Athletics — Javelin Throw, Men

Participants

Year	Event	Status	Participants	NOCs
1859	Javelin Throw, Men		2	1
1908	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	16	6
1912	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	25	7
1920	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	25	12
1924	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	29	15
1928	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	28	18
1932	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	13	7
1936	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	28	19
1948	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	23	15
1952	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	26	16
1956	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	21	12
1960	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	28	18
1964	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	25	15
1968	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	27	18
1972	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	23	15
1976	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	23	15
1980	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	18	11
1984	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	28	19
1988	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	38	22
1992	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	32	21
1996	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	34	21
2000	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	36	26
2004	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	33	23
2008	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	38	29
2012	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	44	31
2016	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	37	23
2020	Javelin Throw, Men	Olympic	32	22

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1908	Eric Lemming	SWE	Arne Halse	NOR	Otto Nilsson	SWE
1912	Eric Lemming	SWE	Julius Saaristo	FIN	Miklós Kovács	HUN
1920	Jonni Myyrä	FIN	Urho Peltonen	FIN	Paavo Johansson	FIN
1924	Jonni Myyrä	FIN	Gunnar Lindström	SWE	Gene Oberst	USA
1928	Erik Lundqvist	SWE	Béla Szepes	HUN	Olav Sunde	NOR
1932	Matti Järvinen	FIN	Matti Sippala	FIN	Eino Penttilä	FIN
1936	Gerhard Stöck	GER	Yrjö Nikkanen	FIN	Kalervo Toivonen	FIN
1948	Tapio Rautavaara	FIN	Steve Seymour	USA	József Várszegi	HUN
1952	Cy Young	USA	Bill Miller	USA	Toivo Hyytiäinen	FIN
1956	Egil Danielsen	NOR	Janusz Sidło	POL	Viktor Tsybulenko	URS
1960	Viktor Tsybulenko	URS	Walter Krüger	GER	Gergely Kulcsár	HUN
1964	Pauli Nevala	FIN	Gergely Kulcsár	HUN	Jānis Lūsis	URS
1968	Jānis Lūsis	URS	Jorma Kinnunen	FIN	Gergely Kulcsár	HUN
1972	Klaus Wolfermann	FRG	Jānis Lūsis	URS	Bill Schmidt	USA
1976	Miklós Németh	HUN	Hannu Siitonen	FIN	Gheorghe Megelea	ROU
1980	Dainis Kūla	URS	Aleksandr Makarov	URS	Wolfgang Hanisch	GDR
1984	Arto Härkönen	FIN	Dave Ottley	GBR	Kenth Eldebrink	SWE
1988	Tapio Korjus	FIN	Jan Železný	TCH	Seppo Räty	FIN
1992	Jan Železný	TCH	Seppo Räty	FIN	Steve Backley	GBR
1996	Jan Železný	CZE	Steve Backley	GBR	Seppo Räty	FIN
2000	Jan Železný	CZE	Steve Backley	GBR	Sergey Makarov	RUS
2004	Andreas Thorkildsen	NOR	Vadims Vasiļevskis	LAT	Sergey Makarov	RUS
2008	Andreas Thorkildsen	NOR	Ainārs Kovals	LAT	Tero Pitkämäki	FIN
2012	Keshorn Walcott	TTO	Antti Ruuskanen	FIN	Vítězslav Veselý	CZE
2016	Thomas Röhler	GER	Julius Yego	KEN	Keshorn Walcott	TTO
2020	Neeraj Chopra	IND	Jakub Vadlejch	CZE	Vítězslav Veselý	CZE

NOC		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Finland	FIN	7	8	7	22
Soviet Union	URS	3	2	2	7
Sweden	SWE	3	1	2	6
Norway	NOR	3	1	1	5
Czechia	CZE	2	1	2	5
Germany	GER	2	1	0	3
Hungary	HUN	1	2	4	7
United States	USA	1	2	2	5
Czechoslovakia	TCH	1	1	0	2
Trinidad and Tobago	TTO	1	0	1	2
India	IND	1	0	0	1
West Germany	FRG	1	0	0	1
Great Britain	GBR	0	3	1	4
Latvia	LAT	0	2	0	2
Kenya	KEN	0	1	0	1
Poland	POL	0	1	0	1
Russian Federation	RUS	0	0	2	2
East Germany	GDR	0	0	1	1
Romania	ROU	0	0	1	1

Athlete	Nat	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Jan Železný	CZE TCH	3	1	0	4
Jonni Myyrä	FIN	2	0	0	2
Eric Lemming	SWE	2	0	0	2
Andreas Thorkildsen	NOR	2	0	0	2
Jānis Lūsis	LAT URS	1	1	1	3