2019 World Athletics Championships – Men's javelin throw

The men's javelin throw at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar, on 5 and 6 October 2019.

Summary The automatic qualification to the final was 84.00 metres. One and done, on his first throw Johannes Vetter beat that by over 5 metres with an 89.35m. In the second group, world leader Magnus Kirt took two attempts to make his mark of 88.36m. Either of those throws would have won the final easily.

In the final, only four men got over 80 metres in the first round, Anderson Peters took the lead with . In the second round, Vetter and Kirt got respectable marks with 85.37m and 86.21m respectively. From that point, nobody would improve. Fourth place Lassi Etelätalo was almost 3 metres off the podium. In the fourth round, Peters duplicated his winning first round throw with another 86.69m. #8 in the world rankings coming in, Peters took gold.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

Record Athlete Date LocationWorld98.48Jan Železný25 May 1996Jena, GermanyChampionship92.80Jan Železný12 Aug 2001Edmonton, CanadaWorld leading90.61Magnus Kirt22 Jun 2019Kuortane, FinlandAfrican92.72Julius Yego26 Aug 2015Beijing, ChinaAsian91.36Cheng Chao-tsun26 Aug 2017Taipei, Chinese TaipeiNACAC91.29Breaux Greer21 Jun 2007Indianapolis, United StatesSouth American84.70Edgar Baumann17 Oct 1999San Marcos, United StatesEuropean98.48Jan Železný25 May 1996Jena, GermanyOceanian89.02Jarrod Bannister29 Feb 2008Brisbane, Australia

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), is as follows:

Date Time Round5 October 16:30 Qualification6 October 19:55 Final

Results Qualification Qualification: Qualifying Performance 84.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.

Rank Group Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 1 A Johannes Vetter 89.35 89.35 Q 2 B Magnus Kirt 81.00 88.36 88.36 Q 3 A Anderson Peters 82.06 85.34 85.34 Q 4 B Kim Amb 82.98 84.85 84.85 Q 5 B Keshorn Walcott 84.44 84.44 Q 6 A Jakub Vadlejch 81.70 84.31 84.31 Q 7 A Julian Weber 84.29 84.29 Q 8 A Julius Yego 83.86 83.76 80.62 83.86 q 9 A Norbert Rivasz-Tóth 83.42 81.06 77.27 83.42 q, 10 B Cheng Chao-tsun 79.08 83.40 79.88 83.40 q 11 A Marcin Krukowski 82.44 82.02 82.44 q 12 B Lassi Etelätalo 75.11 82.26 82.26 q 13 B Alexandru Novac 82.12 78.18 79.75 82.12 14 B Aliaksei Katkavets 75.88 82.08 82.08 15 B Ryohei Arai 81.71 72.99 81.71 16 B Arshad Nadeem 81.52 75.48 81.52 17 B Rolands Štrobinders 81.09 80.60 79.51 81.09 18 B Michael Shuey 77.04 80.53 80.53 19 B Oliver Helander 80.36 80.36 20 B Andreas Hofmann 80.06 80.06 21 A Gatis Čakšs 79.94 79.63 79.94 22 A Edis Matusevičius 73.98 75.73 79.60 79.60 23 B Thomas Röhler 79.23 79.23 24 A Shivpal Singh 75.91 78.97 78.97 25 A Liu Qizhen 75.24 75.81 75.81 26 A Riley Dolezal 75.62 74.85 75.62 27 A Pavel Mialeshka 75.14 75.14 28 A Antti Ruuskanen 72.65 75.05 75.05 29 A Albert Reynolds 69.68 73.91 73.91 30 A Oleksandr Nychyporchuk 72.75 72.75 B Zhao Qinggang B Vítězslav Veselý

Final The final was started on 6 October at 19:57.

Rank Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 Anderson Peters 86.69 81.26 79.82 86.89 84.59 83.63 86.89 Magnus Kirt 83.95 86.21 85.17 85.90 86.21 Johannes Vetter 85.37 82.51 82.29 85.37 4 Lassi Etelätalo 72.00 77.92 82.49 74.62 74.63 82.49 5 Jakub Vadlejch 77.32 81.98 82.19 77.36 82.19 6 Julian Weber 81.20 81.26 80.80 79.43 79.46 73.58 81.26 7 Marcin Krukowski 80.56 79.91 80.56 8 Kim Amb 78.93 80.42 78.51 75.71 80.42 9 Norbert Rivasz-Tóth 79.73 77.89 76.55 79.73 10 Cheng Chao-tsun 74.74 77.51 77.99 77.99 11 Keshorn Walcott 75.30 77.47 77.47 Julius Yego

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