2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Javelin throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 33 athletes from 24 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Athens Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 26, 2004 (qualification) August 28, 2004 (final) |
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The javelin throw of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 26th and 28th, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 33 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the Norwegian Andreas Thorkildsen . He won ahead of the Latvian Vadims Vasiļevskis and the Russian Sergei Makarow .
With Christian Nicolay and Peter Esenwein , two German participants started. Both were eliminated in qualifying.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein were not among the participants.
Current title holders
Olympic Champion 2000 | Jan Železný ( Czech Republic ) | 90.17 m | Sydney 2000 |
World Champion 2003 | Sergei Makarov ( Russia ) | 85.44 m | Paris 2003 |
European Champion 2002 | Steve Backley ( Great Britain ) | 88.54 m | Munich 2002 |
Pan American Champion 2003 | Emeterio González ( Cuba ) | 81.72 m | Santo Domingo 2003 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 2003 | Manuel Fuenmayor ( Venezuela ) | 72.35 m | St. George’s 2003 |
South American Champion 2003 | Luiz da Silva ( Brazil ) | 79.50 m | Barquisimeto 2003 |
Asian champion 2003 | Li Rongxiang ( People's Republic of China ) | 79.25 m | Manila 2003 |
African champion 2004 | Janus Robberts ( South Africa ) | 21.02 m | Brazzaville 2004 |
Oceania Champion 2002 | Gerhardus Pienaar ( South Africa ) | 78.31 m | Christchurch 2002 |
Existing records
World record | 98.48 m | Jan Železný ( Czech Republic ) | Jena , Germany | May 25, 1996 |
Olympic record | 90.17 m | Sydney final , Australia | September 23, 2000 |
Remarks:
- All times are based on Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
- 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 81.00 m. Since only ten athletes reached this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). Finally, 80.86 m had to be achieved to participate.
Group A
August 26, 2004, 8:05 pm
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Breaux Greer | United States | 87.25 | - | - | 87.25 | |
2 | Sergei Makarov | Russia | 86.08 | - | - | 86.08 | |
3 | Esko Mikkola | Finland | 83.64 | - | - | 83.64 | |
4th | Andrus Värnik | Estonia | 83.25 | - | - | 83.25 | |
5 | Matti Narhi | Finland | 81.06 | - | - | 81.06 | |
6th | Steve Backley | Great Britain | 80.60 | 80.68 | 80.39 | 80.68 | |
7th | Gerhardus Pienaar | South Africa | 79.95 | 74.69 | 79.56 | 79.95 | |
8th | Christian Nicolay | Germany | 79.77 | x | 78.50 | 79.77 | |
9 | Voldemārs Lūsis | Latvia | 79.27 | x | x | 79.27 | |
10 | William Hamlyn-Harris | Australia | 69.64 | 74.34 | 77.43 | 77.43 | |
11 | Peter Zupanc | Slovenia | 74.11 | 72.42 | 77.34 | 77.34 | |
12 | Miroslav Guzdek | Czech Republic | 76.45 | 75.36 | 75.75 | 76.45 | |
13 | Gergely Horvath | Hungary | 73.45 | 73.95 | 72.05 | 73.95 | |
14th | Ronny Nilsen | Norway | x | 73.46 | x | 73.46 | |
15th | Manuel Fuenmayor | Venezuela | 72.26 | 68.72 | 72.14 | 72.26 | |
16 | David Brisseault | France | 68.70 | 71.86 | 69.58 | 71.86 | |
17th | Marián Bokor | Slovakia | 68.21 | 71.74 | 67.73 | 71.74 |
Group B
August 26, 2004, 9:50 pm
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Vadim's Vasiļevskis | Latvia | 83.43 | - | - | 83.43 | |
2 | Alexander Ivanov | Russia | 82.18 | - | - | 82.18 | |
3 | Tero Pitkämäki | Finland | 82.04 | - | - | 82.04 | |
4th | Andreas Thorkildsen | Norway | 81.74 | - | - | 81.74 | |
5 | Jan Železný | Czech Republic | 81.18 | - | - | 81.18 | |
6th | Ēriks Rags | Latvia | 77.92 | 80.84 | - | 80.84 | |
7th | Isbel Luaces | Cuba | 80.07 | 77.53 | 79.07 | 80.07 | |
8th | Li Rongxiang | People's Republic of China | 79.73 | x | 79.94 | 79.94 | |
9 | Yukifumi Murakami | Japan | 77.25 | 77.60 | 78.59 | 78.59 | |
10 | Oliver Dziubak | Australia | 77.21 | 78.53 | 75.57 | 78.53 | |
11 | Peter Esenwein | Germany | 75.18 | 73.76 | 78.41 | 78.41 | |
12 | Sergei Voinov | Uzbekistan | 74.68 | 74.08 | 72.71 | 74.68 | |
13 | Stuart Farquhar | New Zealand | 74.24 | 73.07 | 74.63 | 74.63 | |
14th | Nick Nieland | Great Britain | 68.86 | 71.31 | 72.79 | 72.79 | |
15th | Jae Myong Park | South Korea | 63.01 | 67.60 | 72.70 | 72.70 | |
16 | Edi Ponoš | Croatia | 66.73 | x | 71.43 | 71.43 | |
DNS | Boris Henry | Germany |
final
August 28, 2004, 8:40 p.m.
