Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's javelin throw

Men's javelin throw at the Games of the X Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	August 4
Competitors	13 from 7 nations
Medalists
Matti Järvinen Finland   Matti Sippala Finland   Eino Penttilä Finland

Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
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 steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's javelin throw event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place August 4.

Results

Final standings

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
01 !	Matti Järvinen	Finland	72.71	OR
02 !	Matti Sippala	Finland	69.80
03 !	Eino Penttilä	Finland	68.70
4	Gottfried Weimann	Germany	68.18
5	Lee Bartlett	United States	64.46
6	Ken Churchill	United States	63.24
7	Malcolm Metcalf	United States	61.89
8	Kosaku Sumiyoshi	Japan	61.14
9	Olav Sunde	Norway	60.81
10	Saburo Nagao	Japan	59.83
11	Heitor Medina	Brazil	58.00
12	Adolfo Clouthier	Mexico	46.38
13	Miguel Camberos	Mexico	41.71

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1932 Summer Olympics results: Men's javelin throw, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-04-04.