2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Javelin throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 37 athletes from 24 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Estádio Nilton Santos | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 17, 2016 (qualification) August 20, 2016 (final) |
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The men's javelin throw at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 17 and 20, 2016 at the Estádio Nilton Santos . 37 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the German Thomas Röhler , who won ahead of the Kenyan Julius Yego . Bronze went to Keshorn Walcott from Trinidad and Tobago.
In addition to the winner, Johannes Vetter and Julian Weber started for Germany. Both qualified for the final. Vetter finished fourth, Weber ninth.
Athletes from Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion | Keshorn Walcott ( Trinidad and Tobago ) | 84.58 m | London 2012 |
World Champion | Julius Yego ( Kenya ) | 92.72 m | Beijing 2015 |
European champion | Zigismunds Sirmais ( Latvia ) | 86.66 m | Amsterdam 2016 |
North / Central America / Caribbean champions | Riley Dolezal ( USA ) | 79.30 m | San José 2015 |
South America champion | Júlio César de Oliveira ( Brazil ) | 81.22 m | Lima 2015 |
Asian champion | Huang Shih-feng ( Chinese Taipei ) | 79.74 m | Wuhan 2015 |
African champions | Phil-Mar van Rensburg ( South Africa ) | 76.04 m | Durban 2016 |
Oceania Champion | John Crandell ( Australia ) | 64.35 m | Cairns 2015 |
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 are based on local time in Rio ( UTC-3 ).
- All widths are given in meters (m).
qualification
The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 83.00 m. Since only nine throwers exceeded this distance - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best throwers from both groups to twelve participants - highlighted in light green. So finally 81.96 m had to be achieved for the final.
Group A
August 17, 2016, 8:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Width (m) | annotation |
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1 | Julian Weber | Germany | 84.46 | - | - | 84.46 | |
2 | Jakub Vadlejch | Czech Republic | 78.23 | 80.90 | 83.27 | 83.27 | |
3 | Dmytro Kossynskyi | Ukraine | 80.08 | 76.79 | 83.23 | 83.23 | |
4th | Thomas Röhler | Germany | 79.47 | 81.61 | 83.01 | 83.01 | |
5 | Braian Toledo | Argentina | 78.99 | 81.96 | 80.36 | 81.96 | |
6th | Joshua Robinson | Australia | 78.87 | 80.84 | 76.78 | 80.84 | |
7th | Marcin Krukowski | Poland | x | 78.06 | 80.62 | 80.62 | |
8th | Kim Amb | Sweden | 77.91 | 78.75 | 80.49 | 80.49 | |
9 | Cyrus Hostetler | United States | 76.48 | 78.69 | 79.76 | 79.76 | |
10 | Tero Pitkämäki | Finland | 77.91 | 78.58 | 79.56 | 79.56 | |
11 | Risto Mätas | Estonia | 76.23 | 79.26 | 79.40 | 79.40 | |
12 | Magnus Kirt | Estonia | x | 77.60 | 79.33 | 79.33 | |
13 | Rocco van Rooyen | South Africa | x | 71.05 | 78.48 | 78.48 | |
14th | Rolands Štrobinders | Latvia | 76.76 | x | 77.73 | 77.73 | |
15th | Stuart Farquhar | New Zealand | 74.24 | 77.32 | 74.38 | 77.32 | |
16 | Ahmed Bader Magour | Qatar | x | 77.19 | x | 77.19 | |
17th | Leslie Copeland | Fiji | 76.04 | 75.68 | x | 76.04 | |
18th | Sumeda Ranasinghe | Sri Lanka | 69.62 | 71.93 | x | 71.93 | |
ogV | Bobur Shokirjonov | Uzbekistan | x | x | x | without space |
The Finnish bronze medalist from 2008 Tero Pitkämäki also failed with 79.56 m in the preliminary round
Group B
August 17, 2016, 9:55 pm
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Width (m) | annotation |
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1 | Keshorn Walcott | Trinidad and Tobago | 88.68 | - | - | 88.68 | |
2 | Johannes Vetter | Germany | 85.96 | - | - | 85.96 | |
3 | Ryōhei Arai | Japan | 84.16 | - | - | 84.16 | |
4th | Petr Frydrych | Czech Republic | 78.57 | 80.17 | 83.60 | 83.60 | |
