2012 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)

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Olympic rings
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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)
Medalist
gold medal Keshorn Walcott ( TTO ) Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago 
Silver medal Antti Ruuskanen ( FIN ) FinlandFinland 
Bronze medal Vítězslav Veselý ( CZE ) Czech RepublicCzech Republic 

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 ) NorwayNorway  90.57 m Beijing 2008
World Champion Matthias de Zordo ( Germany ) GermanyGermany  86.27 m Daegu 2011
European champion Vítězslav Veselý ( Czech Republic ) Czech RepublicCzech Republic  83.72 m Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champions Guillermo Martínez ( Cuba ) CubaCuba  81.55 m Mayagüez 2011
South America champion Arley Ibargüen ( Colombia ) ColombiaColombia  73.61 m Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion Yukifumi Murakami ( Japan ) JapanJapan  83.27 m Kobe 2011
African champions Julius Yego ( Kenya ) KenyaKenya  76.68 m Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania Champion Competition not in the championship program Cairns 2012

Existing records

World record Jan Železný ( Czech Republic ) Czech RepublicCzech Republic  98.48 m Jena , Germany May 25, 1996
Olympic record Andreas Thorkildsen ( Norway ) NorwayNorway  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
1 Andreas Thorkildsen NorwayNorway Norway 76.20 84.47 - 84.47
2 Spiridon Lebesis GreeceGreece Greece 81.80 82.40 - 82.40
3 Stuart Farquhar New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand 82.32 - - 82.32
4th Ari Mannio FinlandFinland Finland 81.99 x 76.25 81.99
5 Tino Häber GermanyGermany Germany 78.19 69.54 80.39 80.39
6th Leslie Copeland FijiFiji Fiji 77.00 80.19 72.52 80.19 actually qualified for the final
7th Roman Avramenko UkraineUkraine Ukraine 79.15 77.03 80.06 80.06
8th Uladzimir Kazlou BelarusBelarus Belarus x 79.10 80.06 80.06
9 Guillermo Martínez CubaCuba Cuba 75.39 80.06 77.22 80.06
10 Ainārs Kovals LatviaLatvia Latvia 77.42 76.45 79.19 79.19
11 Igor Janik PolandPoland Poland 76.01 78.90 x 78.90
12 Risto Matas EstoniaEstonia Estonia 70.34 78.56 76.30 78.56
13 Curtis Moss CanadaCanada Canada 74.21 78.13 78.22 78.22
14th Yukifumi Murakami JapanJapan Japan 76.37 77.80 77.77 77.80
15th Paweł Rakoczy PolandPoland Poland 77.36 73.22 73.44 77.36
16 Ihab Abdelrahman EgyptEgypt Egypt 72.93 77.35 75.19 77.35
17th Cyrus Hostetler United StatesUnited States United States 70.62 75.76 75.00 75.76
18th Ilya Korotkov RussiaRussia Russia 75.68 x x 75.68
19th Petr Frydrych Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 69.54 70.44 75.46 75.46
20th Ivan Zaysev UzbekistanUzbekistan Uzbekistan 73.07 73.94 71.39 73.94
21st Vadim's Vasiļevskis LatviaLatvia Latvia x 72.81 x 72.81
22nd Qin Qiang China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 72.29 68.76 65.28 72.29

  • Ukraine Roman Avramenko was 34 cm short of the final

  • 78.90 m wasn't enough for Poland's Igor Janik to make it into the final

  • The Canadian Curtis Moss achieved 78.22 m in qualification and was eliminated

  • 77.80 m was not enough for the Japanese Yukifumi Murakami to participate in the final

  • The Egyptian Ihab Abdelrahman failed with 77.35 m in the qualification

  • The American Cyrus Hostetler did not reach the final with 76.76 m

  • The Czech Petr Frydrych threw 75.46 m and failed in the qualification

  • The Latvian Vadims Vasiļevskis was eliminated with 72.81 m in the qualification

