The Women's Javelin Throw was first introduced as a Summer Olympic event in 1932, and has featured regularly since then. In this time, German athletes have seen the most success, with East Germany leading the gold medal count with three in total, while Germany has eleven overall medals. When combined, Germany, East Germany and West Germany have five gold medals and 18 total medals. The most successful athlete in this event is the Czech thrower Barbora Špotáková, who won two golds and one bronze medal between 2008 and 2016. The only athlete to have been stripped of a medal in this event was Russian thrower Mariya Abakumova, whose 2008 samples failed a retest in 2016; the 2008 medals were then redistributed accordingly.
Medal count by country in the Women's Javelin Throw at the Summer Olympics from 1932 to 2020
*No longer exists/competes at the Olympics.
**Includes mdals won the Unified Team of 1992 (which was made up of athletes from all former Soviet States, except the three Baltic states).
This data was collected using the official Olympic.org site, as well as a spreadsheet from the Guardian that includes data from 1896-2008 (available here), 2012 and 2016 data was compared with that from Encyclopaedia Britannica, and several news outlets were used to update the table when medals were reassigned (i.e. for doping offenses).
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olympic.org, & The Guardian. (August 10, 2021). Medal count by country in the Women's Javelin Throw at the Summer Olympics from 1932 to 2020 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117885/olympics-womens-javelin-throw-medal-table-since-1932/
olympic.org, und The Guardian. "Medal count by country in the Women's Javelin Throw at the Summer Olympics from 1932 to 2020." Chart. August 10, 2021. Statista. Accessed December 21, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117885/olympics-womens-javelin-throw-medal-table-since-1932/
olympic.org, The Guardian. (2021). Medal count by country in the Women's Javelin Throw at the Summer Olympics from 1932 to 2020. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 21, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117885/olympics-womens-javelin-throw-medal-table-since-1932/
olympic.org, and The Guardian. "Medal Count by Country in The Women's Javelin Throw at The Summer Olympics from 1932 to 2020." Statista, Statista Inc., 10 Aug 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117885/olympics-womens-javelin-throw-medal-table-since-1932/
olympic.org & The Guardian, Medal count by country in the Women's Javelin Throw at the Summer Olympics from 1932 to 2020 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117885/olympics-womens-javelin-throw-medal-table-since-1932/ (last visited December 21, 2024)
Medal count by country in the Women's Javelin Throw at the Summer Olympics from 1932 to 2020 [Graph], olympic.org, & The Guardian, August 10, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117885/olympics-womens-javelin-throw-medal-table-since-1932/
