1952 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 20 countries
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 22, 1952
Medalist Sam Iness ( USA )   Adolfo Consolini ( ITA )   James Dillion ( USA )

The men's discus throw at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki was played on July 22, 1952. 32 athletes took part.

The American Sam Iness became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the Italian defending champions Adolfo Consolini and James Dillion (USA).

Existing records

World record	56.97 m	Fortune Gordien ( USA )	Hämeenlinna , Sweden	August 14, 1949
Olympic record	52.78 m	Adolfo Consolini ( Italy )	London , UK	August 2, 1948

Conducting the competition

The participants competed in two groups for a qualifying round on July 22nd, the qualifying distance was 46.00 meters. Should fewer than twelve athletes manage the required distance, the starting field would be filled to twelve jumpers according to the best distance achieved. This rule did not have to apply here, seventeen throwers made it over the qualifying distance into the final round. The results achieved in this qualification were not counted for the final.
In the final, all participants initially had three attempts. The six best athletes were then allowed to make three more attempts.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Time schedule

July 22, 10 a.m .: Qualification
July 22, 4 p.m .: Final

qualification

Date: July 22, 1952, 10:00 a.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
01	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	51.89 m
02	Fortune Gordia	United States	50.34 m
03	Oto Grigalka	Soviet Union	48.93 m
04th	Sam Iness	United States	48.90 m
05	James Dillion	United States	47.92 m
06th	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	47.63 m
07th	Boris Butenko	Soviet Union	46.43 m
08th	Stone Johnson	Norway	45.12 m
09	Friðrik Guðmundsson	Iceland	44.73 m
	Oskar Häfliger	Switzerland
11	Lucien Guillier	France	43.88 m
12	Kristian Johansen	Norway	43.46 m
13	Josef Hipp	BR Germany	43.38 m
14th	Hernán Haddad	Chile	42.89 m
15th	Arvo Huutoniemi	Finland	42.79 m
16	Raymond Kintziger	Belgium	41.46 m
17th	Uri Gallin	Israel	40.76 m

Group B

Adolfo Consolini (ITA), the defending champion, won silver

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
01	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece	47.84 m
02	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	47.18 m
03	Per stavem	Norway	46.74 m
04th	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	46.59 m
05	Roy Pella	Canada	46.58 m
	Jørgen Munk Plum	Denmark
07th	Jean Maissant	France	46.47 m
08th	Veikko Nyqvist	Finland	46.41 m
09	Boris Matveev	Soviet Union	46.31 m
10	Konstantinos Giataganas	Greece	46.05 m
11	Olli Partans	Finland	45.24 m
12	Mark Pharaoh	Great Britain	45.19 m
13	Ian Reed	Australia	45.00 m
14th	Þorsteinn lion	Iceland	44.28 m
15th	Nuri Turan	Turkey	41.45 m

Finale and final result

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Sam Iness	United States	53.47 m	54.60 m	55.03 m	53.49 m	54.13 m	52.82 m	55.03 m	OR
2	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	51.69 m	53.78 m	53.45 m	50.63 m	50.08 m	51.20 m	53.78 m
3	James Dillion	United States	52.47 m	48.06 m	51.76 m	53.28 m	x	52.28 m	53.28 m
4th	Fortune Gordia	United States	52.52 m	52.66 m	51.71 m	51.48 m	x	49.93 m	52.66 m
5	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	48.74 m	49.07 m	51.13 m	x	49.79 m	x	51.13 m
6th	Oto Grigalka	Soviet Union	50.71 m	x	47.84 m	x	x	x	50.71 m
7th	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	x	48.90 m	50.06 m	not in the final of the six best throwers			50.06 m
8th	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	45.85 m	49.03 m	48.97 m				49.03 m
9	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece	48.99 m	48.36 m	47.17 m				48.99 m
10	Boris Matveev	Soviet Union	47.27 m	44.47 m	48.70 m				48.70 m
11	Boris Butenko	Soviet Union	x	43.66 m	48.15 m				48.15 m
12	Veikko Nyqvist	Finland	47.72 m	45.99 m	46.63 m				47.72 m
13	Jørgen Munk Plum	Denmark	38.73 m	45.20 m	47.26 m				47.26 m
14th	Roy Pella	Canada	x	46.63 m	45.47 m				46.63 m
15th	Konstantinos Giataganas	Greece	42.40 m	46.23 m	x				46.23 m
16	Per stavem	Norway	39.78 m	x	46.00 m				46.00 m
17th	Jean Maissant	France	43.40 m	42.11 m	35.82 m				43.40 m

Date: July 22, 1952, 10:00 a.m.

The Olympic champion of the last games and European champion Adolfo Consolini from Italy was seen as slightly favored. The challengers were Fortune Gordien and Simeon Inness, both USA. Iness had won the US Olympic elimination , Gordien was the world record holder.
In the final, Consolini led after the second attempt with a new Olympic record . Iness, however, improved this record in the third round and thus secured victory over the Italian. The third American James Dillion won the bronze medal and was surprisingly ahead of Gordien, who was more than four meters below his world record.

In the twelfth Olympic final, Simeon Garland "Sim" Iness won the eighth gold medal for the USA.

Note: The best size is always printed in bold.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 94f

Web links

• SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed September 28, 2017
• Official report p. 318, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 28, 2017
• Sim Iness - 1952 Olympic Gold Medalist - World Record Holder - Discus Thrower , published August 18, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed September 28, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF. World records, German records, the best of all time on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on September 28, 2017
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Official report p. 266, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)