1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Men
Attendees	23 athletes from 15 countries
Competition location	Montreal Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 25, 1976 (qualifying) July 26, 1976 (final)
Medalist Miklós Németh ( HUN )   Hannu Siitonen ( FIN )   Gheorghe Megelea ( ROM )

The men's javelin throw at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held on July 25 and 26, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 23 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Hungarian Miklós Németh . He won with a new world record ahead of Hannu Siitonen from Finland and Gheorghe Megelea from Romania .

Michael Wessing started for the Federal Republic of Germany . He reached the final and was ninth there.
The Swiss Urs von Wartburg retired without a valid attempt in the qualification.
Throwers from the GDR, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	94.08 m	Klaus Wolfermann ( Federal Republic of Germany )	Leverkusen , Federal Republic of Germany	May 5th 1973
Olympic record	90.48 m		Final of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	3rd September 1972

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a qualifying round on July 25th, which was conducted in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final on July 26th was 79.00 m. Since more than twelve athletes reached this distance, the final field was not filled any further.

In the final, each athlete initially had three attempts. The best eight throwers were then entitled to another three attempts.

Time schedule

July 25, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification

July 26, 2:30 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )

The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: July 25th from 10 a.m., 1976, p.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Seppo Hovinen	Finland	89.76 m	-	-	89.76 m
2	Miklós Németh	Hungary	89.28 m	-	-	89.28 m
3	Jorma Jaakola	Finland	83.84 m	-	-	83.84 m
4th	Piotr Bielczyk	Poland	82.56 m	-	-	82.56 m
5	Michael Wessing	BR Germany	75.98 m	78.28 m	82.54 m	82.54 m
6th	Terje Thorslund	Norway	82.52 m	-	-	82.52 m
7th	Jānis Lūsis	Soviet Union	82.08 m	-	-	82.08 m
8th	Gheorghe Megelea	Romania	80.28 m	-	-	80.28 m
9	Hannu Siitonen	Finland	79.38 m	-	-	79.38 m
10	Sándor Boros	Hungary	77.60 m	77.18 m	70.06 m	77.60 m
11	Ferenc Paragi	Hungary	73.54 m	77.48 m	75.76 m	77.48 m

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Phil Olsen	Canada	87.76 m	-	-	87.76 m
2	Sam Colson	United States	72.28 m	71.74 m	86.64 m	86.64 m
3	Vasily Yershov	Soviet Union	85.68 m	-	-	85.68 m
4th	Amado Morales	Puerto Rico	82.08 m	-	-	82.08 m
5	Valentin Jonev	Bulgaria	75.66 m	80.84 m	-	80.84 m
6th	Bjorn Grimnes	Norway	73.74 m	80.32 m	-	80.32 m
7th	Anthony Hall	United States	79.56 m	-	-	79.56 m
8th	Jacques Ayé Abehi	Ivory Coast	74.76 m	78.40 m	70.10 m	78.40 m
9	Richard George	United States	x	78.32 m	64.96 m	78.32 m
10	Óskar Jakobsson	Iceland	72.78 m	71.90 m	x	72.78 m
11	Ghassan Faddoul	Lebanon	x	54.92 m	53.90 m	54.92 m
ogV	Urs von Wartburg	Switzerland	x	x		x	without space

final

Date: July 26th 2:30 pm 1976, pm

The two Finns Hannu Siitonen and Seppo Hovinen were rated highly prior to these games. Hovinen was able to confirm his medal prospect with a throw of almost 90 meters in qualification, while Siitonen, European champion from 1974 , just reached the final with a distance of less than 80 meters. Other special candidates from the field of participants who came into question for a medal hardly imposed themselves. The 1972 Olympic champion , Klaus Wolfermann , could not compete in these games due to injury and the javelin thrower Jānis Lūsis, who was decorated with great success in the past, no longer had the form of earlier days. He still came in eighth.

The final of the medal ranks, as it turned out at the end, was already decided in the first round. The Hungarian Miklos Nemeth, son of hammer throw Olympic champion of 1948 , Imre Németh , set a new world record with 94.58 m. Hannu Siitonen was in second place, more than six meters behind. The Romanian Gheorghe Megelea followed on the bronze rank. Co-favorite Seppo Hovinen reached seventh place.

Miklós Németh achieved the first Hungarian Olympic victory in the javelin throw .

Gheorghe Megelea won the first Romanian medal in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Miklós Németh	Hungary	94.58 m WR	-	-	83.32 m	84.76 m	86.84 m	94.58 m	WR
2	Hannu Siitonen	Finland	87.92 m	x	86.58 m	x	x	80.92 m	87.92 m
3	Gheorghe Megelea	Romania	87.16 m	83.16 m	82.92 m	82.10 m	x	x	87.16 m
4th	Piotr Bielczyk	Poland	x	77.90 m	86.50 m	81.00 m	82.28 m	82.94 m	86.50 m
5	Sam Colson	United States	77.70 m	85.06 m	86.16 m	x	x	x	86.16 m
6th	Vasily Yershov	Soviet Union	85.26 m	x	77.06 m	x	78.32 m	82.50 m	85.26 m
7th	Seppo Hovinen	Finland	83.46 m	83.92 m	84.26 m	x	x	x	84.26 m
8th	Jānis Lūsis	Soviet Union	79.74 m	77.58 m	73.76 m	74.00 m	x	80.26 m	80.26 m
9	Michael Wessing	BR Germany	78.44 m	x	79.06 m	not in the final of the eight best throwers			79.06 m
10	Terje Thorslund	Norway	78.24 m	x	76.48 m				78.24 m
11	Phil Olsen	Canada	x	x	77.70 m				77.70 m
12	Amado Morales	Puerto Rico	71.30 m	x	75.54 m				75.54 m
13	Bjorn Grimnes	Norway	x	73.24 m	74.88 m				74.88 m
14th	Valentin Jonev	Bulgaria	73.16 m	x	73.88 m				73.88 m
15th	Anthony Hall	United States	x	68.92 m	71.70 m				71.70 m
DNS	Jorma Jaakola	Finland

literature

• Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 226f

Video

• The winner javelin throw from 76 by Miklos Nemeth , published March 8, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed December 18, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Javelin , accessed December 18, 2017
• Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 77, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 18, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 559 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 18, 2017
2. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 18, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 77, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 18, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 18, 2017