2012 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	41 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium London
Competition phase	August 6, 2012 (qualification) ; August 7, 2012 (final)
	Medalist
	Robert Harting ( GER )
	Ehsan Hadadi ( IRN )
	Gerd Kanter ( EST )

The discus throw men at the 2012 Olympics in London was on 6 and 7 August 2012 at the Olympic Stadium London discharged. 41 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the German Robert Harting . The Iranian Ehsan Hadadi won the silver medal. The Estonian Gerd Kanter won bronze .

In addition to the Olympic champion Harting, Markus Münch and Martin Wierig also competed for Germany. While Münch was eliminated in qualifying, Wierig reached the final and finished sixth.
The Austrian Gerhard Mayer failed in the qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion	Gerd Kanter ( Estonia ) Estonia	68.82 m	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Robert Harting ( Germany ) Germany	68.97 m	Daegu 2011
European champion	Robert Harting ( Germany ) Germany	68.30 m	Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champions	Jason Morgan ( Jamaica ) Jamaica	60.20 m	Mayagüez 2011
South America champion	Ronald Julião ( Brazil ) Brazil	62.72 m	Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion	Ehsan Hadadi ( Iran ) Iran	62.27 m	Kobe 2011
African champions	Victor Hogan ( South Africa ) South Africa	61.80 m	Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania Champion	Alex Rose ( Samoa ) Samoa	56.29 m	Cairns 2012

Existing records

World record	Jürgen Schult ( GDR ) Germany Democratic Republic 1949	74.08 m	Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany )	June 6, 1986
Olympic record	Virgilijus Alekna ( Lithuania ) Lithuania	69.89 m	Athens Final , Greece	August 23, 2004

Remarks:

All times in this article are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).
All widths are noted in meters (m).

qualification

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification width was 65.00 m. Since only six athletes exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). A width of 63.55 m had to be achieved for participation in the finals.

Group A

August 6, 2012, 10:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse
1	Vikas Gowda	India India	63.52	65.20	-	65.20
2	Ehsan Hadadi	Iran Iran	65.19	-	-	65.19
3	Piotr Małachowski	Poland Poland	62.08	64.65	63.96	64.65
4th	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania Lithuania	62.32	63.88	x	63.88
5	Frank Casañas	Spain Spain	x	63.76	60.21	63.76
6th	Erik Cadée	Netherlands Netherlands	63.55	x	x	63.55
7th	Apostolos Parellis	Cyprus Republic Cyprus	63.48	62.49	62.54	63.48
8th	Jason Young	United States United States	62.18	x	x	62.18
9	Scott Martin	Australia Australia	58.15	57.67	62.14	62.14
10	Ercüment Olgundeniz	Turkey Turkey	x	x	60.87	60.87
11	Mark Israel	Estonia Estonia	59.60	x	60.34	60.34
12	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia Estonia	57.00	60.20	59.78	60.20
13	Julian Wruck	Australia Australia	58.01	60.08	59.64	60.08
14th	Markus Münch	Germany Germany	59.95	59.34	x	59.95
15th	Robert Urbanek	Poland Poland	59.56	x	x	59.56
16	Brett Morse	United Kingdom Great Britain	x	58.18	x	58.18
17th	Roland Varga	Croatia Croatia	57.76	58.17	57.79	58.17
18th	German Lauro	Argentina Argentina	x	55.23	57.54	57.54
19th	Jason Morgan	Jamaica Jamaica	56.25	56.72	57.46	57.46
20th	Yunio Lastre	Cuba Cuba	x	x	57.33	57.33

The Cypriot Apostolos Parellis was seven centimeters short of the final
With 60.34 m, the Este Märt Israel was eliminated in the qualification
The Estonian Aleksander Tammert failed with his 60.20 m in the qualification
59.95 m was not enough for German Markus Münch to make it into the final
The Pole Robert Urbanek retired with 59.56 m in the qualification
57.46 m were not enough for Jamaican Jason Morgan, he failed in the qualification

