The Men's javelin throw competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 8–11 August.

Competition format Each athlete receives three throws in the qualifying round. All who achieve the qualifying distance progress to the final. If fewer than twelve athletes achieve this mark, then the twelve furthest throwing athletes reach the final. Each finalist is allowed three throws in last round, with the top eight athletes after that point being given three further attempts.

Summary Seven athletes hit the automatic qualifying mark, two on their first attempt. 80.39 was the last qualifier. Julius Yego set a new national record for Kenya. With his one throw, Vítězslav Veselý improved his 2012 world lead to 88.34.

In the first round of the final, 19-year-old world junior champion Keshorn Walcott, only the 10th place qualifier, took the lead with an 83.51 national record for Trinidad and Tobago. Spiridon Lebesis was the only other competitor over 80 m in that round. In the second round Walcott improved his record out to . 2007 World Champion Tero Pitkämäki moved into second place and two-time defending champion Andreas Thorkildsen (Norway) moved into third, but that was to be his best throw. In the third round Oleksandr Pyatnytsya threw 84.51, just 7 cm out of Walcott's lead. Nobody made a move in the fourth round. In the fifth round Antti Ruuskanen threw 84.12 to move into third place. In the final round Vesely put out his best throw of the competition, but his 83.34 was only good enough for 4th place, exactly 5 meters behind his lone throw in the qualifying round the day before. Walcott's mark of 84.58 was the shortest winning throw since the 1988 Seoul Olympics - the first with the [then] new, re-balanced javelin - when Tapio Korjus (Finland) won with 84.28m.

On August 9, 2016, Ukrainian Oleksandr Pyatnytsya was disqualified after his anti-doping test sample was reanalyzed and found positive (dehydrochlormethyltestosterone). On February 24, 2017 Antti Ruuskanen received the silver medal in Finland. Vítězslav Veselý received the bronze medal during Golden Spike Ostrava on 28 June 2017.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1) Date Time RoundWednesday, 8 August 2012 19:05QualificationsSaturday, 11 August 2012 19:20Finals

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

World record98.48 mJena, Germany25 May 1996Olympic record90.57 mBeijing, China23 August 20082012 World leading88.11 mOslo, Norway7 June 2012

The Following new National records were set during this competition

Kenya national record81.81 mTrinidad and Tobago national record84.58 m

Results

Qualifying round Qual. rule: qualification standard 82.00m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q). Rank Group Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes 1 B Vítězslav Veselý 88.34 – – 88.34 Q, WL, PB 2 A Andreas Thorkildsen 76.20 84.47 – 84.47 Q 3 B Tero Pitkämäki 76.53 x 83.01 83.01 Q 4 B Oleksandr Pyatnytsya 77.07 82.72 – 82.72 Q, DQ 5 A Spiridon Lebesis 81.80 82.40 – 82.40 Q 6 A Stuart Farquhar 82.32 – – 82.32 Q 7 B Roderick Genki Dean 71.58 82.07 – 82.07 Q 8 A Ari Mannio 81.99 x 76.25 81.99 q 9 B Julius Yego 79.10 79.33 81.81 81.81 q, NR 10 B Keshorn Walcott 78.91 76.44 81.75 81.75 q 11 B Antti Ruuskanen 77.83 81.74 x 81.74 q 12 A Tino Häber 78.19 69.54 80.39 80.39 q 13 A Leslie Copeland 77.00 80.19 72.52 80.19 SB 14 A Roman Avramenko 79.15 77.03 80.06 80.06 15 A Uladzimir Kazlou x 79.10 80.06 80.06 16 A Guillermo Martinez 75.39 80.06 77.22 80.06 17 A Ainārs Kovals 77.42 76.45 79.19 79.19 18 B Kim Amb x 71.85 78.94 78.94 19 A Igor Janik 76.01 78.90 x 78.90 20 B Fatih Avan 78.74 78.20 78.87 78.87 21 A Risto Mätas 70.34 78.56 76.30 78.56 22 A Curtis Moss 74.21 78.13 78.22 78.22 23 B Craig Kinsley 72.80 71.47 78.18 78.18 24 A Yukifumi Murakami 76.37 77.80 77.77 77.80 25 B Jakub Vadlejch x 77.61 x 77.61 26 B Dayron Marquez 75.15 77.59 76.50 77.59 27 B Jarrod Bannister 77.38 76.23 x 77.38 28 A Paweł Rakoczy 77.36 73.22 73.44 77.36 29 A Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed 72.93 77.35 75.19 77.35 30 B Braian Toledo 76.87 x 73.30 76.87 31 B Jung Sangjin 76.37 74.77 x 76.37 32 A Cyrus Hostetler 70.62 75.76 75.00 75.76 33 A Ilya Korotkov 75.68 x x 75.68 34 A Petr Frydrych 69.54 70.44 75.46 75.46 35 B Mervyn Luckwell 74.09 x x 74.09 36 A Ivan Zaytsev 73.07 73.94 71.39 73.94 37 B Sean Furey x 72.81 71.86 72.81 38 A Vadims Vasilevskis x 72.81 x 72.81 39 B Melik Janoyan 72.64 70.81 68.72 72.64 40 B Matija Kranjc 72.63 69.70 71.17 72.63 41 A Qin Qiang 72.29 68.76 65.28 72.29 42 B Bartosz Osewski x x 71.19 71.19 – B Matthias De Zordo x x x NM – B Zigismunds Sirmais x x x NM

Final Rank Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Keshorn Walcott 83.51 84.58 x 80.64 x – 84.58 NR Antti Ruuskanen 79.60 81.09 81.60 81.97 84.12 79.88 84.12 Vítězslav Veselý x 81.69 81.80 x 80.32 83.34 83.34 Tero Pitkämäki 77.33 82.68 80.67 80.46 82.80 82.53 82.80 Andreas Thorkildsen x 82.63 x 81.70 x x 82.63 Spiridon Lebesis 81.21 81.91 81.27 80.36 x 79.45 81.91 Tino Haber 76.99 74.33 81.21 79.95 76.36 75.85 81.21 Stuart Farquhar 76.80 76.64 80.22 – – – 80.22 9 Roderick Genki Dean x 79.95 x – – – 79.95 10 Ari Mannio 78.60 77.71 x – – – 78.60 11 Julius Yego 72.59 77.15 74.08 – – – 77.15 DSQ Oleksandr Pyatnytsya 77.47 81.61 84.51 81.53 81.01 83.53 84.51 DQ

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