1906 Olympic Intermediate Games / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Men
place	Panathinaic Stadium
Attendees	22 athletes from 7 countries
Competition phase	April 26, 1906

The men's javelin at the 1906 Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens was decided on April 26, 1906. In various sources the competition is listed as "javelin throwing (free style)". However, there was no other javelin competition in Athens. So while the throwing technique could be chosen freely, the length of the inrun was limited to 10 meters.

Records

World record	53.79 m	Sweden	Eric Lemming	1903

The following records were broken or set at the Olympic Games:

WR

53.90 m

Sweden

Eric Lemming

Results

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Eric Lemming	Sweden	53.90 (WR)
2	Knut Lindberg	Sweden	45.17
3	Bruno Söderström	Sweden	44.92
4th	Hjalmar Mellander	Sweden	44.30
5	Werner Järvinen	Finland	44.25
6th	Heikki Åhlman	Finland	44.00
7th	Arne Halse	Norway	44.00
8th	Conrad Carlsrud	Norway	k. A.
9	Uno Haggman	Finland	43.25
10	František Souček	Bohemia	39.00
11	Pál Vargha	Hungary	38.75
	Karl Kaltenbach	Germany	k. A.
	Paul Weinstein	Germany	k. A.
	Vasilios Papageorgiou	Greece	k. A.
	Andreas Tsolias	Greece	k. A.
	E. Parousis	Greece	k. A.
	Stavros Antoniadis	Greece	k. A.
	Epaminonas Anezakis	Crete	k. A.
	Gyula Strausz	Hungary	k. A.
	György Luntzer	Hungary	k. A.
	Mihály Dávid	Hungary	k. A.
	Istvan Mudin	Hungary	k. A.

The present order and the width information are based on "Sports Reference". Kluge names the Finn Åhlman differently among the knocked-off participants. Accordingly, the Norwegians Halse and Carlsrud move up one place. Häggman, Souček and Vargha are also given without width or placement.

In the first high-profile international javelin throwing competition, the athletes from Scandinavia dominated.

Web links

• Sports Reference

literature

• Volker Kluge , Olympic Summer Games - The Chronicle I, Berlin 1997 ( ISBN 3-328-00715-6 )
• Ekkehard zur Megede , The history of Olympic athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970