2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Javelin throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 36 athletes from 26 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stadium Australia | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 22, 2000 (qualification) September 23, 2000 (final) |
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The men's javelin throw at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was played on September 22 and 23, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 36 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Czech Jan Železný . He won ahead of the British Steve Backley and the Russian Sergei Makarow .
With Raymond Hecht and Boris Henry two Germans took part in the competition. Both qualified for the final. Hecht finished fourth, Henry seventh.
The Austrian Gregor Högler failed in the qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 1996 | Jan Železný ( Czech Republic ) | 88.16 m | Atlanta 1996 |
World Champion 1999 | Aki Parviainen ( Finland ) | 89.52 m | Seville 1999 |
European champion 1998 | Steve Backley ( Great Britain ) | 89.72 m | Budapest 1998 |
Pan American Champion 1999 | Emeterio González ( Cuba ) | 77.46 m | Winnipeg 1999 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 1999 | Trevor Modeste ( Grenada ) | 63.92 m | Bridgetown 1999 |
South American Champion 1999 | Nery Kennedy ( Paraguay ) | 78.89 m | Bogotá 1999 |
Asian champion 2000 | Jagdish Bishnoi ( India ) | 76.81 m | Jakarta 2000 |
African Champion 2000 | Maher Ridane ( Tunisia ) | 72.51 m | Algiers 2000 |
Oceania Champion 2000 | James Goulding ( Fiji ) | 68.37 m | Adelaide 2000 |
Existing records
World record | 98.48 m | Jan Železný ( Czech Republic ) | Jena , Germany | May 25, 1996 |
Olympic record | 89.66 m | Final of Barcelona , Spain | August 8, 1992 |
Remarks:
- All times are based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
- All widths are given in meters (m).
qualification
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 83.00 m. Nine athletes exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue). Since fewer than twelve participants had achieved the minimum performance, the final field was filled with the next best throwers from both groups to twelve athletes (highlighted in light green). Finally, 82.24 m was enough for the final.
Group A
September 22, 2000, 11:30 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Konstandinos Gatsioudis | Greece | 88.41 | - | - | 88.41 | |
2 | Pål Arne Fagernes | Norway | x | 81.49 | 86.74 NO | 86.74 | NO |
3 | Sergei Makarov | Russia | 85.60 | - | - | 85.60 | |
4th | Raymond Hecht | Germany | 81.12 | 81.93 | 84.00 | 84.00 | |
5 | Dariusz Trafas | Poland | 76.58 | 83.98 | - | 83.98 | |
6th | Emeterio González | Cuba | 78.70 | 82.64 | 77.72 | 82.64 | |
7th | Nick Nieland | Great Britain | 72.32 | 82.12 | x | 82.12 | |
8th | Andrus Värnik | Estonia | 67.76 | 74.16 | 81.34 | 81.34 | |
9 | Andrew Martin | Australia | 78.65 | x | 81.31 | 81.31 | |
10 | Gregor Högler | Austria | 80.89 | 76.57 | 80.05 | 80.89 | |
11 | Voldemārs Lūsis | Lithuania | 80.08 | x | x | 80.08 | |
12 | Harri Haatainen | Finland | 79.93 | x | 78.46 | 79.93 | |
13 | Terry McHugh | Ireland | 79.90 | 77.33 | 79.40 | 79.90 | |
14th | Adrian Hatcher | Australia | 77.58 | 79.23 | x | 79.23 | |
15th | Jagdish Bishnoi | India | 70.86 | 69.77 | x | 70.86 | |
16 | Song Dong-hyun | South Korea | 68.85 | 70.48 | 67.98 | 70.48 | |
17th | Ali Al-Jadani | Saudi Arabia | x | x | 68.70 | 68.70 | |
ogV | Harri Hakkarainen | Finland | x | x | x | without space |
Group B
September 22, 2000, 1:25 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Jan Železný | Czech Republic | 89.39 | - | - | 89.39 | |
2 | Boris Henry | Germany | 84.58 | - | - | 84.58 | |
3 | Steve Backley | Great Britain | 83.74 | - | - | 83.74 | |
4th | Aki Parviainen | Finland | 80.61 | 76.83 | 83.73 | 83.73 | |
5 | Breaux Greer | United States | 82.63 | 80.32 | 77.61 | 82.63 | |
6th | Mick Hill | Great Britain | 78.55 | 82.24 | x | 82.24 | |
7th | Vladimir Ovchinnikov | Russia | 77.82 | x | 82.10 | 82.10 | |
8th | Andrew Currey | Australia | 78.12 | 76.38 | 75.47 | 78.12 | |
9 | Patrik Bodén | Sweden | 78.06 | 76.56 | 74.07 | 78.06 | |
10 | Uladzimir Sassimovich | Belarus | 74.64 | x | 78.04 | 78.04 | |
11 | Sergei Voinov | Uzbekistan | x | 75.89 | 74.98 | 75.89 | |
12 | Ēriks Rags | Latvia | x | 75.75 | x | 75.75 | |
13 | Marián Bokor | Slovakia | 71.03 | 75.49 | x | 75.49 | |
14th | Isbel Luaces | Cuba | 75.17 | x | 74.25 | 75.17 | |
15th | Arūnas Jurkšas | Lithuania | 71.36 | 73.05 | x | 73.05 | |
16 | Maher Ridane | Tunisia | x | 66.97 | 70.35 | 70.35 | |
17th | Nery Kennedy | Paraguay | 66.05 | 69.17 | 70.26 | 70.26 | |
18th | Dmitrij Schnajder | Kyrgyzstan | x | 65.00 | 66.40 | 66.40 |
final
September 23, 2000, 8:30 p.m.
