Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's javelin throw

Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
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 steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
10 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The Men's Javelin Throw event at the 1952 Summer Olympics took place on 24 July at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.

Medalists

Gold	Cy Young (USA)
Silver	Bill Miller (USA)
Bronze	Toivo Hyytiäinen (FIN)

Records

Standing records prior to the 1952 Summer Olympics
World Record	Yrjö Nikkanen (FIN)	78.70 m	October 16, 1938	Kotka, Finland
Olympic Record	Matti Järvinen (FIN)	72.71 m	August 4, 1932	Los Angeles, United States

Results

Qualifying round

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 64.00 advance to the Final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	A	Toivo Hyytiäinen	Finland	71.29
2	A	Per-Arne Berglund	Sweden	71.28
3	B	Viktor Tsybulenko	Soviet Union	69.42
4	A	Bud Held	United States	68.62
5	A	Otto Bengtsson	Sweden	67.58
6	B	Cy Young	United States	67.26
7	A	Herbert Koschel	Germany	67.22
8	B	Soini Nikkinen	Finland	67.15
9	A	Branko Dangubić	Yugoslavia	66.58
10	A	Ragnar Ericzon	Sweden	66.68
11	B	Dick Miller	Great Britain	64.81
12	A	Ricardo Héber	Argentina	64.82
13	B	Bill Miller	United States	64.81
14	B	Amos Matteucci	Italy	64.50
15	A	Eino Leppänen	Finland	64.47
16	B	Yury Shcherbakov	Soviet Union	64.39
17	A	Vladimir Kuznetsov	Soviet Union	64.38
18	B	Janusz Sidło	Poland	62.16
19	A	Michael Denley	Great Britain	61.58
20	B	Zbigniew Radziwonowicz	Poland	61.50
21	B	Halil Zıraman	Turkey	61.19
22	B	Aristidis Roubanis	Greece	60.55
23	B	József Várszegi	Hungary	56.82
24	A	Jalal Khan	Pakistan	55.56
25	B	Reinaldo Oliver	Puerto Rico	52.40
26	A	Brígido Iriarte	Venezuela	52.13

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Cy Young	United States	68.45	73.78	72.80	65.73	71.73	x	73.78	OR
	Bill Miller	United States	72.46	71.65	63.95	65.41	66.97	70.45	72.46
	Toivo Hyytiäinen	Finland	71.89	71.24	70.25	70.00	69.55	71.16	71.89
4	Viktor Tsybulenko	Soviet Union	71.72	70.44	66.48	71.37	66.49	x	71.72
5	Branko Dangubić	Yugoslavia	66.21	61.09	70.55	58.94	x		70.55
6	Vladimir Kuznetsov	Soviet Union	70.37	65.71	64.81	56.16	58.08	60.10	70.37
7	Ragnar Ericzon	Sweden	69.04	64.55	68.02				69.04
8	Soini Nikkinen	Finland	68.80	64.08	61.58				68.80
9	Bud Held	United States	68.42	x	x				68.42
10	Per-Arne Berglund	Sweden	58.93	67.47	64.13				67.47
11	Otto Bengtsson	Sweden	65.50	63.92	64.58				65.50
12	Herbert Koschel	Germany	x	64.54	64.06				64.54
13	Yury Shcherbakov	Soviet Union	64.52	60.09	60.79				64.52
14	Dick Miller	Great Britain	x	63.75	59.64				63.75
15	Ricardo Héber	Argentina	60.43	62.70	62.82				62.82
16	Eino Leppänen	Finland	58.28	62.61	x				62.61
17	Amos Matteucci	Italy	59.75	61.67	61.38				61.67

References

• Official Olympic Report, la84.org.