Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's discus throw

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The men's discus throw event at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Olympic Stadium on Sunday, 24 September and Monday, 25 September.[1] Forty-five athletes from 28 nations competed.[2] The event was won by Virgilijus Alekna of Lithuania, the nation's second victory in the men's discus throw. Lars Riedel of Germany took silver, becoming the 13th man to win multiple discus throw medals. Frantz Kruger earned South Africa's first medal in the event with his bronze.

The qualifying athletes progressed through to the final where the qualifying distances are scrapped and they start afresh with up to six throws. The qualifying distance was 64.00 metres. For all qualifiers who did not achieve the standard, the remaining spaces in the final were filled by the longest throws until a total of 12 qualifiers.

Background

This was the 24th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The top nine finishers from the 1996 Games all returned, along with the last finalist: gold medalist Lars Riedel and sixth-place finisher Jürgen Schult of Germany, silver medalist Vladimir Dubrovshchik and bronze medalist Vasiliy Kaptyukh of Belarus, fourth-place finisher Anthony Washington and twelfth-place finisher Adam Setliff of the United States, fifth-place finisher Virgilijus Alekna and eighth-place finisher Vaclavas Kidykas of Lithuania, seventh-place finisher Vitaliy Sidorov of Ukraine, and ninth-place finisher Alexis Elizalde of Cuba. Schult was the world record holder and had medaled twice before (gold in 1988, silver in 1992). Riedel had won four of the last five world championships; Washington had won the latest. But Alekna had the best results in 2000 so far, hitting the second- and third-best throws to date (Schult's 1986 record still stands as of 2020).[2]

Turkmenistan and Qatar each made their debut in the men's discus throw. The United States made its 23rd appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Qualification

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Each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had thrown 63.50 metres or further during the qualification period. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had thrown 62.00 metres or further could be entered.[3]

Competition format

The competition used the two-round format introduced in 1936, with the qualifying round completely separate from the divided final. In qualifying, each athlete received three attempts; those recording a mark of at least 64.00 metres advanced to the final. If fewer than 12 athletes achieved that distance, the top 12 would advance. The results of the qualifying round were then ignored. Finalists received three throws each, with the top eight competitors receiving an additional three attempts. The best distance among those six throws counted.[2][4]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record Template:Flagathlete 74.08 Neubrandenburg, East Germany 6 June 1986
Olympic record Template:FlagIOCathlete 69.40 Atlanta, United States 31 July 1996

No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition.

Schedule

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Date Time Round
Sunday, 24 September 2000 10:00 Qualifying
Monday, 25 September 2000 19:00 Final

