1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Javelin throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 28 athletes from 19 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 4, 1984 (qualifying) August 5, 1984 (final) |
||||||||
|
The men's javelin throw at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 4th and 5th, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 28 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was Arto Härkönen from Finland . He won ahead of the British David Ottley and the Swede Kenth Eldebrink .
Wolfram Gambke and Klaus Tafelmeier were the representatives of the Federal Republic of Germany. Tafelmeier was eliminated in the qualification, Gambke reached the final and was fourth.
Throwers from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 1980 | Dainis Kūla ( Soviet Union ) | 91.20 m | Moscow 1980 |
World Champion 1983 | Detlef Michel ( GDR ) | 89.48 m | Helsinki 1983 |
European Champion 1982 | Uwe Hohn ( GDR ) | 91.34 m | Athens 1982 |
Pan American Champion 1983 | Laslo Babits ( Canada ) | 81.40 m | Caracas 1983 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1983 | Reinaldo Patterson ( Cuba ) | 79.76 m | Havana 1983 |
South America Champion 1983 | José de Souza ( Brazil ) | 74.54 m | Santa Fe 1983 |
Asian champion 1983 | Masami Yoshida ( Japan ) | 79.50 m | Kuwait City 1983 |
African champions 1982 | Zakayo Malekwa ( Tanzania ) | 76.18 m | Cairo 1982 |
Existing records
World record | 104.80 m | Uwe Hohn ( GDR ) | Berlin , GDR (now Germany ) | July 20, 1984 |
Olympic record | 94.58 min | Miklós Németh ( Hungary ) | Final of Montreal , Canada | July 26, 1976 |
qualification
Date: August 4, 1984
For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 83.00 m. Since only four throwers exceeded this distance, the final field was filled with the next best participants from both groups, the so-called lucky losers , to twelve athletes. So 79.34 m was enough for the final. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Roald Bradstock | Great Britain | 79.52 m | 81.08 m | 83.06 m | 83.06 m | |
2 | Wolfram Gambke | BR Germany | 75.10 m | 82.98 m | x | 82.98 m | |
3 | Per Erling Olsen | Norway | 82.46 m | x | x | 82.46 m | |
4th | Laslo Babits | Canada | x | 76.68 m | 82.18 m | 82.18 m | |
5 | Masami Yoshida | Japan | 78.14 m | 81.42 m | 78.06 m | 81.42 m | |
6th | Einar Vilhjálmsson | Iceland | 79.78 m | x | 80.94 m | 80.94 m | |
7th | Jean-Paul Lakafia | France | 80.52 m | 66.26 m | 78.02 m | 80.52 m | |
8th | Duncan Atwood | United States | 77.08 m | 79.34 m | x | 79.34 m | |
9 | Raimo Manninen | Finland | 79.26 m | x | x | 79.26 m | |
10 | Juan de la Garza | Mexico | 78.80 m | x | 79.16 m | 79.16 m | |
11 | Sejad Krdžalić | Yugoslavia | 76.52 m | x | x | 76.52 m | |
12 | Zakayo Malekwa | Tanzania | 71.80 m | x | 75.18 m | 75.18 m | |
13 | Agostino Ghesini | Italy | 72.16 m | 63.92 m | 72.96 m | 72.96 m | |
14th | Justin Arop | Uganda | 69.76 m | 66.30 m | x | 69.76 m |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tom Petranoff | United States | 85.96 m | - | - | 85.96 m | |
2 | David Ottley | Great Britain | 85.86 m | - | - | 85.86 m | |
3 | Arto Härkönen | Finland | 82.82 m | 83.06 m | - | 83.06 m | |
4th | Kenth Eldebrink | Sweden | 79.36 m | 81.06 m | 79.42 m | 81.06 m | |
5 | Reidar Lorentzen | Norway | x | 68.00 m | 76.62 m | 76.62 m | |
6th | Tero Saviniemi | Finland | x | 76.46 m | x | 76.46 m | |
7th | Steve Roller | United States | 75.50 m | 75.48 m | x | 75.50 m | |
8th | Kazuhiro Mizoguchi | Japan | 74.82 m | 72.58 m | 69.18 m | 74.82 m | |
9 | Muhammad Rashid Khan | Pakistan | 72.48 m | 70.76 m | 74.58 m | 74.58 m | |
10 | Klaus Tafelmeier | BR Germany | x | x | 73.52 m | 73.52 m | |
11 | Chen Hung-Yen | Chinese Taipei | 62.46 m | 71.48 m | 68.54 m | 71.48 m | |
12 | Gurtej Singh | India | 63.62 m | 70.08 m | 69.32 m | 70.08 m | |
13 | Sigurdur Einarsson | Iceland | 69.82 m | 68.68 m | 67.02 m | 69.82 m | |
ogV | Mike O'Rourke | New Zealand | x | x | x | without space |
final
Date: August 5, 1984
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final. Four of them had exceeded the required qualification distance, eight other participants - with the next best distances in both groups - completed the field. Two Americans and two British had reached the final. The other finalists came from Sweden, the Federal Republic of Germany, Norway, Canada, Japan, Iceland, Finland and France. Each participant initially had three attempts. The best eight athletes were then able to complete three more attempts.
