IX Olympic Games AMSTERDAM NED 1928, 28 Jul - 13 Aug												Amsterdam 1928
					JAVELIN men							compiled by Matti Rasilainen
QUALIFICATION												Day: 2 Aug [Thu]  Time: 14:00
	group 1:			1	2	3			group 2:				1	2	3
	Lundqvist	Q	[1]	66,60	~61	~60,5			Szepes		Q	[1]	~62,5	65,26	~56
	Meimer		[6]	~58	61,46	x			Lay			[6]	~60,5	62,89	~56
	Stoschek		[5]	59,86					Lamppu			[5]	~58,5	~56	61,45
	Sumiyoshi		[4]	~58	59,05				Lindström			[3]	x~60	~58	58,69
	Rinne		[3]	~55	58,04	~57			Bartlett			[4]	x	~56	57,57
	Harlow		[2]	55,85					Knol			[2]	52,68
	Rottman		[7]	50,93					Etienne			*	54,34
	group 3:			1	2	3			group 4:				1	2	3
	Sunde	Q	[2]	~62,5	63,97	~63,8			Schlokat		Q	[6]	~58	~62	63,40
	Liettu	Q	[4]	~62	63,86	~63,7			Penttilä		Q	[5]	~56	63,20	~62
	Sager		[3]	60,50	~58	~58			Pilling			[3]	59,16
	Herremans		[6]	56,33					Hines			[4]	~56	x~60,2	57,17
	Weightman-Smith		[5]	54,37					Zachrapoulos			*	55,50
	van der Leij		[1]	~46	47,73				Messner			*	53,70
	Razaitis		*	51,16					Degland			*	52,82
	*position in throwing order was not available								66,60	= New Olympic Record
	Measurements were done after the 3rd round								59,86	= The best throw. Throwing series was not available.
	Six athletes after three attempts qualified to the final
FINAL												Day: 2 Aug [Thu]  Time: ~16:30
													group
			853	1	LUNDQVIST Erik				08	SWE	66,60	OR	1
			39	2	SZEPES Bela				03	HUN	65,26		2
			198	3	SUNDE Olav				03	NOR	63,97		3
			793	4	LIETTU Paavo				05	FIN	63,86		3
			737	5	SCHLOKAT Bruno				98	GER	63,40		4
			798	6	PENTTILÄ Eino				06	FIN	63,20		4
	placings after 6th		404	7	LAY Stanley				06	NZL	62,89		2
	acc. to qualifying round		818	8	MEIMER Johan				04	EST	61,46		1
			792	9	LAMPPU Albert				99	FIN	61,45		2
			564	10	SAGER Arthur				04	USA	60,46		3
			738	11	STOSCHEK Erich				03	GER	59,86		1
			665	12	PILLING Doral				06	CAN	59,16		4
			262	13	SUMIYOSHI Kosaku				07	JPN	59,05		1
			854	14	LINDSTRÖM Gunnar				96	SWE	58,69		2
		?	882	15	RINNE Vilho				95	FIN	58,04		1
			506	16	BARTLETT Lee				07	USA	57,57		2
			536	17	HINES Creth				06	USA	57,17		4
			616	18	HERREMANS Jules				04	BEL	56,33		3
			537	19	HARLOW Charles				03	USA	55,85		1
			144	20	ZACHAROPOULOS Georgios				97	GRE	55,50		4
			290	21	WEIGHTMAN-SMITH George				05	RSA	54,37		3
			611	22	ETIENNE Gaston				02	BEL	54,34		2
			839	23	MESSNER Vilim				04	YUG	53,70		4
			61	24	DEGLAND Emmanuel				00	FRA	52,82		4
			312	25	KNOL Jacob				96	NED	52,68		2
			157	26	RAZAITIS Viktoras				07	LTU	51,16		3
			361	27	ROTTMAN Otto					ROM	50,93		1
			318	28	van der LEIJ Johannes					NED	47,73		3
					28
						1-3	4	5	6
	series:			Penttilä		63,20	58,35	~56	x~64,5
				Schlokat		63,40	~60	~57,5	63,26		sources:
				Liettu		63,86	~55	~61	63,76		"Olympialaiskisat III" (throws written by
				Sunde		63,97	x	59,50	~55			Urho Peltonen)
				Szepes		65,26	x	62,50	~54		Pascal Anteaume's summary of Official
				Lundqvist		66,60	~61	61,58	~54			report of the games
World list 27 July1928
			SB		PB
1	Stanley Lay	NZL	67,89	66,51 -27
2	Gunnar Lindström	SWE	67,77	67,31 -25
3	Eino Penttilä	FIN	67,34	69,88 -27
4	Erik Lundqvist	SWE	66,98	62,70 -27
5	Lee Bartlett	USA	66,01
6	Wilmer Rinehart	USA	65,63	60,56 -27
7	Olav Sunde	NOR	65,44	66,08 -25
8	James DeMers	USA	65,07	62,51 -27
	Béla Szepes	HUN	?	64,80 -27
	Paavo Liettu	FIN	?	59,22 -27