World Athletics Championships 1991 / Men's discus throw

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	34 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 26th (qualification) August 27th (final)
Medalist Lars Riedel ( GER )   Erik de Bruin ( NED )   Attila Horváth ( HUN )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The men's discus throw at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held on August 26 and 27, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

World champion was the German Lars Riedel , who came here to his first major international title win. He won ahead of Erik de Bruin from the Netherlands . Bronze went to the Hungarian Attila Horváth .

Existing records

World record	74.08 m	Jürgen Schult	Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany )	June 6, 1986
World Cup record	68.74 m		World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	4th September 1987

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

qualification

Svein Inge Valvik scored 60.86 m and was eliminated

Vesteinn Hafsteinsson did not reach the final with his 60.12 m

August 26, 1991, 11:40 a.m.

34 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 64.00 m. Three athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the nine next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 62.32 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Lars Riedel	Germany	65.30
2	Attila Horváth	Hungary	64.54
3	Mike Buncic	United States	63.12
4th	Sergei Lyakov	Soviet Union	63.02
5	Wassil Kapzjuch	Soviet Union	62.88
6th	Jürgen Schult	Germany	62.56
7th	Nikolay Kolew	Bulgaria	62.40
8th	Roberto Moya	Cuba	62.32
9	David Martínez	Spain	61.14
10	Svein Inge Valvik	Norway	60.86
11	Simon Williams	Great Britain	60.68
12	Vésteinn Hafsteinsson	Iceland	60.12
13	Marcel Tirle	Romania	59.80
14th	Luciano Zerbini	Italy	58.34
15th	Tony Washington	United States	58.02
16	Ray Lazdins	Canada	56.58
17th	James Wong Tuck Yim	Singapore	44.26
DNS	Christian Erb	Switzerland

Group B

Imrich Bugár (here 2013) , 1983 world champion, 1982 European champion, 1980 Olympic second and 1978 European championship third, was there again, but did not make it to the final with 61.90 m

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Wolfgang Schmidt	Germany	65.18
2	Dmitri Shevchenko	Soviet Union	63.70
3	Erik de Bruin	Netherlands	63.34
4th	Adewale Olukoju	Nigeria	62.36
5	Imrich Bugár	Czechoslovakia	61.90
6th	Werner Reiterer	Austria	60.40
7th	Marco Martino	Italy	60.34
8th	Georgi Georgiev	Bulgaria	60.08
9	Ramón Jiménez-Gaona	Paraguay	60.02
10	Costel Grasu	Romania	60.00
11	József Ficsór	Hungary	59.98
12	Juan Martínez	Cuba	59.98
13	Mike Gravelle	United States	58.28
14th	Came Dimitrov	Bulgaria	57.72
15th	Igor Avrunin	Israel	56.74
16	Mickaël Conjungo	Central African Republic	53.02
17th	Herbert Rodríguez	El Salvador	46.62
DNS	Stefan Fernholm	Sweden

final

August 27, 1991, 7:00 p.m.

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	Lars Riedel	Germany	66.20	66.20	64.52	65.78	x	65.82	x
2	Erik de Bruin	Netherlands	65.82	x	62.58	x	64.40	63.10	65.82
3	Attila Horváth	Hungary	65.32	64.36	64.48	64.66	63.72	65.20	65.32
4th	Wolfgang Schmidt	Germany	64.76	63.66	61.84	60.58	64.48	64.76	60.72
5	Mike Buncic	United States	64.20	64.20	x	64.12	61.16	62.28	x
6th	Jürgen Schult	Germany	63.12	61.78	61.62	61.60	63.12	63.04	62.78
7th	Dmitri Shevchenko	Soviet Union	62.90	62.90	61.82	62.56	x	61.96	61.60
8th	Roberto Moya	Cuba	61.44	61.44	57.98	61.16	x	58.28	59.16
9	Sergei Lyakov	Soviet Union	61.00	Expiration not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Nikolay Kolew	Bulgaria	60.44
11	Adewale Olukoju	Nigeria	59.44
DNS	Wassil Kapzjuch	Soviet Union

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  Lars Riedel (photo: 2015) won his first big title, which was to be followed by many more

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  Erik de Bruin achieved the greatest success of his long sports career in the shot put and discus throw as vice world champion

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  After a successful career in the GDR - including second place in the Olympics in 1976 and European champion in 1978 with subsequent imprisonment for attempted escape from the republic - Wolfgang Schmidt came back to the competition and achieved fourth place here

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  Mike Buncic finished fifth

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  The defending champion, Olympic champion from 1988 , reigning European champion and world record holder Jürgen Schult had to be content with sixth place

Video

• 3498 World Track & Field 1991 Discus Men Lars Riedel , video posted June 22, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 26, 2020
• Men Discus Throw Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) 1991 at todor66.com, accessed April 26, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Discus Throw, Tokyo 1991, p. 190 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on April 26, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 26, 2020