Question: When was the first modern Olympic javelin throw?
About the article "Track and field", section "Javelin throw".

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The women's javelin throw event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place July 31st.
This was the first time this event was held for women. 
As an implement of war and hunting, javelin throwing began in prehistoric times.
Along with the discus, the javelin was the second throwing event in the ancient Olympic pentathlon.
Records from 708 BC show two javelin competition types co-existing: throwing at a target and throwing the javelin for distance.
It was the latter type from which the modern event derives.
In ancient competitions, athletes would wrap an "ankyle" (thin leather strip) around the javelin that acted as a sling to facilitate extra distance.
The javelin throw gained much popularity in Scandinavia in the late 18th century and athletes from the region are still among the most dominant throwers in men's competitions.
The modern event features a short run up on a track and then the thrower releases the javelin before the foul line.
The first Olympic men's javelin throw contest was held in 1908 and a women's competition was introduced in 1932.
The first javelins were made of various types of wood, but in the 1950s, former athlete Bud Held introduced a hollow javelin, then a metal javelin, both of which increased throwers performances.
Another former athlete, Miklós Németh invented the rough-tailed javelin and throws reached in excess of 100 m – edging towards the limits of stadia.
The distances and the increasing number of horizontal landings led the IAAF to redesign the men's javelin to reduce distance and increase the implement's downward pitching moment to allow for easier measurement.
Rough-tailed designs were banned in 1991 and all marks achieved with such javelins were removed from the record books.
The women's javelin underwent a similar redesign in 1999.
The current javelin specifications are 2.6 to 2.7 m in length and 800 grams in weight for men, and between 2.2 to 2.3 m and 600 g for women.
During the era between the Mycenaean times and the Roman Empire, the javelin was a commonly used offensive weapon.
Being lighter than the spear, the javelin would be thrown rather than thrust and thus allowed long distance attacks against one’s enemy.
Athletes, however, used javelins that were much lighter than military ones because the idea of the event was to demonstrate distance rather than penetration.
The one major difference between the javelin of the ancient games and the javelin of more modern times is a leather thong, called an ankyle that was wound around the middle of the shaft.
Athletes would hold the javelin by the thong and when the javelin was released this thong unwound giving the javelin a spiraled flight.
The javelin throw has a particularly strong tradition in the Nordic nations of Europe.
Of the 69 Olympic medals that have been awarded in the men's javelin, 32 have gone to competitors from Norway, Sweden or Finland.
Finland is the only nation to have ever swept the medals at a currently recognized official Olympics, and has done so twice, in 1920 and 1932.
(However, Sweden swept the first four places at the 1906 Intercalated Games.
Finland's 1920 sweep also featured an additional fourth place finish.
Sweeping the first four places is no longer possible, as only three entrants per country are allowed.)
In 1912 Finland also swept the medals in the only appearance in the Olympics of two-handed javelin, an event in which the implement was separately thrown with both the right hand and the left hand and the marks were added together.
Quite popular in Finland and Sweden at the time, this event soon faded into obscurity, together with similar variations of the shot and the discus. 
The Men's Javelin Throw event at the 1972 Summer Olympics took place on September 2–3 at the Olympic Stadium, Munich.
The qualifying standard was . 
The women's javelin throw at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27 and 29 June.