Javelin throw men legal analytics

Javelin throw table View source
Top mark
98.48
🇨🇿 Jan Zelezný
Jena · 1996-05-25
10th-place mark
93.90
gap: +4.58
100th-place mark
90.43
gap: +8.05
Median age, top 100
27.4 yrs
Distinct athletes
128
1598 canonical perfs
Years contested
1986–2026
9 historical WRs
World-record progression 9 world records since 1986

Canonical list: main list. Higher mark = better. Hover a dot for the holder & venue.

Best mark per year 41 years

The single best canonical mark for each year. Hover a dot for the holder.

Entries per year depth growth on the all-time list
1986: 2 performances1987: 6 performances1988: 7 performances1989: 8 performances1990: 21 performances1991: 7 performances1992: 40 performances1993: 26 performances1994: 37 performances1995: 64 performances1996: 75 performances1997: 89 performances1998: 75 performances1999: 83 performances2000: 61 performances2001: 69 performances2002: 45 performances2003: 29 performances2004: 19 performances2005: 34 performances2006: 46 performances2007: 54 performances2008: 30 performances2009: 26 performances2010: 28 performances2011: 23 performances2012: 16 performances2013: 30 performances2014: 26 performances2015: 50 performances2016: 45 performances2017: 75 performances2018: 65 performances2019: 57 performances2020: 13 performances2021: 45 performances2022: 49 performances2023: 31 performances2024: 47 performances2025: 42 performances2026: 3 performances199020002010202008919862026
Decade leaders best canonical mark of each decade
  1. 1980s 87.66 🇨🇿 Jan Zelezný 1987-05-31
  2. 1990s 98.48 🇨🇿 Jan Zelezný 1996-05-25
  3. 2000s 92.80 🇨🇿 Jan Zelezný 2001-08-12
  4. 2010s 94.44 🇩🇪 Johannes Vetter 2017-07-11
  5. 2020s 97.76 🇩🇪 Johannes Vetter 2020-09-06
Top countries (top 100) national depth on the all-time list
  1. 🇩🇪 GER 31
  2. 🇨🇿 CZE 30
  3. 🇫🇮 FIN 12
  4. 🇬🇩 GRN 4
  5. 🇳🇴 NOR 4
  6. 🇷🇺 RUS 3
  7. 🇱🇻 LAT 3
  8. 🇬🇷 GRE 3
Most prolific (top 100) athletes with the most appearances
  1. 🇨🇿 Jan Zelezný 29
  2. 🇩🇪 Johannes Vetter 16
  3. 🇫🇮 Aki Parviainen 6
  4. 🇫🇮 Tero Pitkämäki 5
  5. 🇩🇪 Thomas Röhler 5
  6. 🇬🇩 Anderson Peters 4
  7. 🇩🇪 Andreas Hofmann 4
  8. 🇳🇴 Andreas Thorkildsen 4
Mark vs age 800 points