2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Men)

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Olympic rings
Mahmoud Samimi at the 2016 Summer Olympics 08/12/2016 03.jpg
sport athletics
discipline Discus throw
gender Men
Attendees 35 athletes from 25 countries
Competition location Estádio Nilton Santos
Competition phase August 12, 2016 (qualification)
August 13, 2016 (final)
Medalist
gold medal Christoph Harting ( GER ) GermanyGermany 
Silver medal Piotr Małachowski ( POL ) PolandPoland 
Bronze medal Daniel Jasinski ( GER ) GermanyGermany 

The men's discus throw at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was played on August 12 and 13, 2016 in the Estádio Nilton Santos . 35 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the German Christoph Harting , who won ahead of the Pole Piotr Małachowski . Bronze went to the German Daniel Jasinski .

In addition to the two medal winners, Christoph Harting's brother, the 2012 Olympic champion Robert Harting , who failed in the qualification, also started for Germany .
The Austrian Lukas Weißhaidinger reached the final and finished sixth.
Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion Robert Harting ( Germany ) GermanyGermany  68.27 m London 2012
World Champion Piotr Małachowski ( Poland ) PolandPoland  67.40 m Beijing 2015
European champion 67.06 m Amsterdam 2016
North / Central America / Caribbean champions Russ Winger ( USA ) United StatesUnited States  60.68 m San José 2015
South America champion Mauricio Ortega ( Colombia ) ColombiaColombia  61.36 m Lima 2015
Asian champion Vikas Gowda ( India ) IndiaIndia  62.03 m Wuhan 2015
African champions Victor Hogan ( South Africa ) South AfricaSouth Africa  61.68 m Durban 2016
Oceania Champion Alex Rose ( Samoa ) SamoaSamoa  60.95 m Cairns 2015

Existing records

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

Remarks:

  • All times are based on local time in Rio ( UTC-3 ).
  • All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 65.50 m. Since only two throwers exceeded this distance - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best throwers from both groups to a total of twelve athletes - highlighted in light green. So finally 62.68 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

August 12, 2016, 9:30 a.m.

space Surname nation 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Width (m) annotation
1 Piotr Małachowski PolandPoland Poland 64.69 65.89 - 65.89
2 Lukas Weißhaidinger AustriaAustria Austria 63.43 65.86 - 65.86
3 Andrius Gudžius LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania 59.50 x 65.18 65.18
4th Gerd Kanter EstoniaEstonia Estonia 62.86 64.02 x 64.02
5 Daniel Jasinski GermanyGermany Germany x 62.83 61.30 62.83
6th Daniel Ståhl SwedenSweden Sweden 60.78 x 62.26 62.26
7th Andrew Evans United StatesUnited States United States x 61.87 x 61.87
8th Benn Harradine AustraliaAustralia Australia 60.82 60.85 55.68 60.85
9 Jorge Fernández CubaCuba Cuba 59.93 60.43 60.09 60.43
10 Mykyta Nesterenko UkraineUkraine Ukraine 57.87 60.28 60.31 60.31
11 Tavis Bailey United StatesUnited States United States x 59.81 59.25 59.81
12 Lois Maikel Martínez SpainSpain Spain x 59.42 x 59.42
13 Alex Rose SamoaSamoa Samoa 57.24 56.57 54.42 57.24
14th Mohammad Samimi IranIran Iran 56.94 55.43 56.07 56.94
15th Yevgeny Labutov KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan 55.54 54.02 54.82 55.54
16 Sultan Mubarak al-Dawoodi Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Saudi Arabia x 54.09 54.84 54.84
17th Fedrick Dacres JamaicaJamaica Jamaica x x 50.69 50.69

Group B

August 12, 2016, 10.55 a.m.

space Surname nation 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Width (m) annotation
1 Christoph Harting GermanyGermany Germany x 64.49 65.41 65.41
2 Mason Finley United StatesUnited States United States 61.52 62.55 63.68 63.68
3 Axel Harstedt SwedenSweden Sweden 63.58 x x 63.58
4th Apostolos Parellis Cyprus RepublicRepublic of Cyprus Cyprus 61.60 63.35 61.74 63.35
5 Zoltán Kővágó HungaryHungary Hungary 59.83 63.34 61.57 63.34
6th Martin Kupper EstoniaEstonia Estonia 61.15 62.92 x 62.92
7th Philip Milanov BelgiumBelgium Belgium 62.68 62.59 x 62.68
8th Sven Martin Skagestad NorwayNorway Norway 59.69 62.45 x 62.45
9 Robert Harting GermanyGermany Germany x x 62.21 62.21
10 Robert Urbanek PolandPoland Poland x 61.76 61.53 61.76
11 Mauricio Ortega ColombiaColombia Colombia x 61.62 x 61.62
12 Matthew Denny AustraliaAustralia Australia 60.78 61.16 x 61.16
13 Guðni Valur Guðnason IcelandIceland Iceland 53.51 60.45 59.37 60.45
14th Ehsan Hadadi IranIran Iran 57.86 59.92 60.15 60.15
15th Jennifer Frank Casañas SpainSpain Spain x 57.81 59.96 59.96
16 Vikas Gowda IndiaIndia India 57.59 58.99 58.70 58.99
17th Oleksey Semonov UkraineUkraine Ukraine 54.69 54.59 55.35 55.35
ogV Danijel Furtula MontenegroMontenegro Montenegro x x x - without space

Pictures: athletes who were eliminated in the qualification

  • Sven Martin Skagestad, Norway - 62.45 m. Group B

  • Mohammad Samimi, Iran - 56.94 m. Group A

  • Robert Harting, Germany - 62.21 m. Group A

  • Robert Urbanek, Poland - 61.76 m. Group B

  • Ehsan Hadadi, Iran - 60.15 m. Group B

final

August 13, 2016, 10:50 am

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, two of them by qualifying distance, ten others by their placements. In the final there were two Germans and two Estonians as well as one participant each from Belgium, Lithuania, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Hungary, the USA and Cyprus.

