2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw

The Men's Javelin Throw at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany on August 21 and August 23. The second qualification group was interrupted for one hour, after the 2nd throw, due to heavy rain.

Medalists

Gold	Andreas Thorkildsen  Norway (NOR)
Silver	Guillermo Martínez  Cuba (CUB)
Bronze	Yukifumi Murakami  Japan (JPN)

Schedule

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
21.08.2009 – 16:15h	21.08.2009 – 18:15h
Final Round
23.08.2009 – 16:20h

Qualification standards

A standard	B standard
81.00 m	78.00 m

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 2009 World Athletics Championships
World record	Jan Železný (CZE)	98.48	Jena, Germany	25 May 1996
Championship record	Jan Železný (CZE)	92.80	Edmonton, Canada	12 August 2001
World leading	Andreas Thorkildsen (NOR)	91.28	Zürich, Switzerland	28 August 2009
African record	Marius Corbett (RSA)	88.75	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	21 September 1998
Asian record	Kazuhiro Mizoguchi (JPN)	87.60	San Jose, United States	27 May 1989
North American record	Breaux Greer (USA)	91.29	Indianapolis, United States	21 June 2007
South American record	Edgar Baumann (PAR)	84.70	San Marcos, United States	17 October 1999
European record	Jan Železný (CZE)	98.48	Jena, Germany	25 May 1996
Oceanian record	Jarrod Bannister (AUS)	89.02	Brisbane, Australia	29 February 2008

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 82.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	B	Vadims Vasiļevskis	Latvia (LAT)	86.69			86.69	Q
2	A	Yukifumi Murakami	Japan (JPN)	74.87	83.10		83.10	Q, PB
3	A	Guillermo Martínez	Cuba (CUB)	x	76.69	82.50	82.50	Q
4	A	Tero Pitkämäki	Finland (FIN)	80.96	x	81.65	81.65	q
5	B	Mark Frank	Germany (GER)	79.04	80.85	-	80.85	q
6	A	Andreas Thorkildsen	Norway (NOR)	x	80.37	79.93	80.37	q
7	B	Teemu Wirkkala	Finland (FIN)	76.82	79.84	79.23	79.84	q
8	A	Ainārs Kovals	Latvia (LAT)	79.76	x	x	79.76	q
9	B	Petr Frydrych	Czech Republic (CZE)	79.57	78.14	72.73	79.57	q
10	A	Tero Järvenpää	Finland (FIN)	77.22	x	79.48	79.48	q
11	B	Sean Furey	United States (USA)	x	74.51	79.28	79.28	q, SB
12	B	Antti Ruuskanen	Finland (FIN)	78.61	78.69	76.82	78.69	q
13	A	Sergey Makarov	Russia (RUS)	78.68	x	78.47	78.68
14	B	Stuart Farquhar	New Zealand (NZL)	72.84	74.54	78.53	78.53
15	A	Csongor Olteán	Hungary (HUN)	74.75	x	78.46	78.46
16	A	Mihkel Kukk	Estonia (EST)	72.63	76.70	78.18	78.18
17	A	Mike Hazle	United States (USA)	x	76.98	78.17	78.17
18	A	Park Jae-Myong	South Korea (KOR)	75.62	76.17	78.16	78.16
19	B	Fatih Avan	Turkey (TUR)	78.12	x	68.12	78.12
20	B	Alexandr Ivanov	Russia (RUS)	x	77.13	78.00	78.00
21	A	Qin Qiang	China (CHN)	76.87	75.40	77.65	77.65
22	A	Roman Avramenko	Ukraine (UKR)	73.85	76.46	77.44	77.44
23	B	Tom Goyvaerts	Belgium (BEL)	77.37	x	73.62	77.37
24	B	Chris Hill	United States (USA)	70.23	75.20	77.14	77.14
25	A	Aliaksandr Ashomka	Belarus (BLR)	72.83	76.85	76.04	76.85
26	A	Ēriks Rags	Latvia (LAT)	76.23	x	75.97	76.23
27	B	Oleksandr Pyatnytsya	Ukraine (UKR)	76.13	75.61	x	76.13
28	A	Vítězslav Veselý	Czech Republic (CZE)	75.16	75.76	69.48	75.76
29	B	Uladzimir Kazlou	Belarus (BLR)	x	73.17	75.38	75.38
30	A	Jonas Lohse	Sweden (SWE)	x	75.33	74.46	75.33
31	B	Igor Janik	Poland (POL)	75.20	x	x	75.20
32	A	Melik Janoyan	Armenia (ARM)	68.74	74.74	72.75	74.74	SB
33	A	Adrian Markowski	Poland (POL)	68.84	72.87	74.13	74.13
34	A	Tino Häber	Germany (GER)	73.66	74.11	73.64	74.11
35	A	Stefan Müller	Switzerland (SUI)	71.09	71.63	72.83	72.83
36	B	Jung Sang-Jin	South Korea (KOR)	x	72.80	x	72.80
37	B	Arley Ibargüen	Colombia (COL)	69.49	72.54	x	72.54
38	B	Ilya Korotkov	Russia (RUS)	71.59	70.37	x	71.59
39	A	Thomas Smet	Belgium (BEL)	70.35	x	68.23	70.35
40	B	Mohamed Ali Kebabou	Egypt (EGY)	64.68	68.75	-	68.75
41	A	Víctor Fatecha	Paraguay (PAR)	66.31	68.65	65.93	68.65
42	B	Júlio César de Oliveira	Brazil (BRA)	67.85	68.49	x	68.49
43	A	Tomas Intas	Lithuania (LTU)	68.40	x	x	68.40
44	B	John Robert Oosthuizen	South Africa (RSA)	67.86	x	67.57	67.86
45	B	Mervyn Luckwell	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	65.02	61.42	66.30	66.30
	B	Ignacio Guerra	Chile (CHI)	x	x	x	NM
	B	Tanel Laanmäe	Estonia (EST)	x	x	-	NM
	B	Andrus Värnik	Estonia (EST)					DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Andreas Thorkildsen	Norway (NOR)	77.80	89.59	88.95	x	-	-	89.59	SB
	Guillermo Martínez	Cuba (CUB)	83.43	83.28	78.22	77.27	-	86.41	86.41	SB
	Yukifumi Murakami	Japan (JPN)	76.01	82.97	x	x	-	77.90	82.97
4	Vadims Vasilevskis	Latvia (LAT)	x	x	82.05	x	x	82.37	82.37
5	Tero Pitkämäki	Finland (FIN)	81.90	81.14	80.50	x	80.17	81.14	81.90
6	Antti Ruuskanen	Finland (FIN)	75.36	75.67	81.87	78.65	x	80.87	81.87
7	Ainārs Kovals	Latvia (LAT)	x	81.54	x	x	75.98	76.39	81.54
8	Mark Frank	Germany (GER)	73.77	79.86	x	x	x	81.32	81.32
9	Teemu Wirkkala	Finland (FIN)	79.76	x	79.82				79.82
10	Petr Frydrych	Czech Republic (CZE)	78.57	x	79.29				79.29
11	Tero Järvenpää	Finland (FIN)	75.43	x	75.57				75.57
12	Sean Furey	United States (USA)	73.18	74.51	73.77				74.51