World Athletics Championships 1993 / Men's discus throw

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	30 athletes from 21 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 16 (qualifying) August 17 (final)
Medalist Lars Riedel ( GER )   Dmitri Shevchenko ( RUS )   Jürgen Schult ( GER )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The men's discus throw at the World Athletics Championships in 1993 was held on August 16 and 17, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

The German discus throwers won two gold and bronze medals in this competition. Defending champion Lars Riedel became world champion . The Russian Dmitri Shevchenko took second place . Bronze went to the Olympic champion in 1988 , Olympic champion in 1992 , world champion in 1987 , European champion in 1990 and world record holder Jürgen Schult .

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.

doping

There was a doping case in this discipline.

The initially fourth-placed Lithuanian Romas Ubartas tested positive for the anabolic steroid boldenone and received a four-year ban. His result at these world championships was canceled.

Two athletes in particular suffered:

• The eighth -placed American Mike Buncic was deprived of three attempts in the final, which would have allowed him in addition to his first three throws.
• Sergey Lukashok from Israel , as the twelfth-best thrower after qualifying, was actually entitled to participate in the final.

qualification

Thirty participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 63.00 m. Four athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), including Romas Ubartas, who was later disqualified for doping fraud. The final field was filled with the eight athletes placed next to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 61.52 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

For Imrich Bugár (here in 2013) , the world champion from 1983 , European champion from 1982 and European championship third from 1978 , it was not enough for the final with his 58.76 m

August 16, 1993, 11:45 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Dmitri Shevchenko	Russia	63.68
2	Anthony Washington	United States	62.78
3	Nick Sweeney	Ireland	62.10
4th	Jürgen Schult	Germany	62.10
5	Alexis Elizalde	Cuba	60.76
6th	Ramón Jiménez Gaona	Paraguay	60.50
7th	Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk	Belarus	60.38
8th	Robert Weir	Great Britain	59.74
9	Dmitri Kovtsun	Ukraine	58.90
10	Imrich Bugár	Czech Republic	58.76
11	Mike Gravelle	United States	56.42
12	Mickaël Conjungo	Central African Republic	53.60
13	Gordon Barff	French Polynesia	46.56
DOP	Romas Ubartas	Lithuania	admitted to the finals
DNS	Erik de Bruin	Netherlands

Group B

With his 58.56 m Vésteinn Hafsteinsson retired in the qualification

August 16, 1993, 11:45 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Lars Riedel	Germany	65.88
2	Mike Buncic	United States	63.64
3	Wassil Kapzjuch	Belarus	62.56
4th	Vaclovas Kidykas	Lithuania	61.94
5	Luis Delís	Cuba	61.76
6th	Volodymyr Zinchenko	Ukraine	61.74
7th	Costel Grasu	Romania	61.52
8th	Sergey Lukashok	Israel	60.88 actually qualified for the final
9	Roberto Moya	Cuba	60.10
10	Viktor Baraznovskiy	Belarus	59.30
11	Vésteinn Hafsteinsson	Iceland	58.56
12	Ray Lazdins	Canada	57.48
13	Dashdendev Makhashiri	Mongolia	51.62
14th	Shakti Singh	India	48.78
15th	James Wong	Singapore	46.86
16	Wesley Tuilefano	American Samoa	27.34

final

August 17, 1993, 7:20 pm

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	67.72	56.24	67.72	60.54	64.94	x	67.34
2	Dmitri Shevchenko	Russia	66.90	61.58	61.54	x	63.94	66.14	66.90
3	Jürgen Schult	Germany	66.12	64.32	66.12	63.32	62.84	64.46	x
4th	Costel Grasu	Romania	65.24	61.92	65.24	62.12	62.66	62.60	61.54
5	Volodymyr Zinchenko	Ukraine	62.02	59.42	61.28	60.92	59.92	62.02	59.56
6th	Nick Sweeney	Ireland	61.66	61.66	61.26	x	60.84	60.70	x
7th	Wassil Kapzjuch	Belarus	61.64	61.64	x	60.96	57.46	61.00	58.78
8th	Mike Buncic	United States	61.06	60.92	61.66	60.78	actually entitled to 3 more throws
9	Luis Delís	Cuba	60.74	Expiration not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Anthony Washington	United States	60.72
11	Vaclovas Kidykas	Lithuania	58.62
DOP	Romas Ubartas	Lithuania

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  Lars Riedel (Photo: 2015) defended his title and became world champion again

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  Jürgen Schult, 1988 Olympic champion, 1992 Olympic runner-up, 1987 world champion, 1990 European champion and world record holder, won the bronze medal

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  Costel Grasu finished fourth

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  Mike Buncic came in eighth place, he would have been allowed three additional attempts in the final

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  The multiple doping sinner Romas Ubartas was disqualified

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 13, 2020
• Men Discus Throw Athletics IV World Championship 1993 Stuttgart (GER) on todor66.com (English), accessed on May 13, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Discus Throw, Stuttgart 1993, p. 190 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on May 13, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 15, 2020
2. ↑ Drug Ban Lifted on Olympian Champion on apnews.com, June 24, 2002 (English), accessed May 13, 2020