The men's javelin throw at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 30 and 31 July.
Medalists Gold Andreas ThorkildsenNorway (NOR)Silver Matthias de ZordoGermany (GER)Bronze Tero PitkämäkiFinland (FIN)
Records Standing records prior to the 2010 European Athletics ChampionshipsWorld record98.48Jena, Germany25 May 1996European record98.48Jena, Germany25 May 1996Championship record89.72Budapest, Hungary23 August 1998World Leading90.37Florø, Norway29 May 2010European Leading90.37Florø, Norway29 May 2010
Schedule Date Time Round 30 July 2010 10:20 Qualification 31 July 2010 20:05 Final
Results
Qualification Qualification: Qualification Performance 81.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final Rank Group Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes1 A Teemu Wirkkala 76.89 83.57 83.57 Q2 B Tero Pitkämäki 76.65 83.15 83.15 Q3 A Matthias de Zordo 74.89 77.82 82.34 82.34 Q4 A Ainārs Kovals 78.58 78.22 79.32 79.32 q5 B Dmytro Kosynskyy 71.30 79.29 79.29 q6 A Andreas Thorkildsen 78.82 78.82 q 7 B Ēriks Rags 78.45 78.45 q8 A Roman Avramenko 74.84 78.11 78.11 q9 A Vítězslav Veselý 77.76 74.99 77.76 q10 B Petr Frydrych 77.56 75.96 77.56 q11 B Oleksandr Pyatnytsya 77.20 77.54 77.54 q12 A Sergey Makarov 76.69 74.13 74.54 76.69 q13 A Csongor Olteán 76.53 75.05 76.53 14 B Uladzimir Kazlou 76.29 72.33 76.29 15 A Gabriel Wallin 71.85 76.12 76.12 16 A Jakub Vadlejch 76.04 76.04 17 B Harri Haatainen 75.83 75.83 18 B Jérôme Haeffler 67.60 75.60 75.60 19 B Rafael Baraza 71.96 68.22 73.34 73.3420 B Martin Benák 73.18 73.18 21 B Ilya Korotkov 72.04 71.07 72.0422 A Ioánnis Smaliós 71.57 71.57 23 B Vadims Vasiļevskis 67.56 67.56
Final Rank Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Andreas Thorkildsen 86.3288.3786.3084.1283.4088.37 Matthias de Zordo 86.2287.8187.0684.1287.81PB Tero Pitkämäki 81.4782.3083.9686.6786.3186.67 4 Oleksandr Pyatnytsya 81.2480.9178.9182.0176.5982.01 5 Teemu Wirkkala 78.5276.9481.7681.1481.3181.76 6 Ainārs Kovals 81.1975.1980.5581.19 7 Sergey Makarov 80.8678.3178.8980.86 8 Roman Avramenko 78.6579.5279.52 9 Vítězslav Veselý 69.4277.83 77.83 10 Petr Frydrych 77.3076.6976.76 77.30 11 Ēriks Rags 76.9376.08 76.93 12 Dmytro Kosynskyy 73.2673.11 73.26
References Qualification Results Final Results