5 | Julius Yego | Kenya | 78.88 | x | 83.55 | 83.55 | |
6th | Vítězslav Veselý | Czech Republic | 81.32 | 81.32 | 82.85 | 82.85 | |
7th | Antti Ruuskanen | Finland | 82.20 | x | x | 82.20 | |
8th | Zigismund's Sirmais | Latvia | 76.87 | 80.65 | 75.95 | 80.65 | |
9 | Júlio César de Oliveira | Brazil | 79.33 | 80.49 | 80.29 | 80.49 | |
10 | Tanel Laanmäe | Estonia | 80.45 | 78.78 | 79.24 | 80.45 | |
11 | John Ampomah | Ghana | 79.09 | 80.39 | 78.90 | 80.39 | |
12 | Hamish Peacock | Australia | 77.91 | 76.22 | 76.40 | 77.91 | |
13 | Ivan Zaysev | Uzbekistan | 73.49 | 72.92 | 77.83 | 77.83 | |
14th | Ari Mannio | Finland | 77.14 | 76.77 | 77.73 | 77.73 | |
15th | Łukasz Grzeszczuk | Poland | 76.31 | 76.52 | 76.14 | 76.52 | |
16 | Huang Shih-feng | Chinese Taipei | 74.33 | x | x | 74.33 | |
17th | Sam Crouser | United States | 73.78 | 73.66 | x | 73.78 | |
18th | Sean Furey | United States | 69.40 | 72.61 | 71.35 | 72.61 |
final
August 20, 2016, 8:55 pm
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, nine of them directly via the qualifying distance and another three via their placements. All three Germans were in the final, as were all three Czechs. The field was completed by an athlete each from Argentina, Finland, Japan, Kenya, Trinidad and Tobago and the Ukraine.
Each participant initially had three attempts, the length of the qualifying round was not counted. The best eight then had another three attempts at their disposal, the last four were eliminated.
A three-way battle was expected between the 2012 Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott from Trinidad and Tobago, the Kenyan world champion Julius Yego and the world’s best of the year Thomas Röhler from Germany.
Yego started in the first attempt with 88.24 m. Behind him were Röhler with 87.40 m and Johannes Vetter from Germany with 85.32 m. Walcott was able to overtake Vetter on the bronze rank by a margin of six centimeters in the second round. On the fourth try, Yego suffered an ankle injury that prevented him from performing his last two throws. In the fifth lap, Röhler threw the spear to 90.30 m and thus took the lead. It stayed that way because in the sixth round nothing changed in the classification.
Julius Yego won the first Kenyan medal in the javelin throw .
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Width (m) | annotation |
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1 | Thomas Röhler | Germany | 87.40 | 85.61 | 87.07 | 84.84 | 90.30 | x | 90.30 | |
2 | Julius Yego | Kenya | 88.24 | x | - | x | - | - | 88.24 | |
3 | Keshorn Walcott | Trinidad and Tobago | 83.45 | 85.38 | 83.38 | 80.33 | x | x | 85.38 | |
4th | Johannes Vetter | Germany | 85.32 | x | 82.54 | x | 83.61 | 81.74 | 85.32 | |
5 | Dmytro Kossynskyi | Ukraine | 82.51 | 83.95 | 83.64 | 81.61 | 81.21 | x | 83.95 | |
6th | Antti Ruuskanen | Finland | x | 77.81 | 83.05 | x | x | 80.00 | 83.05 | |
7th | Vítězslav Veselý | Czech Republic | 78.20 | 82.51 | x | x | x | 78.63 | 82.51 | |
8th | Jakub Vadlejch | Czech Republic | 80.02 | 82.42 | 81.59 | 80.32 | x | x | 82.42 | |
9 | Julian Weber | Germany | 80.29 | 80.13 | 81.36 | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
81.36 | |||
10 | Braian Toledo | Argentina | 77.89 | 79.51 | 79.81 | 79.81 | ||||
11 | Ryōhei Arai | Japan | 77.89 | 79.47 | 72.49 | 79.47 | ||||
12 | Petr Frydrych | Czech Republic | 76.15 | 76.79 | 79.12 | 79.12 |
Web links
- Results Book Rio 2016, official report at library.olympic.org, accessed October 8, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF Men's Javelin Throwing Association (English), accessed on October 8, 2018
- Sports-Reference, Result of Javelin Men (English), accessed on October 8, 2018
Video
- Rio Replay: Triple Jump Final on youtube.com, published August 21, 2016, accessed October 8, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 680 (English) , accessed on October 8, 2018