2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)
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sport | athletics |
discipline | Discus throw |
gender | Men |
place | Beijing National Stadium |
Attendees | 37 athletes from 29 countries |
Competition phase | August 16 and 19, 2008 |
Medalist | |
gold | Gerd Kanter ( EST ) |
silver | Piotr Małachowski ( POL ) |
bronze | Virgilijus Alekna ( LTU ) |
The discus throw at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was played on August 16 and 19, 2008. 37 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Estonian Gerd Kanter . The silver medal was won by Piotr Małachowski from Poland . Bronze went to Virgilijus Alekna from Lithuania.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 2004 | Virgilijus Alekna ( Lithuania ) | 69.89 m | Athens 2004 |
World Champion 2007 | Gerd Kanter ( Estonia ) | 68.94 m | Osaka 2007 |
European champion 2006 | Virgilijus Alekna ( Lithuania ) | 68.67 m | Gothenburg 2006 |
Pan American Champion 2007 | Michael Robertson ( USA ) | 59.24 m | Rio de Janeiro 2007 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 2008 | Jorge Fernández ( Cuba ) | 58.60 m | Cali 2008 |
South America Champion 2007 | Germán Lauro ( Argentina ) | 57.12 m | São Paulo 2007 |
Asian champion 2007 | Ehsan Hadadi ( Iran ) | 65.38 m | Amman 2007 |
Africa Champion 2008 | Hannes Hopley ( South Africa ) | 56.98 m | Addis Ababa 2008 |
Oceania Champion 2008 | Daniel Kilama ( New Caledonia ) | 48.06 m | Saipan 2008 |
Existing records
World record | 74.08 m | Jürgen Schult ( GDR ) | Neubrandenburg , Germany | August 25, 1991 |
Olympic record | 69.89 m | Virgilijus Alekna ( Lithuania ) | Athens Final , Greece | August 23, 2004 |
qualification
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 64.50 m. Since only six athletes reached 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). Ultimately, 62.48 m had to be achieved to take part.
Group A
August 16, 2008, 10:40 am
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Piotr Małachowski | Poland | 65.94 m | - | - | 65.94 m | |
2 | Virgilijus Alekna | Lithuania | 65.84 m | - | - | 65.84 m | |
3 | Bogdan Pishchalnikov | Russia | 62.68 m | 63.98 m | 64.60 m | 64.60 m | |
4th | Mario Pestano | Spain | 64.62 m | 61.16 m | x | 64.62 m | |
5 | Robert Harting | Germany | 64.19 m | x | x | 64.19 m | |
6th | Aleksander Tammert | Estonia | 57.79 m | 61.57 m | 63.10 m | 63.10 m | |
7th | Róbert Fazekas | Hungary | x | 61.61 m | 62.64 m | 62.64 m | |
8th | Gábor Máté | Hungary | x | 55.15 m | 62.44 m | 62.44 m | |
9 | Dzmitry Sivakou | Belarus | 59.64 m | x | 61.75 m | 61.75 m | |
10 | Michael Robertson | United States | 60.97 m | 61.64 m | x | 61.64 m | |
11 | Casey Malone | United States | 59.48 m | x | 61.26 m | 61.26 m | |
12 | Omar Ahmed El Ghazaly | Egypt | 59.71 m | 59.95 m | 60.24 m | 61.26 m | |
13 | Oleksiy Semenov | Ukraine | 57.84 m | 60.18 m | 59.41 m | 60.18 m | |
14th | Abbas Samimi | Iran | 58.01 m | 59.92 m | 58.85 m | 59.92 m | |
15th | Jorge Fernández | Cuba | x | 59.60 m | 59.58 m | 59.60 m | |
16 | Jan Marcell | Czech Republic | 59.52 m | x | 56.31 m | 59.52 m | |
17th | Benn Harradine | Australia | 58.55 m | 57.50 m | 57.91 m | 58.55 m | |
18th | Sultan Mubarak al-Dawoodi | Saudi Arabia | 56.29 m | 55.54 m | 56.24 m | 56.29 m | |
19th | Vadim Hranovschi | Moldova | 56.19 m | x | 55.87 m | 56.19 m |
Group B
August 16, 2008, 12:05 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Rutger Smith | Netherlands | 64.09 m | 65.65 m | - | 65.65 m | |
2 | Yennifer Frank Casañas | Spain | x | x | 64.99 m | 64.99 m | |
3 | Gerd Kanter | Estonia | 59.65 m | 64.66 m | - | 64.66 m | |
4th | Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari | Qatar | 63.83 m | 63.72 m | 61.60 m | 63.83 m | |
5 | Frantz Kruger | Finland | x | 58.60 m | 62.48 m | 62.48 m | |
6th | Mark Israel | Estonia | 61.98 m | 59.78 m | 61.63 m | 61.98 m | |
7th | Ehsan Hadadi | Iran | 61.08 m | x | 61.34 m | 61.34 m | |
8th | Gerhard Mayer | Austria | 61.32 m | x | 58.13 m | 61.32 m | |
9 | Ercüment Olgundeniz | Turkey | 58.99 m | 60.83 m | x | 60.83 m | |
10 | Zoltán Kővágó | Hungary | 60.79 m | 59.46 m | 60.44 m | 60.79 m | |
11 | Vikas Gowda | India | 59.58 m | x | 60.69 m | 60.69 m | |
12 | Ian Waltz | United States | 60.02 m | x | x | 60.02 m | |
13 | Martin Marić | Croatia | 59.25 m | x | 59.09 m | 59.25 m | |
14th | Jorge Balliengo | Argentina | 58.71 m | 58.82 m | x | 58.82 m | |
15th | Niklas Arrhenius | Sweden | 56.64 m | 58.22 m | 56.77 m | 58.22 m | |
16 | Hannes Kirchler | Italy | x | x | 56.44 m | 56.44 m | |
17th | Haidar Nasir | Iraq | 54.19 m | x | x | 54.19 m | |
18th | Eric Matthias | British Virgin Islands | 47.87 m | 50.87 m | 53.11 m | 53.11 m |
final
August 19, 2008, 9:00 p.m.
