Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's javelin throw

The Men's javelin throw athletics events for the 2020 Summer Paralympics took place at the Tokyo National Stadium from August 27 to September 4, 2021. A total of 8 events were contested in this discipline.

Schedule

R

Round 1

½

Semifinals

F

Final

Date	Fri 27		Sat 28		Sun 29		Mon 30		Tue 31		Wed 1		Thu 2		Fri 3		Sat 4
Event	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
F13														F
F34											F
F38	F
F41																		F
F46							F
F54															F
F57				F
F64								F

Medal summary

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

Classification	Gold		Silver		Bronze
F13	Daniel Pembroke  Great Britain	69.52 GR	Ali Pirouj  Iran	64.30	Héctor Cabrera  Spain	61.13
F34	Saeid Afrooz  Iran	40.05 WR	Mauricio Valencia  Colombia	37.84	Diego Meneses  Colombia	37.11
F38	José Lemos  Colombia	60.31 WR	Vladyslav Bilyi  Ukraine	55.34 AR	Luis Fernando Lucumí Villegas  Colombia	54.63
F41	Sun Pengxiang  China	47.13 WR	Sadegh Beit Sayah  Iran	43.35	Wildan Nukhailawi  Iraq	41.39
F46	Dinesh Priyantha  Sri Lanka	67.79 WR	Devendra Jhajharia  India	64.35	Sundar Singh Gurjar  India	64.01
F54	Hamed Amiri  Iran	31.35 GR	Alexey Kuznetsov  RPC	31.19 AR	Justin Phongsavanh  United States	31.09
F57	Hamed Heidari  Azerbaijan	51.42 WR	Amanolah Papi  Iran	49.56 AR	Cícero Valdiran Lins Nobre  Brazil	48.93
F64	Sumit Antil  India	68.55 WR	Michal Burian  Australia	66.29 WR	Dulan Kodithuwakku  Sri Lanka	65.61

Results

F13

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world, Paralympic, and area records were as follows:

World Record	Aleksandr Svechnikov (UZB)	71.01	London, United Kingdom	19 July 2017
Paralympic Record	Aleksandr Svechnikov (UZB)	65.69	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	14 September 2016

Area	Distance (m)	Athlete	Nation
Africa	57.64	Samir Belhouchat	Algeria
America	59.12	Ulicer Aguilera Cruz	Cuba
Asia	71.01 WR	Aleksandr Svechnikov	Uzbekistan
Europe	66.75	Daniel Pembroke	Great Britain
Oceania	56.04	Jackson Hamilton	Australia

Results The final in this classification took place on 2 September 2021, at 20:26:

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	Best	Notes
	Daniel Pembroke	Great Britain	F13	59.12	63.65	69.52	62.38	63.19	r	69.52	PR
	Ali Pirouj	Iran	F13	60.16	60.47	55.68	59.14	63.41	64.30	64.30	PB
	Héctor Cabrera Llácer	Spain	F12	61.13	59.95	x	60.77	51.90	54.11	61.13	SB
4	Ulicer Aguilera Cruz	Cuba	F13	59.83	53.47	56.10	53.46	59.89	52.90	59.89	AR
5	Orkhan Gasimov	Azerbaijan	F13	53.17	57.82	58.94	57.47	55.31	58.96	58.96
6	Marek Wietecki	Poland	F12	58.60	57.06	57.79	55.74	57.49	58.89	58.89	SB
7	Octavian Vasile Tucaliuc	Romania	F13	39.32	43.09	44.41	43.02	45.51	40.97	45.51

F34

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world, Paralympic, and area records were as follows:

World Record	Mauricio Valencia (COL)	38.23	Cali, Colombia	8 April 2018
Paralympic Record	Mauricio Valencia (COL)	36.65	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	15 September 2016

