European Athletics Championships 2002 / Men's discus throw

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 20 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 9th (qualification) August 11th (final)
Medalist Róbert Fazekas ( HUN )   Virgilijus Alekna ( LTU )   Michael Möllenbeck ( GER )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The men's discus throw at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was held on August 9th and 11th, 2002 in Munich's Olympic Stadium.

European champion was the Hungarian Róbert Fazekas . The second place went to the Olympic champion from 2000 , Vice World Champion in 2001 and European Championship -Third of 1998 Virgilijus Alekna from Lithuania. The German World Cup third in 2001 Michael Möllenbeck won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	74.08 m	Jürgen Schult	Neubrandenburg GDR (now Germany )	June 6, 1986
European record
EM record	67.08 m	Romas Ubartas	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 31, 1986

Record improvement

European champion Róbert Fazekas improved the existing EM record in the final on August 11th by 1.75 m to 68.83 m.  

qualification

August 9, 2002

28 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 63.00 m. Nine athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the three next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). In the end, 62.70 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

Roland Varga was 56 centimeters short of the final

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Mario Pestano	Spain	65.27
2	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	64.54
3	Gerd Kanter	Estonia	63.66
4th	Leonid Cherewko	Belarus	62.99
5	Ionel Oprea	Romania	62.70
6th	Roland Varga	Hungary	62.14
7th	Igor Primc	Slovenia	60.78
8th	Diego Fortuna	Italy	60.04
9	Torsten Schmidt	Germany	59.78
10	Einar Kristian Tveitå	Norway	59.69
11	Mika Loikkanen	Finland	59.19
12	Jean-Claude Retel	France	58.29
13	Kristian Pettersson	Sweden	56.19
14th	Sávvas Panávoglou	Greece	55.64

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia	65.10
2	Michael Möllenbeck	Germany	63.92
3	Zoltán Kővágó	Hungary	63.52
4th	Róbert Fazekas	Hungary	63.41
5	Timo Tompuri	Finland	63.18
6th	Dmitri Shevchenko	Russia	63.14
7th	Jo van Daele	Belgium	62.71
8th	Libor Malina	Czech Republic	60.96
9	David Martínez	Spain	59.27
10	Robert Weir	Great Britain	58.37
11	Cristiano Andrei	Italy	57.86
12	Timo Sinervo	Finland	57.30
13	Jaroslav Žitňanský	Slovakia	56.19
14th	Olgierd Stański	Poland	55.64

final

August 11, 2002

Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Róbert Fazekas	Hungary	68.83 CR	66.34	66.80	x	65.12	68.83	63.88
2	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	66.62	66.62	61.52	63.11	61.26	63.75	x
3	Michael Möllenbeck	Germany	66.37	66.37	x	64.04	63.81	x	65.66
4th	Mario Pestano	Spain	64.69	64.69	x	x	61.13	x	63.68
5	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia	64.55	x	61.45	64.55	60.28	62.10	x
6th	Dmitri Shevchenko	Russia	63.97	x	63.80	63.97	x	x	61.86
7th	Zoltán Kővágó	Hungary	63.63	61.66	59.65	61.92	x	x	63.63
8th	Leonid Cherewko	Belarus	61.72	61.72	61.48	x	x	x	59.96
9	Timo Tompuri	Finland	61.17	60.72	x	61.17	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Jo van Daele	Belgium	61.07	61.07	x	60.64
11	Ionel Oprea	Romania	60.62	x	60.62	60.53
12	Gerd Kanter	Estonia	55.14	55.14	x	x

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  Vice European Champion Virgilijus Alekna, 2000 Olympic Champion, 2001 Vice World Champion and 1998 European Championship third

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  After WM bronze now also EM bronze for Michael Möllenbeck

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  Mario Pestano reached fourth place

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  Fifth place for Aleksander Tammert

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  Zoltán Kővágó came in seventh place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 18, 2019
• European Championship 2002 Munich, Men Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed October 30, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed October 30, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Discus Throw European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 483 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 30, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, discus throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 30, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on October 30, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed October 30, 2019