World Athletics Championships 1995 / Men's discus throw

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	43 athletes from 30 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 9th (qualification) August 11th (final)
Medalist Lars Riedel ( GER )   Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk ( BLR )   Wassil Kapzjuch ( BLR )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

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	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	Russia	64.80
2	Wassil Kapzjuch	Belarus	62.80
3	Robert Weir	Great Britain	62.50
4th	Attila Horváth	Hungary	62.36
5	John Godina	United States	61.70
6th	Stefan Fernholm	Sweden	61.10
7th	Michael Möllenbeck	Germany	59.76
8th	Svein Inge Valvik	Norway	59.32
9	Ramón Jiménez Gaona	Paraguay	59.26
10	Diego Fortuna	Italy	58.74
11	Vésteinn Hafsteinsson	Iceland	58.12
12	Vaclovas Kidykas	Lithuania	57.96
13	Vadim Popov	Uzbekistan	57.84
14th	Werner Reiterer	Australia	57.60
15th	Roberto Moya	Cuba	57.58
16	Mickaël Conjungo	Central African Republic	57.36
17th	Kristian Pettersson	Sweden	57.34
18th	Vitaly Sidorov	Ukraine	56.82
19th	Igor Primc	Slovenia	55.92
20th	Jan Cordius	Denmark	54.00
21st	Dashdendev Makhashiri	Mongolia	51.04
22nd	James Wong	Singapore	49.34

Discus throwers eliminated from group A in qualification:

• 

  Michael Möllenbeck - with his 59.76 m he was more than a meter short

• 

  Svein Inge Valvik - 59.32 m

• 

  Vésteinn Hafsteinsson - 58.12 m

Group B

• 

  Costel Grasu missed the final with his 60.64 m by only 44 centimeters

• 

  Virgilijus Alekna (photo: 2007) , later multiple Olympic champion, world champion and European champion, retired with 59.20 m in the qualification

• 

  Aleksander Tammert (here in 2007) failed with 58.64 m in the qualification - in the following years he was, among other things, Olympic knight ( 2004 )

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

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk	Belarus	64.20
2	Lars Riedel	Germany	63.64
3	Jürgen Schult	Germany	61.92
4th	Adewale Olukoju	Nigeria	61.44
5	Alexis Elizalde	Cuba	61.38
6th	Mike Buncic	United States	61.08
7th	Nick Sweeney	Ireland	60.68
8th	Costel Grasu	Romania	60.64
9	Sergey Lyakhov	Russia	60.50
10	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	59.20
11	Vladimir Zinchenko	Ukraine	59.00
12	Viktor Baraznovskiy	Belarus	58.68
13	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia	58.64
14th	Dag Solhaug	Sweden	58.52
15th	Randy Heisler	United States	58.10
16	Olav Jenssen	Norway	58.00
17th	David Martínez	Spain	57.34
18th	Harri Uurainen	Finland	55.12
19th	Sergey Lukashok	Israel	54.90
20th	Frits Potgieter	South Africa	54.84
21st	Dragan Mustapic	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	Germany	68.76 CR	65.32	68.76	66.44	67.90	66.84	61.06
2	Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk	Belarus	65.98	63.98	61.68	x	65.36	62.50	65.98
3	Wassil Kapzjuch	Belarus	65.88	62.74	65.02	65.54	65.30	65.88	62.38
4th	Attila Horváth	Hungary	65.72	61.30	64.68	64.24	65.72	63.02	62.38
5	Jürgen Schult	Germany	64.44	61.30	64.68	64.24	63.02	64.44	63.92
6th	Adewale Olukoju	Nigeria	63.66	61.20	62.34	63.66	63.02	61.14	62.82
7th	Alexis Elizalde	Cuba	63.28	63.28	61.18	62.34	x	60.92	61.56
8th	Dmitri Shevchenko	Russia	63.18	x	x	63.18	x	x	x
9	Robert Weir	Great Britain	63.14	Expiration not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	John Godina	United States	60.84
11	Mike Buncic	United States	60.24
12	Stefan Fernholm	Sweden	59.62

• 

  Lars Riedel - for the third consecutive time world champion, including an Olympic title ( 1996 ), another World Cup -Titel ( 1997 / 2001 ) and an EM -Titel ( 1998 ) he had yet to come

• 

  Jürgen Schult, decorated with many successes (including Olympic champion from 1988 , world champion from 1987 , European champion from 1990 ) came in fifth place

• 

  Mike Buncic reached eleventh place

Video links

• IAAF 1995 World Outdoor Championships Men's Discus Final on youtube.com, accessed June 2, 2020
• riedel discus throw world athletics champs 1995 on youtube.com, accessed June 2, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed June 2, 2020
• Men Discus Throw Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) at todor66.com (English), accessed June 2, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Discus Throw, Gothenborg 1995, p. 190f (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on June 2, 2020

References and comments

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