2018 European Championships Statistics - Men’s JT by K Ken Nakamura

Summary All time Performance List at the European Championships Performance Performer Dist ance Name Nat Pos Venue Year 1 1 91.52 Janis Lusis URS 1 Athinai 1969 2 2 91.34 GDR 1 Athinai 1982 3 90.68 Janis Lusis 1 1971 4 3 89.72 GBR 1 1998 5 4 89.58 FIN 2 Athinai 1969 5 4 89.58 FIN 1 Roma 1974 7 6 89.56 Heino Puuste URS 2 Athinai 1982

Margin of Victory Difference Distance Name Nat Venue Year Max 6.69m 76.66 Matti Järvinen FIN Torino 1934 Min 49cm 88.54 Steve Backley GBR München 2002 83.72 Vitezslav Vesely CZE Helsinki 2012

Best Marks for Places in the European Championships Pos Distance Name Nat Venue Year 1 91.52 Janis Lusis URS Athinai 1969 2 89.58 Pauli Nevala FIN Athinai 1969 3 89.32 GDR Athinai 1982 4 87.84 Dainis Kula URS Athinai 1982

Longest mark in each round Round Distance Name Nat Venue Year Final 91.52 Janis Lusis URS Athinai 1969 Qualifying 88.23 FIN 2016 87.45 Steve Backley GBR Budapest 1998

Multiple Gold Medalists: (NOR): 2006, 2010 Steve Backley (GBR): 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002 Janis Lusis (URS): 1962, 1966, 1969, 1971 Janusz Sidlo (POL): 1954, 1958 Matti Järvinen (FIN): 1934, 1938

Multiple Medals by athletes from a single nation Nation Year Gold Silver Bronze FIN 2014 Antti Russkanen Tero Pitkämäki GBR 1998 Steve Backley Mick Hill GDR 1982 Uwe Hohn Detlef Michel URS 1971 Janis Lusis Janis Donins URS 1962 Janis Lusis Viktor Tsibulenko SWE 1950 Per -Arne Berglund Ragnar Ericzon FIN 1946 Yrjö Nikkanen FIN 1938 Matti Järvinen Yrjö N ikkanen FIN 1934 Matti Järvinen Matti Sippala

Man & Woman from the same team winning the corresponding event: Nation Men Women Venue Year URS Janis Lusis Elvira Ozolina Beograd 1962 Note: None of the ancillary marks are included in the table. All time Performance List at the European Championships Performance Performer Dist ance Name Nat Pos Venue Year 1 1 91.52 Janis Lusis URS 1 Athinai 1969 2 2 91.34 Uwe Hohn GDR 1 Athinai 1982 3 90.68 Janis Lusis 1 Helsinki 1971 4 3 89.72 Steve Ba ckley GBR 1 Budapest 1998 5 4 89.58 Pauli Nevala FIN 2 Athinai 1969 5 4 89.58 Hannu Siitonen FIN 1 Roma 1974 7 6 89.56 Heino Puuste URS 2 Athinai 1982 8 7 89.32 Detlef Michel GDR 3 Athinai 1982 9 8 89.12 FRG 1 Praha 1978 10 9 88.78 Andreas Thorkildsen NOR 1 Göteborg 2006 11 88.54 Steve Backley 1 München 2002 12 88.37 Andreas Thorkildsen 1 2010 13 10 88.23 Antti Ruuskanen FIN 1q Amsterdam 2016 14 11 88.05 Sergey Makarov RUS 2 München 2002 15 88.01 Antti Ruuskanen 1 Zürich 2014 16 12 87.84 Dainis Kula URS 4 Athinai 1982 17 13 87.82 Nikolay Grebnyev URS 2 Praha 1978 18 14 87.81 GER 2 Barcelona 2010 19 15 87.66 GDR 3 Praha 1978 20 87.45 Steve Backley 1qB Budapest 1998 21 87.30 Steve Backley 1 Split 1990 22 16 86.92 Mick Hill GBR 2 Budapest 1998 23 17 86.76 Arto Härkönen FIN 5 Athinai 1982 24 18 86.67 Tero Pitkämäki FIN 3 Barcelona 2010 25 19 86.66 LAT 1 Amsterdam 2016 26 20 86.63 GER 3 Budapest 1998 27 86.58 Arto Härkönen 1q Athinai 1982 28 86.55 Andreas Thorkildsen 1qA Göteborg 2006 29 86.45 Sergey Makarov 4 Budapest 1998 30 86.44 Tero Pitkämäki FIN 2 Göteborg 2006 31 21 86.08 Aleksandr Makarov URS 6 Athinai 1982 32 22 86.04 HUN 1q Praha 1978 33 23 85.95 Ainars Kovals LAT 1qB Göteborg 2006 34 24 85.92 Jan Zelezny CZE 3 Göteborg 2006 35 85.76 Steve Backley 1qA München 2002 36 25 85.48 Einar Vihjalmsson ISL 1qB Split 1990 37 85.46 Wolfgang Hanisch 2 Roma 1974 37 85.46 Detlef Michel 4 Praha 1978 39 26 85.33 GER 3 München 2002 40 27 85.30 Janis Donins URS 2 Helsinki 1971 41 85.20 Steve Backley 1 Helsinki 1994 42 85.18 Nikolay Grebnyev URS 2q Praha 1978 43 28 85.16 Helmut Schre iber FRG 3q Athinai 1969 44 29 85.06 CZE 2q Amsterdam 2016 45 30 84.82 Vitezslav Vesely CZE 3q Amsterdam 2016 46 84.79 Vitezslav Vesely 2 Zürich 2014 47 31 84.78 Juha Laukkanen FIN 5 Budapest 1998 48 32 84.76 FR G 1 1986 48 32 84.76 Seppo Räty FIN 1qB Helsinki 1994 50 34 84.68 Vadims Vasilevskis LAT 2qB Göteborg 2006

