Men's javelin in major championships (Nearly complete results)
Miesten keihäänheitto arvokisoissa (Melkein täydelliset tulokset)
List of updates
| 29 Jun 2002: | Opening of this website with results from Edmonton 2001 to Helsinki 1994 | |
| 3 Jul 2002: | Added Stuttgart 1993 | |
| 4 Jul 2002: | Added register | |
| 8 Jul 2002: | Added Barcelona 1992 | |
| 9 Jul 2002: | Added Tokyo 1991 | |
| 10 Jul 2002: | Added Split 1990 | |
| 11 Jul 2002: | Added Seoul 1988 | |
| 14 Jul 2002: | Added Roma 1987 | |
| 18 Jul 2002: | Added Stuttgart 1986 & Los Angeles 1984 | |
| 19 Jul 2002: | Added Helsinki 1983 | |
| 20 Jul 2002: | Added Athinai 1982 | |
| 21 Jul 2002: | Added Moscow 1980 | |
| 23 Jul 2002: | Added Helsinki 1952. For the 50th anniversary of javelin competition in 52 games. | |
| 25 Jul 2002: | Added Praha 1978 | |
| 27 Jul 2002: | xx | Added Montreal 1976 |
| 29 Jul 2002: | xx | Added Roma 1974 |
| 30 Jul 2002: | Added München 1972 | |
| 2 Aug 2002: | Added Helsinki 1971 | |
| 3 Aug 2002: | Added Athinai 1969 | |
| 4 Aug 2002: | Added Mexico 1968 | |
| 12 Aug 2002: | Added München 2002 | |
| 17 Aug 2002: | Added Budapest 1966 | |
| 10 Sep 2002: | Added Tokyo 1964. My best thanks to Manabu Tanaka (JAAF). | |
| 17 Oct 2002: | Update. A lot of thanks to Tony Isaacs for correcting many of my mistakes and misprints. | |
| 25 Oct 2002: | Added Beograd 1962. Thank You very much to Ozren Karamata for the results. | |
| 31 Oct 2002: | Added Rome 1960 | |
| 1 Nov 2002: | Added Stockholm 1958. My best thanks to A.Lennart Julin for the copies of original hand written record sheets. | |
| 1 Nov 2002: | Added Melbourne 1956. Special thanks to Paul Jenes for throwing orders and pieces of information. | |
| 10 Nov 2002: | Added Berlin 1936. The results of qualifications are mainly taken from Estonian Aleksander Antson's book | |
| "Berliini Olympiamängud 1936" and partly from newspaper "Helsingin Sanomat" (7.8.1936), which were good | ||
| sources for the results of final, too. As are also the following ones: newspaper "Uusi Suomi" (7.8.36), | ||
| sportmagazine "Suomen Urheilulehti" (7.8.36), Finnish book about Berlin Olympics "Olympialaiskisat V" | ||
| (throws written by Armas Valste) and Swedish book "Sommarolympia av Mr. Jones". Newspapers mentioned are | ||
| the Finnish ones. | ||
| 13 Nov 2002: | Added Bruxelles 1950 | |
| 23 Nov 2002: | Added Bern 1954 | |
| 5 Dec 2002: | Added London 1948. My best thanks to Amy Terriere from British Olympic Association for the copies of programme booklet | |
| of the 4th of August (the day of men's javelin). This has been the source for information of qualification groups | ||
| and the throwing orders. And many thanks to Tony Isaacs, who is managed to collect also those very hard-to-find results for | ||
| non qualifiers. This competition is still quite incomplete because of many missing results. | ||
| 5 Dec 2002: | Added Paris 1938. The throwing series are taken from Jiri Havlin's European Handbook 1990 and Finnish newspapers: | |
| Helsingin Sanomat, Uusi Suomi and Sportmagazines: Suomen Urheilulehti, Urheilu and Swedish newspaper: Dagens Nyheter. | ||
| 11 Jan 2003: | Added Oslo 1946. The throwing series are mostly taken from Jiri Havlin's European Handbook 1990. Throwing order of final | |
| is from Helsingin Sanomat as some single results or from Uusi Suomi. | ||
| 19 Jan 2003: | Added Torino 1934. The main source has been Havlin & al's European Handbook 1990. Used for checking also Tony Isaac's | |
| compilation and reports of Helsingin Sanomat and Uusi Suomi. | ||
| 19 Jan 2003: | Added Los Angeles 1932. The main source has been "Olympialaiskisat IV", throws written by Urho Peltonen | |
| 20 Jan 2003: | Added Amsterdam 1928. The main source has been "Olympialaiskisat III", throws written by Urho Peltonen | |
| 1 Feb 2003: | Added Paris 1924. The main source has been Ekkehard zur Megede's: "Modern Olympic Century". Throwing series are mainly | |
| from Torsten Tegnér's "Colombes & Co, Dagboksblad från en olympiad" and with complements from Yrjö Halme: | ||
| "Olympialaiskisat 1924", "Olympialaiskisat II" (throws written by Lauri Pihkala), Jaakko Ikola: "Jaakkoo lähti Pariisihi...", | ||
| Helsingin Sanomat, Suomen Urheilulehti and Dagens Nyheter | ||
| 2 Feb 2003: | Added Antwerpen 1920. The main source has been Yrjö Halme "Seitsemännet Olympialaiskisat v. 1920" (the 7th Olympic Games in 1920) | |
| and "Olympialaiskisat I" (athletics written by Lauri Pihkala) | ||
| 9 Feb 2003: | Added Stockholm 1912. In addition to Megede's book the sources have been "Suomen Urheilulehti", "Helsingin Sanomat" | |
| and "Uusi Suometar", (Finnish newspapers). And best thanks to Tony Isaacs (and Mats Åkesson) for some valueable pieces | ||
