1936 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	31 athletes from 17 countries
Competition location	Olympiastadion Berlin
Competition phase	August 5, 1936
Medalist Ken Carpenter ( USA ) Gordon Dunn ( USA ) Giorgio Oberweger ( ITA )
← 1932 1948 →

The men's discus throw at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin was held on August 5, 1936 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. 31 athletes took part.

The American Ken Carpenter was Olympic champion ahead of his compatriot Gordon Dunn . The bronze medal went to the Italian Giorgio Oberweger .

Existing records

• World record : 53.10 m - Willy Schröder ( Germany ), Magdeburg , April 28, 1935
• Olympic record : 49.49 m - John Anderson ( USA ), Los Angeles final , August 3, 1932

Conducting the competition

The athletes began with a qualifying round. In order to qualify for the preliminary competition, the participants had to create at least 44.00 m. In the preliminary battle, each participant had three attempts. The best six athletes then qualified for another three attempts in the final. The result of the pre-match was included in the final result. All partial competitions were held on August 5th.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The order and width of the trial series in the qualifying round are not known.

qualification

Failed in the qualification: The Swede Harald Andersson

and the French Paul Winter (photo from 1930)

August 5, 1936, 10.30 a.m.
Weather conditions: overcast, light rain, 13-16 ° C, tail wind at approx. 2.7-3.0 m / s.

Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
Gunnar Bergh	Sweden	k. A.
Ken Carpenter	United States
Gordon Dunn	United States
Hans Fritsch	German Empire
Åke Hedvall	Sweden
Jules Noël	France
Giorgio Oberweger	Italy
Willy Schröder	German Empire
Helge Sivertsen	Norway
Reidar Sørlie	Norway
Nikolaos Syllas	Greece
Walter Wood	United States
Johann Wotapek	Austria
Harald Andersson	Sweden	k. A.
Valér Barač	Czechoslovakia
Ruggero Biancani	Italy
Petre Havaleţ	Romania
Gerhard Hilbrecht	German Empire
Emil Janausch	Austria
Guo Jie	China
Nikola Kleut	Yugoslavia
Kalevi Kotkas	Finland
Endre Madarász	Hungary
Veljko Narančić	Yugoslavia
Oskar Ospelt	Liechtenstein
Ling Peigeng	China
Bernard Prendergast	Great Britain
Laurence Reavell-Carter	Great Britain
Miroslav Vítek	Czechoslovakia
Jean Wagner	Luxembourg
Paul Winter	France

Pre-fight

August 2, 1936, 5.30 p.m.
Weather conditions: clearing, 17 ° C, tail wind of approx. 2.8 m / s.
Note: The best sizes are printed in bold.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	result	annotation
1	Gordon Dunn	United States	x	49.36 m	48.04 m	49.36 m
2	Giorgio Oberweger	Italy	46.67 m	46.65 m	49.23 m	49.23 m
3	Ken Carpenter	United States	x	44.53 m	48.98 m	48.98 m
4th	Reidar Sørlie	Norway	47.01 m	48.77 m	46.79 m	48.77 m
5	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece	47.75 m	44.58 m	47.07 m	47.75 m
6th	Willy Schröder	German Empire	44.79 m	47.22 m	45.01 m	44.79 m
7th	Gunnar Bergh	Sweden	44.19 m	47.13 m	47.22 m	47.22 m
8th	Åke Hedvall	Sweden	46.20 m	46.15 m	45.83 m	46.20 m
9	Johann Wotapek	Austria	45.65 m	44.34 m	46.05 m	46.05 m
10	Helge Sivertsen	Norway	x	45.82 m	45.89 m	45.89 m
11	Hans Fritsch	German Empire	38.91 m	45.10 m	43.61 m	45.10 m
12	Jules Noël	France	44.56 m	x	43.70 m	44.56 m
13	Walter Wood	United States	43.83 m	x	43.32 m	43.83 m

final

August 5, 1936
Weather conditions: clearing, 17 ° C, tail wind of approx. 2.8 m / s.

The German world record holder Willy Schröder is mentioned again and again as the top favorite, especially because one of his main opponents, the Swede Harald Andersson , got stuck in the qualification due to a boil on his throwing hand. But Schröder's world record came from the previous year and the Americans Kenneth Carpenter and Gordon Dunn had already cracked the 50-meter mark in the Olympic year. It was Carpenter in the final who achieved his best form and was the only athlete to throw more than fifty meters with the Olympic record distance of 50.48 m. With a width of more than 49 m, Dunn and the Italian Giorgio Oberweger took second and third place. Schröder was still fifth.

Kenneth Carpenter's win was the seventh US win in the tenth Olympic discus throwing event .
Of the thirty medals awarded so far, US throwers alone won eighteen, with at least one US medal win at all Olympic Games.
Giorgio Oberweger won the first Italian medal in the discus throw.
Note: The best sizes are printed in bold.

				final
space	Surname	nation	Qualification range	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Ken Carpenter	United States	48.98 m	x	50.48 m	47.48 m	50.48 m	OR
2	Gordon Dunn	United States	49.36 m	47.21 m	47.77 m	x	49.36 m
3	Giorgio Oberweger	Italy	49.23 m	47.28 m	x	x	49.23 m
4th	Reidar Sørlie	Norway	48.77 m	47.66 m	48.65 m	47.87 m	48.77 m
5	Willy Schröder	German Empire	47.22 m	47.39 m	47.81 m	47.93 m	47.93 m
6th	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece	47.75 m	45.34 m	47.59 m	47.67 m	47.75 m
7th	Gunnar Bergh	Sweden	47.22 m	not in the final			47.22 m
8th	Åke Hedvall	Sweden	46.20 m				46.20 m

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 295-297

Web links

• SportsReference discus , accessed September 21, 2017
• Official report pp. 676-677, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 21, 2017
• 1936, Discus, Men, Olympic Games, Berlin , published on August 2, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on September 21, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 557 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Official report p. 676, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)