The Olympic boycott prevented the top peoples from the Eastern Bloc from taking part. The world record holder Uwe Hohn from the GDR was not there. The world champion Detlef Michel , also from the GDR, and the strong throwers from the Soviet Union Heino Puuste and Dainis Kūla were also missing. Without the top people, there was no clear favorite in Los Angeles .
With 85.74 m, the Briton David Ottley took the lead in the first attempt. Behind him was Wolfram Gambke from the Federal Republic of Germany with 82.00 m, who was able to improve with his second throw to 82.46 m. In the third round, Arto Härkönen from Finland reached 84.34 m, displacing Gambke in third place. On lap four, Härkönen then took the lead with 86.76 m ahead of Ottley and Gambke. The Swede Kenth Eldebrink was able to displace Gambke from position three with his fifth litter on 83.72 m. The last round brought no change in the ranking. Olympic champion was Arto Härkönen, silver went to David Ottley and bronze went to Kenth Eldebrink.
The widths were consistently below the level of the major athletic events of recent years. The competition suffered significantly from the lack of throwers from the boycott states.
David Ottley was the first British medalist in the javelin throw .
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Arto Härkönen | Finland | x | 78.74 m | 84.34 m | 86.76 m | x | x | 86.76 m | |
2 | David Ottley | Great Britain | 85.74 m | 81.52 m | x | x | 83.92 m | 84.46 m | 85.74 m | |
3 | Kenth Eldebrink | Sweden | x | 80.82 m | x | x | 83.72 m | 83.30 m | 83.72 m | |
4th | Wolfram Gambke | BR Germany | 82.00 m | 82.46 m | x | 78.88 m | x | 72.08 m | 82.46 m | |
5 | Masami Yoshida | Japan | x | 81.98 m | x | 81.98 m | 77.92 m | 81.66 m | 81.98 m | |
6th | Einar Vilhjálmsson | Iceland | 80.44 m | 77.66 m | 79.22 m | 81.58 m | x | 79.26 m | 81.58 m | |
7th | Roald Bradstock | Great Britain | 70.20 m | 81.22 m | 78.22 m | 76.68 m | x | 78.82 m | 81.22 m | |
8th | Laslo Babits | Canada | x | x | 80.68 m | x | x | x | 80.68 m | |
9 | Per Erling Olsen | Norway | 73.64 m | x | 79.98 m | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
79.98 m | |||
10 | Tom Petranoff | United States | x | x | 78.40 m | 78.40 m | ||||
11 | Duncan Atwood | United States | 72.54 m | 78.10 m | x | 78.10 m | ||||
12 | Jean-Paul Lakafia | France | x | x | 70.86 m | 70.86 m |
literature
- Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , Eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 36f
Web links
- SportsReference Javelin , accessed January 13, 2018
- Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 289, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 13, 2018
Video
- Miesten keihäs Los Angeles 1984 , published February 5, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed January 13, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 680 , accessed on January 13, 2018
- ↑ a b Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 289, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 13, 2018