The men's javelin throw at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 15–17 August.Start list

Change seems to be hitting the event. Last year's surprise Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott, didn't make the final, nor did the returning bronze medalist Guillermo Martínez. The defending champion Matthias de Zordo did not return, nor did the Olympic silver medalist Oleksandr Pyatnytsya. Former two time Olympic gold medalist Andreas Thorkildsen was in danger of not qualifying, on his final attempt, he got into an automatic qualifier, one of only three, joining Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed, who set the Egyptian national record at 83.62.

Four throws into the final and Tero Pitkämäki took the early lead. Five throws later Vítězslav Veselý threw the winner 87.17. Two more throws and Roman Avramenko was sitting in third place after the first round. In the second round Pitkämäki improved, followed by world leader Dmitriy Tarabin taking over third place. Veselý's remaining throws wouldn't be enough to place in the top four. Pitkämäki improved again on his third attempt, falling just 10 cm short of Veselý. That mark would be good enough for silver.

At the same time as Kenyan women were in their customary position battling the Ethiopians in the women's 5000, Julius Yego's fifth round throw of 85.40 was a Kenyan national record, but more importantly, Kenya's first field event finalist was in third place in the world championships, with only one throw to go. Throwing before the home crowd, Tarabin's final effort of 86.23 took third place back for good, dashing Yego's hope for a medal.

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

World record98.48 Jena, Germany25 May 1996Championship record92.80 Edmonton, Canada12 August 2001World leading88.84 Moscow, Russia24 July 2013African record88.75 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia21 September 1998Asian record87.60 San Jose, United States27 May 1989North, Central American and Caribbean record91.29 Indianapolis, United States21 June 2007South American record84.70 San Marcos, United States17 October 1999European record98.48 Jena, Germany25 May 1996Oceanian record89.02 Brisbane, Australia29 February 2008

Qualification standards A resultB result 83.50 81.00

Schedule Date Time Round15 August 2013 9:30 Qualification17 August 2013 18:35 Final

Results KEY:QQualifiedq12 best performersNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Qualification Qualification: Qualifying Performance 82.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.Qualification Results

Rank Group Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes 1 A Tero Pitkämäki 84.39 84.39 Q 2 B Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed 83.62 83.62 Q, NR 3 A Andreas Thorkildsen x 79.45 83.05 83.05 Q 4 A Ivan Zaytsev 81.53 x – 81.53 q 5 A Vítězslav Veselý x 81.51 – 81.51 q 6 B Antti Ruuskanen 80.02 81.36 – 81.36 q 7 B Dmitriy Tarabin x 81.32 – 81.32 q 8 A Julius Yego 79.56 x 80.88 80.88 q 9 A Kim Amb 80.84 x 80.37 80.84 q 10 A Stuart Farquhar 80.73 x 76.73 80.73 q 11 B Risto Mätas 79.25 x 80.18 80.18 q 12 B Fatih Avan 78.09 79.93 80.09 80.09 13 A Bernhard Seifert 80.02 x x 80.02 14 B Vadims Vasiļevskis 79.09 77.59 79.68 79.68 15 A Guillermo Martínez 79.67 77.88 76.70 79.67 16 B Teemu Wirkkala 79.50 78.54 79.26 79.50 17 B Víctor Fatecha 76.13 79.03 x 79.03 PB 18 A Keshorn Walcott 78.78 x 75.84 78.78 19 B Riley Dolezal 72.96 78.76 77.25 78.76 20 A Aleksey Tovarnov 74.15 73.25 78.43 78.43 21 B Yukifumi Murakami 77.75 x 76.74 77.75 22 B Zhao Qinggang 76.23 76.78 77.61 77.61 23 B Lars Hamann 77.10 74.75 72.00 77.10 24 A Marcin Krukowski x x 76.93 76.93 25 A Valeriy Iordan 76.92 72.79 73.70 76.92 26 A Hamish Peacock 70.61 76.33 75.31 76.33 27 B Łukasz Grzeszczuk 74.72 x x 74.72 28 B Gabriel Wallin 74.66 x x 74.66 29 A Thomas Röhler 71.88 74.45 73.67 74.45 30 B John Robert Oosthuizen 74.36 70.99 x 74.36 31 A Uladzimir Kazlou 72.66 67.79 x 72.66 32 B Leslie Copeland 70.56 72.30 68.46 72.30 B Roman Avramenko 76.73 79.91 80.37 80.37 DQDoping

Final The final was started at 18.35.Final Results

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Vítězslav Veselý 87.17 78.80 81.21 83.80 x – 87.17 Tero Pitkämäki 83.40 86.88 87.07 85.67 x 85.22 87.07 Dmitriy Tarabin x 84.38 x 82.25 x 86.23 86.23 Julius Yego 80.60 x 81.13 x 85.40 81.20 85.40 NR Antti Ruuskanen 77.96 80.32 x x 75.86 81.44 81.44 Andreas Thorkildsen 80.93 76.82 x 80.62 81.06 – 81.06 Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed 79.02 78.57 80.94 78.70 76.85 x 80.94 Risto Mätas 78.32 78.87 80.03 80.03 Stuart Farquhar 79.24 75.72 x 79.24 10 Kim Amb 77.64 76.28 78.91 78.91 11 Ivan Zaytsev 74.58 78.33 77.72 78.33 Roman Avramenko 81.32 x 80.12 82.05 78.61 80.80 82.05 DQ

References

External links Javelin throw results at IAAF website