Athletics 2016/Men's javelin throw

Men's javelin throw
General information
Sport	Athletics 2016
Date	17-20 August 2016
Competitors	37 athletes
Venue	Rio de Janeiro Olympic Stadium
Previous medalists
Gold	Keshorn Walcott
Silver	Antti Ruuskanen
Bronze	Vitezslav Vesely
Conditions
Temperature	24°C / 75.2°F
Medalists
	Thomas Rohler
	Julius Yego
	Keshorn Walcott

The men's javelin throw of Athletics 2016 during the 2016 Summer Olympics was held on 17-20 August 2016 in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Stadium. With 37 athletes competing, the event was won by Thomas Rohler from Germany, with Julius Yego from Kenya taking the silver medal and Keshorn Walcott from Trinidad and Tobago taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of two separate rounds. In the qualification, each competitor gets three attempts to throw a javelin as far as possible. After three attempts, the twelve best performance advance to the final, including athletes tied for twelfth place. In the final, the qualified athletes once again get three attempts to reach as far as possible, but contrary to the qualification, the eight best-placed athletes get another three attempts. The athlete with the farthest throw wins the event.

Preview

Thirty-seven athletes qualified for the event with the German athletes Thomas Rohler, Johannes Vetter, and Julian Weber as the big names in the competition. However, the German team failed to win a medal at the last world championships, when Julius Yego took gold, in front of Ihab Abdelrahman and Tero Pitkamaki. Antti Ruuskanen and Jakub Vadlejch were the only two other competitors to have reached a distance of 87 metres in 2016, with Zigismunds Sirmais, defending Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott, and Vitezslav Vesely also contending for a medal.

Athlete	Nationality
Rolands Strobinders	Latvia
Rocco van Rooyen	South Africa
Bobuk Shokirjonov	Uzbekistan
Dmytro Kosynskyy	Ukraine
Sumeda Ranasinghe	Sri Lanka
Stuart Farquhar	New Zealand
Jakub Vadlejch	Czech Republic
Risto Matas	Estonia
Thomas Rohler	Germany
Leslie Copeland	Fiji
Kim Amb	Sweden
Tero Pitkamaki	Finland
Braian Toledo	Argentina
Julian Weber	Germany
Joshua Robinson	Australia
Magnus Kirt	Estonia
Cyrus Hostetler	United States
Ahmed Bader Magour	Qatar
Marcin Krukowski	Poland
Ryohei Arai	Japan
Keshorn Walcott	Trinidad and Tobago
Hamish Peacock	Australia
Antti Ruuskanen	Finland
Petr Frydrych	Czech Republic
Johannes Vetter	Germany
Sam Crouser	United States
Lukasz Grzeszczuk	Poland
Zigismunds Sirmais	Latvia
Ari Mannio	Finland
Ivan Zaytsev	Uzbekistan
Julio Cesar de Oliveira	Brazil
Julius Yego	Kenya
Tanel Laanmae	Estonia
Sean Furey	United States
Huang Shih-feng	Chinese Taipei
Vitezslav Vesely	Czech Republic
John Ampomah	Ghana

Current Records

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Distance
WR	25 May 1996		Jan Zelezny	98.48
OR	23 August 2008		Andreas Thorkildsen	90.57

Summary

Qualification

Qualification A Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Throw 1	Throw 2	Throw 3
1		Julian Weber	84.46
2		Jakub Vadlejch	78.23	80.80	83.27
3		Dmytro Kosynskyy	80.08	76.79	83.23
4		Thomas Rohler	79.47	81.61	83.01
5		Braian Toledo	78.99	81.96	80.36
6		Joshua Robinson	78.87	80.84	76.78
7		Marcin Krukowski	x	78.06	80.62
8		Kim Amb	77.91	78.75	80.49
9		Cyrus Hostetler	76.48	78.69	79.76
10		Tero Pitkamaki	77.91	78.58	79.56
11		Risto Matas	76.23	79.26	79.40
12		Magnus Kirt	x	77.60	79.33
13		Rocco van Rooyen	x	71.05	78.48
14		Rolands Strobinders	76.76	x	77.73
15		Stuart Farquhar	74.24	77.32	74.38
16		Ahmed Bader Magour	x	77.19	x
17		Leslie Copeland	76.04	75.68	x
18		Sumeda Ranasinghe	69.62	71.93	x
-		Bobuk Shokirjonov	x	x	x

