European Athletics Championships 2012 / Men's discus throw

21st European Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	31 athletes from 22 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	June 29th (qualification) June 30th (final)
Medalist Robert Harting ( GER )   Gerd Kanter ( EST )   Rutger Smith ( NED )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

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	Jürgen Schult	Neubrandenburg GDR (now Germany )	June 6, 1986
European record
EM record	68.87 m	Piotr Małachowski	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	Germany	65.49	64.88	65.49	-
2	Gerd Kanter	Estonia	64.85	59.08	63.71	64.85
3	Frank Casañas	Spain	64.50	x	62.27	64.50
4th	Robert Urbanek	Poland	64.07	60.72	64.07	61.18
5	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	63.75	63.75	-	-
6th	Gerhard Mayer	Austria	62.35	60.32	62.35	60.20
7th	Apostolos Parellis	Cyprus	61.79	59.80	61.37	61.79
8th	Martin Wierig	Germany	61.34	58.08	61.34	x
9	Mykyta Nesterenko	Ukraine	61.21	61.01	60.64	61.21
10	Leif Arrhenius	Sweden	60.49	58.99	59.02	60.49
11	Brett Morse	Great Britain	58.71	x	x	58.71
12	Abdul Buhari	Great Britain	58.57	58.57	x	x
13	Giovanni Faloci	Italy	57.67	57.31	57.67	55.12
14th	Yeóryios Trémos	Greece	56.94	56.94	x	x
15th	Andrius Gudžius	Lithuania	55.80	x	55.80	x

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  Apostolos Parellis achieved 61.79 m, which was not enough for the final

• 

  Martin Wierig failed with his 61.34 m in the qualification

• 

  Andrius Gudžius finished last in his qualifying group with 55.80 m - his big time was yet to come

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Mario Pestano	Spain	66.27	62.26	66.27	-
2	Erik Cadée	Netherlands	65.09	65.09	-	-
3	Lawrence Okoye	Great Britain	64.86	60.31	64.86	-
4th	Markus Münch	Germany	62.83	61.44	60.95	62.83
5	Ercüment Olgundeniz	Turkey	62.82	62.82	x	x
6th	Przemysław Czajkowski	Poland	62.22	61.90	62.22	60.22 actually qualified for the final
7th	Mark Israel	Estonia	60.59	x	60.59	58.31
8th	Danijel Furtula	Montenegro	60.18	x	60.18	x
9	Mikko Kyyrö	Finland	60.16	60.16	x	x
10	Gaute Mykleust	Norway	59.90	58.16	59.90	58.59
11	Niklas Arrhenius	Sweden	59.02	58.26	x	59.02
12	Oskars Vaisjūns	Latvia	58.34	57.05	56.06	58.34
13	Nikolai Sedjuk	Russia	57.08	55.71	x	57.08
14th	Sergiu Urzu	Romania	56.85	56.85	x	x
NM	Roland Varga	Croatia	ogV	x	x	x
DOP	Zoltán Kővágó	Hungary	admitted to the finals

• 

  Märt Israel did not reach the final with 60.59 m

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  Niklas Arrhenius came to 59.02 m and was eliminated

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  Nikolai Sedjuk - 57.08 m and thus eliminated

• 

  Roland Varga did not get a valid throw in qualification

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	Germany	68.30	64.02	65.80	x	68.30	-	67.07
2	Gerd Kanter	Estonia	66.53	65.11	x	64.32	64.44	66.53	65.47
3	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	64.02	x	61.51	61.71	63.97	x	64.02
4th	Mario Pestano	Spain	63.87	60.57	62.26	62.05	63.87	x	x
5	Frank Casañas	Spain	63.60	62.29	63.60	x	61.03	x	60.69
6th	Robert Urbanek	Poland	62.99	61.96	62.99	61.14	61.84	60.44	x
7th	Gerhard Mayer	Austria	62.85	62.85	61.27	57.11	x	x	60.58
8th	Markus Münch	Germany	61.25	60.27	61.25	x	actually entitled to 3 more throws
9	Ercüment Olgundeniz	Turkey	60.92	60.92	x	x	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Erik Cadée	Netherlands	60.58	x	60.49	60.58
11	Lawrence Okoye	Great Britain	60.09	55.09	60.09	57.00
DOP	Zoltán Kővágó	Hungary

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  European champion Robert Harting - the dominant discus thrower since 2009

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  Bronze went to Rutger Smith, who previously silver in the day shot put had won

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  Fourth place for Mario Pestano

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  Frank Casañas reached number five

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  Robert Urbanek came in sixth place

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  Gerhard Mayer came in seventh

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  Markus Münch - eighth and cheated of three litters in the final

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  Erik Cadée - ninth place

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  The eleventh placed Lawrence Okoye

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  The subsequently disqualified doping sinner Zoltán Kővágó

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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed January 17, 2020
2. ↑ Hungarian discus thrower banned for doping offense , Reuters, July 26, 2012, accessed on January 17, 2020