Men's javelin throw at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Stade de France, Paris, France | ||||||||||||
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Winning distance | 92.97 m OR AR | ||||||||||||
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Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |||
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Qualification | |||
Track events | |||
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
400 m | men | women | |
800 m | men | women | |
1500 m | men | women | |
5000 m | men | women | |
10,000 m | men | women | |
100 m hurdles | women | ||
110 m hurdles | men | ||
400 m hurdles | men | women | |
3000 m steeplechase | men | women | |
4 × 100 m relay | men | women | |
4 × 400 m relay | men | mixed | women |
Road events | |||
Marathon | men | women | |
20 km walk | men | women | |
Marathon walk relay | mixed | ||
Field events | |||
High jump | men | women | |
Pole vault | men | women | |
Long jump | men | women | |
Triple jump | men | women | |
Shot put | men | women | |
Discus throw | men | women | |
Hammer throw | men | women | |
Javelin throw | men | women | |
Combined events | |||
Heptathlon | women | ||
Decathlon | men | ||
The men's javelin throw at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in Paris, France, on 6 and 8 August 2024. This is the 27th time that the event was contested at the Summer Olympics since its introduction in 1908.
Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows. [1] [2]
World record | ![]() | 98.48 | Jena, Germany | 25 May 1996 |
Olympic record | ![]() | 92.97 | Peris, France | 08 August 2024 |
World Leading | ![]() | 90.20 | Halle, Germany | 25 February 2024 |
Area Record | Athlete (Nation) | Distance (m) |
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Africa ( records ) | ![]() | 92.72 |
Asia ( records ) | ![]() | 91.36 |
Europe ( records ) | ![]() | 98.48 WR |
North, Central America and Caribbean ( records ) | ![]() | 93.07 |
Oceania ( records ) | ![]() | 89.02 |
South America ( records ) | ![]() | 85.57 |
All times are UTC+2
The men's javelin throw took place over two separate days. [4]
Date | Time | Round |
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Tuesday, 6 August 2024 | 10:10 | Qualifying |
Thursday, 8 August 2024 | 20:30 | Final |
For the men's javelin throw event, 32 athletes were eligible to qualify for the event with a maximum of three athletes per nation. The qualification could be secured either by achieving the entry standard of 85.50 m in the qualification period is between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024 or by the World Athletics Ranking for the event. [5] A total of 11 athletes qualified by achieving the qualification standard and a further 21 athletes were granted entries based on their individual rankings. [6]
The top two from the previous Olympics qualified for the event. Neeraj Chopra was the reigning Olympic and World champion, having won gold at the previous Olympics and 2023 World Championships respectively. The silver medalist from Tokyo 2020 and reigning European champion Jakub Vadlejch also qualified for the event. The bronze medalist from three years earlier, Vítězslav Veselý had retired. Julius Yego, who was the 2016 Olympics silver medalist and 2015 World champion, and 2012 Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott also made the cut for the event. Other notable athletes who qualified included 2022 World champion and current NCAC record holder Anderson Peters, reigning Commonwealth Games champion and 2023 World championships silver medalist Arshad Nadeem, 2024 World leader Max Dehning, former European champion Julian Weber and South American record holder Luiz Maurício da Silva. [6]
The qualification was held on 6 August, starting at 10:10 (UTC+2) for Group A and 11:35 (UTC+2) for Group B with 32 athletes participating. [4] [6] As per the qualification rules, athletes achieving the qualifying standard of 84 m (Q) directly qualified for the final with other spots being filled by the best performers (q) for a field of 12 athletes. [7]
In the qualifying rounds, nine athletes including Chopra, Nadeem, Peters, Silva Vadlejch and Weber qualified for the final directly after achieving the qualification standard. Dehning did not make it out of the qualifying round. Silva improved on his own South American record in qualifying. [7] [8]
Rank | Group | Athlete | Nationality | Distance (m) | Notes | |||
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#1 | #2 | #3 | Final | |||||
