World Athletics Championships 1995 / Men's discus throw

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5th World Athletics Championships
World Athletics Championships 1995 Logo.svg
discipline Discus throw
gender Men
Attendees 43 athletes from 30 countries
venue SwedenSweden Gothenburg
Competition location Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase August 9th (qualification)
August 11th (final)
Medalist
gold medal Lars Riedel ( GER ) GermanyGermany 
Silver medal Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk ( BLR ) BelarusBelarus 
Bronze medal Wassil Kapzjuch ( BLR ) BelarusBelarus 

The men's discus throw at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 9 and 11, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

The Belarusian discus throwers won two medals in this competition: silver and bronze . For the third time in a row, the German Lars Riedel became world champion. Silver went to the reigning European champion Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk . In third place came Wassil Kapzjuch .

Records

Existing records

World record 74.08 m Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Jürgen Schult Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany ) June 6, 1986
World Cup record 68.74 m World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy 4th September 1987

Record improvement

The German world champion Lars Riedel improved the existing world championship record in the final on August 11th by two centimeters to 68.76 m.

qualification

43 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 62.00 m. Six athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the six next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 61.08 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

August 9, 1995, 9:35 a.m.

space Surname nation Result (noun)
1 Dmitri Shevchenko RussiaRussia Russia 64.80
2 Wassil Kapzjuch BelarusBelarus Belarus 62.80
3 Robert Weir United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 62.50
4th Attila Horváth HungaryHungary Hungary 62.36
5 John Godina United StatesUnited States United States 61.70
6th Stefan Fernholm SwedenSweden Sweden 61.10
7th Michael Möllenbeck GermanyGermany Germany 59.76
8th Svein Inge Valvik NorwayNorway Norway 59.32
9 Ramón Jiménez Gaona Paraguay 1990Paraguay Paraguay 59.26
10 Diego Fortuna ItalyItaly Italy 58.74
11 Vésteinn Hafsteinsson IcelandIceland Iceland 58.12
12 Vaclovas Kidykas Lithuania 1989Lithuania Lithuania 57.96
13 Vadim Popov UzbekistanUzbekistan Uzbekistan 57.84
14th Werner Reiterer AustraliaAustralia Australia 57.60
15th Roberto Moya CubaCuba Cuba 57.58
16 Mickaël Conjungo Central African RepublicCentral African Republic Central African Republic 57.36
17th Kristian Pettersson SwedenSweden Sweden 57.34
18th Vitaly Sidorov UkraineUkraine Ukraine 56.82
19th Igor Primc SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia 55.92
20th Jan Cordius DenmarkDenmark Denmark 54.00
21st Dashdendev Makhashiri MongoliaMongolia Mongolia 51.04
22nd James Wong SingaporeSingapore Singapore 49.34

Discus throwers eliminated from group A in qualification:

Group B

August 9, 1995, 12:00 p.m.

space Surname nation Result (noun)
1 Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk BelarusBelarus Belarus 64.20
2 Lars Riedel GermanyGermany Germany 63.64
3 Jürgen Schult GermanyGermany Germany 61.92
4th Adewale Olukoju NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 61.44
5 Alexis Elizalde CubaCuba Cuba 61.38
6th Mike Buncic United StatesUnited States United States 61.08
7th Nick Sweeney IrelandIreland Ireland 60.68
8th Costel Grasu RomaniaRomania Romania 60.64
9 Sergey Lyakhov RussiaRussia Russia 60.50
10 Virgilijus Alekna Lithuania 1989Lithuania Lithuania 59.20
11 Vladimir Zinchenko UkraineUkraine Ukraine 59.00
12 Viktor Baraznovskiy BelarusBelarus Belarus 58.68
13 Aleksander Tammert EstoniaEstonia Estonia 58.64
14th Dag Solhaug SwedenSweden Sweden 58.52
15th Randy Heisler United StatesUnited States United States 58.10
16 Olav Jenssen NorwayNorway Norway 58.00
17th David Martínez SpainSpain Spain 57.34
18th Harri Uurainen FinlandFinland Finland 55.12
19th Sergey Lukashok IsraelIsrael Israel 54.90
20th Frits Potgieter South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 54.84
21st Dragan Mustapic CroatiaCroatia Croatia 53.54

final

August 11, 1995, 5:50 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 GermanyGermany Germany 68.76 CR 65.32 68.76 66.44 67.90 66.84 61.06
2 Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk BelarusBelarus Belarus 65.98 63.98 61.68 x 65.36 62.50 65.98
3 Wassil Kapzjuch BelarusBelarus Belarus 65.88 62.74 65.02 65.54 65.30 65.88 62.38
4th Attila Horváth HungaryHungary Hungary 65.72 61.30 64.68 64.24 65.72 63.02 62.38
5 Jürgen Schult GermanyGermany Germany 64.44 61.30 64.68 64.24 63.02 64.44 63.92
6th Adewale Olukoju NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 63.66 61.20 62.34 63.66 63.02 61.14 62.82
7th Alexis Elizalde CubaCuba Cuba 63.28 63.28 61.18 62.34 x 60.92 61.56
8th Dmitri Shevchenko RussiaRussia Russia 63.18 x x 63.18 x x x
9 Robert Weir United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 63.14 Expiration
not listed in the sources
not in the final of the
eight best throwers
10 John Godina United StatesUnited States United States 60.84
11 Mike Buncic United StatesUnited States United States 60.24
12 Stefan Fernholm SwedenSweden Sweden 59.62

Video links

Web links

References and comments

  1. IAAF world records. Discus throw men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 2, 2020