Shortest winning distance since 1990: 83.72 by Vitezslav Vesely (CZE) in 2012 85.20 by Steve Backley (GBR) in 1994

Margin of Victory Difference Distance Name Nat Venue Year Max 6.69m 76.66 Matti Järvinen FIN Torino 1934 Min 49cm 88.54 Steve Backley GBR München 2002 83.72 Vitezslav Vesely CZE Helsinki 2012

Difference between third and fourth place Difference Distance Name Nat Venue Year Max 4.66m 86.67 Tero Pitkämäki FIN Barcelona 2010 Min 2cm 83.68 Terje Thorslund NOR Roma 1974

Best Marks for Places in the European Championships Pos Distance Name Nat Venue Year 1 91.52 Janis Lusis URS Athinai 1969 2 89.58 Pauli Nevala FIN Athinai 1969 3 89.32 Detlef Michel GDR Athinai 1982 4 87.84 Dainis Kula URS Athinai 1982 5 86.76 Arto Härkönen FIN Athinai 1982 6 86.08 Aleksandr Makarov URS Athinai 1982 7 84.34 Antero Toivonen FIN Athinai 1982 8 82.59 Matti Närhi FIN Budapest 1998

Best Marks for Places – all competitions Pos Distance Name Nat Venue Day Month Year 1 98.48 Jan Zelezny CZE Jena 25 May 1996 2 91.56 GER 4 May 2018 91.31 FIN 12 Aug 2001 3 90.08 Andreas Hofmann GER Doha 4 May 2018 89.95 Kostas Gatsioudis GRE Edmonton 12 Aug 2001 88.67 Sergey Makarov RUS 23 Sept 2000 4 88.58 Sergey Makarov RUS Jena 5 June 1999 88.26 Thomas Rohler GER 12 Aug 2017 87.76 Raymond Hecht GER Sydney 23 Sept 2000 5 87.12 Antti Ruuskanen FIN 26 Aug 2015 86.94 Tero Pitkamaki FIN London 12 Aug 2017 86.67 Jakub Vadlejch CZE Doha 4 May 2018 6 86.53 Konstandinos Gatsioudis GRE Sydney 23 Sept 2000 86.01 Andreas Hofmann GER Beijing 26 Aug 2015 7 85.78 Boris Henry GER Sydney 23 Sept 2000

Longest mark in each round Round Distance Name Nat Venue Year Final 91.52 Janis Lusis URS Athinai 1969 Qualifying 88.23 Antti Ruuskanen FIN Amsterdam 2016 87.45 Steve Backley GBR Budapest 1998

Longest non-qualifier for the final Distance Position Name Nat Venue Year 80.58 13q Roberto Bertolini ITA Amsterdam 2016 80.52 14q Tero Pitkamaki FIN Amsterdam 2016

