The men's javelin throw at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany on August 21 and August 23.Men's javelin throw results The second qualification group was interrupted for one hour, after the 2nd throw, due to heavy rain.

Medalists GoldSilverBronze

Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) Qualification RoundGroup AGroup B21.08.2009 – 16:15h21.08.2009 – 18:15hFinal Round23.08.2009 – 16:20h

Qualification standards A standardB standard 81.00 m 78.00 m

Abbreviations All results shown are in metres Q automatic qualification q qualification by rankDNS did not startNM no markWR world recordAR area recordNR national recordPB personal bestSB season best

Records Standing records prior to the 2009 World Athletics ChampionshipsWorld record98.48Jena, Germany25 May 1996Championship record92.80Edmonton, Canada12 August 2001World leading91.28Zürich, Switzerland28 August 2009African record88.75Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia21 September 1998Asian record87.60San Jose, United States27 May 1989North American record91.29Indianapolis, United States21 June 2007South American record84.70San Marcos, United States17 October 1999European record98.48Jena, Germany25 May 1996Oceanian record89.02Brisbane, Australia29 February 2008

Results

Qualification Qualification: Qualifying Performance 82.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank Group Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes B Vadims Vasiļevskis 86.69 86.69 Q A Yukifumi Murakami 74.87 83.10 83.10 Q, PB A Guillermo Martínez 76.69 82.50 82.50 Q A Tero Pitkämäki 80.96 81.65 81.65 q B Mark Frank 79.04 80.85 80.85 q A Andreas Thorkildsen 80.37 79.93 80.37 q B Teemu Wirkkala 76.82 79.84 79.23 79.84 q A Ainārs Kovals 79.76 79.76 q B Petr Frydrych 79.57 78.14 72.73 79.57 q 10 A Tero Järvenpää 77.22 79.48 79.48 q 11 B Sean Furey 74.51 79.28 79.28 q, SB 12 B Antti Ruuskanen 78.61 78.69 76.82 78.69 q 13 A Sergey Makarov 78.68 78.47 78.68 14 B Stuart Farquhar 72.84 74.54 78.53 78.53 15 A Csongor Olteán 74.75 78.46 78.46 16 A Mihkel Kukk 72.63 76.70 78.18 78.18 17 A Mike Hazle 76.98 78.17 78.17 18 A Park Jae-Myong 75.62 76.17 78.16 78.16 19 B Fatih Avan 78.12 68.12 78.12 20 B Alexandr Ivanov 77.13 78.00 78.00 21 A Qin Qiang 76.87 75.40 77.65 77.65 22 A Roman Avramenko 73.85 76.46 77.44 77.44 23 B Tom Goyvaerts 77.37 73.62 77.37 24 B Chris Hill 70.23 75.20 77.14 77.14 25 A Aliaksandr Ashomka 72.83 76.85 76.04 76.85 26 A Ēriks Rags 76.23 75.97 76.23 27 B Oleksandr Pyatnytsya 76.13 75.61 76.13 28 A Vítězslav Veselý 75.16 75.76 69.48 75.76 29 B Uladzimir Kazlou 73.17 75.38 75.38 30 A Jonas Lohse 75.33 74.46 75.33 31 B Igor Janik 75.20 75.20 32 A Melik Janoyan 68.74 74.74 72.75 74.74 SB 33 A Adrian Markowski 68.84 72.87 74.13 74.13 34 A Tino Häber 73.66 74.11 73.64 74.11 35 A Stefan Müller 71.09 71.63 72.83 72.83 36 B Jung Sang-Jin 72.80 72.80 37 B Arley Ibargüen 69.49 72.54 72.54 38 B Ilya Korotkov 71.59 70.37 71.59 39 A Thomas Smet 70.35 68.23 70.35 40 B Mohamed Ali Kebabou 64.68 68.75 68.75 41 A Víctor Fatecha 66.31 68.65 65.93 68.65 42 B Júlio César de Oliveira 67.85 68.49 68.49 43 A Tomas Intas 68.40 68.40 44 B John Robert Oosthuizen 67.86 67.57 67.86 45 B Mervyn Luckwell 65.02 61.42 66.30 66.30 B Ignacio Guerra B Tanel Laanmäe B Andrus Värnik

Final Rank Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Andreas Thorkildsen 77.80 89.59 88.95 - - 89.59 SB Guillermo Martínez 83.43 83.28 78.22 77.27 - 86.41 86.41 SB Yukifumi Murakami 76.01 82.97 - 77.90 82.97 Vadims Vasilevskis 82.05 82.37 82.37 Tero Pitkämäki 81.90 81.14 80.50 80.17 81.14 81.90 Antti Ruuskanen 75.36 75.67 81.87 78.65 80.87 81.87 Ainārs Kovals 81.54 75.98 76.39 81.54 Mark Frank 73.77 79.86 81.32 81.32 Teemu Wirkkala 79.76 79.82 79.82 10 Petr Frydrych 78.57 79.29 79.29 11 Tero Järvenpää 75.43 75.57 75.57 12 Sean Furey 73.18 74.51 73.77 74.51

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