1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Javelin throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 34 athletes from 21 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Centennial Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 2, 1996 (qualification) August 3, 1996 (final) |
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The men's javelin throw at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was played on August 2 and 3, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 34 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Czech Jan Železný . He won ahead of Steve Backley from Great Britain and Seppo Räty from Finland .
Peter Blank , Raymond Hecht and Boris Henry started for Germany . All three made it to the final. Hecht finished fourth, Henry fifth and Blank ninth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 1992 | Jan Železný ( Czechoslovakia ) | 89.66 m | Barcelona 1992 |
World Champion 1995 | Jan Železný ( Czech Republic ) | 89.58 m | Gothenburg 1995 |
European Champion 1994 | Steve Backley ( Great Britain ) | 85.20 m | Helsinki 1994 |
Pan American champion 1995 | Emeterio González ( Cuba ) | 79.28 m | Mar del Plata 1995 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 1995 | Isbel Luaces ( Cuba ) | 74.78 m | Guatemala City 1995 |
South American Champion 1995 | Luis Lucumí ( Colombia ) | 76.82 m | Manaus 1995 |
Asian champion 1995 | Zhang Lianbiao ( People's Republic of China ) | 79.60 m | Jakarta 1995 |
African champion 1996 | Pius Bazighe ( Nigeria ) | 74.18 m | Yaoundé 1996 |
Oceania Champion 1994 | Steven Madeo ( Australia ) | 67.84 m | Auckland 1994 |
Existing records
World record | 98.48 m | Jan Železný ( Czech Republic ) | Jena , Germany | May 25, 1996 |
Olympic record | 89.66 m | Jan Železný ( Czechoslovakia ) | Barcelona , Spain | August 8, 1992 |
Remarks:
- All times are local Atlanta time ( UTC − 5 ).
- All widths are given in meters (m).
qualification
August 2, 1996, from 9:30 a.m.
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 83.00 m. Since only eight throwers achieved this performance (highlighted in light blue), the final field with the next best athletes from both groups was filled by four athletes to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 79.88 m was enough for the final.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Konstandinos Gatsioudis | Greece | 87.12 | - | - | 87.12 | |
2 | Sergei Makarov | Russia | 85.88 | - | - | 85.88 | |
3 | Seppo Räty | Finland | 83.66 | - | - | 83.66 | |
4th | Raymond Hecht | Germany | 83.24 | - | - | 83.24 | |
5 | Peter Blank | Germany | 82.68 | x | - | 82.68 | |
6th | Kimmo Kinnunen | Finland | 78.82 | x | 80.98 | 80.98 | |
7th | Mick Hill | Great Britain | 77.12 | x | 80.48 | 80.48 | |
8th | Pål Arne Fagernes | Norway | 78.38 | x | 79.78 | 79.78 | |
9 | David Stephens | United States | 77.98 | 79.18 | 79.18 | 79.18 | |
10 | Emeterio González | Cuba | x | 77.94 | 74.42 | 77.94 | |
11 | Edgar Baumann | Paraguay | x | 75.90 | 77.74 | 77.74 | |
12 | Gavin Lovegrove | New Zealand | x | 77.12 | x | 77.12 | |
13 | Sergei Wojnow | Uzbekistan | 75.58 | 76.30 | 68.50 | 76.30 | |
14th | Dag Wennlund | Sweden | 75.24 | x | x | 75.24 | |
15th | Terry McHugh | Ireland | 69.72 | x | 72.84 | 72.84 | |
16 | Chi Ki-young | South Korea | x | 70.30 | 71.42 | 71.42 | |
17th | Kirt Thompson | Trinidad and Tobago | 68.02 | x | 64.12 | 68.02 |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Jan Železný | Czech Republic | 86.52 | - | - | 86.52 | |
2 | Tom Pukstys | United States | 80.70 | 81.34 | 84.70 | 84.70 | |
3 | Steve Backley | Great Britain | 84.18 | - | - | 84.18 | |
4th | Boris Henry | Germany | 83.22 | - | - | 83.22 | |
5 | Zhang Lianbiao | People's Republic of China | 76.24 | 76.76 | 79.88 | 79.88 | |
6th | Harri Hakkarainen | Finland | 77.96 | 79.34 | x | 79.34 | |
7th | Vladimir Ovchinnikov | Russia | 74.88 | 76.12 | 78.20 | 78.20 | |