Multiple Gold Medalists: Andreas Thorkildsen (NOR): 2006, 2010 Steve Backley (GBR): 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002 Janis Lusis (URS): 1962, 1966, 1969, 1971 Janusz Sidlo (POL): 1954, 1958 Matti Järvinen (FIN): 1934, 1938

Multiple Medalists: Vitezslav Vesely (CZE): 2012 Gold; 2014 Silver, 2016 Silver Andreas Thorkildsen (NOR): 2006 Gold, 2010 Gold Tero Pitkämäki (FIN): 2006 Silver; 2010 Bronze, 2014 Bronze Jan Zelezny (CZE): 1994 Bronze; 2006 Bronze Steve Backley (GBR): 1990 Gold, 1994 Gold, 1998 Gold, 2002 Gold Detlef Michel (GDR): 1982 Bronze; 1986 Silver Wolfgang Hanisch (GDR): 1971 Bronze; 1974 Silver; 1978 Bronze Wladyslaw Nikiciuk (POL): 1962 Bronze; 1966 Silver Janis Lusis (URS): 1962 Gold, 1966 Gold, 1969 Gold, 1971 Gold Janusz Sidlo (POL): 1954 Gold, 1958 Gold; 1969 Bronze Yrjö Nikkanen (FIN): 1938 Silver; 1946 Silver Matti Järvinen (FIN): 1934 Gold, 1938 Gold

Medals by Countries: Nation Gold Silver Bronze FIN 5 6 6 URS 4 6 1 GBR 4 1 POL 2 1 2 NOR 2 1 1 FRG 2 GDR 1 2 3 CZE 1 2 2 SWE 1 1 2 LAT 1 RUS 2 GER 1 2 HUN 3 EST 1

Multiple Medals by athletes from a single nation Nation Year Gold Silver Bronze FIN 2014 Antti Russkanen Tero Pitkämäki GBR 1998 Steve Backley Mick Hill GDR 1982 Uwe Hohn Detlef Michel URS 1971 Janis Lusis Janis Donins URS 1962 Janis Lusis Viktor Tsibulenko SWE 1950 Per-Arne Berglund Ragnar Ericzon FIN 1946 Yrjö Nikkanen Tapio Rautavaara FIN 1938 Matti Järvinen Yrjö Nikkanen FIN 1934 Matti Järvinen Matti Sippala

Average from last eight European Championships Avera ge 2016 2014 2012 2010 2006 2002 1998 1994 Winning Distance 87.38 86.66 88.01 83.72 88.37 88.78 88.54 89.72 85.20 Winning Medal (3 rd ) 84.58 82.44 84.40 82.63 86.67 85.92 85.33 86.63 82.58 Missing Medal (4 th ) 82.98 82.03 83.16 81.55 82.01 83.21 84.07 86.45 81.34

Man & Woman from the same team winning the corresponding event: Nation Men Women Venue Year URS Janis Lusis Elvira Ozolina Beograd 1962

Athletes with Olympic, World and European gold (Olympic and Euro gold before 1983) Name Nation Olympics World European Andreas Thorkildsen NOR 2004, 2008 2009 2006, 2010 Janis Lusis URS 1968 Not held until 1983 1962, 1966, 1969, 1971 Matti Järvinen FIN 1932 Not held until 1983 1934, 1938

Jan Zelezny, 1992, 1996 & 2000 Olympic Champion, won 1993, 1995 and 2001 World Championships, but his best finish at the European Championships was 3 rd in 1994 & 2006

European Champion who previously won European Junior Name Nat European Champ European Junior Champ European U23 Champ Zigismunds Si rmais LAT 2016 2011 2013 Steve Backley GBR 1994, 1998, 2002 1987 Klaus Tafelmeier FRG 1986 1977 Uwe Hohn GDR 1982 1981

