European Athletics Championships 2014 / Men's discus throw

22nd European Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	29 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Zurich
Competition location	Letzigrund Stadium
Competition phase	August 12th (qualification) August 13th (final)
Medalist Robert Harting ( GER )   Gerd Kanter ( EST )   Robert Urbanek ( POL )

The Letzigrund stadium in Zurich

The discus throw men at the 2014 European Athletics Championships was on 12 and 13 August 2014 in the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich held.

With the German defending champion Robert Harting , the dominant discus thrower was once again European champion. He came here as Olympic champion ( 2012 ), three-time world champion ( 2009 / 2011 / 2013 ), runner-up ( 2007 ) and Vice European Champion ( 2010 ). Silver went to the Estonian Gerd Kanter , who as the Olympic champion in 2008 , Olympic third of 2012, 2007 world champion, two-time runner-up ( 2005 /2011), two-time World Cup -Dritter (2009/2013) and two-time European Vice Champion ( 2006 /2012) also has a plurality of successes. The Pole Robert Urbanek won the bronze medal.

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.

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
x	invalid
r	Competition not continued (retired)

qualification

29 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 64.00 m. Five athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the seven next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 61.51 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

August 12, 2014, 5:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Robert Harting	Germany	67.01	67.01	-	-
2	Gerd Kanter	Estonia	65.79	65.79	-	-
3	Robert Urbanek	Poland	63.91	62.77	62.69	63.91
4th	Frank Casañas	Spain	62.32	60.45	62.08	62.32
5	Erik Cadée	Netherlands	61.18	61.18	x	58.65
6th	Zoltán Kővágó	Hungary	61.14	59.72	61.14	x
7th	Gerhard Mayer	Austria	60.78	60.78	x	x
8th	Apostolos Parellis	Cyprus	60.32	59.22	57.79	60.32
9	Danijel Furtula	Montenegro	60.23	59.82	60.23	59.69
10	Roland Varga	Croatia	59.94	56.50	59.94	58.33
11	Yeóryios Trémos	Greece	59.86	59.86	x	58.26
12	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	59.35	59.35	58.94	x
13	Hannes Kirchler	Italy	59.24	58.48	57.12	59.24
14th	Daniel Ståhl	Sweden	59.01	x	56.51	59.01
15th	Gleb Sidorchenko	Russia	58.41	58.41	x	x

Throwers from group A eliminated in qualification:

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  Erik Cadée - 61.18 m, fifth place

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  Zoltán Kővágó - 61.14 m, sixth place

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  Gerhard Mayer - 60.78 m, seventh place

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  Apostolos Parellis - 60.32 m, rank eight

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  Roland Varga - 59.94 m, tenth place

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  Virgilijus Alekna (including two-time Olympic champion, two-time ex-world champion and ex-European champion) - 59.35 m, twelfth place

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  Hannes Kirchler - 59.24 m, thirteenth place

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  Daniel Ståhl - 59.01 m, fourth place

Group B

August 12, 2014, 6:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Piotr Małachowski	Poland	64.98	61.39	63.17	64.98
2	Andrius Gudžius	Lithuania	64.44	64.44	-	-
3	Daniel Jasinski	Germany	64.11	64.11	-	-
4th	Martin Wierig	Germany	63.96	63.89	63.74	63.96
5	Viktor Butenko	Russia	62.96	62.96	x	x
6th	Martin Kupper	Estonia	62.61	60.35	62.49	62.61
7th	Mario Pestano	Spain	62.10	59.47	61.57	62.10
8th	Axel Harstedt	Sweden	61.51	x	x	61.51
9	Philip Milanov	Belgium	59.85	59.85	x	59.77
10	Giovanni Faloci	Italy	59.04	57.36	59.04	58.16
11	Aleksas Abromavičius	Lithuania	57.10	x	57.10	x
NM	Niklas Arrhenius	Sweden	ogV	x	x	x
	Mark Israel	Estonia		x	r
	Róbert Szikszai	Hungary		x	x	x
DNS	Oleksiy Semenov	Ukraine

Throwers from group B eliminated in qualification:

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  Philip Milanov ( 2015 vice world champion) - 59.85 m, ninth place

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  Niklas Arrhenius - without a valid attempt

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  Märt Israel - without a valid roll, surrender after the first attempt

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  Róbert Szikszai - without a valid attempt

final

August 13, 2014, 8:35 pm

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	66.07	63.94	x	66.07	-	x	x
2	Gerd Kanter	Estonia	64.75	59.58	x	64.75	63.31	62.82	x
3	Robert Urbanek	Poland	63.81	63.67	63.81	62.10	61.55	62.16	x
4th	Piotr Małachowski	Poland	63.54	62.01	59.96	x	x	63.54	x
5	Viktor Butenko	Russia	62.80	62.80	62.71	x	60.44	59.31	59.48
6th	Mario Pestano	Spain	62.31	60.19	60.02	62.31	-	-	-
7th	Daniel Jasinski	Germany	62.04	59.34	58.65	61.49	x	62.04	x
8th	Frank Casañas	Spain	61.47	61.47	60.94	59.44	60.98	x	61.08
9	Martin Kupper	Estonia	60.89	59.50	x	60.89	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Andrius Gudžius	Lithuania	60.82	60.82	59.85	57.56
11	Martin Wierig	Germany	60.82	59.68	x	60.82
12	Axel Harstedt	Sweden	60.01	60.01	59.63	x

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  European champion Robert Harting has won all European and World Championships as well as the Olympic Games since 2011

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  Bronze medal for Robert Urbanek - the following year he also won bronze at the World Championships

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  Fourth-placed European champions in 2010 , Olympic II of 2008 and two-time runner-up ( 2009 / 2013 ) Piotr Małachowski missing 27 centimeters to bronze - for him even more success should come

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  Mario Pestano finished sixth

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  Daniel Jasinski reached seventh place - in 2016 he became an Olympic Knight

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  Frank Casañas came in eighth

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  Martin Kupper finished ninth

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  Andrius Gudžius, here in tenth place - he was world champion in 2017 and  European champion in 2018

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  Martin Wierig, fourth in the 2013 World Cup , came eleventh

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Zurich 2014 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 9, 2020
• European Championship 2014 Zurich, Men Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed on February 9, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2014 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on February 9, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2014, discus throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on February 9, 2020
• 22nd European Athletics Championships 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on February 9, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed February 9, 2020