1948 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 18 countries
Competition location	Wembley Stadium
Competition phase	August 2, 1948
Medalist Adolfo Consolini ( ITA )   Giuseppe Tosi ( ITA )   Fortune Gordien ( USA )

The men's discus throw at the 1948 Olympic Games in London was played at Wembley Stadium on August 2, 1948 . 28 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Italian Adolfo Consolini ahead of his compatriot Giuseppe Tosi . Bronze went to the American Fortune Gordien .

Existing records

• World record : 54.93 m - Bob Fitch ( USA ), Minneapolis , June 8, 1946
• Olympic record : 50.48 m - Kenneth Carpenter ( USA ), Berlin final , August 5, 1936

Conducting the competition

Participants took part in a qualifying round on August 2nd. The required qualification distance was 46.00 meters. All athletes who managed this distance qualified for the final on the same day. If fewer than 12 athletes have made the distance, the final field was filled up to 12 throwers based on the distances.

Emilio Malchiodi (ARG), South American champion from 1945, failed in the qualification

qualification

August 2, 1948, 11 a.m.

Note: The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The qualifiers who did not make the required distance but were still able to qualify are highlighted in light green. Only the best is recorded. The order and length of further attempts in qualification are unknown.

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	51.08 m	OR
2	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	50.56 m
3	Fortune Gordia	United States	48.40 m
4th	Veikko Nyqvist	Finland	47.75 m
5	Ivar Ramstad	Norway	47.34 m
6th	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece	47.03 m
7th	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	46.65 m
8th	Stone Johnson	Norway	46.54 m
9	Uno Fransson	Sweden	45.99 m
10	Hermann Tunner	Austria	45.92 m
11	Eduardo Julve	Peru	45.86 m
12	Arvo Huutoniemi	Finland	44.77 m
13	Bill Burton	United States	43.78 m
14th	Félix Erauzquin	Spain	43.66 m
15th	Giorgio Oberweger	Italy	43.13 m
16	Danilo Žerjal	Yugoslavia	43.07 m
17th	Manuel Consiglieri	Peru	43.01 m
18th	Emilio Malchiodi	Argentina	42.98 m
19th	James Nesbitt	Great Britain	42.09 m
20th	Vic Frank	United States	42.00 m
21st	Jack Brewer	Great Britain	41.95
22nd	Cummin Clancy	Ireland	40.73 m
23	Eric Coy	Canada	39.53 m
24	Roger Verhaes	Belgium	39.14 m
25th	Laurence Reavell-Carter	Great Britain	38.04 m
26th	Nazar Muhammad Khan Malik	Pakistan	36.23 m
26th	Ahmed Zahur Khan	Pakistan	36.23 m
ogV	To Yeong-han	South Korea

final

Olympic Champion Adolfo Consolini (ITA)

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Best	annotation
1	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	49.67 m	52.78 m	47.94 m	x	50.51 m	50.43 m	52.78 m	OR
2	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	51.78 m	48.81 m	50.11 m	50.09 m	x	51.18 m	51.78 m
3	Fortune Gordia	United States	47.95 m	49.20 m	50.77 m	x	48.74 m	x	50.77 m
4th	Ivar Ramstad	Norway							49.21 m
5	Ferenc Klics	Hungary							48.21 m
6th	Veikko Nyqvist	Finland							47.33 m
7th	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece							47.25 m
8th	Stone Johnson	Norway							46.54 m
9	Arvo Huutoniemi	Finland							45.28 m
10	Uno Fransson	Sweden							45.25 m
11	Hermann Tunner	Austria							44.43 m
12	Eduardo Julve	Peru							44.05 m

August 2, 1948, 3:30 p.m.

Note: The trial series are only known for the medalists. For the other finalists, only the best scores are submitted.

World record holder Bob Fitch had defeated the two Italians Adolfo Consolini, reigning European champion, and Giuseppe Tosi, vice European champion, in 1947. But then Fitch ended his career. There were now three favorites for the competition in London : the two Italians Consolini and Tosi as well as the American Fortune Gordien, who had already thrown over 54 m in the Olympic year. Consolini already set an example in the qualification with an Olympic record of 51.08 m. In the final, Tosi improved the record in the first attempt to 51.78 m. Consolini countered in the second round with 52.78 m and won the gold medal. Tosi got three more throws over 50 meters, but he could not gain any more. Gordien could not quite build on his best form, but won the bronze medal with a respectable 50.77 m.

Consolini was the first Italian to win the discus throw .
The bronze medal of the US thrower Fortune Gordien was the 19th of 33 possible for the USA.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 37f

Web links

• SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed August 23, 2017
• Official report p. 271, engl. (PDF), accessed on August 23, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 557 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Official report "Athletic Timetable" p. 240, engl. (PDF)
3. ^ Official report "Athletic Timetable" p. 240, engl. (PDF)
4. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)
5. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 37f