2012 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Javelin throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 44 athletes from 31 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium London | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 8, 2012 (qualification) August 11, 2012 (final) |
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The javelin men in the 2012 Olympic Games in London , on 8 and 11 August 2012 at the Olympic Stadium London discharged. 44 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was Keshorn Walcott from Trinidad and Tobago, who won ahead of Antti Ruuskanen from Finland . The bronze medal went to the Czech Vítězslav Veselý .
For Germany took Tino Häber and Matthias de Zordo part. De Zordo retired without a valid attempt in qualifying. Häber reached the final and was seventh.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion | Andreas Thorkildsen ( Norway ) | 90.57 m | Beijing 2008 |
World Champion | Matthias de Zordo ( Germany ) | 86.27 m | Daegu 2011 |
European champion | Vítězslav Veselý ( Czech Republic ) | 83.72 m | Helsinki 2012 |
Central America and Caribbean champions | Guillermo Martínez ( Cuba ) | 81.55 m | Mayagüez 2011 |
South America champion | Arley Ibargüen ( Colombia ) | 73.61 m | Buenos Aires 2011 |
Asian champion | Yukifumi Murakami ( Japan ) | 83.27 m | Kobe 2011 |
African champions | Julius Yego ( Kenya ) | 76.68 m | Porto-Novo 2012 |
Oceania Champion | Competition not in the championship program | Cairns 2012 |
Existing records
World record | Jan Železný ( Czech Republic ) | 98.48 m | Jena , Germany | May 25, 1996 |
Olympic record | Andreas Thorkildsen ( Norway ) | 90.57 m | Beijing Final , People's Republic of China | August 23, 2008 |
Remarks:
- All times in this article are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).
- All widths are noted in meters (m).
doping
The Ukrainian Oleksandr Pjatnyzja , who initially came in second , was exposed as a doping offender in 2016 and subsequently disqualified. During follow-up examinations of his doping test, the prohibited substance dehydrochloromethyltestosterone was detected. Through him, Leslie Copeland from Fiji was deprived of the final. In addition, the New Zealander Stuart Farquhar was denied three more throws, which would have allowed him as eighth in the final.
qualification
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification width was 82.00 m. Since only eight athletes exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best throwers from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). However, only eleven of them made it into the final ranking, as one of them - the Ukrainian Oleksandr Pjatnyzja - was convicted of doping abuse. Finally, 80.39 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.
Group A
August 8, 2012, 7:05 pm
Roman Avramenko, Uladzimir Kazlou and Guillermo Martínez achieved exactly the same distance with 80.06 meters. The athletes' second-best litters were used to determine the placement. Avramenko (79.15 m) came in seventh, Kazlou (79.10 m) in eighth and Martínez (77.22 m) in ninth. However, this was irrelevant for the question of participation in the finals, because none of the three throwers made it into the top twelve. They were three inches short.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Andreas Thorkildsen | Norway | 76.20 | 84.47 | - | 84.47 | |
2 | Spiridon Lebesis | Greece | 81.80 | 82.40 | - | 82.40 | |
3 | Stuart Farquhar | New Zealand | 82.32 | - | - | 82.32 | |
4th | Ari Mannio | Finland | 81.99 | x | 76.25 | 81.99 | |
5 | Tino Häber | Germany | 78.19 | 69.54 | 80.39 | 80.39 | |
6th | Leslie Copeland | Fiji | 77.00 | 80.19 | 72.52 | 80.19 | actually qualified for the final |
7th | Roman Avramenko | Ukraine | 79.15 | 77.03 | 80.06 | 80.06 | |
8th | Uladzimir Kazlou | Belarus | x | 79.10 | 80.06 | 80.06 | |
9 | Guillermo Martínez | Cuba | 75.39 | 80.06 | 77.22 | 80.06 | |
10 | Ainārs Kovals | Latvia | 77.42 | 76.45 | 79.19 | 79.19 | |
11 | Igor Janik | Poland | 76.01 | 78.90 | x | 78.90 | |
12 | Risto Matas | Estonia | 70.34 | 78.56 | 76.30 | 78.56 | |
13 | Curtis Moss | Canada | 74.21 | 78.13 | 78.22 | 78.22 | |
14th | Yukifumi Murakami | Japan | 76.37 | 77.80 | 77.77 | 77.80 | |
15th | Paweł Rakoczy | Poland | 77.36 | 73.22 | 73.44 | 77.36 | |
16 | Ihab Abdelrahman | Egypt | 72.93 | 77.35 | 75.19 | 77.35 | |
17th | Cyrus Hostetler | United States | 70.62 | 75.76 | 75.00 | 75.76 | |
18th | Ilya Korotkov | Russia | 75.68 | x | x | 75.68 | |
19th | Petr Frydrych | Czech Republic | 69.54 | 70.44 | 75.46 | 75.46 | |
20th | Ivan Zaysev | Uzbekistan | 73.07 | 73.94 | 71.39 | 73.94 | |
21st | Vadim's Vasiļevskis | Latvia | x | 72.81 | x | 72.81 | |
22nd | Qin Qiang | People's Republic of China | 72.29 | 68.76 | 65.28 | 72.29 |
Group B
August 8, 2012, 8:50 pm
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Vítězslav Veselý | Czech Republic | 88.34 | - | - | 88.34 | |
2 | Tero Pitkämäki | Finland | 76.53 | x | 83.01 | 83.01 | |