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, six of them by qualifying distance and another six by their placements. Two Estonians and two Spaniards were represented, as well as one participant each from Germany, Finland, Lithuania, Qatar, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Hungary.
Two discus throwers had won the major international titles in recent years. Virgilijus Alekna from Lithuania was Olympic champion in 2004 , world champion in 2005 and European champion in 2006 . But at the 2007 World Championships , Estonian Gerd Kanter had triumphed, while Alekna had to be content with fourth place. Other medal candidates were the German vice world champion from 2007 Robert Harting, the Dutch World Cup third from the previous year Rutger Smith as well as the second Estonian Aleksander Tammert as Olympic third from 2004, World Cup fourth from 2005 and European Championship third from 2006.
In the final the Pole Piotr Małachowski took the lead with 66.45 m. He had already achieved the greatest distance of all participants in qualifying. Harting was second with 65.48 m in front of Smith - 64.61 m - and the Russian Bogdan Pishchalnikow - 64.09 m. The second round changed the ranking significantly. Malachowski improved to 67.82 m and thus consolidated his top position. Kanter reached 66.38 m, which brought him to second place. Alekna also moved past Harting to third with 65.77 m. Smith threw 65.31 m, which meant fifth place. In the third round Harting countered with 67.09 m and was second behind Malachowski in front of Kanter, Alekna and Smith.
In round four, the first of the final of the eight best throwers, Kanter took the lead with 68.82 m. With 67.79 m, Alekna came within three centimeters of the second-placed Malachowski and thus passed Harting again. Pishchalnikov scored 65.88 m and displaced Smith in sixth. The penultimate round brought no changes. With regard to the medal ranks, everything remained the same in the last series of tests as it did after round four. The Spaniard Yennifer Frank Casañas was the only participant to improve again. With 66.49 m that brought him fifth place.
World champion Gerd Kanter was thus Olympic champion before Piotr Małachowski and the 2000 and 2004 Olympic champion Virgilijus Alekna. Robert Harting was fourth ahead of Yennifer Frank Casañas. Sixth and seventh place went to Bogdan Pishchalnikov and Rutger Smith, who repeated his seventh place from the shot put three days earlier.
Gerd Kanter was the first gold medalist for Estonia 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 | Gerd Kanter | Estonia | 63.44 m | 66.38 m | 62.75 m | 68.82 m | x | 65.96 m | 68.82 m | |
2 | Piotr Małachowski | Poland | 66.45 m | 67.82 m | 66.98 m | 63.91 m | 65.76 m | x | 67.82 m | |
3 | Virgilijus Alekna | Lithuania | x | 65.77 m | 64.42 m | 67.79 m | x | 67.18 m | 67.79 m | |
4th | Robert Harting | Germany | 65.58 m | 64.84 m | 67.09 m | x | x | 66.51 m | 67.09 m | |
5 | Yennifer Frank Casañas | Spain | 59.54 m | 62.16 m | 64.46 m | 64.11 m | 64.97 m | 66.49 m | 66.49 m | |
6th | Bogdan Pishchalnikov | Russia | 64.09 m | 64.25 m | 61.13 m | 65.88 m | x | x | 65.88 m | PB |
7th | Rutger Smith | Netherlands | 64.61 m | 65.31 m | 64.36 m | 64.25 m | x | 65.39 m | 65.39 m | |
8th | Róbert Fazekas | Hungary | 62.25 m | 63.43 m | 62.49 m | x | x | 59.34 m | 63.43 m | |
9 | Mario Pestano | Spain | 60.46 m | 62.84 m | 63.42 m | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
63.42 m | |||
10 | Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari | Qatar | 59.62 m | x | 62.55 m | 62.55 m | ||||
11 | Frantz Kruger | Finland | 61.98 m | 61.80 m | 60.71 m | 61.98 m | ||||
12 | Aleksander Tammert | Estonia | x | 61.32 m | 61.38 m | 61.38 m |
Seventh in the shot put and seventh in the discus throw : Rutger Smith from the Netherlands
Web links
- SportsReference discus , accessed June 12, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website, accessed June 12, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on June 12, 2018
Video
- Athletics - Men's Discus Final - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games , published August 20, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed June 12, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 12, 2018
- ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 12, 2018
- ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed June 12, 2018
- ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 12, 2018
- ↑ IAAF world records, discus throw men , accessed on June 12, 2018