1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Discus throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 28 athletes from 22 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Tokyo Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | October 15, 1964 | ||||||||
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The men's discus throw at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo was played on October 15, 1964 in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 28 athletes took part.
The American Al Oerter became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the Czechoslovak Ludvík Daněk and Dave Weill from the USA.
While athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part, two Germans and an Austrian competed. The German Hartmut Losch made it to the final and finished eleventh there. His teammate Fritz Kühl failed in the qualification as did the Austrian Ernst Soudek.
Existing records
World record | 64.55 m |
Ludvík Daněk ( Czechoslovakia ) |
Turnov , then Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic ) |
2nd August 1964 |
Olympic record | 59.18 m | Al Oerter ( USA ) | Final of Rome , Italy | September 7, 1960 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes entered a qualifying round on October 15, in which each jumper had three attempts. The qualifying distance with which the athletes directly reached the final in the afternoon of the same day was 55.00 meters. Since fewer than twelve starters achieve this standard, the starting field was filled with the next best throwers up to twelve participants. In the final, each participant initially had three attempts. The six best athletes were then allowed three more attempts.
Time schedule
October 15, 10 a.m .: Qualification
October 15, 2.30 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)
Best widths are printed in bold.
The athletes qualified over the distance are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.
qualification
Date: October 15, 1964, 10:00 a.m.
Weather conditions: clear, 20–22 ° C, 49–60% humidity
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Al Oerter | United States | 60.54 m OR | - | - | 60.54 m | OR |
2 | Ludvík Daněk | Czechoslovakia | 58.88 m | - | - | 58.88 m | |
3 | Jay New Years | United States | x | 57.81 m | - | 57.81 m | |
4th | Viktor Kompaniyets | Soviet Union | 57.40 m | - | - | 57.40 m | |
5 | Dave Weill | United States | 56.95 m | - | - | 56.95 m | |
6th | Hartmut Losch | Germany | 56.46 m | - | - | 56.46 m | |
7th | Zenon's desire | Poland | 56.31 m | - | - | 56.46 m | |
8th | Roy Hollingsworth | Great Britain | 52.60 m | 55.08 m | 55.96 m | 55.96 m | |
9 | Edmund Piątkowski | Poland | 55.22 m | - | - | 55.22 m | |
10 | József Szécsényi | Hungary | 55.04 m | - | - | 55.04 m | |
11 | Kim Buchanzov | Soviet Union | 54.94 m | x | x | 54.94 m | |
12 | Vladimir Trusenev | Soviet Union | 53.81 m | 51.94 m | 52.25 m | 53.81 m | |
13 | Fritz Kühl | Germany | 53.53 m | 53.04 m | x | 53.53 m | |
14th | Pentti Repo | Finland | 52.93 m | x | 50.60 m | 52.93 m | |
15th | Dako Radosevic | Yugoslavia | 51.22 m | 52.71 m | 51.37 m | 52.71 m | |
16 | Cees cook | Netherlands | 51.20 m | 52.57 m | 51.08 m | 52.57 m | |
17th | Jiří Žemba | Czechoslovakia | x | 52.13 m | 51.80 m | 52.13 m | |
18th | Warwick Selvey | Australia | 50.83 m | x | 51.96 m | 51.96 m | |
19th | Ernst Soudek | Austria | x | 51.78 m | 50.96 m | 51.78 m | |
20th | Les Mills | New Zealand | 44.18 m | 51.70 m | 51.22 m | 51.70 m | |
21st | Georgios Tsakanikas | Greece | 50.76 m | 51.03 m | 48.07 m | 51.03 m | |
22nd | Shohei Kaneko | Japan | 44.63 m | 43.31 m | 46.46 m | 46.46 m | |
23 | Denis Ségui Kragbé | Ivory Coast | 44.07 m | 46.43 m | 44.03 m | 46.43 m | |
24 | Ignacio Reinosa | Puerto Rico | 46.36 m | 45.96 m | x | 46.36 m | |
25th | Gideon Ariel | Israel | 45.10 m | 44.26 m | 46.12 m | 46.12 m | |
26th | Sayed Mirza Molimadail | Iran | x | 45.24 m | 44.96 m | 45.24 m | |
27 | Kim Byung-ki | South Korea | 42.73 m | x | x | 42.73 m | |
ogV | Lars Haglund | Sweden | x | x | x | without space |
final
Date: October 15, 1964, 2:30 p.m.
