The Men's Javelin throw event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on September 1 & 3.

Preliminary leader Guillermo Martínez made his best throw in the first round, followed shortly by Matthias de Zordo's 86.27 winner. Meanwhile, favorite world leader Andreas Thorkildsen languished in as low as eighth place, barely the last qualifier for his remaining three throws. All of the competitors had previously thrown far enough to displace Thorkildsen in the preliminary round. On his fourth throw he finally put one good throw together to leapfrog into the silver medal position. de Zordo was ranked fourth and Martínez had only been ranked twelfth on the annual list prior to the competition.

Medalists GoldSilverBronzeMatthias de ZordoAndreas ThorkildsenGuillermo Martínez

Records Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record98.48Jena, Germany25 May 1996Championship record92.80Edmonton, Canada12 August 2001World leading90.61Byrkjelo, Norway14 August 2011African record88.75Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia21 September 1998Asian record87.60San Jose, United States27 May 1989North, Central American and Caribbean record91.29Indianapolis, United States21 June 2007South American record84.70San Marcos, United States17 October 1999European record98.48Jena, Germany25 May 1996Oceanian record89.02Brisbane, Australia29 February 2008

Qualification standards A resultB result 82.00 79.50 Source

Schedule All times local.

Date Time RoundSeptember 1, 2011 19:00 QualificationSeptember 3, 2011 19:10 Final

Results

Qualification Qualification: Qualifying Performance 82.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final

Rank Group Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes 1 A Guillermo Martínez 83.77 83.77 Q 2 A Dmitri Tarabin 82.92 82.92 Q 3 B Stuart Farquhar 82.10 82.10 q 4 A Matthias de Zordo 82.05 81.11 82.05 q 5 B Fatih Avan 80.27 77.68 81.94 81.94 q 6 B Mark Frank 80.96 81.93 81.93 q 7 A Andreas Thorkildsen 79.36 80.85 81.83 81.83 q 8 A Vítězslav Veselý 79.99 74.77 81.64 81.64 q 9 B Roman Avramenko 76.30 81.46 81.46 q 10 B Sergey Makarov 81.42 80.18 78.33 81.42 q 11 A Jarrod Bannister 81.35 75.91 81.35 q 12 B Antti Ruuskanen 79.54 81.03 78.14 81.03 q 13 B Igor Janik 80.88 76.63 78.98 80.88 14 B Ari Mannio 74.09 80.27 79.31 80.27 15 A Yukifumi Murakami 80.19 78.04 74.93 80.19 16 A Jakub Vadlejch 68.32 80.08 80.08 17 A Tero Pitkämäki 78.21 79.46 76.05 79.46 18 B Chen Qi 74.28 78.42 78.42 19 A Scott Russell 76.47 77.49 74.23 77.49 20 A Ēriks Rags 77.34 76.23 77.34 21 A Yervásios Filippídis 76.66 70.42 73.41 76.66 22 B Leslie Copeland 76.57 74.54 73.82 76.57 23 A Mihkel Kukk 73.21 72.10 76.42 76.42 24 B Petr Frydrych 75.38 76.18 76.18 25 B Vadims Vasiļevskis 74.67 75.23 75.23 26 B Gabriel Wallin 72.96 74.44 74.09 74.44 27 B Arley Ibargüen 73.22 74.02 74.02 28 B Alexandr Ivanov 73.81 73.81 29 A Oleksandr Pyatnytsya 71.93 72.05 73.56 73.56 30 B Spyridon Lebesis 73.35 70.44 73.35 31 A Matija Kranjc 73.17 73.17 32 B Zigismunds Sirmais 70.20 73.16 73.16 33 A John Robert Oosthuizen 69.65 73.14 72.79 73.14 34 B Jung Sang-jin 72.03 72.03 35 A Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed 71.99 68.00 71.99 SB 36 A Rinat Tarzumanov 67.07 70.32 70.32 A Mike Hazle

Final Rank Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Matthias de Zordo 86.27 85.51 82.88 81.40 86.27 SB Andreas Thorkildsen 80.75 80.46 80.60 84.78 80.28 84.78 Guillermo Martínez 84.30 80.12 80.09 76.99 78.69 84.30 Vítězslav Veselý 81.19 84.11 79.64 76.28 84.11 SB Fatih Avan 78.24 83.34 78.96 79.87 77.58 83.34 Roman Avramenko 82.51 82.20 79.71 78.87 82.51 Jarrod Bannister 82.25 76.60 82.25 SB Mark Frank 78.78 81.81 78.48 80.98 77.73 81.81 Antti Ruuskanen 79.46 79.06 79.46 10 Dmitri Tarabin 79.06 79.06 11 Stuart Farquhar 78.99 75.18 77.13 78.99 12 Sergey Makarov 77.73 78.76 78.05 78.76

References

External links Javelin throw results at IAAF website