The Men's javelin throw competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom.

In the first round of the final, 19-year-old world junior champion Keshorn Walcott, only the 10th place qualifier, took the lead with an 83.51 national record for Trinidad and Tobago.

Walcott's mark of 84.58 was the shortest winning throw since the 1988 Seoul Olympics - the first with the [then] new, re-balanced javelin - when Tapio Korjus (Finland) won with 84.28m.

[3] On August 9, 2016, Ukrainian Oleksandr Pyatnytsya was disqualified after his anti-doping test sample was reanalyzed and found positive (dehydrochlormethyltestosterone).

[4] Vítězslav Veselý received the bronze medal during Golden Spike Ostrava on 28 June 2017.