Qualification B Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Throw 1	Throw 2	Throw 3
1		Keshorn Walcott	88.68
2		Johannes Vetter	85.96
3		Ryohei Arai	84.16
4		Petr Frydrych	78.57	80.17	83.60
5		Julius Yego	78.88	x	83.55
6		Vitezslav Vesely	81.32	81.32	82.85
7		Antti Ruuskanen	82.20	x	-
8		Zigismunds Sirmais	76.87	80.65	75.95
9		Julio Cesar de Oliveira	79.33	80.49	80.29
10		Tanel Laanmae	80.45	78.78	79.24
11		John Ampomah	79.09	80.39	78.90
12		Hamish Peacock	77.91	76.22	76.40
13		Ivan Zaytsev	73.49	72.92	77.83
14		Ari Mannio	77.14	76.77	77.73
15		Lukasz Grzeszczuk	76.31	76.52	76.14
16		Huang Shih-feng	74.33	x	x
17		Sam Crouser	73.78	73.66	x
18		Sean Furey	69.40	72.61	71.35

Final

Final Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	T1	T2	T3	T4	T5	T6
1		Thomas Rohler	87.40	85.61	87.07	84.84	90.30	x
2		Julius Yego	88.24	x	-	x	Retired
3		Keshorn Walcott	83.45	85.38	83.38	80.33	x	x
4		Johannes Vetter	85.32	x	82.54	x	83.61	81.74
5		Dmytro Kosynskyy	82.51	83.95PR	83.64	81.61	81.21	x
6		Antti Ruuskanen	x	77.81	83.05	x	x	80.00
7		Vitezslav Vesely	78.20	82.51	x	x	x	78.63
8		Jakub Vadlejch	80.02	82.42	81.59	80.32	x	x
9		Julian Weber	80.29	80.13	81.36	Did not advance
10		Braian Toledo	77.89	79.51	79.81	Did not advance
11		Ryohei Arai	77.98	79.47	72.49	Did not advance
12		Petr Frydrych	76.15	76.79	79.12	Did not advance

Results

Result	Athlete	Nationality
	Thomas Rohler	Germany
	Julius Yego	Kenya
	Keshorn Walcott	Trinidad and Tobago
4	Johannes Vetter	Germany
5	Dmytro Kosynskyy	Ukraine
6	Antti Ruuskanen	Finland
7	Vitezslav Vesely	Czech Republic
8	Jakub Vadlejch	Czech Republic
9	Julian Weber	Germany
10	Braian Toledo	Argentina
11	Ryohei Arai	Japan
12	Petr Frydrych	Czech Republic
13	Joshua Robinson	Australia
14	Zigismunds Sirmais	Latvia
15	Marcin Krukowski	Poland
16	Julio Cesar de Oliveira	Brazil
17	Kim Amb	Sweden
18	Tanel Laanmae	Estonia
19	John Ampomah	Ghana
20	Cyrus Hostetler	United States
21	Tero Pitkamaki	Finland
22	Risto Matas	Estonia
23	Magnus Kirt	Estonia
24	Rocco van Rooyen	South Africa
25	Hamish Peacock	Australia
26	Ivan Zaytsev	Uzbekistan
27	Ari Mannio	Finland
28	Rolands Strobinders	Latvia
29	Stuart Farquhar	New Zealand
30	Ahmed Bader Magour	Qatar
31	Lukasz Grzeszczuk	Poland
32	Leslie Copeland	Fiji
33	Huang Shih-feng	Chinese Taipei
34	Sam Crouser	United States
35	Sean Furey	United States
36	Sumeda Ranasinghe	Sri Lanka
-	Bobuk Shokirjonov	Uzbekistan