1 | B | Neeraj Chopra | ![]() | 89.34 | — | — | 89.34 | Q, SB |
2 | B | Anderson Peters | ![]() | 88.63 | — | — | 88.63 | Q, SB |
3 | A | Julian Weber | ![]() | 87.76 | — | — | 87.76 | Q |
4 | B | Arshad Nadeem | ![]() | 86.59 | — | — | 86.59 | Q, SB |
5 | A | Julius Yego | ![]() | 78.84 | 80.76 | 85.97 | 85.97 | Q, SB |
6 | B | Luiz Maurício da Silva | ![]() | 81.62 | 83.21 | 85.91 | 85.91 | Q, AR |
7 | A | Jakub Vadlejch | ![]() | 85.63 | — | — | 85.63 | Q |
8 | A | Toni Keränen | ![]() | 79.04 | x | 85.27 | 85.27 | Q, PB |
9 | B | Andrian Mardare | ![]() | x | 76.76 | 84.13 | 84.13 | Q, SB |
10 | A | Oliver Helander | ![]() | 83.81 | — | — | 83.81 | q |
11 | A | Keshorn Walcott | ![]() | 74.89 | 83.02 | 82.57 | 83.02 | q |
12 | B | Lassi Etelätalo | ![]() | 82.91 | x | 78.42 | 82.91 | q |
13 | A | Genki Dean | ![]() | 82.48 | x | 77.40 | 82.48 | SB |
14 | B | Marcin Krukowski | ![]() | 81.37 | x | 82.34 | 82.34 | |
15 | B | Artur Felfner | ![]() | x | 81.84 | 74.54 | 81.84 | |
16 | B | Cameron McEntyre | ![]() | 76.33 | x | 81.18 | 81.18 | |
17 | A | Alexandru Novac | ![]() | x | 77.35 | 81.08 | 81.08 | |
18 | A | Kishore Jena | ![]() | 80.73 | x | 80.21 | 80.73 | |
19 | A | Pedro Henrique Rodrigues | ![]() | 76.23 | 79.46 | 75.69 | 79.46 | |
20 | B | Timothy Herman | ![]() | 79.42 | 78.82 | x | 79.42 | |
21 | B | Edis Matusevičius | ![]() | x | x | 79.40 | 79.40 | |
22 | B | Max Dehning | ![]() | 74.58 | 75.10 | 79.24 | 79.24 | |
23 | B | Cyprian Mrzyglód | ![]() | 78.50 | x | 77.16 | 78.50 | |
24 | B | Chinecherem Nnamdi | ![]() | 77.53 | x | 76.45 | 77.53 | |
25 | A | Patriks Gailums | ![]() | x | 77.26 | x | 77.26 | |
26 | A | Dawid Wegner | ![]() | x | 75.53 | 76.89 | 76.89 | |
27 | A | Curtis Thompson | ![]() | 76.79 | x | 74.24 | 76.79 | |
28 | A | Leandro Ramos | ![]() | 75.73 | x | x | 75.73 | |
29 | B | Moustafa Mahmoud | ![]() | 74.87 | x | x | 74.87 | |
30 | A | Ihab Abdelrahman | ![]() | 72.98 | x | x | 72.98 | |
B | Gatis Cakšs | ![]() | x | x | x | NM | ||
A | Teuraiterai Tupaia | ![]() | x | x | x | NM | ||
Source: [7] |
The final was held on 8 August, starting at 20:30 (UTC+2) in the evening. [4] In the finals, Peters registered the first throw of above 84 metres with a 84.7 m effort, which was bettered only by Walcott with a 86.16 m attempt. In the second round of attempts, Vadlejch threw 84.52 m and rose to third in the classification, before Peters took the lead with a 87.87 m throw. Nadeem registered a huge 92.97 m throw in his second attempt to set a new Olympic Record and moved into first place. [9] Weber threw 87.33 m and moved into third place, which was soon taken over by Yego with an improved throw of 87.72 m. [10]
Two more throws later, Chopra registered a 89.45 m throw on his first valid attempt and moved into the silver medal position in the overall classification. [11] [12] Vadlejch started the third series of attempts with a 88.50 m throw, which moved him into third place again. But Peters took it off him later with a 88.54 m throw in his fourth attempt. Chopra fouled out on his remaining throws and no one else registered a legal throw beyond 89 m. Though Nadeem's gold was confirmed after Chopra's last fouled attempt, he registered another long throw of 91.79 m in his final attempt to close the proceedings. [13] [10]
Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Distance (m) | Notes | ||||||
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#1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Final | ||||
![]() | Arshad Nadeem | ![]() | X | 92.97 | 88.72 | 79.40 | 84.87 | 91.79 | 92.97 | AR , OR , PB |
![]() | Neeraj Chopra | ![]() | X | 89.45 | X | X | X | X | 89.45 | SB |
![]() | Anderson Peters | ![]() | 84.70 | 87.87 | X | 88.54 | 87.38 | 81.83 | 88.54 | |
4 | Jakub Vadlejch | ![]() | 80.15 | 84.52 | 88.50 | X | 84.98 | 83.27 | 88.50 | |
5 | Julius Yego | ![]() | 80.29 | 87.72 | X | 84.90 | 83.20 | 81.58 | 87.72 | SB |
6 | Julian Weber | ![]() | X | 87.33 | X | 86.85 | 87.40 | 84.09 | 87.40 | |
7 | Keshorn Walcott | ![]() | 86.16 | X | 82.89 | 78.96 | 76.86 | - | 86.16 | SB |
8 | Lassi Etelätalo | ![]() | 78.81 | 77.60 | 84.58 | 82.02 | X | 81.69 | 84.58 | |
9 | Oliver Helander | ![]() | 81.24 | 82.68 | X | did not advance | 82.68 | |||
10 | Toni Keränen | ![]() | 80.92 | 75.33 | 78.90 | did not advance | 80.92 | |||
11 | Luiz da Silva | ![]() | 80.67 | 78.67 | X | did not advance | 80.67 | |||
12 | Andrian Mardare | ![]() | 79.14 | 80.10 | 77.77 | did not advance | 80.10 | |||
Source: [10] |
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