1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	18 athletes from 12 countries
Competition location	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 27, 1980 (qualification) July 28, 1980 (final)
Medalist Viktor Rashchupkin ( URS )   Imrich Bugár ( TCH )   Luis Delís ( CUB )

The men's discus throw at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on July 27 and 28, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. 18 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Viktor Raschtschupkin from the Soviet Union. He won in front of the Czechoslovak Imrich Bugár and the Cuban Luis Delís .

Hilmar Hoßfeld, Armin Lemme and Wolfgang Schmidt started for the GDR . Lemme failed in the qualification, Hoßfeld and Schmidt reached the final. Schmidt was fourth, Hoßfeld eleventh.
Throwers from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Existing records

World record	71.16 m	Wolfgang Schmidt ( GDR )	Berlin , GDR (now Germany )	August 9, 1978
Olympic record	68.28 m	Mac Wilkins ( USA )	Montreal , Canada Qualifying	July 24, 1976

Conducting the competition

The athletes started a qualifying round on July 27th, which was held together in a group due to the small number of participants. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final on July 30th was 62.00 m. Since only nine athletes reached this distance, the final field was filled to twelve throwers after the next best distance, so that finally 59.92 m was enough to participate in the final.

Time schedule

The Olympic champion Wolfgang Schmidt from the GDR

July 27, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification

July 28, 5:30 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local time Moscow ( UTC + 3 )

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.

qualification

Date: July 27, 1980, 10:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Imrich Bugár	Czechoslovakia	61.50 m	65.08 m	-	65.08 m
2	Viktor Rashchupkin	Soviet Union	64.78 m	-	-	64.78 m
3	Luis Delís	Cuba	64.20 m	-	-	64.20 m
4th	Ihor Duhinez	Soviet Union	63.10 m	-	-	63.10 m
5	Yuri Dumchev	Soviet Union	62.82 m	-	-	62.82 m
6th	Kenth garden crane	Sweden	53.90 m	62.58 m	-	62.58 m
7th	Emil Vladimirov	Bulgaria	60.54 m	60.52 m	62.50 m	62.50 m
8th	Wolfgang Schmidt	GDR	62.46 m	-	-	62.46 m
9	Markku Tuokko	Finland	62.14 m	-	-	62.14 m
10	Welko Welew	Bulgaria	54.82 m	56.60 m	61.30 m	61.30 m
11	José Santa Cruz	Cuba	60.14 m	58.70 m	x	60.14 m
12	Hilmar Hoßfeld	GDR	x	57.98 m	59.92 m	59.92 m
13	Armin Lemme	GDR	59.44 m	54.44 m	x	59.44 m
14th	Iosif Naghi	Romania	56.50 m	59.34 m	58.48 m	59.34 m
15th	Namakoro Niaré	Mali	x	57.34 m	56.08 m	57.34 m
16	Adnan Houri	Syria	x	x	47.52 m	47.52 m
17th	Najem Najem	Kuwait	x	39.26 m	35.38 m	39.26 m
ogV	Óskar Jakobsson	Iceland	x	x	x		without space

final

Date: July 28, 1980, 5:30 p.m.

Due to the US Olympic boycott , the 1976 Olympic champion , Mac Wilkins , was unable to participate. World record holder Wolfgang Schmidt from the GDR was handicapped due to an ankle injury. In addition to Schmidt, the circle of medal candidates now included the Vice European Champion from 1978 , Markku Tuokko from Finland, the EM third-placed Imrich Bugár from Czechoslovakia and the Cuban Luis Delís. The experts also counted on the Soviet throwers at the games in Moscow .

The final, for which twelve throwers were able to qualify, was marked by many changes of position. Bugár was ahead in the first attempt. It was followed by Yuri Dumchev, USSR and Emil Wladimirow, Bulgaria. In the second round, the Soviet thrower Viktor Raschtschupkin took over the second position behind Bugár. Dumchev and his compatriot Ihor Duhinez followed. In the third lap, Rashchupkin came within six centimeters of Bugár, but Dumchev took the lead, and Schmidt also passed Bugár. The fourth round brought the decision to gold and silver. Rashchupkin scored 66.64 m, Bugár 66.38 m. Schmidt was in third place ahead of the Cuban Luis Delís, who then overtook Wolfgang Schmidt in the last attempt and won the bronze medal with 66.32 m. Olympic champion was Viktor Raschtschupkin, silver went to Imrich Bugár.

Viktor Raschtschupkin became the first Soviet Olympic champion in the discus throw .

Luis Delís won the first Cuban medal in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Viktor Rashchupkin	Soviet Union	62.38 m	64.72 m	65.08 m	66.64 m	60.48 m	x	66.64 m
2	Imrich Bugár	Czechoslovakia	65.14 m	61.78 m	64.34 m	66.38 m	64.42 m	65.96 m	66.38 m
3	Luis Delís	Cuba	x	63.46 m	x	65.30 m	x	66.32 m	66.32 m
4th	Wolfgang Schmidt	GDR	x	61.60 m	65.30 m	65.64 m	65.34 m	x	65.64 m
5	Yuri Dumchev	Soviet Union	64.78 m	x	65.58 m	x	63.16 m	x	65.58 m
6th	Ihor Duhinez	Soviet Union	62.18 m	64.04 m	63.18 m	x	62.04 m	x	64.04 m
7th	Emil Vladimirov	Bulgaria	62.84 m	63.18 m	61.60 m	61.70 m	61.60 m	61.20 m	63.18 m
8th	Welko Welew	Bulgaria	60.88 m	60.74 m	63.04 m	61.14 m	x	61.72 m	63.04 m
9	Markku Tuokko	Finland	61.54 m	55.32 m	61.84 m	not in the final of the eight best throwers			61.84 m
10	José Santa Cruz	Cuba	56.06 m	58.52 m	61.52 m				61.52 m
11	Hilmar Hoßfeld	GDR	60.26 m	61.14 m	59.30 m				61.14 m
12	Kenth garden crane	Sweden	60.24 m	58.40 m	60.12 m				60.24 m

Video

• 1980 Olympic Games Men's Discus Final , published June 14, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed December 31, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed December 31, 2017
• Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 62f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 558 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 31 December 2017
2. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 63, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 31, 2017