1896 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	9–11 athletes from 6–7 countries
Competition location	Panathinaic Stadium
Competition phase	April 6, 1896
Medalist not forgiven Robert Garrett ( USA ) Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos ( GRE )

Athletics competitions at the 1896 Olympic Games
100 m	Men
400 m	Men
800 m	Men
1500 m	Men
110 m hurdles	Men
marathon	Men
Long jump	Men
Triple jump	Men
high jump	Men
Pole vault	Men
Shot put	Men
Discus throw	Men

The men's discus throw at the Olympic Games in 1896 was played on April 6, 1896 in the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens . Depending on the source, the number of participants is given as between 9 and 11 athletes from 6 to 7 nations.

Records

The world record listed was still unofficial at the time.

World record	28.95 m	Greece	Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos	1896

Course of the competition

Double Olympic champion Robert Garret - also first in the shot put , also second in the high and long jump

The Greek Olympic runner-up Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos

April 6, 1896, 4:25 p.m.

The throws were made from a square area with a side length of 2 to 2.5 meters. The throwing device weighed 2 kilograms. The participants were initially given three attempts, the best three athletes then another two litters. Garrett achieved the winning distance in the last round. Throws in the style of Myron's famous antique discus thrower were also required . However, the throwers could not achieve this in the desired form, and there was apparently no evaluation for this in the competition.

In order to clarify the deviations in the summary of results from the various sources, the results are compared in the following tables.

Results

Result according to the IOC space Surname country Width (m)   1 Robert Garrett  United States 29.15 OR 2 Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos  GRE 28.95 3 Sotirios Versis  GRE 27.78 4th no information 5 Giorgos Papasideris  GRE k. A. 6th George Stuart Robertson  GBR 7th Henrik Sjöberg  SWE More final- participants Alphonse Grisel  FRA Holger Nielsen  THE Viggo Jensen  THE

Result according to SportsReference space Surname country Width (m)   1 Robert Garrett  United States 29,150 OR 2 Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos  GRE 28.955 3 Sotirios Versis  GRE 27.780 4th George Stuart Robertson  GBR 25,200 More final- participants Henrik Sjöberg  SWE k. A. Giorgos Papasideris  GRE Holger Nielsen  THE Viggo Jensen  THE Alphonse Grisel  FRA

Result to the Megede space Surname country Width (m)   1 Robert Garrett  United States 29,150 OR 2 Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos  GRE 28.95 3 Sotirios Versis  GRE 27.78 4th A. Adler  FRA k. A. 5 Giorgos Papasideris  GRE 6th George Stuart Robertson  GBR 7th Henrik Sjöberg  SWE More final- participants Carl Schuhmann  GER Carl Winckler  THE Holger Nielsen  THE Viggo Jensen  THE

literature

• Volker Kluge , Olympic Summer Games - The Chronicle I, Berlin 1997 ( ISBN 3-328-00715-6 )
• Ekkehard zur Megede , The history of Olympic athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970

Web links

• SportsReference, Men's Discus Throw , accessed July 16, 2018
• Olympic Games Athens 1896, Athletics, discus throwmen , IOC page on athletics in the 1896 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed July 16, 2018

Individual evidence