2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)

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

The Latvian Ēriks Rags fails with a razor-thin 79.33 m in qualification

August 21, 2004, 10:10 am

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

The New Zealander Stuart Farquhar achieved 76.14 m and was eliminated

August 21, 2004, 11:40 a.m.

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

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  Olympic champion Andreas Thorkildsen from Norway

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  Bronze medalist Tero Pitkämäki, Finland

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  The Finnish Olympic champion Tero Järvenpää

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  The third Finn in the group, Teemu Wirkkala, was fifth in the final

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  The Latvian Vadims Vasiļevskis is Olympic 7th

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  Vítězslav Veselý from the Czech Republic came in twelfth in the final

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

1. ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 14, 2018
2. ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 14, 2018
3. ↑ 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 
4. ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 14, 2018
5. ↑ IAAF world records, men's javelin throw , accessed on June 14, 2018