2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	45 athletes from 28 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 24, 2000 (qualification) September 25, 2000 (final)
Medalist Virgilijus Alekna ( LTU )   Lars Riedel ( GER )   Frantz Kruger ( RSA )

The men's discus throw at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was played on September 24th and 25th, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 45 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Virgilijus Alekna from Lithuania . He won ahead of the German Lars Riedel and the South African Frantz Kruger .

With Michael Möllenbeck and Jürgen Schult , two other Germans took part in the competition. Both qualified for the final. Schult was eighth, Möllenbeck tenth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1996	Lars Riedel ( Germany )	69.40 m	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999	Anthony Washington ( USA )	69.08 m	Seville 1999
European champion 1998	Lars Riedel ( Germany )	67.07 m	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Anthony Washington ( USA )	64.25 m	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champions 1999	Kevin Brown ( Jamaica )	56.02 m	Bridgetown 1999
South American Champion 1999	Marcelo Pugliese ( Argentina )	59.23 m	Bogotá 1999
Asian champion 2000	Anil Kumar ( India )	58.47 m	Jakarta 2000
African Champion 2000	Frits Potgieter ( South Africa )	60.35 m	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	Hohepa Poihipi ( New Zealand )	47.85 m	Adelaide 2000

Existing records

World record	74.08 m	Jürgen Schult ( GDR )	Neubrandenburg , Germany	August 25, 1991
Olympic record	69.40 m	Lars Riedel ( Germany )	Atlanta Final , USA	July 31, 1996

Remarks:

• All times are based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance was 64.00 m. Since only seven participants exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best throwers from both groups to twelve athletes (highlighted in light green). The performance required for participation in the final was 62.72 m.

Group A

The Cuban Frank Casañas was eliminated with 60.84 m in the qualification

The 1992 Olympic champion Romas Ubartas from Lithuania did not reach the final with his 60.50 m

The Hungarian Zoltán Kővágó failed with three invalid throws in the qualification

September 24, 2000, 10:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Lars Riedel	Germany	68.15	-	-	68.15
2	Frantz Kruger	South Africa	67.54	-	-	67.54
3	Wassil Kapzjuch	Belarus	65.90	-	-	65.90
4th	Dmitri Shevchenko	Russia	62.82	63.09	65.29	65.29
5	Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk	Belarus	64.03	-	-	64.03
6th	Jürgen Schult	Germany	63.76	60.97	x	63.76
7th	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia	63.52	61.84	60.90	63.52
8th	Li Shaojie	People's Republic of China	62.29	x	59.71	62.29
9	Magnús Hallgrímsson	Iceland	60.95	58.79	60.03	60.95
10	Frank Casañas	Cuba	60.84	x	60.79	60.84
11	Libor Malina	Czech Republic	59.38	x	60.83	60.83
12	Romas Ubartas	Lithuania	60.43	60.50	x	60.50
13	Robert Weir	Great Britain	57.57	x	60.01	60.01
14th	Olgierd Stański	Poland	59.31	58.06	x	59.31
15th	Ian Winchester	New Zealand	58.61	58.64	x	58.64
16	Leonid Tscharauko	Belarus	57.63	x	58.32	58.32
17th	Dragan Mustapic	Croatia	53.76	58.10	x	58.10
18th	Mickaël Conjungo	Central African Republic	x	57.85	55.60	57.85
19th	Marcelo Pugliese	Argentina	x	53.49	56.30	56.30
20th	John Menton	Ireland	x	54.21	50.95	54.21
21st	Roman Poltoratsky	Uzbekistan	45.40	x	47.93	47.93
ogV	Zoltán Kővágó	Hungary	x	x	x		without space
	Marcelo Pugliese	Argentina	x	x	x

