1946 European Athletics Championships – Men's javelin throw

1946 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
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 steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw		women
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's javelin throw at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held in Oslo, Norway, at Bislett Stadion on 25 August 1946.^[1]

Gold	Lennart Atterwall  Sweden
Silver	Yrjö Nikkanen  Finland
Bronze	Tapio Rautavaara  Finland

25 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Lennart Atterwall	Sweden	68.74
	Yrjö Nikkanen	Finland	67.50
	Tapio Rautavaara	Finland	66.40
4	Odd Mæhlum	Norway	66.37
5	Sven Daleflod	Sweden	64.79
6	Josef Neumann	Switzerland	62.48
7	Lumír Kiesewetter	Czechoslovakia	59.91
8	Nico Lutkeveld	Netherlands	59.50

24 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Lennart Atterwall	Sweden	67.21	Q
2	Yrjö Nikkanen	Finland	66.30	Q
3	Tapio Rautavaara	Finland	63.03	Q
4	Sven Daleflod	Sweden	62.93	Q
5	Odd Mæhlum	Norway	62.91	Q
6	Josef Neumann	Switzerland	60.36	Q
7	Nico Lutkeveld	Netherlands	60.07	Q
8	Lumír Kiesewetter	Czechoslovakia	59.80	Q
9	Michael Salomonsen	Norway	58.74
10	Jóel Sigurðsson	Iceland	58.06
11	Raymond Tissot	France	57.63
12	Pierre Sprecher	France	55.22
13	Oskar Ospelt	Liechtenstein	52.73

According to an unofficial count, 13 athletes from 9 countries participated in the event.