The men's javelin throw at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27 and 28 June.
Medalists Gold Vítězslav Veselý Silver Valeriy Iordan Bronze Ari Mannio
Records Standing records prior to the 2012 European Athletics ChampionshipsWorld record98.48Jena, Germany25 May 1996European record98.48Jena, Germany25 May 1996Championship record89.72Budapest, Hungary23 August 1998World Leading88.11Oslo, Norway7 June 2012European Leading88.11Oslo, Norway7 June 2012
Schedule Date Time Round 27 June 2012 18:15 Qualification 28 June 2012 18:45 Final
Results
Qualification Qualification: Qualification Performance 83.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final
Rank Group Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes 1 A Ari Mannio 77.81 84.31 84.31 Q, SB 2 B Oleksandr Pyatnytsya 82.37 81.66 82.37 q 3 A Igor Janik 82.37 82.37q, SB 4 B Valeriy Iordan 82.32 82.32q, PB 5 B Kim Amb 76.78 80.69 80.69 q 6 B Tero Pitkämäki 77.70 80.66 80.66 q 7 B Tino Häber 76.25 76.67 79.86 79.86 q 8 A Risto Mätas 79.34 77.03 79.34 q 9 B Andreas Thorkildsen 79.34 79.34 q 10 A Vítězslav Veselý 78.45 79.09 79.09 q 11 A Paweł Rakoczy 79.02 79.02 q 12 A Gabriel Wallin 75.83 78.66 78.89 78.89 q 13 A Thomas Röhler 77.95 78.89 78.89 14 A Fatih Avan 78.27 78.31 78.31 15 A Ainārs Kovals 76.32 71.33 76.32 16 B Mark Frank 72.61 75.55 75.55 17 B Bartosz Osewski 74.82 75.26 75.26 18 A Oleksandr Nychyporchuk 70.54 74.91 74.35 74.91 19 A Marko Jänes 70.99 74.74 71.71 74.74 SB 20 B Dejan Mileusnic 72.95 69.16 73.84 73.84 21 A Melik Janoyan 69.40 66.20 72.59 72.59 22 A Matija Kranjc 72.49 70.67 70.18 72.49 23 A Zigismunds Sirmais 71.02 72.42 72.42 A Yervásios Filippídis 69.34 72.39 70.98 72.39 Doping 24 B Tanel Laanmäe 71.87 68.94 71.87 25 B Martin Benák 69.23 70.60 69.97 70.60 26 B Petr Frydrych 68.31 68.88 68.88 B Vadims Vasiļevskis B Teemu Wirkkala
Final Rank Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Vítězslav Veselý 74.04 83.72 74.63 78.61 83.51 77.64 83.72 Valeriy Iordan 83.23 79.92 74.63 83.23 PB Ari Mannio 75.93 82.17 82.63 79.04 82.63 Andreas Thorkildsen 81.55 78.12 77.07 81.55 Oleksandr Pyatnytsya 81.41 78.81 80.73 80.10 77.25 81.41 Igor Janik 79.58 81.21 79.04 81.21 Kim Amb 77.30 79.03 73.39 67.35 79.03 Gabriel Wallin 71.76 77.18 74.61 73.26 74.43 76.42 77.18 Tino Häber 71.87 76.11 74.25 76.11 10 Risto Mätas 75.85 72.92 74.48 75.85 11 Tero Pitkämäki 74.89 74.10 74.89 12 Paweł Rakoczy 70.93 70.93
References
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