Last ten European Championships: Year Gold Nat Dist Silver Nat Dist Bronze Nat Dist 2016 Zigismunds Sirmais LAT 86.66 Vitezslav Vesely CZE 83.59 Antti Ruuskanen FIN 82.44 2014 Antti Ruuskanen FIN 88.01 Vitezslav Vesely CZE 84.79 Tero Pitkämäki FIN 84.40 2012 Vitezslav Vesely CZE 83.72 Valeriy Iordan RUS 83.23 FIN 82.63 2010 Andreas Thorkildsen NOR 88.37 Matthias de Zordo GER 87.81 Tero Pitkamaki FIN 86.67 2006 Andreas Thorkildsen NOR 88.78 Tero Pitkamaki FIN 86.44 Jan Zelezny CZE 85.92 2002 Steve Backley GBR 88.54 Sergey Makarov RUS 88.05 Boris Henry GER 85.33 1998 Steve Backley GBR 89.72 Mick Hill GBR 86.92 Raymond Hecht GER 86.63 1994 Steve Backley GBR 85.20 Seppo Räty FIN 82.90 Jan Zelezny CZE 82.58 1990 Steve Backley GBR 87.30 Viktor Zaytsev URS 83.30 Patrik Boden SWE 82.66 1986 Klaus Tafelmeier FRG 84.76 Detlef Michel GDR 81.90 Viktor Yevsyukov URS 81.80

European U-23 Championships: Year Gold Nat Dist Silver Nat Dist Bronze Nat Dist 2017 Norbert Rivasz-Toth HUN 83.08 Ioannis Kiriazis GRE 81.04 MDA 78.76 2015 Kacper Oleszczuk POL 82.29 Maksym Bohdan UKR 81.08 Berhard Seifert GER 80.57 2013 Zigismunds Sirmais LAT 82.77 Berhard Seifert GER 82.42 Thomas Rohler GER 81.74 2011 Till Woschler GER 84.38 Faith Avan TUR 84.11 Dmitriy Tarbin RUS 83.18 2009 Ari Mannio FIN 84.57 CZE 80.53 Spiridon Lebesis GRE 79.37 2007 Alexander Vieweg GER 79.56 Karlis Alainis LAT 76.83 UKR 76.28 2005 POL 77.25 Antti Ruuskanen FIN 76.82 Magnus Arvidsson SWE 76.15 2003 Aleksandr Ivanov RUS 82.59 Igor Janik POL 82.54 Tero Pitkamaki FIN 78.84 2001 Bjorn Lange GER 80.85 Aleksandr Baranovskiy RUS 76.74 Janis Liepa LAT 74.26 1999 Harri Haatainen FIN 83.02 Ville Rasanen FIN 78.36 Mark Frank GER 77.62 1997 Pietari Skytta FIN 81.58 Matti Narhi FIN 80.72 Christia Nicolay GER 78.18

Last eleven European Junior (U20) Championships: Year Gold Nat Dist Silver Nat Dist Bronze Nat Dist 2017 Cyprian Mrzglod POL 80.52 Aliaksei Katkavets BLR 76.91 Lukas Moutarde FRA 74.22 2015 SLO 79.20 Simon Litzell SWE 78.34 Edis Matusevicius LTU 77.48 2013 Julian Weber GER 79.68 Maksym Bohdan UKR 78.77 German Komarov RUS 73.95 2011 Zigismunds Sirmais LAT 81.53 Marcin Krukowski POL 79.19 Pavel Mialeshka BLR 76.59 2009 Andreas Hofmann GER 75.89 Will Wöschler GER 73.66 Lukasz Grzeszczuk POL 73.55 2007 Matthias De Zordo GER 78.59 Roman Avramenko UKR 75.24 Thomas Smet BEL 72.56 2005 Ioannis Georgios GRE 77.25 Alexander Vieweg GER 75.85 Ari Mannio FIN 72.47 2003 TeemuSmalios Wirkkala FIN 79.90 Tero Järvenpää FIN 73.66 Antii Ruuskanen FIN 72.87 2001 Aleksandr Ivanov RUS 80.18 Andreas Thorkildsen NOR 76.98 Saku Kuusisto FIN 76.98 1999 Tomas Intas LTU 77.88 David Parker GBR 77.26 Tim Werner GER 76.31 1997 Adrian Markowski POL 78.42 Juha Aarnio FIN 77.60 Christian Fusenig GER 75.86

Last eight Olympics: Year Gold Nat Dist Silver Nat Dist Bronze Nat Dist 2016 Thomas Röhler GER 90.30 KEN 88.24 TTO 85.38 2012 Keshom Walcott TRI 84.58 Oleksandr Pyatnytsya UKR 84.51 Antti Ruuskanen FIN 84.12 2008 Andreas Thorkildsen NOR 90.57 Ainars Kovals LAT 86.64 Tero Pitkämäki FIN 86.16 2004 Andreas Thorkildsen NOR 86.50 Vadims Vasilevskis LAT 84.95 Sergey Makarov RUS 84.84 2000 Jan Zelezny CZE 90.17 Steve Backley GBR 89.85 Sergey Makarov RUS 88.67 1996 Jan Zelezny CZE 88.16 Steve Backley GBR 87.44 Seppo Räty FIN 86.98 1992 Jan Zelezny CZE 89.66 Seppo Räty FIN 86.60 Steve Backley GBR 83.38 1988 Tapio Korjust FIN 84.28 Jan Zelezny TCH 84.12 Seppo Räty FIN 83.26

