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)
Medalist Romas Ubartas ( LTU )   Jürgen Schult ( GER )   Roberto Moya ( CUB )

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

Icelanders Vésteinn Hafsteinsson finished eleventh in the final

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
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

The German Jürgen Schult won the silver medal

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
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

Olympic champion Romas Ubartas from Lithuania in 2011

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
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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 668 , accessed on February 13, 2018
2. ↑ ^{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