1928 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	34 athletes from 19 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase	August 1, 1928
Medalist Bud Houser ( USA )   Antero Kivi ( FIN )   James Corson ( USA )

The men's discus throw at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam was played on August 1, 1928 in the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium. 34 athletes took part.

The American Bud Houser was the Olympic champion ahead of the Finn Antero Kivi . Bronze went to US athlete James Corson .

Existing records

• World record : 48.20 m - Bud Houser ( USA ), Palo Alto , April 2, 1926
• Olympic record : 46.155 m - Bud Houser ( USA ), final of the Paris Olympic competition , July 13, 1924

Conducting the competition

On August 1st there was a qualifying round in four groups. For the final, which took place on the same day, the six best throwers from the four groups qualified. The result of the qualification was included in the final result.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The respective best widths are marked in bold.

qualification

Date: August 2, 1928

The test series are only available for the athletes who have qualified for the finals, and are not complete.

Group 1

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Pre-match result	annotation
1	Antero Kivi	Finland	45.30 m	45.00 m	45.79 m	45.79 m
2	Johan Trandem	Norway	Further widths of the test series unknown			43.97 m
3	Fred Weicker	United States				43.81 m
4th	István Donogán	Hungary				41.78 m
5	František Douda	Czechoslovakia				41.19 m
6th	Camillo Zemi	Italy				39.95 m
7th	Gerrit Postma	Netherlands				35.94 m
8th	Fred Zinner	Belgium				34.35 m

Group 2

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Pre-match result	annotation
1	James Corson	United States	44.50 m	47.00 m	45.00 m	47.00 m	OR
2	Harald Stenerud	Norway	43.00 m	44.82 m	43.00 m	44.82 m
3	Gustav Kalkun	Estonia	Further widths of the test series unknown			43.09 m
4th	Jānis Jordāns	Latvia				42.78 m
5	Hermann Hänchen	German Empire				42.08 m
6th	Dimitrios Karabatis	Greece				31.87 m

Group 3

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Pre-match result	annotation
1	John Anderson	United States	43.50 m	44.25 m	43.00 m	44.25 m
2	Eino Kenttä	Finland	44.17 m	42.00 m	43.80 m	44.17 m
3	Ketil Askildt	Norway	Further widths of the test series unknown			42.57 m
4th	Arturo Conturbia	Switzerland				41.90 m
5	Kálmán Egri	Hungary				41.89 m
6th	Gerrit Eijsker	Netherlands				39.80 m
7th	Hans Hoffmeister	German Empire				39.17 m
8th	Raoul Paoli	France				36.82 m
9	Yoshio Okita	Japan				36.38 m
10	Jesus Aguirre	Mexico				33.21 m

Group 4

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Pre-match result	annotation
1	Bud Houser	United States	X	X	47.32 m	47.32 m	OR
2	Ernst Paul	German Empire	Further widths of the test series unknown			44.15 m
3	Heikki Taskinen	Finland				43.00 m
4th	Józef Baran-Bilewski	Poland				41.77 m
5	Albino Pighi	Italy				41.42 m
6th	Kálmán Marvalits	Hungary				41.17 m
7th	Jules Noël	France				40.23 m
8th	Héctor Benaprés	Chile				38.18 m
9	Ichiro Furuyama	Japan				37.89 m
10	Ion David	Romania				37.49 m

Olympic champion Clarence "Bud" Houser (USA) on a Norwegian trading card

Bottom line

				final
space	Surname	nation	Qualification range	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	result	annotation
1	Bud Houser	United States	47.32 m	45.00 m	46.50 m	43.00 m	47.32 m	OR
2	Antero Kivi	Finland	45.79 m	46.00 m	47.23 m	42.00 m	47.23 m
3	James Corson	United States	47.00 m	45.40 m	46.50 m	47.10 m	47.10 m
4th	Harald Stenerud	Norway	44.82 m	43.50 m	42.00 m	45.80 m	45.80 m
5	John Anderson	United States	44.25 m	44.50 m	44.87 m	43.00 m	44.87 m
6th	Eino Kenttä	Finland	44.17 m	40.50 m	41.10 m	42.00 m	44.17 m
7th	Ernst Paul	German Empire	44.15 m	did not qualify for the finals			44.15 m
8th	Johan Trandem	Norway	43.97 m				43.97 m

Date: August 2, 1928

The outcome of this discus throwing competition was extremely close and very high-class . Three throwers exceeded the 47-meter mark. The gold medal went to Bud Houser, who was Olympic champion in 1924 . With 47.32 m, Houser, whose real first name was Lemuel Clarence, achieved a new Olympic record . The other medals went to the Finn Antero Kivi - silver - and the American James Corson - bronze. The German participants disappointed in this competition. Hans Hoffmeister , who achieved an officially unrecognized world record with 48.77 m at the beginning of July , was eliminated in the qualification. Ernst Paulus, German champion with 47.35 m, came in seventh.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 206f

Web links

• SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed September 14, 2017
• Official report pp. 452–454, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 14, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 557 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Official report, pp. 452 - 454 (Eng.)