The men's javelin throw

Javelin throw

The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

event was part of the track and field athletics programme

Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics

At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, 27 athletics events were contested. The competition was held on a 400 meter track and would become the standard for athletics tracks in the future. For the first time, women's events in athletics were included in the Olympic Games program...

 at the 1928 Summer Olympics

1928 Summer Olympics

The 1928 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam had bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games, but had to give way to war-victim Antwerp, Belgium, and Pierre de...

. The competition was held on Thursday, August 2, 1928.

Twenty-eight javelin throwers from 18 nations competed.

Medalists

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 1928 Summer Olympics.

World Record	69.88	Eino Penttilä Eino Penttilä Eino Penttilä was a Finnish athlete who mainly competed in the men's javelin throw during his career....	Viipuri Vyborg Vyborg is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated on the Karelian Isthmus near the head of the Bay of Vyborg, to the northwest of St. Petersburg and south from Russia's border with Finland, where the Saimaa Canal enters the Gulf of Finland...  (FIN Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside... )	October 1, 1927
Olympic Record	65.78	Jonni Myyrä Jonni Myyrä Joonas "Jonni" Myyrä was a Finnish athlete who competed mainly in the javelin throw. At his first Olympics, the 1912 Summer Olympics, he took 8th place in the javelin....	Antwerp (BEL Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many... )	August 15, 1920

Erik Lundqvist

Erik Lundqvist

Erik Hjalmar Lundqvist was a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the javelin throw.He competed for a Sweden in the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands in the javelin throw where he won the gold medal....

 set a new Olympic record in the qualification with 66.60 metres.

Qualification

The qualification started at 2 p.m.

12-hour clock

The 12-hour clock is a time conversion convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods called ante meridiem and post meridiem...

 The best six throwers, all four groups counted together, qualified for the final.

Group 1

Place	Athlete	1.	2.	3.	Distance	Overall Rank	Qual.
1		66.60	~58	~60.5	66.60 OR	1	Q
2		~58	61.46	X	61.46	8
3		59.86			59.86	11
4		~58	59.05		59.05	13
5		~55	58.04	~57	58.04	15
6		55.85			55.85	19
7		50.93			50.93	27

Group 2

Place	Athlete	1.	2.	3.	Distance	Overall Rank	Qual.
1		~62.5	65.26	~56	65.26	2	Q
2		~60.5	62.89	~56	62.89	7
3		~58.5	~56	61.45	61.45	9
4		X (~60)	~58	58.69	58.69	14
5		X	~56	57.57	57.57	16
6		54.34			54.34	22
7		52.68			52.68	25

Group 3

Place	Athlete	1.	2.	3.	Distance	Overall Rank	Qual.
1		~62.5	63.97	~63.8	63.97	3	Q
2		~62	63.86	~63.7	63.86	4	Q
3		60.50	~58	~58	60.50	10
4		56.33			56.33	18
5		54.37			54.37	21
6		51.16			51.16	26
7		~46	47.73		47.73	28

Group 4

Place	Athlete	1.	2.	3.	Distance	Overall Rank	Qual.
1		~58	~62	63.40	63.40	5	Q
2		~56	63.20	~62	63.20	6	Q
3		59.16			59.16	12
4		~56	X (~60.2)	57.17	57.17	17
5		55.50			55.50	20
6		53.70			53.70	23
7		52.82			52.82	24

Final

The final was held on the same day and started at about 4.30 p.m.

12-hour clock

The 12-hour clock is a time conversion convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods called ante meridiem and post meridiem...

Place	Athlete	Qual. Width	1.	2.	3.	Distance
1		66.60	~61	61.58	~54	66.60
2		65.26	X	62.50	~54	65.26
3		63.97	X	59.50	~55	63.97
4		63.86	~55	~61	63.76	63.86
5		63.40	~60	~57.5	63.26	63.40
6		63.20	58.35	~56	X (~64.5)	63.20