World Athletics Championships 2001 / Men's discus throw

8th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	26 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Edmonton
Competition location	Commonwealth Stadium
Competition phase	August 6th (qualification) August 8th (final)
Medalist Lars Riedel ( GER )   Virgilijus Alekna ( LTU )   Michael Möllenbeck ( GER )

The Commonwealth Stadium by Edmonton in 2005

The discus throw men at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics was on 6 and 8 August 2001 in Commonwealth Stadium, the Canadian city of Edmonton held.

In this discipline, the German discus throwers won two medals, gold and bronze.
Lars Riedel , record world champion in this discipline, increased his world championship title collection after victories from 1991 to 1997 and the bronze medal in 1999 with title number six. At the Olympic Games he won gold in 1996 and silver in 2000 . He was also the reigning European champion .
Second place went to the real favorite Virgilijus Alekna from Lithuania , who had become Olympic champion last year. He was also runner-up in 1997 and third in the European Championship in 1998. Michael Möllenbeck was the
surprising winner of the bronze medal .

Records

Existing records

World record	74.08 m	Jürgen Schult	Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany )	June 6, 1986
World Cup record	68.76 m	Lars Riedel	World Cup 1995 in Gothenburg , Sweden	September 11, 1995

Record improvement

The German world champion Lars Riedel improved his own world championship record in the final on August 8th by 96 centimeters to 69.72 m.

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

26 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 65.50 m. Two athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the ten next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 61.85 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

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  Romas Ubartas, Olympic champion in 1992 and 1986 - at that time still for the Soviet Union , failed here with 61.49 m in the qualification

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  58.42 m were clearly too little for Zoltán Kővágó to be in the final

August 6, 2001, 9:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Wassil Kapzjuch	Belarus	65.71	65.71	-	-
2	Frantz Kruger	South Africa	64.79	63.91	64.79	64.59
3	Jason Tunks	Canada	64.34	x	64.34	63.14
4th	Timo Tompuri	Finland	63.34	61.33	58.70	63.34
5	Michael Möllenbeck	Germany	62.54	x	61.13	62.54
6th	Einar Kristian Tveitå	Norway	61.85	60.86	61.85	58.38
7th	Romas Ubartas	Lithuania	61.49	58.44	61.49	x
8th	Robert Weir	Great Britain	61.05	61.05	x	x
9	Jo Van Daele	Belgium	60.19	57.92	x	60.19
10	Zoltán Kővágó	Hungary	58.42	48.26	x	58.42
11	John Godina	United States	57.19	x	57.19	x
12	Andy Bloom	United States	56.32	56.32	x	x
13	Marcelo Pugliese	Argentina	54.06	x	54.06	52.75

Aleksander Tammert - 61.04 m was not enough to take part in the final

Mario Pestano had no chance with 56.58 m

Group B

August 6, 2001, 10:45 am

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Lars Riedel	Germany	68.26	68.26	-	-
2	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	65.22	65.22	-	-
3	Dmitri Shevchenko	Russia	64.55	64.55	-	-
4th	Roland Varga	Hungary	63.52	63.52	61.48	63.49
5	Igor Primc	Slovenia	62.60	x	62.60	56.57
6th	Adam Setliff	United States	62.25	62.25	x	58.16
7th	Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk	Belarus	61.73	61.73	x	59.42
8th	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia	61.04	60.87	x	61.04
9	Ionel Oprea	Romania	60.18	60.18	58.57	60.16
10	Michael Lischka	Germany	59.94	58.36	59.94	57.16
11	Mario Pestano	Spain	56.58	55.99	x	56.58
12	Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari	Qatar	54.48	x	x	54.48
13	Róbert Fazekas	Hungary	53.73	x	x	53.73

final

August 8, 2001, 8:00 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	Germany	69.72 CR	65.61	67.10	66.74	69.50	69.72	68.36
2	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	69.40	67.65	x	69.40	x	67.28	x
3	Michael Möllenbeck	Germany	67.61	67.61	x	65.76	66.60	65.30	64.48
4th	Dmitri Shevchenko	Russia	67.57	63.21	x	66.68	67.16	67.57	65.95
5	Adam Setliff	United States	66.55	66.55	66.49	x	x	x	x
6th	Wassil Kapzjuch	Belarus	66.25	62.88	65.98	62.93	66.08	66.25	65.08
7th	Roland Varga	Hungary	65.86	x	58.66	65.86	62.37	64.80	x
8th	Frantz Kruger	South Africa	65.27	63.61	64.89	x	65.27	62.24	x
9	Jason Tunks	Canada	63.79	63.79	x	x	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Timo Tompuri	Finland	62.82	62.82	59.42	x
11	Igor Primc	Slovenia	62.36	62.36	x	62.26
12	Einar Kristian Tveitå	Norway	59.11	x	58.60	59.11

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  Lars Riedel won his sixth and last world championship title, and he also had Olympic gold ( 1996 ) and EM gold ( 1998 ) in his collection

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  The current Olympic champion and European Championship third in 1998 Virgilijus Alekna became  vice world champion , just like four years ago

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  Bronze medalist Michael Möllenbeck

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  Roland Varga came in seventh

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  Frantz Kruger came in eighth

Video

• 2001 IAAF World Outdoor Championships Men's Discus Throw on youtube.com, accessed August 14, 2020

Web links

• 8th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 24, 2020
• Men Discus Throw Athletics VIII World Championship 2001 Edmonton (CAN) on todor66.com, accessed August 14, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Discus Throw, Edmonton 2001, p. 192f (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on August 14, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 14, 2020