Athletics at the Friendship 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	women
20 km walk	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	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's javelin throw event at the Friendship Games was held on 17 August 1984 at the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow, Soviet Union. The old model of the javelin was used for this competition.

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Uwe Hohn	East Germany	93.22	91.42	94.44	x	x	x	94.44
	Detlef Michel	East Germany	x	77.90	82.14	x	84.32	88.32	88.32
	Zdeněk Adamec	Czechoslovakia	86.00	x	x	x	x	87.10	87.10
4	Heino Puuste	Soviet Union							86.28
5	Viktor Yevsyukov	Soviet Union							85.78
6	Sergey Gavras	Soviet Union							85.08
7	Gerald Weiß	East Germany							83.98
8	András Temesi	Hungary							82.82
9	Martín Álvarez	Cuba							76.14
10	Jesús Vicente López	Argentina							69.76
11	A. Mahmmud	South Yemen							45.86

• Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's javelin throw

• Żemantowski, Jacek (October 1984). "Moskwa '84". Lekkoatletyka 10 (84) (in Polish). p. 12.