Athletics at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Men's javelin throw explained

The men's javelin throw events at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris took place between 30 August and 7 September 2024. Eight events were held, all by way of direct final, and 68 athletes took part across all eight events.

Schedule

Date[1]	Fri 30		Sat 31		Sun 1		Mon 2		Tue 3		Wed 4		Thu 5		Fri 6		Sat 7
Event	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
Javelin throw F13														F
Javelin throw F34											F
Javelin throw F38	F
Javelin throw F41																		F
Javelin throw F46										F
Javelin throw F54															F
Javelin throw F57				F
Javelin throw F64								F

Medal summary

Medalists

The following is a summary of the medals awarded across all javelin throw events.

F13		74.49		69.74		62.51
F34		41.16		39.04		37.17
F38		63.81		52.86		51.97
F41		47.32		44.72		40.46
F46		66.14		65.62		49.46
F54		30.77		30.53		30.13
F57		50.32		49.97		49.46
F64		70.59 PR		67.03		64.89

Results

F13

incorporating F12 athletes

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:^[2]

Area	Record		Athlete	Location	Date
Africa	54.30			Assen
America	50.39			São Paulo
Asia	64.38			London
Europe	64.89			Dubai
Oceania	38.39			Quebec

Area	Record		Athlete	Location	Date
Africa	57.64			Christchurch
America	61.11			Santiago
Asia	71.01			London
Europe	70.50			Paris
Oceania	58.72			Kobe

Results

In 2012, an elbow injury cost up and coming British javelin thrower Dan Pembroke, then only 21, the opportunity to compete at his home Olympic Games. At the time he competed as a standard able-bodied athlete, although he had suffered from progressively more serious vision impairment from the age of six. Disheartened, Pembroke left the sport, but returned seven years later at the invitation of the British Paralympic Association as his eyesight had now degenerated to the extent that he qualified in the F13 paralympic classification. In Tokyo, he won gold in an empty stadium with a throw of 69 metres.

Now 33, Pembroke came to Paris with two goals; to win his second Paralympic gold in front of a full house in Stade de France, and to make a throw approaching his best efforts from his younger able-bodied athletics days.

In round 4 of the Paris event, he achieved both goals, obliterating the world, European and Paralympic Games records, not to mention the field, with an enormous throw of 74.49 metres, three and a half metres beyond the previous world mark, almost five metres further than the third round throw of the silver medal, Ali Pirouj of Iran, and more than 10 metres beyond anyone else in the field. An Americas record of 62.51 metres was enough to bring Ulicer Aguilera of Cuba the bronze medal.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	Best	Notes
			F13	68.39	66.85	71.15	74.49	–	x	74.49
			F13	x	60.41	69.74	60.62	67.83	62.87	69.74
			F13	61.29	61.09	62.51	x	60.38		62.51
4			F12	57.17	57.06	62.04	55.72	61.11	56.44	62.04
5			F13	60.44	56.87	54.56	59.02	56.92	55.55	60.44
6			F13	59.20	45.40	54.49	47.21			59.20
7			F12	53.56	55.43	58.49	53.44	55.06	52.98	58.49
8			F12	55.30	54.33	56.02	53.61	54.10	57.04	57.04

Source:^[3]

F34

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:^[2]

Area	Record		Athlete	Location	Date
Africa	34.26			Tunis
America	38.23			Nottwil
Asia	40.27			Paris
Europe	31.90			Dubai
Oceania	21.11			Tokyo

Results

A South American record from Mauricio Valencia of Colombia was not enough to threaten the dominant Iranian, Saeid Afrooz, who bettered his own world record on three occasions in the final.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	Best	Notes
			F34	40.18	40.67	41.16	39.87	x	40.86	41.16
			F34	33.00	37.70	x	32.27	39.04	x	39.04
			F34	35.90	35.23	36.72	36.80	37.17	x	37.17
4			F34	35.68	x	35.56	35.64	x	x	35.68
5			F34	34.53	34.09	33.87	x	33.84	33.50	34.53
6			F34	31.73	31.33	32.27	x	32.67	33.33	33.33
7			F34	28.87	29.64	x	30.15	30.30	29.88	30.30
8			F34	x	x	25.12	x	23.78	–	25.12

F38

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:^[2]

Area	Record		Athlete	Location	Date
Africa	54.63			Dubai
America	61.76			Santiago
Asia	52.52			Hangzhou
Europe	55.34			Tokyo
Oceania	58.18			Brisbane

Results

The final played on 30 August 2024, at 12:09:^[4]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	Best	Notes
			F38	55.50	58.45	58.84	63.81	–		63.81
			F38	51.93	x	52.86	52.18	x	x	52.86
			F38	47.04	51.97	49.96	x	x	48.91	51.97
4			F38	51.85	51.14	x	49.26	50.16	x	51.85
5			F38	45.60	46.62	47.26	50.32	47.18	46.78	50.32
6			F38	49.34	48.43	47.51	48.83	48.60	47.00	49.34
7			F38	35.83	37.96	x	35.93	x	x	37.96
8			F38	x	33.09	35.71	33.99	x		35.71
9			F38	x	x	25.62	colspan="3"	25.62

F41

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:^[2]

