1988 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Discus throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 29 athletes from 21 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Seoul Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 30, 1988 (qualifying) October 1, 1988 (final) |
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The men's discus throw at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was played in two rounds on September 30th and October 1st, 1988 in the Seoul Olympic Stadium. 29 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Jürgen Schult from the GDR. He won ahead of Romas Ubartas from the Soviet Union and Rolf Danneberg from the Federal Republic of Germany.
In addition to the medalist Danneberg, Wulf Brunner and Alois Hannecker competed for the Federal Republic of Germany . Brunner failed in the qualification. Hannecker reached the final and was eighth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 1984 | Rolf Danneberg ( Federal Republic of Germany ) | 66.60 m | Los Angeles 1984 |
World Champion 1987 | Jürgen Schult ( GDR ) | 68.74 m | Rome 1987 |
European champion 1986 | Romas Ubartas ( Soviet Union ) | 67.08 m | Stuttgart 1986 |
Pan American champion 1987 | Luis Delís ( Cuba ) | 67.14 m | Indianapolis 1987 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1987 | Roberto Moya ( Cuba ) | 60.10 m | Caracas 1987 |
South America Champion 1987 | Carlos Brynner ( Argentina ) | 55.34 m | São Paulo 1987 |
Asian champion 1987 | Li Weinan ( People's Republic of China ) | 56.10 m | Singapore 1987 |
African Champion 1988 | Adewale Olukoju ( Nigeria ) | 62.12 m | Annaba 1988 |
Existing records
World record | 74.08 m | Jürgen Schult ( GDR ) | Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany ) | June 6, 1986 |
Olympic record | 68.28 m | Mac Wilkins ( USA ) | Montreal , Canada Qualifying | July 24, 1976 |
qualification
Date: September 30, 1988
For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualifying distance for reaching the finals directly was 64.00 m. Since only three throwers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best throwers from both groups to twelve starters (highlighted in light green). A width of 61.34 m was finally sufficient for participation in the finals.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Mac Wilkins | United States | 62.48 m | x | 61.34 m | 62.48 m | |
2 | Yuri Dumchev | Soviet Union | 61.30 m | 60.24 m | 62.08 m | 62.08 m | |
3 | Imrich Bugár | Czechoslovakia | 61.94 m | 61.48 m | 61.00 m | 61.94 m | |
4th | Georgi Georgiev | Bulgaria | 59.78 m | 61.34 m | x | 61.34 m | |
5 | Vaclavas Kidykas | Soviet Union | 58.82 m | 60.88 m | x | 60.88 m | |
6th | Svein Inge Valvik | Norway | 59.40 m | x | 60.64 m | 60.64 m | |
7th | Werner Reiterer | Australia | x | 57.58 m | 59.78 m | 59.78 m | |
8th | Randall Heisler | United States | x | x | 59.08 m | 59.08 m | |
9 | Patrick Journoud | France | 58.94 m | 57.62 m | 55.82 m | 58.94 m | |
10 | Wulf Brunner | BR Germany | x | 57.50 m | x | 57.50 m | |
11 | Adewale Olukoju | Nigeria | 51.38 m | 54.44 m | 47.60 m | 54.44 m | |
12 | Henry Smith | Western Samoa | 47.96 m | 49.40 m | 48.98 m | 49.40 m | |
13 | Min Se-hun | South Korea | x | 46.52 m | 47.84 m | 47.84 m | |
ogV | Eggert Bogason | Iceland | x | x | x | without space | |
Ibrahim Mohamed Al-Ouiran | Saudi Arabia |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Rolf Danneberg | BR Germany | 65.70 m | - | - | 65.70 m | |
2 | Romas Ubartas | Soviet Union | 65.58 m | - | x | 65.58 m | |
3 | Jürgen Schult | GDR | 64.70 m | - | - | 64.70 m | |
4th | Knut Hjeltnes | Norway | 63.50 m | 62.66 m | x | 63.50 m | |
5 | Gejza Valent | Czechoslovakia | 61.88 m | 62.84 m | 63.46 m | 63.46 m | |
6th | Michael Buncic | United States | x | 63.16 m | x | 63.16 m | |
7th | Erik de Bruin | Netherlands | 58.56 m | 60.72 m | 61.66 m | 61.66 m | |
8th | Alois Hannecker | BR Germany | 61.44 m | x | x | 61.44 m | |
9 | Bradley Cooper | Bahamas | 59.74 m | 56.88 m | 56.44 m | 59.74 m | |
10 | Vésteinn Hafsteinsson | Iceland | 58.94 m | 57.10 m | 55.70 m | 58.94 m | |
11 | Paul Mardle | Great Britain | 57.18 m | 56.06 m | 58.28 m | 58.28 m | |
12 | Ray Lazdins | Canada | 57.94 m | x | x | 57.94 m | |
13 | Ramón Jiménez Gaona | Paraguay | 50.18 m | 48.80 m | 50.90 m | 50.90 m | |
ogV | Mohamed Hamed Naguib | Egypt | x | - | - | without space |
final
Date: October 1, 1988
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, three of them over the required qualification distance. The field of finalists consisted of two athletes each from the USA, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. There was also a thrower from Bulgaria, the GDR, the Netherlands and Norway.
