The men's javelin throw event at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on 21 and 23 August at the Beijing National Stadium. The qualification mark was set at 82.50 metres.

The qualifying standards were 81.80 m (268.37 ft) (A standard) and 77.80 m (255.25 ft) (B standard).

Schedule All times are China standard time (UTC+8) Date Time RoundThursday, 21 August 2008 10:10QualificationsSaturday, 23 August 2008 19:10Finals

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world record, Olympic record, and world leading mark were as follows:

The following new Olympic record was set during this competition: Date Event Athlete Time Notes 23 August Final 90.57

Results

Qualifying round

Qualification: 82.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final. Rank Group Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes 1 B Vadims Vasiļevskis 83.51 83.51 Q 2 B Ilya Korotkov 79.13 83.33 83.33 Q 3 B Tero Pitkämäki 82.61 82.61 Q 4 B Tero Järvenpää 77.76 82.34 - 82.34 q 5 B Vítězslav Veselý 78.93 81.20 81.20 q, PB 6 A Scott Russell 80.42 - - 80.42 q 7 A Ainārs Kovals 80.15 80.15 q 8 A Uladzimir Kazlou 77.07 80.06 78.41 80.06 q 9 B Andreas Thorkildsen 79.85 - 79.85 q 10 A Teemu Wirkkala 79.79 78.89 75.81 79.79 q 11 A Jarrod Bannister 79.79 77.40 79.79 q 12 A Magnus Arvidsson 79.70 75.35 76.07 79.70 q 13 A Ēriks Rags 79.33 77.97 79.33 14 B Alexandr Ivanov 75.73 73.89 79.27 79.27 15 A Yukifumi Murakami 78.21 76.29 78.21 16 A Igor Janik 71.43 67.59 77.63 77.63 17 A Park Jae-Myong 76.63 75.61 74.25 76.63 18 B Leigh Smith 74.18 76.55 76.55 19 A John Robert Oosthuizen 74.55 76.16 76.16 20 B Stuart Farquhar 76.14 75.51 73.87 76.14 21 B Mihkel Kukk 63.42 70.55 75.56 75.56 22 A Breaux Greer 73.68 - - 73.68 SB 23 B Chen Qi 73.50 73.50 24 A Ignacio Guerra 71.07 71.35 73.03 73.03 25 B Mike Hazle 72.75 71.69 72.75 26 A Sergey Makarov 72.47 72.47 27 B Ioannis-Georgios Smalios 71.87 67.39 71.87 28 A Anier Boue 71.29 71.85 71.85 29 B Roman Avramenko 71.64 70.68 71.10 71.64 30 A Victor Fatecha 70.59 71.58 68.79 71.58 31 B Matija Kranjc 71.00 71.00 32 A Stephan Steding 70.05 70.05 33 A Bobur Shokirjonov 69.54 66.29 68.29 69.54 34 B Pablo Pietrobelli 58.04 66.95 69.09 69.09 35 B Alexander Vieweg 67.49 66.37 67.39 67.49 36 B Kolyo Neshev 66.00 66.00 37 B Melik Janoyan 64.47 64.47 A Csongor Olteán

Final RankAthleteNationality123456ResultNotes Andreas Thorkildsen 84.7285.9187.9385.1390.5790.57 Ainārs Kovals 79.4582.6382.2878.9880.6586.6486.64PB Tero Pitkämäki 83.7580.6985.8386.1686.164Tero Järvenpää83.9583.6383.955Teemu Wirkkala –73.9083.4678.2383.466Jarrod Bannister83.4580.5982.2083.457Ilya Korotkov 82.5476.8482.1583.1583.158Uladzimir Kazlou 82.0677.5774.0975.3682.06PB9Vadims Vasiļevskis 76.7581.32 81.3210Scott Russell 80.9078.02 80.9011Magnus Arvidsson 79.8579.5780.16 80.1612Vítězslav Veselý 76.76 76.76

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