Results

Qualifying

Rank Athlete Nation 1 2 3 Distance Notes
1 Lars Riedel Template:FlagIOC 68.15 – – 68.15 Q
2 Frantz Kruger Template:FlagIOC 67.54 – – 67.54 Q
3 Virgilijus Alekna Template:FlagIOC 67.10 – – 67.10 Q
4 Vasiliy Kaptyukh Template:FlagIOC 65.90 – – 65.90 Q, SB
5 Dmitriy Shevchenko Template:FlagIOC 62.82 63.09 65.29 65.29 Q
6 Jason Tunks Template:FlagIOC 64.40 – – 64.40 Q
7 Vladimir Dubrovshchik Template:FlagIOC 64.03 – – 64.03 Q
8 Jürgen Schult Template:FlagIOC 63.76 60.97 X 63.76 q
9 Aleksander Tammert Template:FlagIOC 63.52 61.84 60.90 63.52 q
10 Adam Setliff Template:FlagIOC X 63.25 – 63.25 q
11 Anthony Washington Template:FlagIOC 62.82 X X 62.82 q
12 Michael Möllenbeck Template:FlagIOC 62.30 62.72 61.92 62.72 q
13 Li Shaojie Template:FlagIOC 62.29 X 59.71 62.29 SB
14 Diego Fortuna Template:FlagIOC 60.12 X 62.24 62.24
15 Aleksandr Borichevskiy Template:FlagIOC 59.78 61.98 61.89 61.98
16 Róbert Fazekas Template:FlagIOC X X 61.76 61.76
17 John Godina Template:FlagIOC 57.67 61.60 X 61.60
18 Frits Potgieter Template:FlagIOC 61.56 60.27 60.83 61.56
19 David Martínez Template:FlagIOC 61.50 X 59.97 61.50
20 Alexis Elizalde Template:FlagIOC 57.75 61.13 59.96 61.13
21 Magnús Aron Hallgrímsson Template:FlagIOC 60.95 58.79 60.03 60.95
22 Jo Van Daele Template:FlagIOC 60.89 60.93 X 60.93
23 Gábor Máté Template:FlagIOC 59.43 60.69 60.86 60.86
24 Frank Casañas Template:FlagIOC 60.84 X 60.79 60.84
25 Libor Malina Template:FlagIOC 59.38 X 60.83 60.83
26 Vitaliy Sidorov Template:FlagIOC 58.32 59.43 60.65 60.65
27 Romas Ubartas Template:FlagIOC 60.43 60.50 X 60.50
28 Robert Weir Template:FlagIOC 57.57 X 60.01 60.01
29 Olgierd Stański Template:FlagIOC 59.31 58.06 X 59.31
30 Vaclavas Kidykas Template:FlagIOC 57.86 58.96 58.09 58.96
31 Ian Winchester Template:FlagIOC 58.61 58.64 X 58.64
32 Kyrylo Chuprynin Template:FlagIOC X 58.38 57.32 58.38
33 Leonid Cherevko Template:FlagIOC 57.63 X 58.32 58.32
34 Dragan Mustapić Template:FlagIOC 53.76 58.10 X 58.10
35 Mickaël Conjungo Template:FlagIOC X 57.85 55.60 57.85
36 Nick Sweeney Template:FlagIOC 56.73 56.24 57.37 57.37
37 Marcelo Pugliese Template:FlagIOC X 53.49 56.30 56.30
38 Glen Smith Template:FlagIOC 56.22 55.31 54.36 56.22
39 Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari Template:FlagIOC X 54.47 53.42 54.47
40 John Menton Template:FlagIOC X 54.21 50.95 54.21
41 Roman Poltoratskiy Template:FlagIOC 45.40 X 47.83 47.83
– Zoltán Kővágó Template:FlagIOC X X X No mark
Chary Mamedov Template:FlagIOC X X X No mark
Jason Gervais Template:FlagIOC X X X No mark
Costel Grasu Template:FlagIOC X X X No mark
– Chima Ugwu Template:FlagIOC DNS

Final

Rank Athlete Nation 1 2 3 4 5 6 Distance Notes
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Script error: No such module "sort". Lars Riedel Template:FlagIOC 65.18 X 68.50 68.08 67.33 63.87 68.50
Script error: No such module "sort". Frantz Kruger Template:FlagIOC 67.89 X 68.19 68.06 X 62.72 68.19 AR
4 Vasiliy Kaptyukh Template:FlagIOC 58.93 64.50 67.59 64.42 65.07 66.70 67.59 PB
5 Adam Setliff Template:FlagIOC 60.50 66.02 64.72 65.10 63.10 61.99 66.02
6 Jason Tunks Template:FlagIOC 59.59 64.58 65.35 X 65.80 64.38 65.80
7 Vladimir Dubrovshchik Template:FlagIOC 63.95 65.13 X 64.32 X 60.15 65.13
8 Jürgen Schult Template:FlagIOC X 60.83 63.34 64.41 62.63 61.96 64.41
9 Aleksander Tammert Template:FlagIOC 55.84 59.26 63.25 Did not advance 63.25
10 Michael Möllenbeck Template:FlagIOC 61.19 60.13 63.14 Did not advance 63.14
11 Dmitriy Shevchenko Template:FlagIOC X X 62.65 Did not advance 62.65
12 Anthony Washington Template:FlagIOC X X 59.87 Did not advance 59.87

See also

References

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  4. ↑ Official Report, Results Book for Athletics.

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