1988 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Javelin throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 38 athletes from 22 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Seoul Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 24, 1988 (qualifying) September 25, 1988 (final) |
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The men's javelin at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was played in two rounds on September 24th and 25th, 1988 in the Seoul Olympic Stadium. 38 athletes took part.
For the first time at this Olympic Games a 1986 modified spear with a forward shifted center of gravity was used. The two main reasons for this were the ever larger distances achieved and the measurement problems that arose from the flat angle of impact of the old spear models. Often there was no mark or a mark that was difficult to recognize that the spear left on impact, which often made measuring the distance very difficult or sometimes even made the throw invalid. Moving the center of gravity forward on the new spear fixed both problems.
The Olympic champion was Tapio Korjus from Finland . He won ahead of the Czechoslovak Jan Železný and Seppo Räty , like Korjus from Finland.
Klaus Tafelmeier started for the Federal Republic of Germany. He reached the final and finished fourth. Detlef Michel , Silvio Warsönke and Gerald Weiß took part
for the GDR . Michel and Warsönke failed in the qualification. White reached the final and finished sixth.
The Swiss Rudolf Steiner could not qualify for the final.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 1984 | Arto Härkönen ( Finland ) | 86.76 m distance achieved with an old spear model | Los Angeles 1984 |
World Champion 1987 | Seppo Räty ( Finland ) | 83.54 m | Rome 1987 |
European champion 1986 | Klaus Tafelmeier ( Federal Republic of Germany ) | 84.76 m | Stuttgart 1986 |
Pan American champion 1987 | Duncan Atwood ( USA ) | 78.68 m | Indianapolis 1987 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1987 | Luis Lucumí ( Colombia ) | 72.46 m | Caracas 1987 |
South America Champion 1987 | Nivalde Beje Filho ( Brazil ) | 64.46 m | São Paulo 1987 |
Asian champion 1987 | Takahiro Yamada ( Japan ) | 72.62 m | Singapore 1987 |
African Champion 1988 | Justin Arop ( Uganda ) | 74.52 m | Annaba 1988 |
Existing records
World record | 87.66 m | Jan Železný ( Czechoslovakia ) | Nitra , Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia ) | May 31, 1987 |
Olympic record | New spear used for the first time at these games, so the old record is no longer valid |
Note on the records and the new spear:
In 1986 a new throwing device was introduced, the focus of which was further forward. The distances achieved with it were smaller, so all previous records were invalid.
The last world record with the old javelin was 104.80 m and was set on July 20, 1984 by Uwe Hohn (GDR) in East Berlin .
With 94.58 m, the Hungarian Miklós Németh achieved the last Olympic record with the old javelin on July 26, 1976 in Montreal .
qualification
Date: September 24, 1988
For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 79.00 m. Since exactly twelve throwers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was not filled any further.
Group A
It was in this group that the first Olympic records were set with the new spear. The first thrower, the Finn Seppo Räty, scored 76.76 m. The first improvement was achieved by the Japanese Kazuhiro Mizoguchi on 77.44 m. Then the Swede Peter Borglund threw 78.66 m. The Czechoslovak Jan Železný finally managed a distance of 85.90 m. This value was no longer exceeded during the Games in Seoul , neither in the other qualifying group nor in the final, and thus remained the Olympic spear throwing record until the next Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 .
