Finland	84.32 m	x	x	x	x	x	84.32 m
5	Bjorn Grimnes	Norway	71.86 m	82.38 m	83.08 m	x	x	x	83.08 m
6th	Jorma Kinnunen	Finland	x	82.08 m	75.76 m	x	x	77.60 m	82.08 m
7th	Miklós Németh	Hungary	80.80 m	81.98 m	78.58 m	81.88 m	x	81.40 m	81.98 m
8th	Fred Luke	United States	66.64 m	x	80.06 m	79.70 m	71.46 m	x	80.06 m
9	Manfred Stolle	GDR	x	x	79.32 m	not in the final of the eight best throwers			79.32 m
10	Milt Sonsky	United States	77.62 m	77.94 m	72.38 m				77.94 m
11	Lolésio Tuita	France	76.34 m	x	69.38 m				76.34 m
12	József Csík	Hungary	75.52 m	76.14 m	x				76.14 m

literature

• Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , p. 46f

Video

• Klaus Wolfermann vs. Janis Lusis - 1972 Olympics javelin throw final , published April 16, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed December 4, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Javelin , accessed December 4, 2017
• Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 62f, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 4, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 559 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 4, 2017
2. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 4, 2017 
3. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 62, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 4, 2017 
4. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 63, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 4, 2017 
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 4, 2017