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, nine of them by qualifying distance and three more by their placements. Two Germans, two British and one participant each from Finland, Greece, Cuba, Norway, Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic and the USA competed.
The favorites were the gold and silver medalists from 1996 in Atlanta , the Czech Jan Železný and the Briton Steve Backley. To further the favorites included world champion Aki Parviainen from Finland, the Greek runner-konstadinos gatsioudis and the two Germans Raymond Hecht, WM -Fünfter and EM -Dritter, and Boris Henry, World Cup -Sechster.
Železný took the lead in the first lap with 89.41 m, but was relegated to second place in the next round by Backley, who set a new Olympic record with 89.95 m . In third place was the Russian Sergei Makarow, who had achieved 88.67 m in the first attempt. Železný reached 90.17 m in the third round. With this he had regained his Olympic record from 1996 and at the same time became the first javelin thrower since the introduction of the new throwing device in 1986 to surpass the 90-meter mark at the Olympic Games. The final result in the top positions did not change in the following three test series. Raymond Hecht was fourth, Aki Parviainen fifth and Konstandinos Gatsioudis sixth. Boris Henry came in seventh, the Cuban Emeterio González in eighth place.
Jan Železný won the third gold medal in a row. After Al Oerter , USA - discus throw (four times gold), Carl Lewis , USA - long jump (four times gold) and Viktor Sanejew , Soviet Union - triple jump, he is only the fourth athlete to do this. It was his fourth medal overall. In addition to the three victories in 1992 , 1996 and 2000, there was a silver medal in 1988 , making him the most successful javelin thrower at the Olympic Games to date.
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 | 89.41 | x | 90.17 OR | x | x | 88.97 | 90.17 | OR |
2 | Steve Backley | Great Britain | 86.25 | 89.85 OR | x | 80.99 | x | x | 89.85 | |
3 | Sergei Makarov | Russia | 88.67 | 85.90 | x | x | 86.67 | 85.30 | 88.67 | |
4th | Raymond Hecht | Germany | 87.76 | x | x | x | 76.11 | - | 87.76 | |
5 | Aki Parviainen | Finland | 86.62 | 82.49 | 84.01 | x | x | 78.42 | 86.62 | |
6th | Konstandinos Gatsioudis | Greece | 85.06 | x | 83.73 | 83.53 | 86.53 | 83.32 | 86.53 | |
7th | Boris Henry | Germany | 82.94 | 80.78 | 83.45 | x | 85.78 | 83.31 | 85.78 | |
8th | Emeterio González | Cuba | 76.13 | 78.55 | 83.33 | x | x | 77.19 | 83.33 | |
9 | Pål Arne Fagernes | Norway | 80.06 | 83.04 | 72.01 | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
83.04 | |||
10 | Dariusz Trafas | Poland | 75.11 | 82.30 | 82.01 | 82.30 | ||||
11 | Mick Hill | Great Britain | 81.00 | 80.92 | x | 81.00 | ||||
12 | Breaux Greer | United States | 74.16 | x | 79.91 | 79.91 |
literature
- Rudi Cerne (Ed.), Sydney 2000, The Games of the XXVII. Olympiad with contributions by Rudi Cerne, Birgit Fischer , Willi Phillip Knecht , Willi Leissl and Jan Ullrich , MOHN Media Mohndruck GmbH, Gütersloh, p. 66f
Web links
- SportsReference Javelin , accessed April 2, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 2, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 2, 2018
Videos
- Sydney 2000 | Jan Železný , published on youtube.com on August 31, 2009, accessed on April 2, 2018
- Sydney Olympics 2000 final Jan Zelezny's third throw , published June 29, 2006 on youtube.com, accessed April 2, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 680 , accessed on April 2, 2018