The men's discus throw at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 10 and 12 July.http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/WJC12/Results/ResultsByEvent.aspx?/disctype=4/sex=M/discCode=DT/combCode=hash/timetable.html

Medalists Gold Fedrick DacresSilver Wojciech PraczykBronze Gerhard de Beer

Records , the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

World Junior Record70.13 mHalle, Germany24 May 2008Championship Record67.32 mBeijing, China16 August 2006World Junior Leading64.22 mBiałystok, Poland24 June 2012

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Standard 59.40 m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q)

Rank Group Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Note 1 A Wojciech Praczyk 59.32 60.72 60.72 Q 2 A Mauricio Ortega 59.84 59.84 Q, 3 B Jordan Young 51.53 59.54 59.54 Q 4 B Gerhard de Beer X 56.74 59.01 59.01 q 5 B Viktor Butenko 58.98 58.55 X 58.98 q 6 A Fedrick Dacres 13.31 57.48 58.90 58.90 q 7 A Behnam Shiri 58.23 X 57.56 58.23 q 8 B Dalton Rowan 56.48 55.48 57.65 57.65 q, 9 A Arjun Arjun 47.51 56.00 57.60 57.60 q, 10 B Nicholas Percy 56.89 51.67 53.32 56.89 q 11 A Sebastian Scheffel X 53.84 56.85 56.85 q 12 A Felipe Lorenzon X 56.78 X 56.78 q 13 A Róbert Szikszai 55.68 52.65 56.51 56.51 14 B Mitchell Cooper 56.25 53.61 52.91 56.25 15 A Jan-Louw Kotze 53.60 55.59 54.31 55.59 16 A Giacomo Grotti 51.88 54.59 55.25 55.25 17 B Jaromír Mazgal 54.72 52.46 53.49 54.72 18 A Rodney Brown 54.66 X 53.03 54.66 19 B Damian Kamiński 53.87 54.50 54.31 54.50 20 B Philipp van Dijck X 53.49 54.42 54.42 21 A Jaka Žulic 52.71 X X 52.71 22 A Søren Børsting 51.71 51.37 X 51.71 23 A Nikola Cankovic X X 49.39 49.39 24 B Juan Ignacio Solito 53.41 53.10 49.60 53.41 25 B Viktor Gardenkrans 53.24 51.74 X 53.24 26 B Stefano Petrei 50.64 X 52.48 52.48 27 B Andreas Ellegaard X 51.98 50.61 51.98 – B Murat Gündüz X X NM

Final

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Note Fedrick Dacres 60.46 62.80 X 61.20 X 61.29 62.80 Wojciech Praczyk 62.66 X X X 59.61 62.75 62.75 Gerhard de Beer 56.56 60.13 61.25 61.57 X X 61.57 4 Viktor Butenko 58.96 59.96 X 59.12 59.04 61.48 61.48 5 Felipe Lorenzon X X 61.18 57.39 X X 61.18 6 Jordan Young 57.45 X 57.68 60.44 59.89 X 60.44 7 Dalton Rowan 58.75 57.55 X X X 59.31 59.31 8 Nicholas Percy 56.47 54.83 57.79 X X 56.98 57.79 9 Mauricio Ortega 51.29 57.41 57.50 57.50 10 Sebastian Scheffel X 56.71 56.77 56.77 11 Arjun Arjun 54.56 X 52.75 54.56 Behnam Shiri Jabilou X X X NM

Participation According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 22 countries participated in the event.

References

External links WJC12 discus throw schedule