World Athletics Championships 1997 / Men's discus throw
6th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | Discus throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 41 athletes from 30 countries | ||||||||
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Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 8th (qualification) August 10th (final) |
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The men's discus throw at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 8 and 10, 1997 in the Olympic Stadium in the Greek capital, Athens .
In this competition the German discus throwers won two medals, gold and bronze. Lars Riedel , the 1996 Olympic champion, became world champion for the third time in a row . Silver went to Virgilijus Alekna from Lithuania , who won his first of many subsequent international medals here. The world champion from 1987 , world championship third from 1993 , Olympic champion from 1988 , Olympic second from 1992 , European champion from 1990 , European championship third from 1994 and world record holder Jürgen Schult took the bronze place .
Existing records
World record | 74.08 m |
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Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany ) | June 6, 1986 |
World Cup record | 68.76 m |
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World Cup 1995 in Gothenburg , Sweden | September 11, 1995 |
The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.
Legend
Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:
- | waived |
x | invalid |
r | Competition not continued (retired) |
qualification
41 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 63.00 m. Seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the five next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 61.82 m had to be achieved for the final.
Group A
August 8, 1997, 5:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) |
1 | Jürgen Schult |
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64.60 | 62.60 | 64.60 | - |
2 | Vitaly Sidorov |
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63.08 | 63.08 | - | - |
3 | Wassil Kapzjuch |
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63.06 | 63.06 | - | - |
4th | Andreas Seelig |
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62.94 | 60.44 | x | 62.94 |
5 | Aleksander Tammert |
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62.18 | 59.60 | 59.64 | 62.18 |
6th | Jason Tunks |
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61.82 | 60.74 | 61.82 | 60.62 |
7th | Alexis Elizalde |
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61.48 | 56.38 | 61.48 | 61.22 |
8th | Vaclovas Kidykas |
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61.40 | x | 61.40 | x |
9 | Andy Bloom |
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60.74 | 59.38 | 60.74 | x |
10 | Olav Jenssen |
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60.52 | x | 57.86 | 60.52 |
11 | Igor Primc |
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59.98 | 54.26 | 59.98 | 57.96 |
12 | Ian Winchester |
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59.70 | 59.66 | 59.00 | 59.70 |
13 | Jo Van Daele |
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58.66 | 55.72 | 58.66 | 58.66 |
14th | Alexander Borichevsky |
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57.90 | 57.90 | 57.56 | x |
15th | Yu Wenge |
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57.12 | 55.46 | 57.14 | 56.36 |
16 | Costel Grasu |
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56.70 | 56.70 | 55.16 | x |
17th | Christos Papadopoulos |
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56.44 | 56.44 | 56.42 | r |
18th | Shakti Singh |
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56.28 | x | 50.42 | 56.28 |
19th | Glen Smith |
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54.40 | 54.40 | 53.30 | x |
20th | Dashdendev Makhashiri |
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52.12 | 52.12 | x | 49.42 |
DNS | Duke Uperesa |
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Group B
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August 8, 1997, 7:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) |
1 | Lars Riedel |
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66.46 | 66.46 | - | - |
2 | Virgilijus Alekna |
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65.22 | 61.34 | 60.30 | 65.22 |
3 | Adam Setliff |
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63.72 | 63.72 | - | - |
4th | John Godina |
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63.48 | x | 63.48 | - |
5 | Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk |
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62.30 | 62.30 | x | |
6th | Robert Weir |
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62.26 | 62.26 | 60.38 | 60.98 |
7th | Frits Potgieter |
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61.30 | 61.30 | x | x |
8th | Pieter van der Kruk |
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60.16 | 55.82 | 60.16 | r |
9 | Diego Fortuna |
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60.06 | 60.06 | 59.66 | 60.00 |
10 | Leonid Cherewko |
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60.06 | 60.06 | x | x |
11 | Sergey Lyakhov |
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59.72 | 59.64 | 59.72 | 59.18 |
12 | Jean Pons |
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59.46 | 55.84 | 58.70 | 59.46 |
13 | Li Shaojie |
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58.24 | x | 58.24 | 58.24 |
14th | Libor Malina |
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58.00 | x | 58.00 | 56.52 |
15th | Mickaël Conjungo |
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57.82 | 57.82 | 56.66 | 57.44 |
16 | Attila Horváth |
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57.72 | x | 57.72 | x |
17th | Marcelo Pugliese |
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57.34 | 55.22 | x | 57.34 |
18th | Kjell Ove Hauge |
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57.00 | 54.72 | 57.00 | x |
19th | Ramón Jiménez Gaona |
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52.96 | x | x | 52.96 |
20th | Wansawang Sawasdee |
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47.98 | 47.98 | 46.00 | r |
21st | Robert McNabb |
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41.00 | 40.46 | x | 41.00 |
final
August 10, 1997, 6:00 p.m.
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 |
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68.54 | 65.48 | 68.24 | 68.54 | x | x | 66.80 |
2 | Virgilijus Alekna |
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66.70 | 62.44 | 66.70 | 63.20 | 63.12 | x | x |
3 | Jürgen Schult |
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66.14 | 66.14 | 65.20 | 65.54 | x | 62.34 | 64.94 |
4th | Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk |
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66.12 | 62.98 | 60.30 | 65.36 | 65.46 | 62.44 | 66.12 |
5 | John Godina |
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65.40 | 65.40 | x | 57.30 | 64.82 | 64.92 | 64.30 |
6th | Andreas Seelig |
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64.48 | 63.00 | 64.48 | 62.80 | x | 64.12 | 63.64 |
7th | Adam Setliff |
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63.44 | 63.32 | 62.80 | x | 64.12 | x | 63.44 |
8th | Robert Weir |
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63.06 | 63.06 | 60.18 | 61.40 | 62.22 | x | 58.70 |
9 | Jason Tunks |
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62.30 | 59.16 | 62.30 | 61.88 | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
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10 | Vitaly Sidorov |
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60.32 | 60.32 | 59.68 | x | |||
11 | Wassil Kapzjuch |
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60.12 | 60.12 | x | x | |||
12 | Aleksander Tammert |
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59.44 | 59.44 | 59.18 | 58.46 |
Lars Riedel (here in 2016) - after his Olympic victory in 1996, world champion for the third time in a row
Video
- Men's Discus Final - 1997 IAAF World Championships on youtube.com, accessed June 13, 2020
Web links
- 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 9, 2020
- Men Discus Throw Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed June 23, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Discus Throw, Athens 1997, p. 191 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on June 23, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 23, 2020