1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Discus throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 32 athletes from 24 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium Barcelona | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 3, 1992 (qualification) August 5, 1992 (final) |
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The men's discus throw at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was played on August 3rd and 5th, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. 32 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was Romas Ubartas from Lithuania , who won ahead of Jürgen Schult from Germany . The bronze medal went to the Cuban Roberto Moya .
In addition to the medalist Schult Lars Riedel, Germany started. He failed in qualification.
The Swiss Christian Erb was also eliminated from the qualification.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion in 1988 | Jürgen Schult ( GDR ) | 68.82 m | Seoul 1988 |
World Champion 1991 | Lars Riedel ( Germany ) | 66.20 m | Tokyo 1991 |
European champion 1990 | Jürgen Schult ( GDR ) | 64.58 m | Split 1990 |
Pan American champion 1991 | Anthony Washington ( USA ) | 65.04 m | Havana 1991 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1991 | Herbert Rodríguez ( El Salvador ) | 46.46 m | Xalapa 1991 |
South American Champion 1991 | João dos Santos ( Brazil ) | 58.08 m | Manaus 1991 |
Asian champion 1991 | Yu Wenge ( People's Republic of China ) | 62.20 m | Kuala Lumpur 1991 |
African Champion 1992 | Adewale Olukoju ( Nigeria ) | 60.66 m | Belle Vue Maurel 1992 |
Oceania Champion 1990 | Ian Boller ( Australia ) | 47.80 m | Suva 1990 |
Existing records
World record | 74.08 m | Jürgen Schult ( German Democratic Republic ) | Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany ) | August 25, 1991 |
Olympic record | 68.82 m | Final from Seoul , South Korea | October 1, 1988 |
qualification
Date: August 3, 1992
For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 63.00 m. Since only three athletes exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 60.20 m was enough for the final.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Costel Grasu | Romania | 61.30 m | x | 63.06 m | 63.06 m | |
2 | Attila Horváth | Hungary | 62.26 m | 59.98 m | 58.30 m | 62.26 m | |
3 | Dmitri Kovzun | EUN | 60.88 m | 61.62 m | 61.14 m | 61.62 m | |
4th | David Martínez | Spain | 61.22 m | x | x | 61.22 m | |
5 | Juan Martínez | Cuba | 56.00 m | 60.34 m | 59.70 m | 60.34 m | |
6th | Dmitri Shevchenko | EUN | 57.20 m | 60.22 m | x | 60.22 m | |
7th | Lars Riedel | Germany | 57.54 m | x | 59.98 m | 59.98 m | |
8th | Vaclavas Kidykas | Lithuania | x | 59.10 m | 59.96 m | 59.96 m | |
9 | Ramón Jiménez Gaona | Paraguay | 56.98 m | x | 59.98 m | 59.98 m | |
10 | Michael Buncic | United States | x | 57.84 m | 59.12 m | 59.12 m | |
11 | Imrich Bugár | Czechoslovakia | 53.88 m | 58.70 m | 56.84 m | 58.70 m | |
12 | Nikolai Kolew | Bulgaria | 50.94 m | 58.12 m | x | 58.12 m | |
13 | Brian Blood Kingdom | United States | 57.08 m | 54.44 m | 55.40 m | 57.08 m | |
14th | Simon Williams | Great Britain | x | 53.12 m | 52.96 m | 53.12 m | |
15th | Dragan Mustapic | Bosnia and Herzegovina | x | 47.88 m | 48.80 m | 48.80 m | |
16 | Herbert Rodríguez | El Salvador | 43.22 m | x | 40.76 m | 43.22 m |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Romas Ubartas | Lithuania | 66.08 m | - | - | 66.08 m | |
2 | Jürgen Schult | Germany | 61.04 m | 63.46 m | - | 63.46 m | |
3 | Werner Reiterer | Australia | 60.64 m | x | 62.20 m | 62.20 m | |
4th | Anthony Washington | United States | 58.18 m | 57.86 m | 62.18 m | 62.18 m | |
5 | Roberto Moya | Cuba | x | 62.06 m | 61.44 m | 62.06 m | |
6th | Vésteinn Hafsteinsson | Iceland | 60.20 m | 58.64 m | 58.08 m | 60.20 m | |
7th | Olav Jenssen | Norway | 60.00 m | 59.74 m | x | 60.00 m | |
8th | Yu Wenge | People's Republic of China | 58.92 m | x | 59.42 m | 59.42 m | |
9 | József Ficsór | Hungary | 56.30 m | 58.84 m | x | 58.84 m | |
10 | Ray Lazdins | Canada | x | 55.60 m | 58.26 m | 58.26 m | |
11 | Nicholas Sweeney | Ireland | 57.68 m | 57.26 m | 56.22 m | 57.68 m | |
12 | Mickaël Conjungo | Central African Republic | 57.46 m | x | 54.40 m | 57.46 m | |
13 | Volodimir Zinchenko | EUN | 56.94 m | 56.64 m | 56.46 m | 56.94 m | |
14th | Christian Erb | Switzerland | x | 55.16 m | 54.38 m | 55.16 m | |
15th | Khaled Al-Khalidi | Saudi Arabia | x | x | 47.96 m | 47.96 m | |
ogV | Luchiano Zerbini | Italy | x | x | x | without space |
final
Date: August 5, 1992
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, three of them by the required qualification distance, the other nine by their placements. Two Cubans faced two United Team representatives. The final field was completed by one participant each from Australia, Germany, Iceland, Lithuania, Romania, Spain, Hungary and the USA.