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, ten of them by qualifying distance and two more by their placements. Three Finns, two Latvians and two Russians were represented, as well as one participant each from Estonia, Great Britain, Norway, the Czech Republic and the United States.
The javelin was the only male discipline in the throw / push area at these Olympic Games in which there were no doping-related disqualifications.
The dominator Jan Železný from the Czech Republic, who had largely dominated the javelin throwing scene in the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century, was no longer in the shape of his heyday, which was also reflected in his result here in Sydney as an Olympic sub. Other important javelin throwers of the last generation such as the Greek Konstandinos Gatsioudis . the Finn Aki Parviainen and the two Germans Boris Henry and Raymond Hecht were completely absent. So here in Athens a whole new elite of javelin throwers had to develop. The favorites were Russian world champion Sergei Makarow, runner-up world champion Andrus Värnik from Estonia, US World Cup fourth Breaux Greer and Železný's former main competitor Steve Backley from Great Britain, who, however, was no longer in top form in previous years.
It was very close in the final. With his first throw of 84.95 m, Latvian Vadims Vasiļevskis initially took the lead. Behind him lay Makarow - 84.84 m, Thorkildsen - 84.82 m, the Russian Alexander Ivanov - 83.31 m and Värnik - 83.25 m. In the second round, Thorkildsen climbed to 86.50 m, taking the lead. The Latvian Ēriks Rags improved to 83.14 m and was in sixth position with only a small gap on the medal ranks. The Finn Tero Pitkämäki was not far behind with his 83.01 m. After that, however, next to nothing happened. Only Backley managed to improve in round three with 84.13 m and was fourth. This was the result until the end.
Olympic champion was Andreas Thorkildsen, silver went to Vadims Vasiļevskis, bronze to Sergei Makarow. Steve Backley was fourth ahead of Alexander Iwanow, Andrus Värnik, Ēriks Rags and Tero Pitkämäki.
The level of this competition did not come close to the level of the international championships of the recent past, when apart from the world championships of the previous year there were consistently widths of just under or over ninety meters - mostly even through several throwers - at the top. The new "elite" were not as advanced as the best javelin throwers before them.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Andreas Thorkildsen | Norway | 84.82 | 86.50 | 80.96 | x | - | - | 86.50 | |
2 | Vadim's Vasiļevskis | Latvia | 84.95 | 83.95 | x | x | 79.07 | 80.91 | 84.95 | |
3 | Sergei Makarov | Russia | 84.84 | x | 77.59 | 78.00 | 82.51 | 84.32 | 84.84 | |
4th | Steve Backley | Great Britain | 79.62 | 81.48 | 84.13 | 83.02 | x | 81.62 | 84.13 | |
5 | Alexander Ivanov | Russia | 83.31 | 82.76 | 81.36 | 80.28 | 78.07 | 79.99 | 83.31 | |
6th | Andrus Värnik | Estonia | 83.25 | 82.75 | x | x | - | 76.41 | 83.25 | |
7th | Ēriks Rags | Latvia | 77.13 | 83.14 | 81.69 | x | x | 78.63 | 83.14 | |
8th | Tero Pitkämäki | Finland | 80.38 | 83.01 | x | x | 81.19 | x | 83.01 | |
9 | Jan Železný | Czech Republic | 76.77 | 79.98 | 80.59 | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
80.59 | |||
10 | Matti Narhi | Finland | x | 78.73 | 80.28 | 80.28 | ||||
11 | Esko Mikkola | Finland | 76.20 | 79.43 | 76.23 | 79.43 | ||||
12 | Breaux Greer | United States | 74.36 | x | x | 74.36 |
Web links
- SportsReference javelin , accessed May 2, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website, accessed on May 2, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on May 2, 2018
Video
- Javelin Athens 2004 , published July 8, 2007 on youtube.com, accessed May 2, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ Pan American Games on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 2, 2018
- ↑ Central American and Caribbean Championships (Men) on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 2, 2018
- ^ South American Championships (Men) on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 2, 2018
- ↑ Asian Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 2, 2018
- ↑ African Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 2, 2018
- ↑ Oceania Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 2, 2018
- ↑ IAAF world records, men's javelin throw , accessed on April 2, 2018