World champion and world record holder Jürgen Schult from the GDR was the favorite in the field. The most promising competitors were the Soviet European champion Romas Ubartas and the 1984 Olympic champion Rolf Danneberg from the Federal Republic of Germany. Due to his country's Olympic boycott , the strong Cuban World Cup third Luis Delís was missing .
In the first attempt, Jürgen Schult achieved 68.82 m, which meant a new Olympic record and ultimately the gold medal. With four of his five other attempts, Schult exceeded the top distance of second-placed Romas Ubartas, who reached 67.48 m in the last attempt and thus won the silver medal. With this throw he pushed Rolf Danneberg to the bronze place, who had managed 67.38 m in the penultimate attempt. Yuri Dumchev from the USSR was fourth a meter behind Danneberg and the 1976 Olympic champion Mac Wilkins, USA, reached fifth place ten centimeters ahead of the Czechoslovak Gejza Valent a further half a meter back.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Jürgen Schult | GDR | 68.82 m OR | 67.92 m | 65.76 m | 68.18 m | 65.70 m | 68.26 m | 68.82 m | OR |
2 | Romas Ubartas | Soviet Union | 66.86 m | 66.20 m | 66.24 m | 64.40 m | 63.74 m | 67.48 m | 67.48 m | |
3 | Rolf Danneberg | BR Germany | 65.58 m | 63.60 m | x | 63.88 m | 67.38 m | 62.56 m | 67.38 m | |
4th | Yuri Dumchev | Soviet Union | 64.00 m | 63.74 m | 63.54 m | 63.66 m | 62.86 m | 66.42 m | 66.42 m | |
5 | Mac Wilkins | United States | 61.88 m | x | 65.12 m | 63.84 m | 65.90 m | 62.96 m | 65.90 m | |
6th | Gejza Valent | Czechoslovakia | x | 63.36 m | 62.46 m | 62.80 m | 64.28 m | 65.80 m | 65.80 m | |
7th | Knut Hjeltnes | Norway | 63.30 m | x | 64.10 m | 64.94 m | 63.22 m | x | 64.94 m | |
8th | Alois Hannecker | BR Germany | 60.28 m | 62.50 m | 63.28 m | 60.94 m | 61.54 m | x | 63.28 m | |
9 | Erik de Bruin | Netherlands | 63.06 m | x | x | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
63.06 m | |||
10 | Michael Buncic | United States | 62.46 m | x | x | 62.46 m | ||||
11 | Georgi Georgiev | Bulgaria | 61.24 m | 61.12 m | 59.66 m | 61.24 m | ||||
12 | Imrich Bugár | Czechoslovakia | 59.60 m | x | 60.88 m | 60.88 m |
Web links
- SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed January 28, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , athletics results: p. 244f, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 28, 2018
Video
- 1988 Olympics - Men's Discus Throw , published June 21, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed January 28, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 679 , accessed on January 28, 2018
- ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , results in athletics: p. 244, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 28, 2018
- ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , athletics results: p. 245, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 28, 2018