1912 Summer Olympics / Athletics - two-armed discus throw (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | two-armed discus throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 20 athletes from 6 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stockholm Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 13, 1912 | ||||||||
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The men's two-armed discus throw at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm was played on July 13, 1912 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. 20 athletes took part. This discipline was only part of the program of the Olympic Games in 1912.
The Finn Armas Taipale was Olympic champion ahead of his compatriot Elmer Niklander . Bronze went to the Swede Emil Magnusson .
Existing records
- World records were not set in the two-handed discus throw.
- Olympic record : Since the competition was on the Olympic program for the first time, there was no Olympic record yet.
Conducting the competition
All athletes had three attempts each with their left and right arms. The final result of the preliminary round was calculated by adding up the best distances. The best three throwers then completed another three attempts, whereby the results of the first three rounds were included in the evaluation.
Note: The upper width indicates the result with the right arm, the lower one the result with the left arm. The best widths are shown in bold.
Result
space | Surname | nation | result | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | |
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1 | Armas Taipale | Grand Duchy of Finland | 82.86 m OR | right arm: left arm: |
42.68 34.15 |
43.70 35.35 |
44.68 - 35 |
42.78 38.18 |
- - |
44.68 - |
2 | Elmer Niklander | Grand Duchy of Finland | 77.96 m | right arm: left arm: |
- 31.77 |
40.28 - |
- - |
37.04 33.10 |
37.94 37.68 |
- - |
3 | Emil Magnusson | Sweden | 77.37 m | right arm: left arm: |
40.28 35.07 |
- - |
- - |
37.03 36.05 |
38.90 36.13 |
40.58 36.79 |
4th | Einar Nilsson | Sweden | 71.40 m | right arm: left arm: |
39.60 - |
40.99 25.78 |
- 30.41 |
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5 | James Duncan | United States | 71.13 m | right arm: left arm: |
39.78 31.35 |
- - |
- - |
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6th | Emil Muller | United States | 69.56 m | right arm: left arm: |
39.83 29.73 |
- - |
- |
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7th | Folke Fleetwood | Sweden | 68.22 m | right arm: left arm: |
35.05 30.96 |
36.95 31.27 |
- - |
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8th | Carl Johan Lind | Sweden | 68.02 m | right arm: left arm: |
- 33.82 |
33.58 - |
34.20 - |
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9 | Nils Linde | Sweden | 67.10 m | right arm: left arm: |
- 32.12 |
34.31 - |
34.98 - |
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10 | Gunnar Nilsson | Sweden | 67.09 m | right arm: left arm: |
35.89 26.93 |
36.50 30.23 |
36.86 - |
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11 | Eric Lemming | Sweden | 67.08 m | right arm: left arm: |
36.27 28.81 |
- - |
37.86 29.22 |
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12 | Verner Järvinen | Grand Duchy of Finland | 66.69 m | right arm: left arm: |
37.84 27.88 |
- 28.85 |
- - |
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13 | Hans Tronner | Austria | 66.66 m | right arm: left arm: |
34.45 20.73 |
38.54 22.35 |
39.95 26.71 |
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14th | Rezsó Újlaki | Hungary | 66.18 m | right arm: left arm: |
35.93 25.28 |
- - |
40.32 25.86 |
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15th | Arlie Mucks | United States | 63.83 m | right arm: left arm: |
42.63 21.20 |
- - |
- - |
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16 | Josef Schäffer | Austria | 63.50 m | right arm: left arm: |
36.59 26.77 |
- 26.91 |
- - |
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17th | Richard Byrd | United States | 62.32 m | right arm: left arm: |
- - |
40.10 22.22 |
- - |
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18th | Károly Kobulszky | Hungary | 59.48 m | right arm: left arm: |
34.62 - |
35.22 22.47 |
37.01 - |
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19th | Vasily Molokanov | Russia | 47.37 m | right arm: left arm: |
24.79 22.19 |
- 22.58 |
- - |
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20th | György Luntzer | Hungary | 37.68 m | right arm: left arm: |
32.67 - |
36.97 - |
37.68 - |
Date: July 13, 1912
Also in this competition the Finn Armas Taipale dominated the competition and achieved the best distance with both arms. There was even a Finnish double victory, Elmer Niklander, the fourth of the star-studded discus throw won silver and since the Swede Emil Magnusson came third, the US athletes left the ring without medals.
Picture gallery
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 121
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of the finals in the official report ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Pp. 405-407, engl. (PDF)