2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw

The men's javelin throw at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 24 and 26 August.Start list

Two years earlier, Julius Yego was notable in fourth place, as a Kenyan athlete succeeding in a different event, one unrelated to distance running. His 85.40 national record put him one throw away from a medal. Since then, he has added six more metres to his record and came into this championship as the world leader and favorite. Vítězslav Veselý was back as the defending champion as was silver medalist Tero Pitkämäki. Dmitriy Tarabin, whose final throw took the bronze medal away from Yego and Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott did not make the final this time.

In the first round of the final Thomas Röhler took the lead with an 86.68. In the second round, Ihab El-Sayed took the lead with his season best 88.99. Meanwhile, Yego fouled his first attempt and his 82.45 only had him in 5th place and highly vulnerable to not making the top 8 after three throws, the requirement to get three more throws. On his third throw, he launched a 92.72. Not only did the throw put him in the lead, it was a new African record and the farthest throw in the world in 14 years, since world record holder Jan Železný threw 92.80 to win this championship in 2001, near the end of his top throwing days. It made Yego the third farthest thrower in the history of the contemporary javelin. He didn't need any more throws. In the fourth round Pitkämäki threw 87.64 to move into bronze medal position, which was confirmed when Röhler came up short in his effort to answer.

Records Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record98.48 Jena, Germany25 May 1996Championship record92.80 Edmonton, Canada12 August 2001World leading91.39 Birmingham, Great Britain7 June 2015African recordAsian record89.15 Incheon, South Korea2 October 2014North, Central American and Caribbean record91.29 Indianapolis, IN, United States21 June 2007South American record84.70 San Marcos, TX, United States17 October 1999European record98.48 Jena, Germany25 May 1996Oceanian record89.02 Brisbane, Australia29 February 2008The following records were established during the competition:World leading92.72 Beijing, China26 August 2015African record

Qualification standards Entry standards 82.00

Schedule Date Time Round24 August 2015 19:00 Qualification26 August 2015 19:05 Final

Results KEY:QQualifiedq12 best performersNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Qualification Qualification: 83.00 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).Qualification results

Rank Group Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 Mark Notes 1 B Andreas Hofmann 86.14 86.14 , 2 A Ryohei Arai 79.50 81.28 84.66 84.66 , 3 B Julius Yego 80.79 84.46 84.46 4 B Vítězslav Veselý 83.63 83.63 5 B Tero Pitkämäki 79.67 83.43 83.43 6 A Braian Toledo 83.32 83.32 , 7 A Thomas Röhler 81.73 78.70 83.23 83.23 8 B Ihab El-Sayed 82.85 82.85 9 A Antti Ruuskanen 82.20 82.20 10 B Kim Amb 81.63 81.63 11 B Risto Mätas 72.93 77.72 81.56 81.56 12 B Johannes Vetter 79.40 79.48 80.86 80.86 13 B Tanel Laanmäe 76.79 73.90 80.65 80.65 14 A Ari Mannio 80.19 77.79 80.19 15 B Júlio César de Oliveira 79.81 78.36 79.51 79.81 16 A Lars Hamann 79.56 77.78 76.44 79.56 17 B Zhao Qinggang 79.47 75.77 79.47 18 A Hamish Peacock 75.15 79.37 78.99 79.37 19 B Rolands Štrobinders 79.11 76.88 79.11 20 A Jakub Vadlejch 73.47 78.95 78.95 21 B Marcin Krukowski 78.91 77.11 78.91 78.91 22 A Magnus Kirt 74.73 78.84 77.08 78.84 23 A Stuart Farquhar 78.30 77.53 78.30 24 A Riley Dolezal 73.41 77.64 77.64 25 A Dmitriy Tarabin 71.78 77.48 74.82 77.48 26 A Keshorn Walcott 75.16 76.83 76.83 27 B Huang Shih-feng 75.72 75.72 28 A Rocco van Rooyen 70.38 75.55 75.55 29 B Sean Furey 72.64 75.01 75.01 30 B Petr Frydrych 73.77 74.24 74.24 31 A Sam Crouser 70.47 73.88 73.88 32 B Valeriy Iordan 73.22 73.43 73.43 33 A Patrik Žeňúch 69.31 69.31

Final The final was started at 19:05.Final results

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Mark Notes Julius Yego 82.42 92.72 92.72 , Ihab El-Sayed 86.07 88.99 88.99 Tero Pitkämäki 83.45 85.03 85.08 87.64 84.49 87.34 87.64 Thomas Röhler 86.68 86.03 86.77 87.18 84.00 87.41 87.41 Antti Ruuskanen 76.24 81.29 87.12 80.63 84.30 87.12 Andreas Hofmann 79.38 77.33 84.85 82.43 86.01 86.01 Johannes Vetter 83.79 81.98 80.28 79.43 83.79 Vítězslav Veselý 78.38 83.13 81.45 82.98 83.13 Ryohei Arai 80.81 83.07 83.07 10 Braian Toledo 78.27 78.30 80.27 80.27 11 Kim Amb 77.38 75.77 78.51 78.51 12 Risto Mätas 75.79 70.10 76.79 76.79

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