Each participant initially had three attempts, the length of the qualifying round was not counted. The best eight athletes were then given a further three attempts, the last four were eliminated.

Several highly rated athletes were eliminated from the qualification. The 2012 Olympic champion Robert Harting was missing from the final, as was the silver medalist from London , Ehsan Hadadi from Iran and the third place in the 2015 World Cup, Robert Urbanek from Poland. The Polish world champion Piotr Małachowski and the Estonian Gerd Kanter, Olympic champion from 2008 , Olympic third from 2012 and fourth at the 2015 World Cup, were favorites. The Belgian Philip Milanov started as Vice European Champion and Vice World Champion with good prospects for a top placement .

The first final round saw Małachowski with 67.32 m ahead. Behind him in second place was the German Daniel Jasinski with 65.77 m, Kanter took third place with 65.10 m. In the second round, the German Christoph Harting, brother of the 2012 Olympic champion, pushed Jasinski into third place with 66.34 m, Kanter was now fourth. In the third attempt, Małachowski increased to 67.55 m and extended his lead further. Jasinski reached 66.08 m, but remained third behind Harting.

The last round was tough again. First Kanters compatriot Martin Kupper moved up to second place when he brought the discus to 66.58 m. Jasinski countered with 67.05 m and was now second behind Małachowski in front of Kupper and Harting. Then Christoph Harting achieved a new personal best with 68.37 m and was able to celebrate the Olympic victory. Piotr Małachowski won the silver medal, bronze went to Daniel Jasinski. The two Estonians Martin Kupper and Gerd Kanter took fourth and fifth place, the Austrian Lukas Weißhaidinger came in sixth.

There was a scandal at the award ceremony for this discipline. Olympic champion Christoph Harting behaved provocatively disrespectful, even when playing the national anthem. This caused considerable irritation and incomprehension in the audience, the other athletes and the German Athletics Association . Harting's statements in the press conference that followed did not make matters any better; he was even threatened with legal consequences. In an ARD interview, Harting later apologized and was able to smooth things over a little.

space Surname nation 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt 4th attempt 5th attempt 6th attempt Width (m) annotation
1 Christoph Harting GermanyGermany Germany 62.38 66.34 x x 64.77 68.37 68.37
2 Piotr Małachowski PolandPoland Poland 67.32 67.06 67.55 x 65.51 65.38 67.55
3 Daniel Jasinski GermanyGermany Germany 65.77 x 66.08 64.83 63.31 67.05 67.05
4th Martin Kupper EstoniaEstonia Estonia 64.47 x 62.88 x x 66.58 66.58
5 Gerd Kanter EstoniaEstonia Estonia 65.10 63.01 64.45 64.45 x x 65.10
6th Lukas Weißhaidinger AustriaAustria Austria 62.14 62.44 61.81 x x 64.95 64.95
7th Zoltán Kővágó HungaryHungary Hungary 64.50 X 62.98 x x x 64.50
8th Apostolos Parellis Cyprus RepublicRepublic of Cyprus Cyprus 61.00 60.82 63.72 x 63.49 62.37 63.72
9 Philip Milanov BelgiumBelgium Belgium 62.22 x x not in the final of the
eight best throwers		 62.22
10 Axel Harstedt SwedenSweden Sweden 54.77 62.12 x 62.12
11 Mason Finley United StatesUnited States United States 60.43 X 62.05 62.05
12 Andrius Gudžius LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania 60.66 58.89 x 60.66

Pictures: medal winners and other finalists

  • Olympic champion Christoph Harting, Germany

  • Silver medalist Piotr Malachowski from Poland

  • Bronze medalist Daniel Jasinski, Germany

  • Martin Kupper, Estonia - Olympic gold medalist

  • Lukas Weißhaidinger, Austria - sixth place

  • Zoltán Kővágó, Hungary - Olympic seventh

  • Parellis Apostolos, Cyprus - eighth place

  • Philip Milanov, Belgium - ninth place

  • Andrius Gudžius, Lithuania - Olympic twelfth

Web links

Video

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 668 , accessed on October 8, 2018
  2. ^ IAAF: Discus Throw Series Result | The XXXI Olympic Games | iaaf.org. In: iaaf.org. Retrieved October 8, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Christoph Harting behaved so embarrassingly at the award ceremony , Berliner Morgenpost August 13, 2016, accessed on October 8, 2018
  4. ↑ After Shitstorm: Gold medal winner apologizes for behavior , Focus Online August 14, 2016, accessed October 8, 2018