1924 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 18 countries
Competition location	Stade de Colombes
Competition phase	July 13, 1924
Medalist Bud Houser ( USA )   Vilho Niittymaa ( FIN )   Thomas Lieb ( USA )

The men's discus throw at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris was played on July 13, 1924. 32 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion in the shot put , the American Bud Houser , also won the discus throw. The silver medal went to the Finn Vilho Niittymaa , bronze went to Thomas Lieb (USA).

Existing records

• World record : 47.58 m - James Duncan ( USA ), New York , May 27, 1912 - no recognition due to wind support: 48.18 m - Glenn Hartranft ( USA ), Cambridge (Massachusetts) , May 31, 1924
• Olympic record : 45.21 m - Armas Taipale ( Finland ), Stockholm Olympic Final , July 12, 1912

Conducting the competition

The athletes had to complete a qualifying round in three groups on July 13th. For the final, which took place on the same day, the six best throwers from the three groups qualified. The distances achieved in the preliminary fight were included in the final result,

Note: The qualified throwers are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: July 13, 1924

Group 1

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Thomas Lieb	United States	44.83 m
2	Heikki Malmivirta	Finland	41.16 m
3	Sándor Toldi	Hungary	41.09 m
4th	Armas Taipale	Finland	40.22 m
5	Karl Jensen	Denmark	39.78 m
6th	Paul Beranger	France	38.93 m
7th	Camillo Zemi	Italy	37.47 m
8th	Veljko Narančić	Yugoslavia	37.35 m
9	Teodors Sukatnieks	Latvia	35.99 m
10	Octavio Zani	Brazil	35.72 m
11	Otto Garnus	Switzerland	35.16 m
12	Antonio Martins	Portugal	32.40 m
ogV	Dimitrios Karabatis	Greece

Group 2

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Gus Pope	United States	44.42 m
2	Glenn Hartranft	United States	42.49 m
3	Elmer Niklander	Finland	42.09 m
4th	Kálmán Mavalits	Hungary	40.82 m
5	Gustav Kalkun	Estonia	38.46 m
6th	Werner Nuesch	Switzerland	38.21 m
7th	José Galimberti	Brazil	36.52 m
8th	Albino Pighi	Italy	34.99 m
9	Gabino Lizarza	Spain	34.20 m
10	František Janda-Suk	Czechoslovakia	34.08 m
11	Georgios Zacharopoulos	Greece	34.02 m

At 46 years of age, the Czech František Janda-Suk was by far the oldest participant in the field.

Group 3

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Bud Houser	United States	46.155 m	OR
2	Vilho Niittymaa	Finland	44.95 m
3	Ketil Askildt	Norway	43.41 m
4th	Paddy Bermingham	Irish Free State	40.42 m
5	Daniel Pierre	France	37.02 m
6th	Arvīds Ķibilds	Latvia	35.79 m
7th	Sławosz Szydłowski	Poland	35.71 m
8th	Armando Poggioli	Italy	35.29 m

final

space	Surname	nation	Qualification range	Final width	result	annotation
1	Bud Houser	United States	46.155 m	no improvement in the final	46.155 m	OR
2	Vilho Niittymaa	Finland	44.95 m	no improvement in the final	44,950 m
3	Thomas Lieb	United States	44.83 m	no improvement in the final	44.830 m
4th	Gus Pope	United States	44.42 m	no improvement in the final	44,420 m
5	Ketil Askildt	Norway	43.41 m	no improvement in the final	43,410 m
6th	Glenn Hartranft	United States	42.49 m	no improvement in the final	42,490 m
7th	Elmer Niklander	Finland	42.09 m	not in the final	42,090 m
8th	Heikki Malmivirta	Finland	41.16 m	not in the final	41,160 m

Date: July 13, 1924

In the final, four Americans faced a Finn and a Norwegian. In this final none of the starters could improve the distance achieved in the qualification.

The two Finnish Olympic champions of previous years Armas Taipale - 1912 - and Elmer Niklander - 1920 - were eliminated in the qualification. They no longer reached the level of their best times. But they had worthy followers. Gus Pope, on the other hand, bronze medalist in 1920, still came fourth. Bud Houser, whose full name was actually Lemuel Clarence Houser, set a new Olympic record with his Olympic discus throw at 46.155 m . He had already won gold in the shot put five days earlier, with Vilho Niittymaa and Thomas Lieb remaining just below the 45-meter mark in second and third.

Picture gallery

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  Olympic champion Bud Houser (USA) on a trading card from 1930

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  Ketil Askildt (NOR) took 5th place (photo from 1933)

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  Elmer Niklander (FIN) failed in the qualification

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  Armas Taipale (FIN) was also eliminated from the qualification.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 170f

Web links

• SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed September 10, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 170
2. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)
3. ↑ Official report, pp. 139-140 (fr.) ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.