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
«1928	1936»

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 [edit]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
1 !	Matti Järvinen	Finland	72.71	OR
2 !	Matti Sippala	Finland	69.80
3 !	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