Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – men's javelin throw

Men's javelin throw at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
Dates	August 6
Competitors	28 from 19 nations
Medalists
Gerhard Stöck Germany   Yrjo Nikkanen Finland   Kalervo Toivonen Finland

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's javelin throw event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on August 6, 1936. The final was won by German Gerhard Stöck.

Results

Qualifying

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	Result	Notes
1	József Várszegi	Hungary	58.5	69.7		69.7
2	Yrjo Nikkanen	Finland	59.6	67.0		67.0
3	Matti Järvinen	Finland	66.0			66.0
4	Eugeniusz Lokajski	Poland	65.5			65.5
5	Kalervo Toivonen	Finland	59.0	64.9		64.9
5	Gustav Sule	Estonia	64.9			64.9
7	Lennart Atterwall	Sweden	64.4			64.4
8	Gerhard Stöck	Germany	63.5			63.5
9	Gottfried Weimann	Germany	63.2			63.2
10	Walter Turczyk	Poland	59.0	foul	63.1	63.1
11	Oto Jurģis	Latvia	58.0	59.8	61.9	61.9
12	Jaap van der Poll	Netherlands	58.0	61.7	61.7
13	Alton Terry	United States	61.5			61.5
14	Lee Bartlett	United States	60.8			60.8
15	Jim Courtright	Canada	foul	60.3		60.3
15	Friedrich Gerdes	Germany	foul	60.3		60.3
17	Malcolm Metcalf	United States	60.2			60.2
18	Ibrahim Okasha	Egypt	50.0	foul	58.0	58.0
19	Konstantinos Metaxas	Greece	50.0	56.0	56.0	56.0
20	Noboru Ueno	Japan	54.0	55.0	48.0	55.0
20	Rudolf Markušić	Yugoslavia	50.0	55.0	50.0	55.0
22	Josef Neumann	Switzerland	52.0	50.0	47.0	52.0
22	Kristján Vattnes	Iceland	46.0	52.0	45.0	52.0
22	Napoleon Papageorgiou	Greece	50.0	52.0	52.0	52.0
25	Josef Klein	Czechoslovakia	50.0	foul	50.0	50.0
26	Hoh Chunde	Republic of China	48.0	40.0	40.0	48.0
26	Pavol Mal'a	Czechoslovakia	foul	48.0	48.0	48.0
28	Pascual Gutiérrez	Mexico	31.1	35.0	foul	35.0

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Gerhard Stöck	Germany	x	68.11	65.50	66.00	71.84	65.00	71.84
	Yrjo Nikkanen	Finland	x	70.77	x	62.00	62.00	63.00	70.77
	Kalervo Toivonen	Finland	62.00	67.00	68.76	x	70.72	x	70.72
4	Lennart Atterwall	Sweden	67.15	69.20	x	65.00	61.00	62.00	69.20
5	Matti Järvinen	Finland	68.30	69.18	x	64.00	x	66.00	69.18
6	Alton Terry	United States	67.10	67.15	x	64.00	65.00	62.00	67.15
7	Eugeniusz Lokajski	Poland							66.39
8	József Várszegi	Hungary							65.30
9	Gottfried Weimann	Germany							63.58
10	Walter Turczyk	Poland							63.36
11	Gustav Sule	Estonia							63.26
12	Lee Bartlett	United States							61.15
13	Oto Jurģis	Latvia							60.71
14	Jim Courtright	Canada							60.54
15	Malcolm Metcalf	United States							58.20
16	Jaap van der Poll	Netherlands							56.25
17	Friedrich Gerdes	Germany							55.93

References

• 1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's javelin throw, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-05-08.