European Athletics Championships 2012 / Men's discus throw
21st European Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | Discus throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 31 athletes from 22 countries | ||||||||
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Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | June 29th (qualification) June 30th (final) |
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The men's discus throw at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was played on June 29 and 30, 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .
European champion of German double world champion (was 2009 / 2011 ), runner-up ( 2007 ) and Vice European Champion ( 2010 ) Robert Harting . Second place was taken by the Olympic champion 2008 , world champion in 2007 , runner-up of 2005 / 2011 , World Championship -Third of 2009 and Vice European Champion 2006 Gerd Kanter from Estonia. Bronze went to the Dutch third place in the 2007 World Cup, Rutger Smith, who had also won the silver medal in the shot put the day before .
Existing records
World record | 74.08 m |
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Neubrandenburg GDR (now Germany ) | June 6, 1986 |
European record | ||||
EM record | 68.87 m |
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EM Barcelona , Spain | August 1, 2010 |
The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.
doping
The Hungarian Zoltán Kővágó , who was initially third , was subsequently disqualified for violating the doping regulations and suspended for two years.
The main victims were three athletes:
- The Dutchman Rutger Smith received his bronze medal far too late and could not attend the award ceremony.
- The Poland Przemysław Czajkowski was denied participation in the finals.
- As eighth-placed thrower, the German Markus Münch would have allowed three more attempts in the final.
Legend
Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:
- | waived |
x | invalid |
qualification
June 29, 2012, 9:00 a.m.
31 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 64.80 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). So finally 62.35 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) |
1 | Robert Harting |
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65.49 | 64.88 | 65.49 | - |
2 | Gerd Kanter |
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64.85 | 59.08 | 63.71 | 64.85 |
3 | Frank Casañas |
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64.50 | x | 62.27 | 64.50 |
4th | Robert Urbanek |
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64.07 | 60.72 | 64.07 | 61.18 |
5 | Rutger Smith |
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63.75 | 63.75 | - | - |
6th | Gerhard Mayer |
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62.35 | 60.32 | 62.35 | 60.20 |
7th | Apostolos Parellis |
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61.79 | 59.80 | 61.37 | 61.79 |
8th | Martin Wierig |
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61.34 | 58.08 | 61.34 | x |
9 | Mykyta Nesterenko |
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61.21 | 61.01 | 60.64 | 61.21 |
10 | Leif Arrhenius |
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60.49 | 58.99 | 59.02 | 60.49 |
11 | Brett Morse |
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58.71 | x | x | 58.71 |
12 | Abdul Buhari |
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58.57 | 58.57 | x | x |
13 | Giovanni Faloci |
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57.67 | 57.31 | 57.67 | 55.12 |
14th | Yeóryios Trémos |
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56.94 | 56.94 | x | x |
15th | Andrius Gudžius |
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55.80 | x | 55.80 | x |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) |
1 | Mario Pestano |
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66.27 | 62.26 | 66.27 | - |
2 | Erik Cadée |
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65.09 | 65.09 | - | - |
3 | Lawrence Okoye |
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64.86 | 60.31 | 64.86 | - |
4th | Markus Münch |
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62.83 | 61.44 | 60.95 | 62.83 |
5 | Ercüment Olgundeniz |
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62.82 | 62.82 | x | x |
6th | Przemysław Czajkowski |
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62.22 | 61.90 | 62.22 | 60.22 actually qualified for the final |
7th | Mark Israel |
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60.59 | x | 60.59 | 58.31 |
8th | Danijel Furtula |
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60.18 | x | 60.18 | x |
9 | Mikko Kyyrö |
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60.16 | 60.16 | x | x |
10 | Gaute Mykleust |
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59.90 | 58.16 | 59.90 | 58.59 |
11 | Niklas Arrhenius |
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59.02 | 58.26 | x | 59.02 |
12 | Oskars Vaisjūns |
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58.34 | 57.05 | 56.06 | 58.34 |
13 | Nikolai Sedjuk |
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57.08 | 55.71 | x | 57.08 |
14th | Sergiu Urzu |
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56.85 | 56.85 | x | x |
NM | Roland Varga |
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ogV | x | x | x |
DOP | Zoltán Kővágó |
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admitted to the finals |
final
June 30, 2012, 7:10 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) | 4th attempt (m) | 5th attempt (m) | 6th attempt (m) |
1 | Robert Harting |
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68.30 | 64.02 | 65.80 | x | 68.30 | - | 67.07 |
2 | Gerd Kanter |
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66.53 | 65.11 | x | 64.32 | 64.44 | 66.53 | 65.47 |
3 | Rutger Smith |
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64.02 | x | 61.51 | 61.71 | 63.97 | x | 64.02 |
4th | Mario Pestano |
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63.87 | 60.57 | 62.26 | 62.05 | 63.87 | x | x |
5 | Frank Casañas |
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63.60 | 62.29 | 63.60 | x | 61.03 | x | 60.69 |
6th | Robert Urbanek |
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62.99 | 61.96 | 62.99 | 61.14 | 61.84 | 60.44 | x |
7th | Gerhard Mayer |
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62.85 | 62.85 | 61.27 | 57.11 | x | x | 60.58 |
8th | Markus Münch |
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61.25 | 60.27 | 61.25 | x | actually entitled to 3 more throws | ||
9 | Ercüment Olgundeniz |
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60.92 | 60.92 | x | x | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
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10 | Erik Cadée |
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60.58 | x | 60.49 | 60.58 | |||
11 | Lawrence Okoye |
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60.09 | 55.09 | 60.09 | 57.00 | |||
DOP | Zoltán Kővágó |
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Bronze went to Rutger Smith, who previously silver in the day shot put had won
Video
- Mens Discus Throw 2012 European Athletics Championships Final on youtube.com, accessed January 16, 2020
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 2012 at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 16, 2020
- European Championship 2012 Helsinki, Men Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed January 16, 2020
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 2012 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 16, 2020
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Discus Throw European Championship 2012 Helsinki, p. 512f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 16, 2020
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2012, discus throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on January 16, 2020
- 21st European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on January 16, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed January 17, 2020
- ↑ Hungarian discus thrower banned for doping offense , Reuters, July 26, 2012, accessed on January 17, 2020