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
Medalist Al Oerter ( USA )   Ludvík Daněk ( TCH )   Dave Weill ( USA )

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
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
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

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  Jay Silvester, USA, reached number four

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  Eleventh place in the final: the German Hartmut Losch

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  Cees Koch from the Netherlands failed in the qualification

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  The German Fritz Kühl - here in the shot put - was eliminated from the qualification

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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 558 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ) retrieved on October 28, 2017
2. ↑ 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 
3. ↑ 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 
4. ↑ 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 
5. ↑ Sport Reference (Engl.) ( Memento of 24 January 2009 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 28 October 2017