The men's javelin throw events at the
2024 Summer Paralympics
The 2024 Summer Paralympics (), also known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games (), and branded as Paris 2024, were the 17th Summer Paralympic Games, an international Multi-sport event, multi-sport parasports event governed by the International P ...
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
Medal summary
Medal table
Medalists
The following is a summary of the medals awarded across all javelin throw events.
Results
F13
incorporating F12 athletes
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:
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
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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
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, 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.
Source:
F34
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:
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.
F38
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:
Results
The final played on 30 August 2024, at 12:09:
F41
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:
Results
F46
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:
Results
F54
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:
Results
F57
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:
Results
F64
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:
Results
The competition in this classification took place on 2 September 2024, at 18:59:
References
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Athletics at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
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Javelin throw at the Paralympics