8th | Todd Smell | United States | x | 76.68 | 78.02 | 78.02 | |
9 | Dimitrios Polymerou | Greece | 76.98 | x | 77.82 | 77.82 | |
10 | Andrew Currey | Australia | 71.34 | 76.58 | 77.28 | 77.28 | |
11 | Andrei Moruev | Russia | x | 76.96 | 77.20 | 77.20 | |
12 | Nick Nieland | Great Britain | 69.54 | x | 75.74 | 75.74 | |
13 | Vladimir Parfyonov | Uzbekistan | 68.54 | 73.96 | 73.28 | 73.96 | |
14th | Isbel Luaces | Cuba | 73.84 | 73.20 | x | 73.84 | |
15th | Donald-Aik Sild | Estonia | 72.54 | x | 68.28 | 72.54 | |
16 | Pius Bazighe | Nigeria | 68.02 | 70.78 | 65.70 | 70.78 | |
ogV | Uladzimir Sassimovich | Belarus | x | x | x | without space |
final
August 3, 1996, 6:55 pm
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, eight of them over the required qualification distance, and another four throwers over their placements. Three Germans, two Finns and two British competed for the medals with one participant each from China, Greece, Russia, the Czech Republic and the USA.
The clear favorite for the Olympic victory was the Czech Jan Železný, who competed as the 1992 Olympic champion , two-time world champion - in 1993 and 1995 - and world record holder . His fiercest rivals were the British vice-world champion in 1995 and European champion in 1994 Steve Backley, the two Germans Boris Henry as World Cup -Dritter and Raymond Hecht as WM -Vierter and the Finnish European Vice Champion Seppo Räty.
Backley took the lead on the first lap with a good 87.44 m. In the next series of tests Železný surpassed him with 88.16 m. Third place was the German Raymond Hecht, who achieved 86.88 m with his second throw. This order lasted until the end of the fifth round. With his last throw, Räty finally pushed the German out of third place after the Finn had thrown the javelin to 86.98 m. Jan Železný was Olympic champion ahead of Steve Backley and Seppo Räty. Raymond Hecht came in fourth, Boris Henry in fifth ahead of Russian Sergei Makarow.
Jan Železný is only the third athlete, after Eric Lemming from Sweden and Jonni Myyrä from Finland , to repeat his Olympic javelin victory. Lemming won the gold medal in 1908 and 1912 , Myyrä in 1920 and 1924 .
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Jan Železný | Czech Republic | x | 88.16 | 82.86 | 83.86 | 86.02 | 86.12 | 88.16 | |
2 | Steve Backley | Great Britain | 87.44 | 85.66 | x | 80.74 | 80.88 | 85.64 | 87.44 | |
3 | Seppo Räty | Finland | 83.44 | 86.66 | 76.52 | 84.52 | 81.70 | 86.98 | 86.98 | |
4th | Raymond Hecht | Germany | 83.88 | 86.88 | x | 83.10 | x | 85.10 | 86.88 | |
5 | Boris Henry | Germany | 81.24 | 85.68 | x | 82.58 | 83.94 | 84.08 | 85.68 | |
6th | Sergei Makarov | Russia | 82.72 | 85.30 | 81.12 | x | 82.28 | 83.78 | 85.30 | |
7th | Kimmo Kinnunen | Finland | 82.72 | 80.26 | x | 84.02 | 81.98 | x | 84.02 | |
8th | Tom Pukstys | United States | 78.48 | 80.90 | 83.58 | 81.28 | 82.18 | 81.68 | 83.58 | |
9 | Peter Blank | Germany | 76.66 | 81.82 | x | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
81.82 | |||
10 | Konstandinos Gatsioudis | Greece | x | 79.08 | 81.46 | 81.46 | ||||
11 | Zhang Lianbiao | People's Republic of China | 80.28 | 78.86 | 80.96 | 80.96 | ||||
12 | Mick Hill | Great Britain | 78.58 | x | x | 78.58 |
literature
- Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 38f
Web links
- SportsReference Javelin , accessed March 5, 2018
- Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 95, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 5, 2018
Video
- Men's Javelin Final Atlanta Olympics 1996 , published June 22, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 5, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 680 , accessed on March 5, 2018
- ↑ a b Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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. 95, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 5, 2018