2023 World Athletics Championships – Men's javelin throw

The men's javelin throw at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 25 and 27 August 2023.

Summary

After winning two successive championships Anderson Peters was involved in an incident where he ended up being beaten and badly injured by 5 crew members of a party boat. Peters was able to return, but threw 78.49m in the preliminary round and didn't make the final. Across two previous competitions, only one of his throws had ever been less than 80m, three throws were over 90m. Jakub Vadlejch, the returning bronze medalist, came into the competition as the world leader for 2023 and the returning silver medalist, Tokyo Olympic Champion Neeraj Chopra were top qualifiers to the final.

Oliver Helander started things off with 83.38m, Vadlejch followed him with 82.59m. The first two throws of the competition would prove to be the first round leaders. Ihab Abdelrahman came out of the round in third place at 80.64m. Now that everybody was warmed up, the real throwing can begin in the second round. Vadlejch improved to 84.18m. Two throwers later, Chopra launched . He knew it was good, he turned to the crowd to celebrate and didn't even watch if fly. Near the end of the round Julian Weber tossed 85.79m to take over the second position. In the third round, Arshad Nadeem hit an 87.82m to put a scare into Chopra's lead. Nadeem's fourth round throw was also in the 87 metre range. In the fifth round, Vadlejch threw 86.67m to move into bronze position.

Chopra's win was the first Gold Medal at the World Championships for India. He was not alone as two other Indian competitors, Kishore Jena and D. P. Manu finished in fifth and sixth. Nadeem was the first ever medal for neighboring Pakistan. Even though the two countries have been sabre-rattling since their inception, the two men shared a congratulatory hug.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

RecordAthlete & LocationDate World record98.48 mJena, Germany25 May 1996Championship record92.80 mEdmonton, Canada12 August 2001World Leading89.51 mTurku, Finland13 June 2023African Record92.72 mBeijing, China26 August 2015Asian Record91.36 mTaipei City, Taipei26 August 2017North, Central American and Caribbean record93.07 mDoha, Qatar13 May 2022South American Record84.70 mSan Marcos, United States17 October 1999European Record98.48 mJena, Germany25 May 1996Oceanian record89.02 mBrisbane, Australia29 February 2008

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 85.20 m.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows:

Date Time Round25 August 10:10 Qualification27 August 20:15 Final

Results

Qualification Qualification: Qualifying distance 83.00 (Q) or the 12 best athletes including ties (q) qualify to the final.

Rank Group Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 1 A Neeraj Chopra 88.77 88.77 Q, 2 B Arshad Nadeem 70.63 81.53 86.79 86.79 Q, 3 B Jakub Vadlejch 81.34 83.50 83.50 Q 4 A Julian Weber 81.05 82.39 80.83 82.39 q 5 B Edis Matusevičius 78.44 82.35 - 82.35 q 6 A D.P. Manu 78.10 81.31 72.40 81.31 q 7 A Dawid Wegner 76.50 81.25 75.74 81.25 q 8 B Ihab Abdelrahman 80.75 x x 80.75 q 9 B Kishore Jena 80.55 78.07 x 80.55 q 10 B Oliver Helander x 80.19 x 80.19 q 11 B Timothy Herman 73.00 80.11 - 80.11 q 12 B Andrian Mardare 79.78 77.27 79.00 79.78 q 13 A Toni Kuusela 79.27 x x 79.27 14 A Genki Dean 78.21 78.57 79.21 79.21 15 B Cyprian Mrzygłód 78.2878.49 77.35 78.49 16 A Anderson Peters 78.02 77.51 78.49 78.49 17 A Julius Yego x 78.42 76.68 78.42 18 B Lassi Etelätalo 76.89 78.19 x 78.19 19 B Cameron McEntyre x 75.44 78.10 78.10 20 B Luiz Mauricio da Silva 68.25 77.70 74.17 77.70 21 A Patriks Gailums 77.20 77.43 x 77.43 22 A 76.65 x 75.70 76.65 23 B György Herczeg 72.31 76.18 x 76.18 24 A Capers Williamson 76.10 x x 76.10 25 B Alexandru Novac 75.75 74.61 74.67 75.75 26 B Jakob Samuelsson 73.81 x 75.50 75.50 27 A Douw Smit 64.29 75.03 71.21 75.03 28 A Felise Vaha'i Sosaia 68.23 74.80 x 74.80 29 B Rolands Štrobinders 74.46 73.98 x 74.46 30 A Curtis Thompson 72.46 72.99 74.21 74.21 31 A Leandro Ramos 66.02 74.03 73.55 74.03 32 B Artur Felfner x x 73.81 73.81 33 A Gatis Čakšs x 72.34 73.42 73.42 34 A Pedro Henrique Rodrigues x 67.11 72.34 72.34 B Ethan Dabbs x x x B Yuta Sakiyama x x x A Keshorn Walcott

Final The final started on 27 August at 20:16.

Rank Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 Neeraj Chopra X 88.17 86.32 84.64 87.73 83.96 88.17 Arshad Nadeem 74.80 82.81 87.82 87.15 X 81.86 87.82 Jakub Vadlejch 82.59 84.18 83.65 83.62 86.67 X 86.67 4 Julian Weber 80.43 85.79 76.86 82.55 82.81 79.01 85.79 5 Kishore Jena 75.70 82.82 x 80.19 84.77 x 84.77 6 D. P. Manu 78.44 X 83.72 X 83.48 84.14 84.14 7 Oliver Helander 83.38 81.44 X X X 82.85 83.38 8 Edis Matusevičius 75.13 80.42 82.29 79.17 x 77.53 82.29 9 Dawid Wegner 78.19 74.60 80.75 80.75 10 Ihab Abdelrahman 80.64 78.94 X 80.64 11 Andrian Mardare 79.66 79.24 79.49 79.66 12 Timothy Herman 72.17 74.56 X 74.56

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