1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	29 athletes from 18 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Munich
Competition phase	September 1, 1972 (qualification) September 2, 1972 (final)
Medalist Ludvík Daněk ( TCH )   Jay Silvester ( USA )   Ricky Bruch ( SWE )

The men's discus throw at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was played on September 1 and 2, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 29 athletes took part.

The Czechoslovak Ludvík Daněk became Olympic champion . The silver medal went to the American Jay Silvester , bronze went to the Swede Ricky Bruch .

Three athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - started, all of whom failed in the qualification: Klaus-Peter Hennig , Hein-Direck Neu and Dirk Wippermann . Detlef Thorith and Hartmut Losch
started for the GDR . Losch was eliminated in the qualification, Thorith reached the final and was sixth there. Austria was represented by Heimo Reinitzer , who did not pass the qualification. Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	68.40 m	Jay Silvester ( USA )	Reno , USA	18th September 1968
Olympic record	64.78 m	Al Oerter ( USA )	Mexico City Final , Mexico	15th October 1968

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round on September 1st. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 59.00 m. Since more than twelve athletes exceeded this distance, there was no further filling of the final field.

In the final on September 2, each athlete initially had three attempts. The best eight participants were then given a further three attempts.

Time schedule

September 1st, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification

September 2, 4 p.m .: Final

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: September 1, 1972, from 10 a.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Pentti Kahma	Finland	58.50 m	61.24 m	-	61.24 m
2	Ricky Bruch	Sweden	61.24 m	-	-	61.24 m
3	Jay New Years	United States	58.98 m	61.20 m	-	61.20 m
4th	Ferenc Tégla	Hungary	60.60 m	-	-	60.60 m
5	Tim Vollmer	United States	59.60 m	-	-	59.60 m
6th	Namakoro Niaré	Mali	59.38 m	-	-	59.38 m
7th	Detlef Thorith	GDR	59.36 m	-	-	59.36 m
8th	Les Mills	New Zealand	59.22 m	-	-	59.22 m
9	Klaus-Peter Hennig	BR Germany	55.32 m	x	58.64 m	58.64 m
10	Hein-Direck New	BR Germany	56.36 m	58.10 m	x	58.10 m
11	Ain Roost	Canada	56.58 m	55.48 m	x	56.58 m
12	John Watts	Great Britain	53.48 m	x	53.86 m	53.86 m
13	Kaj Andersen	Denmark	x	51.60 m	53.52 m	53.52 m
14th	Said Farouk Al-Turki	Saudi Arabia	x	33.78 m	x	33.78 m
DNS	Stoyan Slavkov	Bulgaria

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Ludvík Daněk	Czechoslovakia	64.32 m	-	-	64.32 m
2	Jorma Rinne	Finland	62.02 m	-	-	62.02 m
3	Géza Fejér	Hungary	61.58 m	-	-	61.58 m
4th	János Murányi	Hungary	54.42 m	60.34 m	-	60.34 m
5	Silvano Simeon	Italy	58.38 m	59.78 m	-	59.78 m
6th	John Powell	United States	54.94 m	59.30 m	-	59.30 m
7th	Dirk Wippermann	BR Germany	56.42 m	58.10 m	57.96 m	58.10 m
8th	Zdravko Pečar	Yugoslavia	x	57.84 m	53.52 m	57.84 m
9	Bill Tancred	Great Britain	x	55.86 m	57.24 m	57.24 m
10	Robin Tait	New Zealand	56.60 m	55.88 m	x	56.60 m
11	Hartmut Losch	GDR	56.54 m	x	56.28 m	56.54 m
12	Erlendur Valdimarsson	Iceland	55.38 m	55.16 m	53.26 m	55.38 m
13	Praveen Kumar	India	52.58 m	53.12 m	51.58 m	53.12 m
14th	Heimo Reinitzer	Austria	x	52.32 m	52.56 m	52.56 m
DNS	Youssef Nagui Assaad	Egypt
	Julio Bequer	Cuba
	Noel Matouba	People's Republic of the Congo

final

Date: September 2, 1972, 4:00 p.m.

A three-way battle for the medals between the Czechoslovak Ludvík Daněk, European champion from 1971 , the US athlete Jay Silvester and the Swede Ricky Bruch was expected.

The Hungarian Géza Fejér took the lead with 62.50 m in the first attempt, but was overtaken by the US thrower John Powell in the second lap. reach the 62.82 m. In the third round, Silvester took the lead with 63.50 m, with Powell, Fejér, GDR throwers Detlef Thorith and Daněk behind him. In the fourth round Bruch worked his way up to third place behind Powell with 62.76 m and was able to improve on lap five with his best throw of 63.40 m to second place behind Silvester. Powell, Fejér and Daněk followed on the other places. In the last attempt Ludvík Daněk achieved his best distance. He threw the discus to 64.40 meters, thus securing the Olympic title after 1968 bronze and 1964 had won silver - time Olympic champion was in each case the American Al Oerter , record Olympic champion with four gold medals. Oerters Olympic record remained, Ludvík Daněk missed this distance by exactly 38 centimeters.

Ludvík Daněk became the first Czechoslovak Olympic champion in the discus throw .

Ricky Bruch managed to win the first Swedish medal in this discipline.

In all 17 Olympic finals so far there had been at least one US medal, including here. Out of 51 medals awarded so far in this discipline, Silvester won the 31st medal for the USA.

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  Olympic champion Ludvík Daněk, Czechoslovakia

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  Jay Silvester from the USA, silver medal winner

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  GDR thrower Hartmut Losch was eliminated from the qualification

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Ludvík Daněk	Czechoslovakia	58.12 m	60.38 m	62.38 m	62.54 m	61.70 m	64.40 m	64.40 m
2	Jay New Years	United States	62.12 m	x	63.50 m	x	x	62.86 m	63.50 m
3	Ricky Bruch	Sweden	59.12 m	x	61.52 m	62.76 m	63.40 m	62.60 m	63.40 m
4th	John Powell	United States	61.92 m	62.82 m	60.44 m	x	61.38 m	x	62.82 m
5	Géza Fejér	Hungary	62.50 m	62.56 m	x	x	61.50 m	62.62 m	62.62 m
6th	Detlef Thorith	GDR	61.74 m	62.42 m	61.06 m	x	59.88 m	x	62.42 m
7th	Ferenc Tégla	Hungary	58.38 m	59.66 m	57.40 m	x	58.16 m	60.60 m	60.60 m
8th	Tim Vollmer	United States	59.26 m	60.24 m	x	x	x	58.54 m	60.24 m
9	Pentti Kahma	Finland	57.20 m	58.92 m	59.66 m	not in the final of the eight best throwers			59.66 m
10	Silvano Simeon	Italy	58.80 m	59.34 m	58.36 m				59.34 m
11	Jorma Rinne	Finland	57.30 m	56.88 m	59.22 m				59.22 m
12	János Murányi	Hungary	57.92 m	57.16 m	x				57.92 m
13	Namakoro Niaré	Mali	56.48 m	55.10 m	x				56.48 m
14th	Les Mills	New Zealand	x	54.48 m	55.86 m				55.86 m

literature

• Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , p. 46

Web links

• SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed December 1, 2017
• Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 62, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 1, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 558 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 1, 2017
2. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 1, 2017 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 62, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 1, 2017 
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 1, 2017