Area	Distance (m)	Athlete	Nation
Africa	34.26	Faouzi Rzig	Tunisia
America	38.23 WR	Mauricio Valencia	Colombia
Asia	38.05	Wang Yanzhang	China
Europe	31.69	Mohsen Kaedi	Turkey
Oceania	21.03	Record Mark

Results The final in this classification took place on 1 September 2021, at 9:30:

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Best	Notes
	Saeid Afrooz	Iran	39.48	39.40	40.05	39.67	–	–	40.05	WR
	Mauricio Valencia	Colombia	34.34	32.66	35.12	36.37	34.57	37.84	37.84	SB
	Diego Meneses	Colombia	36.96	37.02	36.36	35.84	37.02	37.11	37.11	PB
4	Wang Yanzhang	China	35.53	36.49	35.26	31.75	36.19	35.54	36.49	SB
5	Zhang Zhongqiang	China	x	29.02	31.54	32.47	31.82	30.72	32.47	SB
6	Hussein Khafaji	Iraq	x	x	32.06	32.12	30.84	32.32	32.32	SB
7	Azeddine Nouiri	Morocco	30.86	31.17	27.81	30.34	29.62	26.35	31.17	SB
8	Faouzi Rzig	Tunisia	28.58	30.91	30.77	30.28	31.12	30.46	31.12	SB
9	Thierry Cibone	France	25.36	25.18	24.73	25.04	25.68	24.77	25.68
10	Morea Mararos	Papua New Guinea	x	19.63	x	x	21.11	19.94	21.11	AR

F38

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world, Paralympic, and area records were as follows:

World Record	Corey Anderson (AUS)	58.18	Brisbane, Australia	8 March 2020
Paralympic Record	Oleksandr Doroshenko (UKR)	51.37	Athens, Greece	23 September 2004

Area	Distance (m)	Athlete	Nation
Africa	54.63	Reinhardt Hamman	South Africa
America	54.95	Luis Fernando Lucumí Villegas	Colombia
Asia	52.38	Mohammad Naeiminia	Iran
Europe	54.87	Oleksandr Doroshenko	Ukraine
Oceania	58.18 WR	Corey Anderson	Australia

Results The final in this classification took place on 27 August 2021, at 11:06:

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Notes
	José Lemos	Colombia	60.31	-	-	-	-	57.00	WR
	Vladyslav Bilyi	Ukraine	x	53.72	x	52.21	54.27	55.34	AR
	Luis Fernando Lucumí Villegas	Colombia	54.63	53.59	x	x	x	54.61
4	Corey Anderson	Australia	52.98	52.85	54.44	54.48	51.77	53.30	SB
5	Oleksandr Doroshenko	Ukraine	47.45	50.84	x	54.07	x	50.31	SB
6	Reinhardt Hamman	South Africa	51.13	51.48	50.24	52.24	52.49	50.78	SB
7	Jayden Sawyer	Australia	45.57	44.28	43.69	44.31	44.74	44.84
8	Ahmed Meshaima	Bahrain	36.07	34.72	x	39.37	39.25	38.42	SB

F41

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world, Paralympic, and area records were as follows:

World Record	Sun Pengxiang (CHN)	48.94	Kobe, Japan	25 May 2024
Paralympic Record	Sun Pengxiang (CHN)	42.85	Tokyo, Japan	4 September 2021

Area	Distance (m)	Athlete	Nation
Africa	37.51	Mohamed Amara	Tunisia
America	35.27	Hagan Landry	United States
Asia	48.94 WR	Sun Pengxiang	China
Europe	40.54	Mathias Mester	Germany
Oceania	36.95	Record Mark

Results The final in this classification took place on 4 September 2021, at 19:10:

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	Best	Notes
	Sun Pengxiang	China	F41	45.82	44.58	43.50	43.96	47.13	–	47.13	WR
	Sadegh Beit Sayah	Iran	F41	41.98	43.01	x	43.35	42.30	41.80	43.35	PB
	Wildan Nukhailawi	Iraq	F41	41.39	39.26	x	38.11	38.70	40.04	41.39	SB
4	Navdeep Singh	India	F41	38.59	38.33	39.97	40.80	x	x	40.80
5	Ahmed Naas	Iraq	F40	33.41	35.70	35.87	35.57	37.51	35.36	37.51	GR (F40)
6	Kovan Abdulraheem	Iraq	F41	36.90	37.19	36.33	36.34	33.91	34.28	37.19	SB
7	Vladimír Gašpar	Croatia	F41	36.21	x	32.74	34.89	33.37	36.54	36.54	SB
8	Kah Michel Ye	Ivory Coast	F41	31.75	33.87	x	32.20	33.45	34.41	34.41	SB

F46

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world, Paralympic, and area records were as follows:

World Record	Devendra Jhajharia (IND)	63.97	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	13 September 2016
Paralympic Record	Devendra Jhajharia (IND)	63.97	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	13 September 2016

Area	Distance (m)	Athlete	Nation
Africa	52.94	Jan van Staden	South Africa
America	61.63	Eliezer Gabriel Buenaventura	Mexico
Asia	63.97 WR	Devendra Jhajaria	India
Europe	53.58	Joerg Schiedek	Germany
Oceania	39.38	Eric Mellor	Australia

Results The final in this classification took place on 30 August 2021, at 11:03:

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Best	Notes
	Dinesh Priyantha Herath Mudiyanselage	Sri Lanka	62.58	62.19	67.79	62.06	x	–	67.79	WR
	Devendra Jhajharia	India	60.28	60.62	64.35	x	x	61.23	64.35	PB
	Sundar Singh Gurjar	India	62.26	60.20	x	x	64.01	x	64.01	SB
4	Guillermo Varona Gonzalez	Cuba	60.96	x	63.30	62.60	60.10	61.86	63.30	AR
5	Eliezer Gabriel Buenaventura	Mexico	55.16	60.28	53.74	56.98	55.62	54.27	60.28	SB
6	Takuya Shiramasa	Japan	58.15	56.55	55.66	58.35	57.10	51.99	58.35
7	Akihiro Yamazaki	Japan	57.32	57.69	55.20	50.48	53.59	48.38	57.69
8	Ajeet Singh	India	56.15	x	x	x	x	52.36	56.15
9	Andrius Skuja	Lithuania	45.09	42.08	x	Did not advance			45.09

F54

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world, Paralympic, and area records were as follows:

World Record	Justin Phongsavanh (USA)	33.29	Minneapolis, United States	19 June 2021
Paralympic Record	Manolis Stefanoudakis (GRE)	29.45	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	9 September 2016

Area	Distance (m)	Athlete	Nation
Africa	22.94	Abdellah Bouajaj	Morocco
America	33.29 WR	Justin Phongsavanh	United States
Asia	30.96	Hamed Amiri	Iran
Europe	31.10	Aliaksandr Tryputs	Belarus
Oceania	24.47	Bruce Wallrodt	Australia

Results The final in this classification took place on 3 September 2021, at 10:08:

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Best	Notes
	Hamed Amiri	Iran	31.27	29.49	29.99	31.35	28.16	x	31.35	GR
	Alexey Kuznetsov	RPC	30.26	31.19	29.90	30.11	29.39	29.94	31.19	AR
	Justin Phongsavanh	United States	30.41	x	31.09	30.85	30.20	30.64	31.09
4	Manolis Stefanoudakis	Greece	29.47	29.10	30.45	29.50	29.33	29.52	30.45
5	Ladislav Čuchran	Slovakia	24.25	28.66	25.90	29.02	26.73	27.07	29.02
6	Edgar Ulises Fuentes Yanez	Mexico	26.55	27.77	28.87	x	x	28.87	28.87	SB

F57

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world, Paralympic, and area records were as follows:

