2019 World Athletics Championships – Men's javelin throw

The men's javelin throw at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar, on 5 and 6 October 2019.[1]

Men's javelin throw at the 2019 World Championships
Venue	Khalifa International Stadium
Dates	5 October (qualification) 6 October (final)
Competitors	31 from 22 nations
Winning distance	86.89
Medalists
Anderson Peters    Grenada   Magnus Kirt    Estonia   Johannes Vetter    Germany

Summary

The automatic qualification to the final was 84.00 metres. One and done, on his first throw Johannes Vetter beat that by over 5 metres with an 89.35m. In the second group, world leader Magnus Kirt took two attempts to make his mark of 88.36m. Either of those throws would have won the final easily.

In the final, only four men got over 80 metres in the first round, Anderson Peters took the lead with 86.69 m (284 ft 4 ³⁄₄ in). In the second round, Vetter and Kirt got respectable marks with 85.37m and 86.21m respectively. From that point, nobody would improve. Fourth place Lassi Etelätalo was almost 3 metres off the podium. In the fourth round, Peters duplicated his winning first round throw with another 86.69m. #8 in the world rankings coming in, Peters took gold.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:[2]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date	Location
World	98.48	Jan Železný	CZE	25 May 1996	Jena, Germany
Championship	92.80	Jan Železný	CZE	12 Aug 2001	Edmonton, Canada
World leading	90.61	Magnus Kirt	EST	22 Jun 2019	Kuortane, Finland
African	92.72	Julius Yego	KEN	26 Aug 2015	Beijing, China
Asian	91.36	Cheng Chao-tsun	TPE	26 Aug 2017	Taipei, Chinese Taipei
NACAC	91.29	Breaux Greer	USA	21 Jun 2007	Indianapolis, United States
South American	84.70	Edgar Baumann	PAR	17 Oct 1999	San Marcos, United States
European	98.48	Jan Železný	CZE	25 May 1996	Jena, Germany
Oceanian	89.02	Jarrod Bannister	AUS	29 Feb 2008	Brisbane, Australia

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), is as follows:[3]

Date	Time	Round
5 October	16:30	Qualification
6 October	19:55	Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 84.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.[4][5]

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	Round			Mark	Notes
				1	2	3
1	A	Johannes Vetter	Germany (GER)	89.35			89.35	Q
2	B	Magnus Kirt	Estonia (EST)	81.00	88.36		88.36	Q
3	A	Anderson Peters	Grenada (GRN)	82.06	85.34		85.34	Q
4	B	Kim Amb	Sweden (SWE)	x	82.98	84.85	84.85	Q
5	B	Keshorn Walcott	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	84.44			84.44	Q
6	A	Jakub Vadlejch	Czech Republic (CZE)	81.70	84.31		84.31	Q
7	A	Julian Weber	Germany (GER)	84.29			84.29	Q
8	A	Julius Yego	Kenya (KEN)	83.86	83.76	80.62	83.86	q
9	A	Norbert Rivasz-Tóth	Hungary (HUN)	83.42	81.06	77.27	83.42	q, NR
10	B	Cheng Chao-tsun	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	79.08	83.40	79.88	83.40	q
11	A	Marcin Krukowski	Poland (POL)	82.44	x	82.02	82.44	q
12	B	Lassi Etelätalo	Finland (FIN)	75.11	x	82.26	82.26	q
13	B	Alexandru Novac	Romania (ROM)	82.12	78.18	79.75	82.12
14	B	Aliaksei Katkavets	Belarus (BLR)	75.88	x	82.08	82.08
15	B	Ryohei Arai	Japan (JPN)	81.71	x	72.99	81.71
16	B	Arshad Nadeem	Pakistan (PAK)	81.52	75.48	x	81.52	NR
17	B	Rolands Štrobinders	Latvia (LAT)	81.09	80.60	79.51	81.09
18	B	Michael Shuey	United States (USA)	77.04	x	80.53	80.53
19	B	Oliver Helander	Finland (FIN)	x	80.36	x	80.36
20	B	Andreas Hofmann	Germany (GER)	80.06	x	x	80.06
21	A	Gatis Čakšs	Latvia (LAT)	79.94	x	79.63	79.94
22	A	Edis Matusevičius	Lithuania (LTU)	73.98	75.73	79.60	79.60
23	B	Thomas Röhler	Germany (GER)	x	79.23	x	79.23
24	A	Shivpal Singh	India (IND)	75.91	78.97	x	78.97
25	A	Liu Qizhen	China (CHN)	75.24	x	75.81	75.81
26	A	Riley Dolezal	United States (USA)	75.62	x	74.85	75.62
27	A	Pavel Mialeshka	Belarus (BLR)	x	75.14	x	75.14
28	A	Antti Ruuskanen	Finland (FIN)	72.65	75.05	x	75.05
29	A	Albert Reynolds	Saint Lucia (LCA)	69.68	73.91	x	73.91
30	A	Oleksandr Nychyporchuk	Ukraine (UKR)	x	72.75	x	72.75
	B	Zhao Qinggang	China (CHN)	x	x	x	NM
	B	Vítězslav Veselý	Czech Republic (CZE)				DNS

Final

The final was started on 6 October at 19:57.[6]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Round						Mark	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Anderson Peters	Grenada (GRN)	86.69	81.26	79.82	86.89	84.59	83.63	86.89
	Magnus Kirt	Estonia (EST)	83.95	86.21	85.17	85.90	x	r	86.21
	Johannes Vetter	Germany (GER)	x	85.37	82.51	x	82.29	x	85.37
4	Lassi Etelätalo	Finland (FIN)	72.00	77.92	82.49	74.62	x	74.63	82.49
5	Jakub Vadlejch	Czech Republic (CZE)	77.32	81.98	82.19	77.36	x	x	82.19
6	Julian Weber	Germany (GER)	81.20	81.26	80.80	79.43	79.46	73.58	81.26
7	Marcin Krukowski	Poland (POL)	80.56	79.91	x	x	x	x	80.56
8	Kim Amb	Sweden (SWE)	78.93	80.42	78.51	75.71	x	x	80.42
9	Norbert Rivasz-Tóth	Hungary (HUN)	79.73	77.89	76.55				79.73
10	Cheng Chao-tsun	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	74.74	77.51	77.99				77.99
11	Keshorn Walcott	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	75.30	77.47	x				77.47
	Julius Yego	Kenya (KEN)	x	x	x				NM

References

1. "Javelin Throw Men − Qualification − Start List" (PDF). IAAF. 4 October 2019. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
2. "Javelin throw Men − Records". IAAF. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
3. "Men's javelin throw − Timetable". IAAF. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
4. Qualification results
5. Qualification summary
6. Final results