The reigning world champion Lars Riedel from Germany was surprisingly unable to qualify for the final. The favorites were the 1988 Olympic champion and world record holder Jürgen Schult - starting in both competitions for the GDR, the Lithuanian Romas Ubartas, who won silver for the USSR in 1988, and the Hungarian World Cup third Attila Horváth.
After the first attempt, Schult took the lead with 64.26 m, ahead of Cuban Roberto Moya - 64.12 m - and Horváth - 62.50 m. Ubartas came within eight centimeters of Horváth in the second run. In the third round, Ubartas threw the target to 64.36 m and took the lead from Schult, Moya and Horváth. As a result, nothing changed in the order of the medal ranks. Ubartas improved again in attempt five to 65.12 m, Schult to 64.94 m. With his fourth litter, the Romanian Costel Grasu pushed Attila Horváth down from fourth to one place. Thus Romas Ubartas became Olympic champion in front of Jürgen Schult and Roberto Moya. The really big distances did not happen in this competition, Olympic champion Romas Ubartas came closest to Jürgen Schult's Olympic record of 68.82 m in the Seoul Games with his first litter from the qualification to 66.08 m .
Romas Ubartas was the first Olympic and medalist for Lithuania.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Romas Ubartas | Lithuania | 60.90 m | 62.64 m | 64.36 m | x | 65.12 m | x | 65.12 m | |
2 | Jürgen Schult | Germany | 64.26 m | 63.54 m | 63.84 m | 63.38 m | 64.94 m | 63.08 m | 64.94 m | |
3 | Roberto Moya | Cuba | 64.12 m | x | x | 62.72 m | x | 62.02 m | 64.12 m | |
4th | Costel Grasu | Romania | 59.90 m | 60.50 m | 62.18 m | 62.86 m | 62.40 m | x | 62.86 m | |
5 | Attila Horváth | Hungary | 62.50 m | 62.72 m | 62.82 m | x | 62.56 m | 62.06 m | 62.86 m | |
6th | Juan Martínez | Cuba | 61.72 m | 61.30 m | 61.86 m | 62.64 m | 62.10 m | x | 62.64 m | |
7th | Dmitri Kovzun | EUN | x | 60.04 m | 60.58 m | x | 60.66 m | 62.04 m | 62.04 m | |
8th | Dmitri Shevchenko | EUN | 61.78 m | 60.92 m | x | x | x | x | 61.78 m | |
9 | David Martínez | Spain | 59.74 m | 59.54 m | 60.16 m | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
60.16 m | |||
10 | Werner Reiterer | Australia | 60.12 m | 58.92 m | x | 60.12 m | ||||
11 | Vésteinn Hafsteinsson | Iceland | 60.06 m | x | 58.90 m | 60.06 m | ||||
12 | Anthony Washington | United States | 59.96 m | x | 58.76 m | 59.96 m |
Web links
- SportsReference Discus , accessed February 13, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 51, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 13, 2018
Video
- 1992 Olympic Games Men's Discus Final , published June 5, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed February 13, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 668 , accessed on February 13, 2018
- ↑ a b Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 51, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 13, 2018