2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)
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sport | athletics |
discipline | Javelin throw |
gender | Men |
place | Beijing National Stadium |
Attendees | 38 athletes from 28 countries |
Competition phase | August 21 and 23, 2008 |
Medalist | |
gold | Andreas Thorkildsen ( NOR ) |
silver | Ainārs Kovals ( LAT ) |
bronze | Tero Pitkämäki ( FIN ) |
The javelin throw at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was held on August 21 and 23, 2008. 38 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the Norwegian Andreas Thorkildsen . Ainārs Kovals from Latvia won the silver medal . Bronze went to Tero Pitkämäki from Finland.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 2004 | Andreas Thorkildsen ( Norway ) | 86.50 m | Athens 2004 |
World Champion 2007 | Tero Pitkämäki ( Finland ) | 90.33 m | Osaka 2007 |
European champion 2006 | Andreas Thorkildsen ( Norway ) | 88.78 m | Gothenburg 2006 |
Pan American Champion 2007 | Guillermo Martínez ( Cuba ) | 77.66 m | Rio de Janeiro 2007 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 2008 | Anier Boué ( Cuba ) | 74.98 m | Cali 2008 |
South America Champion 2007 | Pablo Pietrobelli ( Argentina ) | 76.52 m | São Paulo 2007 |
Asian champion 2007 | Chen Qui ( People's Republic of China ) | 78.07 m | Amman 2007 |
Africa Champion 2008 | Mohamed Ali Kebabou ( Tunisia ) | 74.20 m | Addis Ababa 2008 |
Oceania Champion 2008 | Leslie Copeland ( Fiji ) | 67.02 m | Saipan 2008 |
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 |
qualification
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualifying distance for the direct entry into the final was 82.50 meters. Since only three 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, 79.70 m had to be achieved to participate.
Group A
August 21, 2004, 10:10 am
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Scott Russell | Canada | 80.42 m | - | - | 80.42 m | |
2 | Ainārs Kovals | Latvia | x | x | 80.15 m | 80.15 m | |
3 | Uladzimir Kaslou | Belarus | 77.07 m | 80.06 m | 78.41 m | 80.06 m | |
4th | Teemu Wirkkala | Finland | 79.79 m | 78.89 m | 75.81 m | 79.79 m | |
5 | Jarrod Bannister | Australia | 79.79 m | x | 77.40 m | 79.79 m | |
6th | Magnus Arvidsson | Sweden | 79.70 m | 75.35 m | 76.07 m | 79.70 m | |
7th | Ēriks Rags | Latvia | 79.33 m | x | 77.97 m | 79.33 m | |
8th | Yukifumi Murakami | Japan | x | 78.21 m | 76.29 m | 78.21 m | |
9 | Igor Janik | Poland | 71.43 m | 67.59 m | 77.63 m | 77.63 m | |
10 | Park Jae-Myoung | South Korea | 76.63 m | 75.61 m | 74.25 m | 76.63 m | |
11 | John Robert Oosthuizen | South Africa | x | 74.55 m | 76.16 m | 76.16 m | |
12 | Breaux Greer | United States | 73.68 m | x | x | 73.68 m | |
13 | Ignacio Guerra | Chile | 71.07 m | 71.35 m | 73.03 m | 73.03 m | |
14th | Sergei Makarov | Russia | x | x | 72.47 m | 72.47 m | |
15th | Anier Boué | Cuba | 71.29 m | 71.85 m | x | 71.85 m | |
16 | Víctor Fatecha | Paraguay | 70.59 m | 71.58 m | 68.79 m | 71.58 m | |
17th | Stephan Steding | Germany | x | 70.05 m | x | 70.05 m | |
18th | Bobur Shokirjonov | Uzbekistan | 69.54 m | 66.29 m | 68.29 m | 69.54 m | |
ogV | Csongor Oltean | Hungary | x | x | x | without space |
Group B
August 21, 2004, 11:40 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Vadim's Vasiļevskis | Latvia | 83.51 m | - | - | 83.51 m | |
2 | Ilya Korotkov | Russia | 79.13 m | 83.33 m | - | 83.33 m | |
3 | Tero Pitkämäki | Finland | x | 82.61 m | - | 82.61 m | |
4th | Tero Järvenpää | Finland | 77.76 m | 82.34 m | - | 82.34 m | |
5 | Vítězslav Veselý | Czech Republic | x | 78.93 m | 81.20 m | 81.20 m | PB |
6th | Andreas Thorkildsen | Norway | 79.85 m | x | - | 79.85 m | |
7th | Alexander Ivanov | Russia | 75.73 m | 73.89 m | 79.27 m | 79.27 m | |
8th | Leigh Smith | United States | x | 74.18 m | 76.55 m | 76.55 m | |
9 | Stuart Farquhar | New Zealand | 76.14 m | 75.51 m | 73.87 m | 76.14 m | |
10 | Mihkel Kukk | Estonia | 63.42 m | 70.55 m | 75.56 m | 75.56 m | |
11 | Chen Qi | People's Republic of China | 73.50 m | x | x | 73.50 m | |
12 | Mike Hazle | United States | x | 72.75 m | 71.69 m | 72.75 m | |
13 | Ioannis Smalios | Greece | x | 71.87 m | 67.39 m | 71.87 m | |
14th | Roman Avramenko | Ukraine | 71.64 m | 70.68 m | 71.10 m | 71.64 m | |
15th | Matija Kranjc | Slovenia | 71.00 m | x | x | 71.00 m | |
16 | Pablo Pietrobelli | Argentina | 58.04 m | 66.95 m | 69.09 m | 69.09 m | |
17th | Alexander Vieweg | Germany | 67.49 m | 66.37 m | 67.39 m | 67.49 m | |
18th | Kolyo Neshev | Bulgaria | 66.00 m | x | x | 66.00 m | |
19th | Melik Janoyan | Armenia | x | x | 64.47 m | 64.47 m |
final
August 23, 2004, 7:10 p.m.
