1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Discus throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 40 athletes from 30 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Centennial Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 29, 1996 (qualifying) July 31, 1996 (final) |
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The men's discus throw at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was played on July 29 and 31, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . Forty athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the German Lars Riedel . He won before the two Belarusians Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk and Wassil Kapzjuch .
In addition to the winner Riedel, Michael Möllenbeck and Jürgen Schult started for Germany . Möllenbeck was eliminated in the qualification. Schult reached the final and finished sixth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 1992 |
Romas Ubartas ( Lithuania )
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65.12 m | Barcelona 1992 |
World Champion 1995 |
Lars Riedel ( Germany )
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68.76 m | Gothenburg 1995 |
European Champion 1994 |
Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk ( Belarus )
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64.78 m | Helsinki 1994 |
Pan American champion 1995 |
Roberto Moya ( Cuba )
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63.58 m | Mar del Plata 1995 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 1995 | Yojer Medina ( Venezuela )
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18.46 m | Guatemala City 1995 |
South American Champion 1995 |
Gert Weil ( Chile )
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19.02 m | Manaus 1995 |
Asian champion 1995 |
Bilal Saad Mubarak ( Qatar )
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18.87 m | Jakarta 1995 |
African champion 1996 | Serge Doh ( Ivory Coast )
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51.92 m | Yaoundé 1996 |
Oceania Champion 1994 | Gordon Barff ( Tahiti )
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48.54 m | Auckland 1994 |
Existing records
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World record | 74.08 m |
Jürgen Schult ( GDR )
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Neubrandenburg , Germany | August 25, 1991 |
Olympic record | 68.82 m | Final from Seoul , South Korea | October 1, 1988 |
Remarks:
- All times are local Atlanta time ( UTC − 5 ).
- All widths are given in meters (m).
qualification
July 29, 1996, from 9:30 a.m.
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 62.50 m. Since only eight athletes achieved this performance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best throwers from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 62.22 m were needed to take part in the finals.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse |
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1 | Lars Riedel |
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64.66 | - | - | 64.66 |
2 | Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk |
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63.22 | - | - | 63.22 |
3 | Attila Horváth |
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58.94 | 62.90 | - | 62.90 |
4th | Vaclavas Kidykas |
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59.64 | 62.74 | - | 62.74 |
5 | Jürgen Schult |
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62.58 | - | - | 62.58 |
6th | Adam Setliff |
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62.36 | 58.42 | 60.06 | 62.36 |
7th | Nick Sweeney |
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58.82 | 62.04 | 61.06 | 62.04 |
8th | Robert Weir |
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61.64 | 60.54 | x | 61.64 |
9 | Adewale Olukoju |
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x | 60.98 | 59.32 | 60.98 |
10 | Diego Fortuna |
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57.78 | 59.30 | 60.08 | 60.08 |
11 | Svein Inge Valvik |
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59.34 | 58.34 | 59.60 | 59.60 |
12 | Roberto Moya |
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59.22 | 57.60 | x | 59.22 |
13 | Daschdendewiin Machashiri |
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59.16 | 54.18 | x | 59.16 |
14th | Igor Primc |
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59.12 | 56.40 | 57.62 | 59.12 |
15th | Costel Grasu |
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58.30 | x | 58.56 | 58.56 |
16 | Andrij Kochanowskyj |
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57.90 | x | x | 57.90 |
17th | Marcelo Pugliese |
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56.72 | x | x | 56.72 |
18th | Alexander Borichevsky |
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x | 56.46 | 55.18 | 56.46 |
19th | Roman Poltoratsky |
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x | x | 51.96 | 51.96 |
20th | Jaroslav Žitňanský |
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x | 50.94 | 51.50 | 51.50 |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse |
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1 | Virgilijus Alekna |
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64.50 | - | - | 64.50 |
2 | Anthony Washington |
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63.66 | - | - | 63.66 |
3 | Vitaly Sidorov |
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x | 57.60 | 63.42 | 63.42 |
4th | Sergei Lyakhov |
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59.62 | 62.42 | - | 62.42 |
5 | Alexis Elizalde |
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60.98 | 62.22 | 61.44 | 62.22 |
6th | Wassil Kapzjuch |
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57.28 | 61.14 | 62.22 | 62.22 |
7th | John Godina |
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61.82 | 59.88 | 57.46 | 61.82 |
8th | Ramón Jiménez Gaona |
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58.18 | 61.36 | x | 61.36 |
9 | Li Shaojie |
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58.54 | 60.06 | 60.20 | 60.20 |
10 | Marek Bílek |
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59.86 | 58.42 | 58.62 | 59.86 |
11 | Aleksander Tammert |
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58.84 | x | 59.04 | 59.04 |
12 | Dragan Mustapic |
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x | 57.94 | 56.62 | 57.94 |
13 | Shakti Singh |
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53.72 | 56.58 | 54.30 | 56.58 |
14th | Vésteinn Hafsteinsson |
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53.94 | 52.14 | 56.30 | 56.30 |
15th | Jason Tunks |
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x | x | 55.58 | 55.58 |
16 | Mickaël Conjungo |
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x | x | 55.34 | 55.34 |
17th | Michael Möllenbeck |
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x | 55.18 | 55.06 | 55.18 |
18th | Glen Smith |
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54.88 | x | x | 54.88 |
19th | Chris Sua'mene |
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49.22 | 51.28 | 50.24 | 51.28 |
ogV | David Martínez |
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x | x | x | without |
final
July 31, 1996, 7:30 p.m.