Group B

August 8, 2012, 8:50 pm

space Surname nation 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Expanse annotation
1 Vítězslav Veselý Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 88.34 - - 88.34
2 Tero Pitkämäki FinlandFinland Finland 76.53 x 83.01 83.01
3 Genki Dean JapanJapan Japan 71.58 82.07 - 82.07
4th Julius Yego KenyaKenya Kenya 79.10 79.33 81.81 81.81 NO
5 Keshorn Walcott Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 78.91 79.33 81.75 81.75
6th Antti Russkanen FinlandFinland Finland 77.83 81.74 x 81.74
7th Kim Amb SwedenSweden Sweden x 71.85 78.94 78.94
8th Fatih Avan TurkeyTurkey Turkey 78.74 78.20 78.87 78.87
9 Craig Kinsley United StatesUnited States United States 72.80 71.47 78.18 78.18
10 Jakub Vadlejch Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic x 77.61 x 77.61
11 Dayron Marquez ColombiaColombia Colombia 75.15 77.59 76.50 77.59
12 Jarrod Bannister AustraliaAustralia Australia 77.38 76.23 x 77.38
13 Braian Toledo ArgentinaArgentina Argentina 76.87 x 73.30 76.87
14th Jung Sang-jin Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 76.37 74.77 x 76.37
15th Mervyn Luckwell United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 74.09 x x 74.09
16 Sean Furey United StatesUnited States United States x 72.81 71.86 72.81
17th Melik Janojan ArmeniaArmenia Armenia 72.64 70.81 68.72 72.64
18th Matija Kranjc SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia 72.63 69.70 71.17 72.63
19th Bartosz Osewski PolandPoland Poland x x 71.19 71.19
ogV Matthias de Zordo GermanyGermany Germany x x x - without space
Zigismund's Sirmais LatviaLatvia Latvia x x x
DOP Oleksandr Pyatnytsya UkraineUkraine Ukraine 77.07 82.72 - 82.72 admitted in the final

  • The Turk Fatih Avan scored 78.87 m and was eliminated from the qualification

  • His 77.61 m was not enough for the Czech Jakub Vadlejch to take part in the final

  • The Slovenian Matija Kranjc failed with 72.63 m in the qualification

  • The German Matthias de Zordo retired with three invalid attempts in the qualification

final

Award ceremony in the javelin throw:
Antti Ruuskanen on the left, Keshorn Walcott in the middle, Vítězslav Pjatnyzja, who was later disqualified, on the right

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
1 Keshorn Walcott Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 83.51 84.58 x 80.64 x - 84.58 NO
2 Antti Ruuskanen FinlandFinland Finland 79.60 81.09 81.60 81.97 84.12 79.88 84.12
3 Vítězslav Veselý Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic x 81.69 81.80 x 80.32 83.34 83.34
4th Tero Pitkämäki FinlandFinland Finland 77.33 82.68 80.67 80.46 82.80 82.53 82.80
5 Andreas Thorkildsen NorwayNorway Norway x 82.63 x 81.70 x x 82.63
6th Spiridon Lebesis GreeceGreece Greece 81.21 81.91 81.27 80.36 x 79.45 81.91
7th Tino Häber GermanyGermany Germany 76.99 74.33 81.21 79.95 76.36 75.85 81.21
8th Stuart Farquhar New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand 76.80 76.64 80.22 not in the final of the
eight best throwers		 80.22
9 Genki Dean JapanJapan Japan x 79.95 x 79.95
10 Ari Mannio FinlandFinland Finland 78.60 77.71 x 78.60
11 Julius Yego KenyaKenya Kenya 72.59 77.15 74.08 77.15
DOP Oleksandr Pyatnytsya UkraineUkraine Ukraine 77.47 81.61 84.51 81.53 81.01 83.53 84.51

  • Olympic Champion:
    Keshorn Walcott, Trinidad and Tobago

  • Silver medal:
    Antti Ruuskanen from Finland

  • Bronze medal:
    Vítězslav Veselý, Czech Republic

  • The Finn Tero Pitkämäki came fourth

  • The Norwegian Andreas Thorkildsen came in fifth

  • The New Zealander Stuart Farquhar was Olympic eight

  • Genki Dean from Japan came in ninth

  • The Finn Ari Mannio was Olympic tenth

  • The Olympic eleventh Julius Yego from Kenya

  • Doping offender Oleksandr Pyatnyzja from Ukraine

Web links

Video

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015 page 680 , accessed on September 16, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c d IOC announcement of August 9, 2016 (English) , accessed on September 16, 2018