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Jan Železný | Czechoslovakia | 85.90 m OR | - | - | 85.90 m | OR with the new spear |
2 | Seppo Räty | Finland | 76.76 m | 77.70 m | 81.62 m | 81.62 m | |
3 | Vladimir Ovchinnikov | Soviet Union | x | 77.68 m | 80.26 m | 80.26 m | |
4th | Kimmo Kinnunen | Finland | 77.22 m | 80.24 m | - | 80.24 m | |
5 | Gerald White | GDR | 78.20 m | 74.80 m | 80.22 m | 80.22 m | |
6th | Peter Borglund | Sweden | 78.66 m | 73.76 m | 80.16 m | 80.16 m | |
7th | Sejad Krdžalić | Yugoslavia | 72.40 m | 78.06 m | 79.90 m | 79.90 m | |
8th | Einar Vilhjálmsson | Iceland | 78.46 m | 75.64 m | 78.92 m | 78.92 m | |
9 | Tom Petranoff | United States | 71.42 m | 75.04 m | 77.48 m | 77.48 m | |
10 | Kazuhiro Mizoguchi | Japan | 77.44 m | x | 77.46 m | 77.46 m | |
11 | Rudolf Steiner | Switzerland | 76.02 m | 67.56 m | x | 76.02 m | |
12 | Roald Bradstock | Great Britain | 75.96 m | 73.66 m | 72.60 m | 75.96 m | |
13 | Brian Crouser | United States | 72.66 m | 72.64 m | 72.72 m | 72.72 m | |
14th | Charlus Bertimon | France | 70.84 m | 70.58 m | 70.48 m | 70.84 m | |
15th | Michael Mahovlich | Canada | x | 69.44 m | 67.32 m | 69.44 m | |
16 | Stéphane Laporte | France | 63.66 m | x | 69.40 m | 69.40 m | |
17th | Zakayo Malekwa | Tanzania | x | 67.14 m | 67.56 m | 67.56 m | |
18th | Ghanem Mabrouk Zaid Johar | Kuwait | 62.88 m | 63.50 m | 65.84 m | 65.84 m | |
19th | Paul Hurlston | Cayman Islands | x | 62.34 m | 61.78 m | 62.34 m |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Tapio Korjus | Finland | 76.42 m | 78.26 m | 81.42 m | 81.42 m | |
2 | David Ottley | Great Britain | 80.98 m | - | - | 80.98 m | |
3 | Klaus Tafelmeier | BR Germany | 77.98 m | 75.08 m | 80.52 m | 80.52 m | |
4th | Dag Wennlund | Sweden | x | 79.66 m | - | 79.66 m | |
5 | Viktor Jewsyukov | Soviet Union | 71.18 m | 79.26 m | - | 79.26 m | |
6th | David Stephens | United States | 78.42 m | 76.80 m | 70.86 m | 78.42 m | |
7th | Silvio Warsönke | GDR | 75.88 m | 75.78 m | 78.22 m | 78.22 m | |
8th | Lee Wook-jong | South Korea | x | 67.96 m | 78.10 m | 78.10 m | |
9 | Detlef Michel | GDR | 73.54 m | 77.68 m | 77.70 m | 77.70 m | |
10 | Mick Hill | Great Britain | 77.20 m | 74.98 m | 72.98 m | 77.20 m | |
11 | Masami Yoshida | Japan | 74.76 m | 71.38 m | 76.90 m | 76.90 m | |
12 | Terry McHugh | Ireland | 76.46 m | 73.34 m | 69.18 m | 76.46 m | |
13 | Pascal Lefèvre | France | 76.42 m | 74.56 m | 72.90 m | 76.42 m | |
14th | Zdeněk Nenadál | Czechoslovakia | 75.56 m | 69.78 m | 75.34 m | 75.56 m | |
15th | Sigurdur Einarsson | Iceland | 69.18 m | 72.90 m | 75.52 m | 75.52 m | |
16 | Stephen Feraday | Canada | 68.78 m | 66.22 m | 73.32 m | 73.32 m | |
17th | Justin Arop | Uganda | 67.54 m | 69.10 m | 67.68 m | 69.10 m | |
18th | Hafez El-Hussein | Syria | 63.34 m | 63.34 m | 63.30 m | 63.34 m | |
19th | Abdul Azim Al-Aliwat | Saudi Arabia | 56.32 m | 53.32 m | 49.48 m | 56.32 m |
final
Date: September 25, 1988
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final. Each of them had exceeded the required qualification range. All three participants from Finland were in the final. There were also two throwers from Sweden and two from the Soviet Union. The field of participants was completed by one starter each from the Federal Republic of Germany, the GDR, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Great Britain. For the first time at the Olympic Games, the new spear model was used with a forward shifted focus.