| of result information | ||
| 16 Feb 2003: | Added London 1908. The main source has been Megede's "Modern Olympic Century". The additional information about qualifications | |
| of conventional event is from Tony Isaacs. | ||
| 25 Feb 2003: | Added Athens 1906. The main source has been Megede's "Modern Olympic Century". The additional information | |
| is from Tony Isaacs and Yrjö Halme's "Seitsemännet Olympialaiset kisat" | ||
| 25 Feb 2003: | Added the list of shortages | |
| 31 Mar 2003: | Many thanks to Richard Hymans, who sent me a lot of material concerning mainly bib numbers of athletes and throwing orders of | |
| competitions (even from Athens 1906 Games). He sent me also complete list of announced participants in London 1908 Games | ||
| (most of them did not start), and in addition of all this Arild Gjerde's list of participants in Olympic Games with dates | ||
| of birth. So I have much material to complete my website. I can't do it at one go, so I shall update these pages little | ||
| by little. First register 06-38 (dates of birth), Athens 1906 (throwing order) and London 1908 (bib numbers and throwing order). | ||
| 1 Apr 2003: | Updated 1920 Antwerpen, 1924 Paris (bib numbers), 1928 Amsterdam (bib numbers), 1936 Berlin, 1948 London, 1952 Helsinki, | |
| 1956 Melbourne, 1960 Roma, 1968 Mexico (bib numbers) and register 1946-78. Many dates of birth are added to all mentioned games. | ||
| 4 Apr 2003: | Updated 1980 Moskva, 1984 Los Angeles (bib numbers and throwing order), 1986 Stuttgart (bib numbers), 1988 Seoul (bib numbers), | |
| 1990 Split (bib numbers), 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, register 80-02. Dates of birth are added to all mentioned games. | ||
| 22 Apr 2003: | Thank You to Eberhard Vollmer and Ellen Glatzer of Deutscher Leichtathletik Verband for being so kind and sent me | |
| the results of Stuttgart ECh 1986 and WCh 1993. So my list of shortages were again shortened, this time by throwing order | ||
| of qualification in 1986 games and by bib numbers of athletes in 1993 games. | ||
| 14 May 2003: | My best thanks to Tomas Magnusson (from Solothurn CH), who sent me many pieces of additional information to athletes' | |
| registers and correcting some errors e.g. the ranking order of qualification of Mexico Games 68. | ||
| 2 Sep 2003: | Added Paris 2003. | |
| 8 Nov 2003: | Thank you to Gerald Borman for the information concerning dates of birth. | |
| 28 Jan 2004: | Thank you to A.B.Petunin to correct 2 misprints in Melbourne 1956 Games | |
| 14 Jul 2004: | Updated European Championships in Budapest 1966 and Athens 1982. About 2 weeks ago I just happened to read the lists of Antiquariat | |
| Matthias Drummer (Berlin) and found there some interesting daily programmes of the games. The booklets came today. | ||
| 29 Jul 2004: | Updated World Championships in Roma 1987 (throwing order of qualifications) and Tokyo 1991 (bib numbers). The second buy | |
| of the daily programmes from the Antiquariat Matthias Drummer (Berlin). | ||
| 01 Sep 2004: | Added Athens 2004. | |
| 11 Aug 2005: | Added Helsinki 2005. | |
| 1 Sep 2005: | Jérôme Chevillat from France sent me bib numbers of Atlanta Olympic Games 1996. Some of them are still missing, but all finalist but one | |
| are found. Thank you. | ||
| 16 Sep 2005: | Thank you to Pascal Anteaume from France for the bib numbers of Tokyo 1964 Olympic games. | |
| 13 Oct 2005: | Updated European Championships in Beograd 1962 (throwing order of qualifications). The thrird buy | |
| of the daily programmes from the Antiquariat Matthias Drummer (Berlin). | ||
| 17 Feb 2006: | Thank You to Steponas Misiunas from Lithuania for the rest of the missing bib numbers of Atlanta Games | |
| 19 Jan 2007: | Few days ago I got extraordinary interesting material from Pascal Anteaume (France). Most interesting were the throwing series of Stockholm | |
| 1912 games. This kind information I dare not even hope to see. He gave me a summary of official report of the games and from the book of | ||
| Bill Mallon, "The 1912 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events With Commentary". And still more I got also minor additions | ||
| and orrections concerning the games in Paris 1924, in Amsterdam 1928, in Los Angeles 1932, in Beograd 1962, in München 1972 and in Rome 1974. | ||
| These emails were really a pleasant suprise for me. | ||
| 3 Sep 2007: | Added Osaka 2007 | |
| 28 Aug 2008: | Added Beijing 2008 | |
| 10 Oct 2009: | Added Berlin 2009 | |
| 18 Aug 2010: | Added Barcelona 2010 | |
| 6 Sep 2012: | Added Daegu, Helsinki and London. Registers updated. |