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, three of them by qualifying distance and another nine by their placements. Three Finns, two Latvians and one participant each from Australia, Canada, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the Czech Republic and Belarus were represented.
The favorites were the Finnish 2007 world champion Tero Pitkämäki, also fourth at the World Cup in 2005 and vice European champion in 2006 , as well as the Norwegian Andreas Thorkildsen, Olympic champion in 2004 , vice world champion in 2005 and 2007, and European champion in 2006. Other medal candidates were the American WM -Third 2007 Breaux Greer and two Latvian launcher Vadims Vasilevskis as WM -Vierter 2007 and EM -Vierter of 2006 and ainārs kovals as EM -Fünfter of 2006 World Cup -Siebter of 2005. the Russian World Championship -Third 2005 Sergei Makarow started promisingly at these Olympic Games. He and Greer were already eliminated in qualifying.
In the final, top winners were initially a bit of a long time coming. Thorkildsen had the top position after lap one with 84.72 m ahead of the Finn Tero Järvenpää with 83.95 m. Behind were Pitkämäki - 83.75 m - and the Australian Jarrod Bannister 83.45 m. In the second round, Thorkildsen improved to 85.92 m, Kovals came in fifth with 82.63 m, otherwise little happened. In the third lap, Thorkildsen increased further to 87.93 m, the Finn Teemu Wirkkala was now fourth with 83.46 m. So a Norwegian was ahead of three Finns, and Bannister was fifth ahead of Kovals.
In the first final round of the best eight throwers Pitkämäki scored 85.83 m and was second. In the penultimate round, Thorkildsen managed a further increase. He improved Jan Železnýs Olympic record by forty centimeters to 90.57 m and then gave up his last attempt. There were two more changes in this last round. Ainārs Kovals reached 86.64 m, which was the silver medal in the end. Tero Pitkämäki improved again to 86.16 m, but it stayed with bronze for him. However, the Olympic champion with a clear lead and clearly the best series was Andreas Thorkildsen, who repeated his success from 2004 . Tero Järvenpää was fourth ahead of Teemu Wirkkala. Jarrod Bannister took sixth place.
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 | 84.72 m | 85.92 m | 87.93 m | 85.13 m | 90.57 m OR | - | 90.57 m | OR |
2 | Ainārs Kovals | Latvia | 79.45 m | 82.63 m | 82.28 m | 78.98 m | 80.65 m | 86.64 m | 86.64 m | PB |
3 | Tero Pitkämäki | Finland | 83.75 m | x | 80.69 m | 85.83 m | x | 86.16 m | 86.16 m | |
4th | Tero Järvenpää | Finland | 83.95 m | x | x | x | x | 83.63 m | 83.95 m | |
5 | Teemu Wirkkala | Finland | x | 73.90 m | 83.46 m | x | - | 78.23 m | 83.46 m | |
6th | Jarrod Bannister | Australia | 83.45 m | 80.59 m | 82.20 m | - | - | - | 83.45 m | |
7th | Ilya Korotkov | Russia | 82.54 m | x | 76.84 m | 82.15 m | x | 83.15 m | 83.15 m | |
8th | Uladzimir Kaslou | Belarus | 82.06 m | 77.57 m | 74.09 m | x | x | 75.36 m | 82.06 m | PB |
9 | Vadim's Vasiļevskis | Latvia | 76.75 m | x | 81.32 m | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
81.32 m | |||
10 | Scott Russell | Canada | 80.90 m | 78.02 m | x | 80.90 m | ||||
11 | Magnus Arvidsson | Sweden | 79.85 m | 79.57 m | 80.16 m | 80.16 m | ||||
12 | Vítězslav Veselý | Czech Republic | x | x | 76.76 m | 76.76 m |
Web links
- SportsReference Javelin , accessed June 14, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website, accessed on June 14, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on June 14, 2018
Video
- Athletics - Men's Javelin Final - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games , published August 23, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed June 14, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 14, 2018
- ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 14, 2018
- ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed June 14, 2018
- ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 14, 2018
- ↑ IAAF world records, men's javelin throw , accessed on June 14, 2018