2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)
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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) |
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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 )
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69.40 m | Atlanta 1996 |
World Champion 1999 |
Anthony Washington ( USA )
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69.08 m | Seville 1999 |
European champion 1998 |
Lars Riedel ( Germany )
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67.07 m | Budapest 1998 |
Pan American Champion 1999 |
Anthony Washington ( USA )
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64.25 m | Winnipeg 1999 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 1999 | Kevin Brown ( Jamaica )
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56.02 m | Bridgetown 1999 |
South American Champion 1999 | Marcelo Pugliese ( Argentina )
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59.23 m | Bogotá 1999 |
Asian champion 2000 | Anil Kumar ( India )
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58.47 m | Jakarta 2000 |
African Champion 2000 | Frits Potgieter ( South Africa )
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60.35 m | Algiers 2000 |
Oceania Champion 2000 | Hohepa Poihipi ( New Zealand )
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47.85 m | Adelaide 2000 |
Existing records
World record | 74.08 m |
Jürgen Schult ( GDR )
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Neubrandenburg , Germany | August 25, 1991 |
Olympic record | 69.40 m |
Lars Riedel ( Germany )
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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
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September 24, 2000, 10:00 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Lars Riedel |
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68.15 | - | - | 68.15 | |
2 | Frantz Kruger |
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67.54 | - | - | 67.54 | |
3 | Wassil Kapzjuch |
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65.90 | - | - | 65.90 | |
4th | Dmitri Shevchenko |
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62.82 | 63.09 | 65.29 | 65.29 | |
5 | Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk |
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64.03 | - | - | 64.03 | |
6th | Jürgen Schult |
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63.76 | 60.97 | x | 63.76 | |
7th | Aleksander Tammert |
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63.52 | 61.84 | 60.90 | 63.52 | |
8th | Li Shaojie |
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62.29 | x | 59.71 | 62.29 | |
9 | Magnús Hallgrímsson |
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60.95 | 58.79 | 60.03 | 60.95 | |
10 | Frank Casañas |
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60.84 | x | 60.79 | 60.84 | |
11 | Libor Malina |
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59.38 | x | 60.83 | 60.83 | |
12 | Romas Ubartas |
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60.43 | 60.50 | x | 60.50 | |
13 | Robert Weir |
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57.57 | x | 60.01 | 60.01 | |
14th | Olgierd Stański |
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59.31 | 58.06 | x | 59.31 | |
15th | Ian Winchester |
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58.61 | 58.64 | x | 58.64 | |
16 | Leonid Tscharauko |
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57.63 | x | 58.32 | 58.32 | |
17th | Dragan Mustapic |
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53.76 | 58.10 | x | 58.10 | |
18th | Mickaël Conjungo |
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x | 57.85 | 55.60 | 57.85 | |
19th | Marcelo Pugliese |
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x | 53.49 | 56.30 | 56.30 | |
20th | John Menton |
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x | 54.21 | 50.95 | 54.21 | |
21st | Roman Poltoratsky |
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45.40 | x | 47.93 | 47.93 | |
ogV | Zoltán Kővágó |
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x | x | x | without space | |
Marcelo Pugliese |
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x | x | x |
Group B
September 24, 2000, 12:10 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Virgilijus Alekna |
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67.10 | - | - | 67.10 | |
2 | Jason Tunks |
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64.40 | - | - | 64.40 | |
3 | Adam Setliff |
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x | 63.25 | - | 63.25 | |
4th | Anthony Washington |
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62.82 | x | x | 62.82 | |
5 | Michael Möllenbeck |
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62.30 | 62.72 | 61.92 | 62.72 | |
6th | Diego Fortuna |
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60.12 | x | 62.24 | 62.24 | |
7th | Alexander Borichevsky |
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59.78 | 61.98 | 61.89 | 61.98 | |
8th | Róbert Fazekas |
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x | x | 61.76 | 61.76 | |
9 | John Godina |
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57.67 | 61.60 | x | 61.60 | |
10 | Frits Potgieter |
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61.56 | 60.27 | 60.83 | 61.56 | |
11 | David Martínez |
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61.50 | x | 59.97 | 61.50 | |
12 | Alexis Elizalde |
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57.75 | 61.13 | 59.96 | 61.13 | |
13 | Joke Van Daele |
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60.89 | 60.93 | x | 60.93 | |
14th | Gábor Máté |
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59.43 | 60.69 | 60.86 | 60.86 | |
15th | Vitaly Sidorov |
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58.32 | 59.43 | 60.65 | 60.65 | |
16 | Vaclavas Kidykas |
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57.86 | 58.96 | 58.09 | 58.96 | |
17th | Kirilo Chuprinin |
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x | 58.38 | 57.32 | 58.38 | |
18th | Nick Sweeney |
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56.73 | 56.24 | 57.37 | 57.37 | |
19th | Glen Smith |
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56.22 | 55.31 | 54.36 | 56.22 | |
20th | Rashid Al-Dosari |
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x | 54.47 | 53.32 | 54.47 | |
ogV | Jason Gervais |
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x | x | x | without space | |
Costel Grasu |
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x | x | x | |||
DNS | Chima Ugwu |
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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 |
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1 | Virgilijus Alekna |
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58.55 | 67.54 | 68.73 | 66.64 | 69.30 | 64.78 | 69.30 | |
2 | Lars Riedel |
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65.18 | x | 68.50 | 68.08 | 67.33 | 63.87 | 68.50 | |
3 | Frantz Kruger |
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67.89 | x | 68.19 AF | 68.06 | x | 62.72 | 68.19 | AF |
4th | Wassil Kapzjuch |
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58.93 | 64.50 | 67.59 | 64.42 | 65.07 | 66.70 | 67.59 | |
5 | Adam Setliff |
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60.50 | 66.02 | 64.72 | 65.10 | 63.10 | 61.99 | 66.02 | |
6th | Jason Tunks |
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59.59 | 64.58 | 65.35 | x | 65.80 | 64.38 | 65.80 | |
7th | Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk |
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63.95 | 65.13 | x | 64.32 | x | 60.15 | 65.13 | |
8th | Jürgen Schult |
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x | 60.83 | 63.34 | 64.41 | 62.63 | 61.96 | 64.41 | |
9 | Aleksander Tammert |
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55.84 | 59.26 | 63.25 | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
63.25 | |||
10 | Michael Möllenbeck |
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61.19 | 60.13 | 63.14 | 63.14 | ||||
11 | Dmitri Shevchenko |
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x | x | 62.65 | 62.65 | ||||
12 | Anthony Washington |
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x | x | 59.87 | 59.87 |
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
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 678 , accessed on April 2, 2018