Athletics at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
30 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	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's javelin throw event at the 1982 Commonwealth Games was held on 9 October at the QE II Stadium in Brisbane, Australia.^[1] It was the last time that the old model javelin was used at the Games.

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Mike O'Rourke	New Zealand					89.48		89.48	GR
	Laslo Babits	Canada							84.88
	Zakayo Malekwa	Tanzania			80.22				80.22
4	Phil Olsen	Canada							77.96
5	William Sang	Kenya							77.64
6	Peter Yates	England							77.40
7	David Ottley	England							75.00
8	David Hookway	New Zealand							69.72
9	George Odera	Kenya							65.56
10	Cornelius Kemboi	Kenya							62.88
11	Ritchie Okesene	Western Samoa							55.96
12	Jioji Tadulala	Fiji							53.06
	Justin Arop	Uganda							NM	[2]

• Results (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Results (The Canberra Times)
• Australian results Archived 14 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine