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.
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:

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

Qualification

Qualification: 83.00 m or at least 12 best performers.
RankGroupNameNationality#1#2#3MarkNotes
1BAndreas Hofmann86.1486.14,
2ARyohei Arai79.5081.2884.6684.66,
3BJulius Yego80.7984.4684.46
4BVítězslav Veselý83.6383.63
5BTero Pitkämäki79.6783.4383.43
6ABraian Toledo83.3283.32,
7AThomas Röhler81.7378.7083.2383.23
8BIhab El-Sayed82.8582.85
9AAntti Ruuskanen82.2082.20
10BKim Amb81.6381.63
11BRisto Mätas72.9377.7281.5681.56
12BJohannes Vetter79.4079.4880.8680.86
13BTanel Laanmäe76.7973.9080.6580.65
14AAri Mannio80.1977.7980.19
15BJúlio César de Oliveira79.8178.3679.5179.81
16ALars Hamann79.5677.7876.4479.56
17BZhao Qinggang79.4775.7779.47
18AHamish Peacock75.1579.3778.9979.37
19BRolands Štrobinders79.1176.8879.11
20AJakub Vadlejch73.4778.9578.95
21BMarcin Krukowski78.9177.1178.9178.91
22AMagnus Kirt74.7378.8477.0878.84
23AStuart Farquhar78.3077.5378.30
24ARiley Dolezal73.4177.6477.64
25ADmitriy Tarabin71.7877.4874.8277.48
26AKeshorn Walcott75.1676.8376.83
27BHuang Shih-feng75.7275.72
28ARocco van Rooyen70.3875.5575.55
29BSean Furey72.6475.0175.01
30BPetr Frydrych73.7774.2474.24
31ASam Crouser70.4773.8873.88
32BValeriy Iordan73.2273.4373.43
33APatrik Žeňúch69.3169.31

Final

The final was started at 19:05.
RankNameNationality#1#2#3#4#5#6MarkNotes
Julius Yego82.4292.7292.72,
Ihab El-Sayed86.0788.9988.99
Tero Pitkämäki83.4585.0385.0887.6484.4987.3487.64
Thomas Röhler86.6886.0386.7787.1884.0087.4187.41
Antti Ruuskanen76.2481.2987.1280.6384.3087.12
Andreas Hofmann79.3877.3384.8582.4386.0186.01
Johannes Vetter83.7981.9880.2879.4383.79
Vítězslav Veselý78.3883.1381.4582.9883.13
Ryohei Arai80.8183.0783.07
10Braian Toledo78.2778.3080.2780.27
11Kim Amb77.3875.7778.5178.51
12Risto Mätas75.7970.1076.7976.79