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)
Medalist Jan Železný ( CZE )   Steve Backley ( GBR )   Sergei Makarov ( RUS )

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

The Estonian Andrus Värnik threw 81.34 m and failed in the qualification

September 22, 2000, 11:30 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
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

With 75.75 m the Latvian Ēriks Rags was eliminated in the qualification

September 22, 2000, 1:25 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
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
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

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  Olympic champion Jan Železný from the Czech Republic

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  The Greek Konstandinos Gatsioudis finished sixth in the final

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  The Pole Dariusz Trafas was Olympic tenth

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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 680 , accessed on April 2, 2018