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) |
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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
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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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
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 |
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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
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 |
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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
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 679 , accessed on January 13, 2018
- ↑ a b Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 288, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 13, 2018
- ↑ List of Olympic doping offenders on SportsReference , accessed on January 13, 2018
- ↑ SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed January 13, 2018