World Record	Cícero Valdiran Lins Nobre (BRA)	49.26	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	14 November 2019
Paralympic Record	Mohammad Khalvandi (IRI)	46.12	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	12 September 2016

Area	Distance (m)	Athlete	Nation
Africa	43.84	Youssoupha Diouf	Senegal
America	49.26 WR	Cícero Valdiran Lins Nobre	Brazil
Asia	48.60	Amanollah Papi	Iran
Europe	45.72	Mohammad Khalvandi	Turkey
Oceania	27.03	Record Mark

Results The final in this classification took place on 28 August 2021, at 19:00:

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	Best	Notes
	Hamed Heidari	Azerbaijan	F57	45.68	47.78	47.00	49.04	51.42	-	51.42	WR
	Amanollah Papi	Iran	F57	47.74	49.50	49.26	49.56	49.55	47.83	49.56	AR
	Cícero Valdiran Lins Nobre	Brazil	F57	46.21	46.82	48.93	48.52	46.62	48.70	48.93	SB
4	Yorkinbek Odilov	Uzbekistan	F57	45.48	46.94	47.52	45.41	43.38	40.83	47.52	PB
5	Mohamad Mohamad	Syria	F57	43.58	42.88	44.36	44.47	43.78	44.60	44.60	SB
6	Cao Ngọc Hùng	Vietnam	F57	42.78	x	42.08	40.61	42.69	43.91	43.91	SB
7	Youssoupha Diouf	Senegal	F57	40.14	37.42	40.03	41.74	x	36.34	41.74	SB
8	Edgar Ismael Barajas Barajas	Mexico	F57	x	x	40.25	36.42	39.73	36.43	40.25
9	Pablo Damian Gimenez Reinoso	Argentina	F57	33.07	33.04	33.26	34.17	33.27	34.25	34.25
10	Marilson Fernandes Semedo	Cape Verde	F57	33.07	28.38	32.86	x	32.14	32.11	33.07	PB
11	Thomas Mulbah	Liberia	F56	x	x	x	13.54	x	x	13.54	PB
	Ranjeet Bhati	India	F57	x	x	x	x	x	x	NM

F64

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world, Paralympic, and area records were as follows:

World Record	Sumit Antil (IND)	62.88	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	8 Nov 2019
Paralympic Record	new event	–

Area	Distance (m)	Athlete	Nation
Africa	56.24	Márcio Fernandes	Cape Verde
America	55.88	Gerdán Fonseca	Cuba
Asia	62.88 WR	Sumit Antil	India
Europe	42.52	Patrick Stoll	Switzerland
Oceania	55.80	Rory McSweeney	New Zealand

Results The final in this classification took place on 30 August 2021, at 19:00:

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	Best	Notes
	Sumit Antil	India	F64	66.95	68.08	65.27	66.71	68.55	x	68.55	WR
	Michal Burian	Australia	F44	60.11	62.86	61.22	63.15	61.43	66.29	66.29	PB
	Dulan Kodithuwakku	Sri Lanka	F44	62.11	59.81	63.49	65.61	61.64	65.05	65.61	PB
4	Sandeep Chaudhary	India	F44	61.13	x	62.20	x	x	62.03	62.20	SB
5	Francisco Jefferson de Lima	Brazil	F44	53.16	55.47	55.30	56.33	53.52	52.07	56.33
6	Edenilson Roberto Floriani	Brazil	F42	54.12	50.13	55.54	x	51.90	x	55.54	SB
7	Michael Gallardo	United States	F64	54.72	51.67	x	x	53.32	x	54.72
8	Roman Novak	Ukraine	F44	52.66	x	53.73	53.00	54.30	52.73	54.30	SB
9	Chaminda Sampath Hetti Arachchige	Sri Lanka	F64	49.94	48.34	49.21	Did not advance			49.94
10	Inosi Matea Bulimairewa	Fiji	F63	x	42.52	42.55	Did not advance			42.55	SB