Weather conditions: sunny, approx. 23 ° C, 42–51% humidity
In addition to the Olympic champion from 1960 , Al Oerter from the USA, and his compatriot Jay Silvester, the favorites also included the Czechoslovak world record holder Ludvík Daněk. Oerter had suffered a spinal disc injury in 1964, and he had sustained damage to the costal cartilage while training in Tokyo in the rain-soaked throwing ring. As a result, he was very limited and could only throw painfully and with pain relievers.
In the qualification, Oerter had set a new Olympic record, but in the final Daněk first took the lead. Oerter was second ahead of the Pole Zenon Greier. In the second attempt Oerters compatriot Dave Weill stepped into the limelight, which improved Daněk's lead. He was now in front of the Czechoslovak, Oerter and Greier. In the third round, New Year's Eve moved up to fourth position ahead of Greier and the Hungarian József Szécsényi.
On lap four Daněk went back to the front. Weill was second before Oerter and New Year's Eve. Greier had lost fifth place to Szécsényi. In the fifth attempt there was the second total Olympic record in discus throwing at these games. Oerter threw the disc to exactly 61 meters, replacing Daněk at the top. Weill slipped into third place. In the last run there was no change in the ranking. Thus Al Oerter celebrated his third Olympic victory in a row.
Ludvík Daněk won the first Czechoslovak medal in the discus throw.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Al Oerter | United States | 57.65 m | 58.34 m | 55.11 m | 54.37 m | 61.00 m OR | x | 61.00 m | OR |
2 | Ludvík Daněk | Czechoslovakia | 59.73 m | 58.83 m | x | 60.52 m | 58.38 m | 57.17 m | 60.52 m | |
3 | Dave Weill | United States | x | 59.49 m | 56.15 m | 56.15 m | 55.94 m | 52.45 m | 59.49 m | |
4th | Jay New Years | United States | 56.99 m | x | 57.54 m | 57.46 m | 59.09 m | x | 59.09 m | |
5 | József Szécsényi | Hungary | 54.34 m | 52.14 m | 56.97 m | 57.23 m | x | 54.66 m | 57.23 m | |
6th | Zenon's desire | Poland | 57.06 m | 52.45 m | 55.83 m | x | x | 56.68 m | 57.06 m | |
7th | Edmund Piątkowski | Poland | 52.94 m | 55.81 m | 53.87 m | not in the final of the six best throwers |
55.81 m | |||
8th | Vladimir Trusenev | Soviet Union | 53.70 m | 54.78 m | 52.98 m | 54.78 m | ||||
9 | Kim Buchanzov | Soviet Union | x | 50.15 m | 54.38 m | 54.38 m | ||||
10 | Roy Hollingsworth | Great Britain | 53.74 m | 53.87 m | x | 53.87 m | ||||
11 | Hartmut Losch | Germany | 51.44 m | 52.08 m | x | 52.08 m | ||||
12 | Viktor Kompaniyets | Soviet Union | x | 51.96 m | x | 51.96 m |
Picture gallery
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 282–284
Video
- Alfred Oerter - Men's Discus Throw - Summer Olympic Games 1964 , published August 9, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed October 28, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed October 28, 2017
- Official report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 53f engl. (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 558 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ) retrieved on October 28, 2017
- ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. P. 17 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017
- ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. P. 53 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017
- ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. P. 53f (English) from library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017
- ↑ Sport Reference (Engl.) ( Memento of 24 January 2009 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 28 October 2017