2013 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw

The men's javelin throw at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 15–17 August.

Men's javelin throw at the 2013 World Championships
Venue	Luzhniki Stadium
Dates	15 August (qualification) 17 August (final)
Competitors	33 from 25 nations
Winning distance	87.17 m (285 ft 11+3⁄4 in)
Medalists
Vítězslav Veselý  Czech Republic (CZE)   Tero Pitkämäki  Finland (FIN)   Dmitriy Tarabin  Russia (RUS)

Official Video

Change seems to be hitting the event. Last year's surprise Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott, didn't make the final, nor did the returning bronze medalist Guillermo Martínez. The defending champion Matthias de Zordo did not return, nor did the Olympic silver medalist Oleksandr Pyatnytsya. Former two time Olympic gold medalist Andreas Thorkildsen was in danger of not qualifying, on his final attempt, he got into an automatic qualifier, one of only three, joining Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed, who set the Egyptian national record at 83.62.

Four throws into the final and Tero Pitkämäki took the early lead. Five throws later Vítězslav Veselý threw the winner 87.17. Two more throws and Roman Avramenko was sitting in third place after the first round. In the second round Pitkämäki improved, followed by world leader Dmitriy Tarabin taking over third place. Veselý's remaining throws wouldn't be enough to place in the top four. Pitkämäki improved again on his third attempt, falling just 10 cm short of Veselý. That mark would be good enough for silver.

At the same time as Kenyan women were in their customary position battling the Ethiopians in the women's 5000, Julius Yego's fifth round throw of 85.40 was a Kenyan national record, but more importantly, Kenya's first field event finalist was in third place in the world championships, with only one throw to go. Throwing before the home crowd, Tarabin's final effort of 86.23 took third place back for good, dashing Yego's hope for a medal.

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record	Jan Železný (CZE)	98.48	Jena, Germany	25 May 1996
Championship record	Jan Železný (CZE)	92.80	Edmonton, Canada	12 August 2001
World leading	Dmitri Tarabin (RUS)	88.84	Moscow, Russia	24 July 2013
African record	Marius Corbett (RSA)	88.75	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	21 September 1998
Asian record	Kazuhiro Mizoguchi (JPN)	87.60	San Jose, United States	27 May 1989
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Breaux Greer (USA)	91.29	Indianapolis, United States	21 June 2007
South American record	Edgar Baumann (PAR)	84.70	San Marcos, United States	17 October 1999
European record	Jan Železný (CZE)	98.48	Jena, Germany	25 May 1996
Oceanian record	Jarrod Bannister (AUS)	89.02	Brisbane, Australia	29 February 2008

Qualification standards

A result	B result
83.50	81.00

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
15 August 2013	9:30	Qualification
17 August 2013	18:35	Final

All times are local times (UTC+4)

Results

KEY:

Q

Qualified

q

12 best performers

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 82.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	A	Tero Pitkämäki	Finland (FIN)	84.39			84.39	Q
2	B	Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed	Egypt (EGY)	83.62			83.62	Q, NR
3	A	Andreas Thorkildsen	Norway (NOR)	x	79.45	83.05	83.05	Q
4	A	Ivan Zaytsev	Uzbekistan (UZB)	81.53	x	–	81.53	q
5	A	Vítězslav Veselý	Czech Republic (CZE)	x	81.51	–	81.51	q
6	B	Antti Ruuskanen	Finland (FIN)	80.02	81.36	–	81.36	q
7	B	Dmitriy Tarabin	Russia (RUS)	x	81.32	–	81.32	q
8	A	Julius Yego	Kenya (KEN)	79.56	x	80.88	80.88	q
9	A	Kim Amb	Sweden (SWE)	80.84	x	80.37	80.84	q
10	A	Stuart Farquhar	New Zealand (NZL)	80.73	x	76.73	80.73	q
11	B	Risto Mätas	Estonia (EST)	79.25	x	80.18	80.18	q
12	B	Fatih Avan	Turkey (TUR)	78.09	79.93	80.09	80.09
13	A	Bernhard Seifert	Germany (GER)	80.02	x	x	80.02
14	B	Vadims Vasiļevskis	Latvia (LAT)	79.09	77.59	79.68	79.68
15	A	Guillermo Martínez	Cuba (CUB)	79.67	77.88	76.70	79.67
16	B	Teemu Wirkkala	Finland (FIN)	79.50	78.54	79.26	79.50
17	B	Víctor Fatecha	Paraguay (PAR)	76.13	79.03	x	79.03	PB
18	A	Keshorn Walcott	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	78.78	x	75.84	78.78
19	B	Riley Dolezal	United States (USA)	72.96	78.76	77.25	78.76
20	A	Aleksey Tovarnov	Russia (RUS)	74.15	73.25	78.43	78.43
21	B	Yukifumi Murakami	Japan (JPN)	77.75	x	76.74	77.75
22	B	Zhao Qinggang	China (CHN)	76.23	76.78	77.61	77.61
23	B	Lars Hamann	Germany (GER)	77.10	74.75	72.00	77.10
24	A	Marcin Krukowski	Poland (POL)	x	x	76.93	76.93
25	A	Valeriy Iordan	Russia (RUS)	76.92	72.79	73.70	76.92
26	A	Hamish Peacock	Australia (AUS)	70.61	76.33	75.31	76.33
27	B	Łukasz Grzeszczuk	Poland (POL)	74.72	x	x	74.72
28	B	Gabriel Wallin	Sweden (SWE)	74.66	x	x	74.66
29	A	Thomas Röhler	Germany (GER)	71.88	74.45	73.67	74.45
30	B	John Robert Oosthuizen	South Africa (RSA)	74.36	70.99	x	74.36
31	A	Uladzimir Kazlou	Belarus (BLR)	72.66	67.79	x	72.66
32	B	Leslie Copeland	Fiji (FIJ)	70.56	72.30	68.46	72.30
	B	Roman Avramenko	Ukraine (UKR)	76.73	79.91	80.37	80.37	DQ

Final

The final was started at 18.35.

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Vítězslav Veselý	Czech Republic (CZE)	87.17	78.80	81.21	83.80	x	–	87.17
	Tero Pitkämäki	Finland (FIN)	83.40	86.88	87.07	85.67	x	85.22	87.07
	Dmitriy Tarabin	Russia (RUS)	x	84.38	x	82.25	x	86.23	86.23
4	Julius Yego	Kenya (KEN)	80.60	x	81.13	x	85.40	81.20	85.40	NR
5	Antti Ruuskanen	Finland (FIN)	77.96	80.32	x	x	75.86	81.44	81.44
6	Andreas Thorkildsen	Norway (NOR)	80.93	76.82	x	80.62	81.06	–	81.06
7	Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed	Egypt (EGY)	79.02	78.57	80.94	78.70	76.85	x	80.94
8	Risto Mätas	Estonia (EST)	78.32	78.87	80.03				80.03
9	Stuart Farquhar	New Zealand (NZL)	79.24	75.72	x				79.24
10	Kim Amb	Sweden (SWE)	77.64	76.28	78.91				78.91
11	Ivan Zaytsev	Uzbekistan (UZB)	74.58	78.33	77.72				78.33
	Roman Avramenko	Ukraine (UKR)	81.32	x	80.12	82.05	78.61	80.80	82.05	DQ

External links

• Javelin throw results at IAAF website