Last nine World Championships: Year Gold Nat Dist Silver Nat Dist Bronze Nat Dist 2017 Johannes Vetter GER 89.89 Jakub Vadlejch CZE 89.73 Peter Frydrich CZE 88.32 2015 Julius Yego KEN 92.72 EGY 88.99 Tero Pitkamaki FIN 87.64 2013 Vitezslav Vesely CZE 87.17 Tero Pitkamaki FIN 87.07 Dmitriy Tarabin RUS 86.23 2011 Matthias de Zordo GER 86.27 Andreas Thorkildsen NOR 84.78 Guillermo Martinez CUB 84.30 2009 Andreas Thorkildsen NOR 89.59 Guillermo Martinez CUB 86.41 Yukifumi Murakami JPN 82.97 2007 Tero Pitkämäki FIN 90.33 Andreas Thorkildsen NOR 88.61 USA 86.21 2005 Andrus Värnik EST 87.17 Andreas Thorkildsen NOR 86.18 Sergey Makarov RUS 83.54 2003 Sergey Makarov RUS 85.44 Andrus Värnik EST 85.17 Boris Henry GER 84.74 2001 Jan Zelezny CZE 92.80 Aki Parviainen FIN 91.31 Kostas Gatsioudis GRE 89.95

All time European List Performance Performer Distance Name Nat Pos Venue DMY 1 1 98.48 Jan Zelezny CZE 1 Jena 25 May 1996 2 95.66 Jan Zelezny 1 29 Aug 1993 2 95.54 Jan Zelezny 1 Pietersburg 6 Apr 1993 4 94.64 Jan Zelezny 1 Ostrava 31 May 1996 5 2 94.44 Johannes Vetter GER 1 Luzern 11 July 2017 6 94.02 Jan Zelezny 1 Stellenbosch 26 Mar 1997 7 3 93.90 Thomas Rohler GER 1 Doha 5 May 2017 8 93.88 Johannes Vetter 1 Thum 18 Aug 2017 9 4 93.09 Aki Parviainen FIN 1 Kuortane 26 June 1999

Longest throws on European Soil Performance Performer Distance Name Nat Pos Venue DMY 1 1 98.48 Jan Zelezny CZE 1 Jena 25 May 1996 2 95.66 Jan Zelezny 1 Sheffield 29 Aug 1993 3 94.64 Jan Zelezny 1 Ostrava 31 May 1996 4 2 94.44 Johannes Vetter GER 1 Luzern 11 July 2017

Longest throws in Performance Performer Distance Name Nat Pos DMY 1 1 91.30 Jan Zelezny CZE 1 1 Sept 1995 2 2 89.85 Johannes Vetter GER 1 27 Aug 2017

Longest throws in August Performance Performer Distance Name Nat Pos Venue DMY 1 1 95.66 Jan Zelezny CZE 1 Sheffield 29 Aug 1993 2 2 93.88 Johannes Vetter GER 1 Thum 18 Aug 2017 3 92.80 Jan Zelezny 1 Edmonton 12 Aug 2001

Combined 2017 & 2018 European List Performance Performer Distance Name Nat Pos Venue DMY 1 1 94.44 Johannes Vetter GER 1 Luzern 11 July 2017 2 2 93.90 Thomas Rohler GER 1 Doha 5 May 2017 3 93.88 Johannes Vetter 1 Thum 18 Aug 2017 4 92.70 Johannes Vetter 1 Leiria 11 Mar 2018 5 3 92.06 Andreas Hofmann GER 1 Offenburg 2 June 2018 6 91.78 Thomas Rohler 1 Doha 4 May 2018 7 91.56 Johannes Vetter 2 Doha 4 May 2018 8 91.53 Thomas Rohler 1q London 10 Aug 2017 9 91.44 Andreas Hofmann 1 Rehlingen 20 May 2018

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