Area	Record		Athlete	Location	Date
Africa	37.51			Tunis
America	38.31			Paris
Asia	48.94			Kobe
Europe	40.54			London
Oceania	36.95

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	Best	Notes
			F41	X	46.39	47.32	X	46.05	X	47.32
			F41	41.75	X	44.56	43.88	44.72	41.98	44.72
			F41	38.62	40.46	39.85	X	37.77	38.97	40.46
4			F41	32.88	32.96	30.39	37.42	34.87	37.69	37.69
5			F41	34.34	32.42	32.88	30.73	30.45	32.29	34.34
			F41							DQ	R8.1

F46

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:^[2]

Area	Record		Athlete	Location	Date
Africa	16.13			Bloemfontein
America	16.80			Dubai
Asia	16.30			Kobe
Europe	16.29			Tokyo
Oceania	11.40			Busan

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	Best	Notes
			F46	63.63	66.14	64.47	62.48	x		66.14
			F46	59.80	60.53	62.33	60.47	65.62	x	65.62
			F46	62.92	61.75	x	64.96	x	x	64.96
4			F46	57.63	55.55	59.12	58.68	61.65	x	61.65
5			F46	57.34	x	60.58	x	x	61.58	61.58
6			F46	59.28	x	59.76	x	58.31	x	59.76
7			F46	57.57	53.87	55.48	51.35	54.85	56.89	57.57
8			F46	47.34	46.45	x	44.88	47.54	45.77	47.54
9			F46	x	32.31					32.31

F54

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:^[2]

Area	Record		Athlete	Location	Date
Africa	22.94			Tunis
America	33.29			Minneapolis
Asia	31.35			Tokyo
Europe	31.50			Nakhon Ratchasima
Oceania	24.47			Canberra

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	Best	Notes
			F54	30.57	30.77	30.54	30.18	x	29.77	30.77
			F54	x	x	x	30.53	30.17	x	30.53
			F54	28.38	30.13	29.36	28.54	28.30	x	30.13
4			F54	28.70	29.27	27.91	x	28.41	29.31	29.31
5			F54	25.90	26.84	29.12	26.48	26.93	26.30	29.12
6			F54	27.33	26.62	26.47	x	26.80	x	27.33
7			F54	26.11	25.59	x	x	25.90	x	26.11

F57

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:^[2]

Area	Record		Athlete	Location	Date
Africa	45.42			Marrakesh
America	50.18			Kobe
Asia	50.18			Tokyo
Europe	51.42			Tokyo
Oceania	27.03

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	Best	Notes
			F57	48.59	50.18	50.32	48.97	46.26	46.99	50.32
			F57	49.96	x	48.64	48.95	48.73	49.97	49.97
			F57	x	x	x	47.70	49.46	x	49.46
4			F57	46.04	46.96	45.96	47.10	46.97	47.63	47.63
5			F57	46.11	47.39	45.22	45.75	44.77	43.31	47.39
6			F57	44.44	43.62	42.28	44.89	45.66	x	45.66
7			F57	43.16	43.11	42.99	42.30	x	x	43.16
8			F57	40.21	41.91	41.23	42.12	40.35	40.42	42.12
9			F57	39.97	x	38.04	x	38.29	37.42	39.97
10			F57	33.63	34.63	35.84	33.67	x	x	35.84
11			F57	x	12.90	15.07	14.22	14.67	x	15.07

F64

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:^[2]

Area	Record		Athlete	Location	Date
Africa	48.12			London
America	59.19			São Paulo
Asia	52.79			London
Europe	37.54	colspan="4"
Oceania	29.02			Busan

Area	Record		Athlete	Location	Date
Africa	62.50			Paris
America	59.24			São Paulo
Asia	66.49			Kobe
Europe	58.42			Paris
Oceania	66.29			Tokyo

Area	Record		Athlete	Location	Date
Africa	56.24			Doha
America	60.79			Santiago
Asia	73.29			Hangzhou
Europe	42.52			Nottwil
Oceania	55.80			Doha

Results

The competition in this classification took place on 2 September 2024, at 18:59:^[5]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	Best	Notes
			F64	69.11	70.59	66.66	x	69.04	66.57	70.59	PR,
			F44	63.14	63.61	55.01	63.73	67.03	64.38	67.03
				63.78	64.89	58.89	60.34	62.39	60.80	64.89
4				60.00	59.30	62.80	60.34	x	62.55	62.80
5				52.61	x	55.02	61.04	58.85	58.53	61.04
6				58.58	x	57.86	57.40	55.61	54.63	58.58
7				54.86	57.04	58.03	55.45	57.96	56.30	58.03
8			F42	57.99	55.74	55.99	x	54.39	x	57.99	PR,
9			F44	x	52.01	50.04	–	–	–	52.01
10			F64	47.58	46.33	44.97	–	–	–	47.58

Notes and References

1. Web site: Athletics Competition Schedule . 30 August 2024.
2. Web site: Athletics – Records . 30 August 2024.
3. Web site: Men's Javelin Throw – F13 – Results . Paralympics . 5 September 2024 . 5 September 2024.
4. Web site: Men's javelin throw – F38 – Results . 30 August 2024.
5. Web site: Men's javelin throw – F64 – Results . Paralympics . 3 September 2024 . 2 September 2024.