The favorites were the Finnish world champion Seppo Räty, the Czechoslovak world record holder Jan Železný, the reigning European champion Klaus Tafelmeier from the Federal Republic of Germany, the first world record holder with the new spear, and the Soviet vice world champion Viktor Jewsjukow, who was also third in the European Championship .
The Finn Tapio Korjus took the lead in the first lap with 82.74 m. Jewsjukow was in second place ahead of GDR thrower Gerald Weiss. In the second round Železný, who improved to 82.32 m, caught up with Jewsjukow. This had achieved exactly the same distance. White also improved to 81.30 m, but remained in fourth place ahead of Tafelmeier. With 83.26 m, Räty then took the lead on lap three, which Železný took from him again in the following round with 83.46 m. In the fifth attempt nothing changed. Železný was in front of Räty, Korjus, Jewsjukow, Weiß and Tafelmeier. In the last run the ranking was mixed up again. At first, Tafelmeier pushed past Weiss and Jewsjukow to fourth with 82.72 m. Räty could not improve his distance. Železný then extended his lead to 84.12 m before Tapio Korjus scored 84.28 m with his last throw and thus became Olympic champion. Jan Železný won the silver medal, Seppo Räty bronze. Klaus Tafelmeier took fourth place ahead of Wiktor Jewsjukow and Gerald Weiss. Jan Železnýs Olympic record distance of 85.90 m from the qualification was not exceeded in this final and lasted until the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona .
Tapio Korjus won the seventh gold medal for Finland in the javelin throw .
Jan Železný won the first Czechoslovak medal in this discipline.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Tapio Korjus | Finland | 82.74 m | 76.26 m | - | - | x | 84.28 m | 84.28 m | |
2 | Jan Železný | Czechoslovakia | x | 82.32 m | 81.60 m | 83.46 m | 77.88 m | 84.12 m | 84.12 m | |
3 | Seppo Räty | Finland | 80.00 m | 76.26 m | 83.26 m | 78.74 m | 80.66 m | 80.44 m | 83.26 m | |
4th | Klaus Tafelmeier | BR Germany | 80.14 m | 78.72 m | 78.28 m | x | 77.76 m | 82.72 m | 82.72 m | |
5 | Viktor Jewsyukov | Soviet Union | 81.42 m | 82.32 m | x | 80.38 m | 81.42 m | 79.52 m | 82.32 m | |
6th | Gerald White | GDR | 80.66 m | 81.30 m | 79.94 m | 77.26 m | 77.80 m | 78.28 m | 81.30 m | |
7th | Vladimir Ovchinnikov | Soviet Union | 76.48 m | 76.58 m | 79.12 m | x | 77.32 m | x | 79.12 m | |
8th | Dag Wennlund | Sweden | 76.88 m | 75.62 m | 78.30 m | x | 76.60 m | x | 78.30 m | |
9 | Peter Borglund | Sweden | 78.16 m | 78.22 m | 74.76 m | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
78.22 m | |||
10 | Kimmo Kinnunen | Finland | 75.62 m | 77.78 m | 78.04 m | 78.04 m | ||||
11 | David Ottley | Great Britain | 74.52 m | 75.70 m | 76.96 m | 76.96 m | ||||
12 | Sejad Krdžalić | Yugoslavia | 72.12 m | 73.28 m | x | 73.28 m |
Web links
- SportsReference Javelin , accessed January 29, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , results in athletics: p. 245, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 29, 2018
Video
- Jan Zelezny vs. Tapio Korjus - 1988 Olympics javelin throw final , published May 26, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed January 29, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Jürgen Schiffer: "Why did the senior javelin specification have to be changed?" - Article in IAAF / New Studies in athletics 3 / 4.00 , accessed on January 29, 2018
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 680 , accessed on January 29, 2018
- ↑ a b Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , Athletics results: p. 245, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 29, 2018