1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	20 athletes from 13 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 8, 1984 (qualifying) August 10, 1984 (final)
Medalist Rolf Danneberg ( FRG )   Mac Wilkins ( USA )   John Powell ( USA )

The men's discus throw at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 8-10, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . Twenty athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Rolf Danneberg from the Federal Republic of Germany. He won ahead of the two Americans Mac Wilkins and John Powell .

In addition to Olympic champion Danneberg, two other athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany competed. Alwin Wagner reached the final and finished sixth, Werner Hartmann dropped out in the qualification.
Throwers from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1980	Viktor Rashchupkin ( Soviet Union )	66.64 m	Moscow 1980
World Champion 1983	Imrich Bugár ( Czechoslovakia )	67.72 m	Helsinki 1983
European Champion 1982		66.64 m	Athens 1982
Pan American Champion 1983	Luis Delís ( Cuba )	67.32 m	Caracas 1983
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1983	Bradley Cooper ( Bahamas )	63.26 m	Havana 1983
South America Champion 1983	José Jacques ( Brazil )	51.86 m	Santa Fe 1983
Asian champion 1983	Li Weinan ( People's Republic of China )	55.40 m	Kuwait City 1983
African champions 1982	Mohamed Naguib Hamed ( Egypt )	59.82 m	Cairo 1982

Existing records

World record	71.86 m	Yuri Dumchev ( Soviet Union )	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	May 29, 1983
Olympic record	68.28 min	Mac Wilkins ( USA )	Montreal , Canada Qualifying	July 24, 1976

qualification

Date: August 8, 1984

For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 62.00 m. Since only six athletes exceeded this distance, the final field was filled with the next best participants from both groups, the so-called lucky losers , to twelve participants. So 60.76 m was enough for the final. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Group A

The Norwegian Knut Hjeltnes reached the final and was fourth there

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Rolf Danneberg	BR Germany	59.66 m	63.48 m	-	63.48 m
2	John Powell	United States	62.92 m	-	-	62.92 m
3	Kostas Georgakopoulos	Greece	60.74 m	60.66 m	60.94 m	60.94 m
4th	Robert Weir	Great Britain	x	x	60.92 m	60.92 m
5	Knut Hjeltnes	Norway	60.80 m	59.32 m	x	60.80 m
6th	Marco Martino	Italy	59.58 m	60.76 m	x	60.76 m
7th	Werner Hartmann	BR Germany	57.90 m	59.88 m	59.92 m	59.92 m
8th	Bradley Cooper	Bahamas	x	52.06 m	53.70 m	53.70 m
9	Henry Smith	Western Samoa	51.28 m	50.94 m	51.90 m	51.90 m
10	Dominique Bechard	Mauritius	39.84 m	41.10 m	40.24 m	41.10 m
DNS	Marco Bucci	Italy

Group B

Icelander Vésteinn Hafsteinsson was disqualified because of a positive doping test after qualifying

Vésteinn Hafsteinsson from Iceland finished seventh in group B in the overall classification and was eliminated. Hafsteinsson then tested positive for taking nandrolone . So his result was deleted from the list and Hafsteinsson was subsequently disqualified.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Mac Wilkins	United States	60.54 m	65.86 m	-	65.86 m
2	Luciano Zerbini	Italy	63.44 m	-	-	63.44 m
3	Stefan Fernholm	Sweden	x	62.84 m	-	62.84 m
4th	Art Burns	United States	62.60 m	-	-	62.60 m
5	Erik de Bruin	Netherlands	60.76 m	61.06 m	61.56 m	61.56 m
6th	Alwin Wagner	BR Germany	x	61.56 m	x	61.56 m
7th	Robert Gray	Canada	56.38 m	56.62 m	59.34 m	59.34 m
8th	Richard Slaney	Great Britain	56.02 m	56.78 m	57.66 m	57.66 m
ogV	Mohamed Naguib Hamed	Egypt	x	-	-		without space
DOP	Vésteinn Hafsteinsson	Iceland	59.02 m	55.98 m	59.58 m		Disqualification. due to Doping offense

final

The Olympic contestant Erik de Bruin from the Netherlands

Date: August 10, 1984

Twelve athletes contested the final. Six had made the required qualification distance, with a further six throwers - the next best of both groups - the field was filled. All three Americans had reached the final, as well as two Germans and two Italians. The other finalists came from Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, Great Britain and Greece. Each participant initially had three attempts. The best eight athletes were then able to complete three more attempts.

The Olympic boycott prevented the participation of the world and European champion Imrich Bugár from Czechoslovakia. There were also no other top launchers from the boycott states. These included the Cuban Luis Delís , Bugar's compatriot Gejza Valent and the strong throwers from the GDR and the USSR. The favorites were the two Americans Mac Wilkins, 1976 Olympic champion , and John Powell, 1976 Olympic knight.

Wilkins took the lead in the first attempt with 65.96 m and was ahead of the German thrower Rolf Danneberg - 64.74 m - and the Norwegian Knut Hjeltnes - 64.72 m. The order was retained until the third round, in which Hjeltnes with 65.28 m now overtook Wilkins, who was able to improve to 65.20 m. On lap four, Danneberg reached 66.60 m, thus taking the top position. Wilkins came in the fifth attempt on 66.30 m and thus in second place before Hjeltnes. With his last throw, John Powell was able to catch the Norwegian with 65.46 m and win the bronze medal. At the front nothing changed, Rolf Danneberg surprisingly became Olympic champion, Mac Wilkins won silver.

The lack of athletes from the boycott states reduced the value of this competition simply because of their excellent placements in the world rankings. The distance achieved in the top ranks in the competition here in Los Angeles was , however, on a good level, even if Mac Wilkins' Olympic record from 1976 was not achieved.

Rolf Danneberg achieved the first German Olympic victory in the discus throw .

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Rolf Danneberg	BR Germany	64.47 m	x	63.64 m	66.60 m	x	66.22 m	66.60 m
2	Mac Wilkins	United States	65.96 m	x	65.20 m	x	66.30 m	x	66.30 m
3	John Powell	United States	64.68 m	63.34 m	64.12 m	64.06 m	65.14 m	65.46 m	65.46 m
4th	Knut Hjeltnes	Norway	64.72 m	62.40 m	65.28 m	63.78 m	62.50 m	64.32 m	65.28 m
5	Art Burns	United States	63.72 m	x	x	x	63.32 m	64.98 m	64.98 m
6th	Alwin Wagner	BR Germany	61.82 m	62.76 m	62.70 m	63.94 m	61.16 m	64.72 m	64.72 m
7th	Luciano Zerbini	Italy	60.18 m	61.14 m	63.50 m	x	x	60.14 m	63.50 m
8th	Stefan Fernholm	Sweden	63.08 m	x	62.20 m	63.22 m	62.20 m	59.82 m	63.22 m
9	Erik de Bruin	Netherlands	56.88 m	62.32 m	60.10 m	not in the final of the eight best throwers			62.32 m
10	Robert Weir	Great Britain	59.86 m	61.36 m	x				61.36 m
11	Kostas Georgakopoulos	Greece	x	59.16 m	60.30 m				60.30 m
ogV	Marco Martino	Italy	x	x	x					without space

literature

• Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 34f

Web links

• SportsReference Discus , accessed January 13, 2018
• Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 288, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 13, 2018

Video

• 1984 Olympic Games - Men's Discus Throw , published July 18, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed January 13, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 679 , accessed on January 13, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 288, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 13, 2018
3. ↑ List of Olympic doping offenders on SportsReference , accessed on January 13, 2018
4. ↑ SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed January 13, 2018