Group B

The Hungarian Gábor Máté retired with 60.86 m in the qualification

September 24, 2000, 12:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	67.10	-	-	67.10
2	Jason Tunks	Canada	64.40	-	-	64.40
3	Adam Setliff	United States	x	63.25	-	63.25
4th	Anthony Washington	United States	62.82	x	x	62.82
5	Michael Möllenbeck	Germany	62.30	62.72	61.92	62.72
6th	Diego Fortuna	Italy	60.12	x	62.24	62.24
7th	Alexander Borichevsky	Russia	59.78	61.98	61.89	61.98
8th	Róbert Fazekas	Hungary	x	x	61.76	61.76
9	John Godina	United States	57.67	61.60	x	61.60
10	Frits Potgieter	South Africa	61.56	60.27	60.83	61.56
11	David Martínez	Spain	61.50	x	59.97	61.50
12	Alexis Elizalde	Cuba	57.75	61.13	59.96	61.13
13	Joke Van Daele	Belgium	60.89	60.93	x	60.93
14th	Gábor Máté	Hungary	59.43	60.69	60.86	60.86
15th	Vitaly Sidorov	Russia	58.32	59.43	60.65	60.65
16	Vaclavas Kidykas	Lithuania	57.86	58.96	58.09	58.96
17th	Kirilo Chuprinin	Ukraine	x	58.38	57.32	58.38
18th	Nick Sweeney	Ireland	56.73	56.24	57.37	57.37
19th	Glen Smith	Great Britain	56.22	55.31	54.36	56.22
20th	Rashid Al-Dosari	Qatar	x	54.47	53.32	54.47
ogV	Jason Gervais	Canada	x	x	x		without space
	Costel Grasu	Romania	x	x	x
DNS	Chima Ugwu	Nigeria

final

September 25, 2000, 7:00 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, seven of them by qualifying distance and another five by their placements. Three Germans met each other, two US Americans and two Belarusians as well as one participant each from Estonia, Canada, Lithuania, Russia and South Africa.

The Olympic champions from the past three games were here in Sydney . While the winners from 1996 and 1988 , the two Germans Lars Riedel (1992) and Jürgen Schult (1988, at the start for the GDR ) reached the final, the 1992 winner Romas Ubartas from Lithuania failed in the qualification. His compatriot Virgilijus Alekna, who had achieved brilliant distances in the pre-Olympic season, was the favorite. His strongest opponents were Lars Riedel, u. a. also reigning European champion and World Cup third, the US world champion Anthony Washington, Jürgen Schult, and others. a. also Vice World Champion and Vice European Champion, as well as the South African Frantz Kruger.

In the first lap there was a first highlight with 67.89 m by Kruger, who took the lead. Riedel followed with 65.18 m. Alekna improved in the second attempt to 67.54 m and passed Riedel. The American Adam Setliff was also able to place in front of the German with 66.02 m. In the third round, Kruger improved further to 68.19 m, but was pushed into third place by Riedel with 68.50 m and Alekna with 68.73 m. The Belarusian Wassil Kapzjuch took fourth place with 67.59 m. This order lasted until the end of the competition. Virgilijus Alekna increased in the fifth attempt to 69.30 m and fully lived up to his role as a favorite. Lars Riedel won the silver medal, Frantz Kruger bronze. Places four to six went to Wassil Kapzjuch, Adam Setliff and the Canadian Jason Tunks. The Belarusian Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk was seventh ahead of Jürgen Schult.

Frantz Kruger won the first medal for South Africa in the discus throw .

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	58.55	67.54	68.73	66.64	69.30	64.78	69.30
2	Lars Riedel	Germany	65.18	x	68.50	68.08	67.33	63.87	68.50
3	Frantz Kruger	South Africa	67.89	x	68.19 AF	68.06	x	62.72	68.19	AF
4th	Wassil Kapzjuch	Belarus	58.93	64.50	67.59	64.42	65.07	66.70	67.59
5	Adam Setliff	United States	60.50	66.02	64.72	65.10	63.10	61.99	66.02
6th	Jason Tunks	Canada	59.59	64.58	65.35	x	65.80	64.38	65.80
7th	Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk	Belarus	63.95	65.13	x	64.32	x	60.15	65.13
8th	Jürgen Schult	Germany	x	60.83	63.34	64.41	62.63	61.96	64.41
9	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia	55.84	59.26	63.25	not in the final of the eight best throwers			63.25
10	Michael Möllenbeck	Germany	61.19	60.13	63.14				63.14
11	Dmitri Shevchenko	Russia	x	x	62.65				62.65
12	Anthony Washington	United States	x	x	59.87				59.87

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  Olympic champion Virgilijus Alekna from Lithuania

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  Silver medalist Lars Riedel, Germany

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  The South African Frantz Kruger won the bronze medal

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  The Olympic eighth Jürgen Schult from Germany

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  The Estonian Aleksander Tammert finished ninth in the final

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  Michael Möllenbeck from Germany was Olympic tenth

Web links

• SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed April 2, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website, accessed April 2, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 2, 2018

Video

• Olympics 2000 discus throw , published September 11, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed April 2, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 678 , accessed on April 2, 2018