There are a few mistakes you can make in the javelin throw that make a throw not count. If you cross the fault line with your body or turn your back to the throwing field, your throw doesn`t count. In addition, the spear must land on its front tip. If another part of the javelin throw hits the ground first, the throw is invalid. Finally, if the waste lands outside the landing area, it will not be assessed. 3) The athlete cannot leave the throwing area (runway) until the spear lands in the landing zone. Unlike other throwing events, the javelin throw allows the competitor to gain speed over a considerable distance. In addition, the strength of the torso and upper body is required to deliver the device, javelin throwers benefit from the agility and athleticism usually associated with running and jumping events. Thus, athletes share more physical characteristics with sprinters than with others, although they still need the athletes` ability to throw heavier. After a short run, the spear is launched with a movement on the shoulder directly forward in a 29° sector marked on the field. It must land first. The launcher`s body must not rotate around a full rotation (360°) before the lance is released, and it must not step on or above a line at the end of the runway.

Then the distance from the marker to the inner edge of the center of the projection arc is measured in a straight line. The measurement is rounded down to the nearest centimeter. 7) Each athlete receives six throws and the best attempt is considered a winner. The runway or take-off area is a running track that allows javelin throwers to run before their throw and gain momentum before releasing the spear. The runway must be at least 30 metres long and can extend up to 36.50 metres if conditions permit. The minimum width of a runway must be 4 metres. The end of the runway is marked by the throwing arch, which has a radius of 8 meters. The throwing bow is also known as the fault line or scratch line. On April 1, 1986, the men`s javelin throw (800 grams (1.76 lbs)) was redesigned by the IAAF Technical Committee. They decided to change the rules of spear design due to the increasing frequency of shallow landings and the resulting discussions and protests when these attempts were declared valid or invalid by the competition judges. The world record had also climbed to a potentially dangerous level, 104.80 m (343.8 ft) by Uwe Hohn. With throws of more than 100 meters, it became difficult to organize the competition safely within the limits of a stadium.

The lance was redesigned to move the center of gravity forward by 4 cm (1.6 inch). In addition, the area in front of the center of gravity has been reduced, while the area behind the center of gravity has been increased. This had a similar effect to feathers on an arrow. The spear turns into a relative wind. This relative wind seems to come from the ground when the spear descends, so the spear turns to the ground. When the lance turns into wind, less buoyancy is generated, which reduces the flight distance by about 10%, but also makes the lance remain more uniform in the ground. In 1999, the women`s javelin throw (600 grams (1.32 lbs)) was redesigned in the same way. [13] At the end of the event, the athlete with the longest valid throw wins first place. If there is a draw between two or more athletes after all rounds, the athlete with a best second best throw will be ranked higher than the others. The javelin throw became a part of the modern Olympic Games from 1908, after the introduction of the men`s javelin throw in London. By the way, it was the last of the throw events, after the shot put, hammer and discus, to be recorded.

Sweden`s Eric Lemming, who set his first world record (49.32 meters) in 1899 and dominated the tournament from 1902 to 1912, was the first dominant javelin thrower. [1]: 436, 441 [2]: 478 When the men`s javelin throw was introduced as an Olympic discipline at the 1906 Interludes, Lemming won by nearly nine metres and broke his own world record; Sweden won the top four spots because the best Finnish pitchers were missing and the event had not become popular in any other country. [1]: 437 Although challenged by young talents, Lemming repeated the Olympic champions in 1908 and 1912; His last record (62.32 m, thrown after the 1912 Olympic Games) was the first javelin world record officially ratified by the International Athletics Federation. [1]: 436-441 [3] Throwing pitching pitches into targets was revived in Germany and Sweden in the early 1870s.