Athletics at the 2019 Pan American Games – Men's javelin throw

Men's javelin throw at the 2019 Pan American Games
Venue	Athletics Stadium
Dates	August 10
Competitors	10 from 6 nations
Winning distance	87.31
Medalists
Anderson Peters  Grenada   Keshorn Walcott  Trinidad and Tobago   Albert Reynolds  Saint Lucia
«2015 2023»

Athletics at the 2019 Pan American Games
Qualification
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's javelin throw competition of the athletics events at the 2019 Pan American Games took place on the 10 of August at the 2019 Pan American Games Athletics Stadium. The defending Pan American Games champion is Keshorn Walcott from Trinidad and Tobago.

Anderson Peters won Grenada's first ever Pan American Games gold medal.^[1]

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:

World record	Jan Železný (CZE)	98.48	Jena, Germany	May 25, 1996
Pan American Games record	Guillermo Martínez (CUB)	87.20	Guadalajara, Mexico	October 28, 2011

All times shown are in meters.

The results were as follows:^[2]

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Mark	Notes
	Anderson Peters	Grenada	87.31	81.78	78.92	85.90	81.21	x	87.31	GR, NR
	Keshorn Walcott	Trinidad and Tobago	83.55	82.92	82.92	x	x	75.54	83.55
	Albert Reynolds	Saint Lucia	76.91	75.93	77.51	73.64	77.56	82.19	82.19	NR
4	Michael Shuey	United States	x	73.21	78.02	80.35	x	80.72	80.72
5	Markim Felix	Grenada	77.18	72.47	74.77	69.26	71.18	72.30	77.18
6	Shakeil Waithe	Trinidad and Tobago	71.80	x	76.15	x	x	–	76.15
7	Arley Ibargüen	Colombia	72.51	74.85	74.46	70.69	x	67.97	74.85
8	Dayron Márquez	Colombia	73.15	73.99	71.88	73.17	71.58	72.71	73.99
9	Francisco Muse	Chile	69.33	72.84	72.84				72.84
10	Curtis Thompson	United States	64.28	x	65.39				65.39