Group B

August 6, 2012, 11:35 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse
1	Gerd Kanter	Estonia Estonia	x	59.72	66.39	66.39
2	Robert Harting	Germany Germany	66.22	-	-	66.22
3	Jorge Fernández	Cuba Cuba	65.34	x	x	65.34
4th	Lawrence Okoye	United Kingdom Great Britain	x	63.00	65.28	65.28
5	Martin Wierig	Germany Germany	64.13	62.66	x	64.13
6th	Benn Harradine	Australia Australia	64.00	x	61.39	64.00
7th	Mario Pestano	Spain Spain	63.40	63.36	x	63.40
8th	Bogdan Pishchalnikov	Russia Russia	61.69	x	63.15	63.15
9	Rutger Smith	Netherlands Netherlands	63.00	62.70	63.09	63.09
10	Martin Marić	Croatia Croatia	61.04	62.83	62.87	62.87
11	Traves Smikle	Jamaica Jamaica	x	59.59	61.85	61.85
12	Lance Brooks	United States United States	61.17	60.59	59.25	61.17
13	Przemysław Czajkowski	Poland Poland	58.73	x	61.08	61.08
14th	Gerhard Mayer	Austria Austria	59.40	60.81	60.27	60.81
15th	Omar Ahmed El Ghazaly	Egypt Egypt	60.16	60.26	58.89	60.26
16	Abdul Buhari	United Kingdom Great Britain	54.20	55.78	60.08	60.08
17th	Jarred Rome	United States United States	x	x	59.57	59.57
18th	Sultan Mubarak al-Dawoodi	Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia	55.48	55.80	59.54	59.54
19th	Mykyta Nesterenko	Ukraine Ukraine	x	58.18	59.17	59.17
20th	Danijel Furtula	Montenegro Montenegro	57.48	x	x	57.48
21st	Ronald Julião	Brazil Brazil	x	56.20	x	56.20

The Spaniard Mario Pestano was six inches short of a final
The Dutchman Rutger Smith achieved 63.09 m in qualification and was eliminated
The Austrian Gerhard Mayer failed with 60.81 m in the qualification
The Brazilian Ronald Julião did not reach the final with his 56.20 m

final

August 7, 2012, 7:45 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, six of them over the qualification distance, six more over their placements in the qualification. Two Germans fought for the medals together with one participant each from Australia, Estonia, Great Britain, India, Iran, Cuba, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain.

The two-time world champion Robert Harting from Germany was the favorite . His strongest competitors were the Estonian Olympic champion from 2008 Gerd Kanter, the Olympic champion from 2000 and 2004 Virgilijus Alekna from Lithuania, the Iranian World Cup third from 2011 Ehsan Hadadi and the vice world champion from 2009 and European champion from 2010 Piotr Małachowski from Poland

Hadadi took the lead in the first lap with 68.18 m, followed by Harting (67.79 m) and Alekna (67.38 m). In the three subsequent test series nothing changed at the top. It was only in the fifth round that Harting was able to oust the Iranian from the top position with 68.27 m. Kanter scored 68.03 m and moved past Alekna into third place. The last lap brought no more changes. Piotr Małachowski came fifth ahead of the German Martin Wierig and the Spaniard Frank Casañas,

Ehsan Hadadi was Iran's first medalist in athletics.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Expanse
1	Robert Harting	Germany Germany	67.79	x	67.27	66.45	68.27	67.08	68.27
2	Ehsan Hadadi	Iran Iran	68.18	64.09	67.28	66.98	x	x	68.18
3	Gerd Kanter	Estonia Estonia	65.07	65.79	66.02	65.96	68.03	66.99	68.03
4th	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania Lithuania	67.38	x	x	66.07	x	x	67.38
5	Piotr Małachowski	Poland Poland	62.50	66.92	x	67.19	x	x	67.19
6th	Martin Wierig	Germany Germany	63.34	63.98	x	65.85	64.79	65.12	65.85
7th	Frank Casañas	Spain Spain	65.56	x	x	64.92	65.48	63.16	65.56
8th	Vikas Gowda	India India	64.79	60.95	63.03	64.15	64.48	63.89	64.79

9	Benn Harradine	Australia Australia	58.24	63.16	63.59	not in the final of the eight best throwers			63.59
10	Erik Cadée	Netherlands Netherlands	62.40	62.77	62.78				62.78
11	Jorge Fernández	Cuba Cuba	x	60.04	62.02				62.02
12	Lawrence Okoye	United Kingdom Great Britain	61.03	x	60.11				61.03