3 | Genki Dean | Japan | 71.58 | 82.07 | - | 82.07 | |
4th | Julius Yego | Kenya | 79.10 | 79.33 | 81.81 | 81.81 | NO |
5 | Keshorn Walcott | Trinidad and Tobago | 78.91 | 79.33 | 81.75 | 81.75 | |
6th | Antti Russkanen | Finland | 77.83 | 81.74 | x | 81.74 | |
7th | Kim Amb | Sweden | x | 71.85 | 78.94 | 78.94 | |
8th | Fatih Avan | Turkey | 78.74 | 78.20 | 78.87 | 78.87 | |
9 | Craig Kinsley | United States | 72.80 | 71.47 | 78.18 | 78.18 | |
10 | Jakub Vadlejch | Czech Republic | x | 77.61 | x | 77.61 | |
11 | Dayron Marquez | Colombia | 75.15 | 77.59 | 76.50 | 77.59 | |
12 | Jarrod Bannister | Australia | 77.38 | 76.23 | x | 77.38 | |
13 | Braian Toledo | Argentina | 76.87 | x | 73.30 | 76.87 | |
14th | Jung Sang-jin | South Korea | 76.37 | 74.77 | x | 76.37 | |
15th | Mervyn Luckwell | Great Britain | 74.09 | x | x | 74.09 | |
16 | Sean Furey | United States | x | 72.81 | 71.86 | 72.81 | |
17th | Melik Janojan | Armenia | 72.64 | 70.81 | 68.72 | 72.64 | |
18th | Matija Kranjc | Slovenia | 72.63 | 69.70 | 71.17 | 72.63 | |
19th | Bartosz Osewski | Poland | x | x | 71.19 | 71.19 | |
ogV | Matthias de Zordo | Germany | x | x | x | - | without space |
Zigismund's Sirmais | Latvia | x | x | x | |||
DOP | Oleksandr Pyatnytsya | Ukraine | - | admitted in the final |
final
August 11, 2012, 7:20 pm
Originally twelve athletes had qualified for the final, seven of them by qualifying distance and four by qualifying position. Another thrower - the Ukrainian Oleksandr Pjatnyzja - was subsequently stripped of his result because of proven doping abuse. His litters therefore do not appear in the following description of the course of the competition. Three Finns fought with one participant each from Germany, Greece, Japan, Kenya, New Zealand, Norway, Trinidad and Tobago and the Czech Republic.
The favorites included the two-time Olympic champion Andreas Thorkildsen from Norway, the 2007 world champion Tero Pitkämäki from Finland and the Czech European champion Vítězslav Veselý. The reigning world champion Matthias de Zordo from Germany was handicapped due to an injury and had no valid attempt in qualifying. So he wasn't in the final here.
In the first round, the junior world champion Keshorn Walcott from Trinidad and Tobago took the lead with 83.51 m. The Greek Spiridon Lebesis followed in second place with 81.21 m. Walcott extended his lead to 84.58 m in the second round. Behind him were Pitkämäki (82.68 m) and Thorkildsen (82.63 m), followed by Lebesis, who rose to 81.91 m.
The Finn Antti Ruuskanen was able to work his way up to third place in the fourth attempt with 81.97 m behind Pitkämäki and Thorkildsen. In the fifth attempt Ruuskanen even managed 84.12 m and was thus in second place. Pitkämäki's improvement to 82.80 m brought no change, he stayed in third place. In the last attempt, Veselý managed to push Pitkämäki from the bronze place with 83.34 m.
The widths in this final did not come close to the results of the major events of recent years. Overall, the level was around five meters below the quality of the last World Championships and Olympic Games.
Keshorn Walcott was the first javelin thrower from Trinidad and Tobago to become Olympic champion. He is also the first junior world champion to win Olympic gold.
It was only for the second time in the Olympic history of this discipline that the winner did not come from Europe. In 1956 the American Cy Young was the first non-European to win.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Keshorn Walcott | Trinidad and Tobago | 83.51 | 84.58 | x | 80.64 | x | - | 84.58 | NO |
2 | Antti Ruuskanen | Finland | 79.60 | 81.09 | 81.60 | 81.97 | 84.12 | 79.88 | 84.12 | |
3 | Vítězslav Veselý | Czech Republic | x | 81.69 | 81.80 | x | 80.32 | 83.34 | 83.34 | |
4th | Tero Pitkämäki | Finland | 77.33 | 82.68 | 80.67 | 80.46 | 82.80 | 82.53 | 82.80 | |
5 | Andreas Thorkildsen | Norway | x | 82.63 | x | 81.70 | x | x | 82.63 | |
6th | Spiridon Lebesis | Greece | 81.21 | 81.91 | 81.27 | 80.36 | x | 79.45 | 81.91 | |
7th | Tino Häber | Germany | 76.99 | 74.33 | 81.21 | 79.95 | 76.36 | 75.85 | 81.21 | |
8th | Stuart Farquhar | New Zealand | 76.80 | 76.64 | 80.22 | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
80.22 | |||
9 | Genki Dean | Japan | x | 79.95 | x | 79.95 | ||||
10 | Ari Mannio | Finland | 78.60 | 77.71 | x | 78.60 | ||||
11 | Julius Yego | Kenya | 72.59 | 77.15 | 74.08 | 77.15 | ||||
DOP | Oleksandr Pyatnytsya | Ukraine |
Web links
- SportsReference Javelin , accessed September 16, 2018
- Official report , accessed September 16, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation (English) , accessed on September 16, 2018
Video
- Walcott Wins Men's Javelin Gold - London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 12, 2012, accessed September 16, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015 page 680 , accessed on September 16, 2018
- ↑ a b c d IOC announcement of August 9, 2016 (English) , accessed on September 16, 2018