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, eight over the required qualification distance and four more over their placements. Two US-Americans, two Germans, Lithuanians and Belarusians each met one participant from Cuba, Russia, Ukraine and Hungary.
The three-time world champion Lars Riedel from Germany was the favorite for the Olympic victory. Further medal contenders were the Belarusian European champion and runner-up world champion Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk, his compatriot Wassil Kapzjuch as World Cup third, and world record holder Jürgen Schult, World Cup fifth and European third.
The lead after the first round was held by the American Anthony Washington. He was 65.42 m ahead of Dubrouschtschyk, who had come to 64.86 m. In the second attempt Dubrouschtschyk passed Washington with 66.60 m, the Lithuanian Virgilijus Alekna reached third place with 65.30 m. Riedel had had two failed attempts by then, so he was under a lot of pressure to at least place himself in the top eight and thus have the opportunity for three more attempts. Riedel reached 65.40 m and was fourth behind Washington. Kapzjuch had achieved 65.80 m and was now in second place behind his teammate Dubrouschtschyk.
There were no changes in the ranking in the fourth round. In lap five, Riedel finally proved his high level and threw the discus to the new Olympic record distance of 69.40 m. The last test series did not bring any change either. Lars Riedel won ahead of Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk and Wassil Kapzjuch. Anthony Washington was fourth ahead of Virgilijus Alekna and Jürgen Schult.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | Remarks |
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1 | Lars Riedel |
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x | x | 65.40 | 63.10 | 69.40 OR | 69.24 | 69.40 | OR |
2 | Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk |
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64.86 | 66.60 | 64.38 | 59.68 | x | x | 66.60 | |
3 | Wassil Kapzjuch |
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63.24 | 64.00 | 65.80 | x | 63.82 | 65.08 | 65.80 | |
4th | Anthony Washington |
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65.42 | x | x | 61.34 | x | 62.50 | 65.42 | |
5 | Virgilijus Alekna |
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62.28 | 65.30 | 64.50 | x | 64.54 | 63.74 | 65.30 | |
6th | Jürgen Schult |
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62.82 | 64.42 | 62.62 | 64.62 | 64.38 | 63.78 | 64.62 | |
7th | Vitaly Sidorov |
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63.44 | x | x | 62.76 | 63.78 | 62.82 | 63.78 | |
8th | Vaclavas Kidykas |
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61.48 | 57.52 | 62.78 | x | 61.68 | 61.88 | 62.78 | |
9 | Alexis Elizalde |
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60.52 | 60.36 | 62.70 | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
62.70 | |||
10 | Attila Horváth |
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60.66 | 62.28 | 59.72 | 62.28 | ||||
11 | Sergei Lyakhov |
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60.62 | 59.90 | x | 60.62 | ||||
12 | Adam Setliff |
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x | 56.30 | x | 56.30 |
literature
- Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 38f
Web links
- SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed March 5, 2018
- Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 94, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 5, 2018
Video
- 1996 Olympic Games Men's Discus Throw , published April 8, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed March 5, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 678 , accessed on March 5, 2018
- ↑ a b Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 94, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 5, 2018.