2019 World Athletics Championships – Men's javelin throw

The automatic qualification to the final was 84.00 metres. One and done, on his first throw Johannes Vetter beat that by over 5 metres with an 89.35m. In the second group, world leader Magnus Kirt took two attempts to make his mark of 88.36m. Either of those throws would have won the final easily.

In the final, only four men got over 80 metres in the first round, Anderson Peters took the lead with 86.69 m (284 ft 4 ³⁄₄ in). In the second round, Vetter and Kirt got respectable marks with 85.37m and 86.21m respectively. From that point, nobody would improve. Fourth place Lassi Etelätalo was almost 3 metres off the podium. In the fourth round, Peters duplicated his winning first round throw with another 86.69m. #8 in the world rankings coming in, Peters took gold.

Before the competition records were as follows:[2]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date	Location
World	98.48	Jan Železný	CZE	25 May 1996	Jena, Germany
Championship	92.80	Jan Železný	CZE	12 Aug 2001	Edmonton, Canada
World leading	90.61	Magnus Kirt	EST	22 Jun 2019	Kuortane, Finland
African	92.72	Julius Yego	KEN	26 Aug 2015	Beijing, China
Asian	91.36	Cheng Chao-tsun	TPE	26 Aug 2017	Taipei, Chinese Taipei
NACAC	91.29	Breaux Greer	USA	21 Jun 2007	Indianapolis, United States
South American	84.70	Edgar Baumann	PAR	17 Oct 1999	San Marcos, United States
European	98.48	Jan Železný	CZE	25 May 1996	Jena, Germany
Oceanian	89.02	Jarrod Bannister	AUS	29 Feb 2008	Brisbane, Australia

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), is as follows:[3]