2013 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw

The men's discus throw at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 12–13 August.Start list

The three automatic qualifiers turned out to be the three players in this event. On the second throw of the competition Piotr Małachowski took the lead which lasted for about a minute before Gerd Kanter made his first attempt. It was Robert Harting's second attempt that took the lead he would not relinquish. In the fourth round he unleashed his winner at 69.11. Between World Championships and Olympics, he continued his streak of four straight golds. Małachowski's fifth round 68.36 continued his streak of three silvers behind Harting in the same championships. Kanter, Harting's predecessor in both titles, held on for bronze.

Records Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record74.08Neubrandenburg, East Germany6 June 1986Championship record70.17Helsinki, Finland7 August 2005World leading71.84Hengelo, Netherlands8 June 2013African record70.32Salon-de-Provence, France26 May 2002Asian record69.32Tallinn, Estonia3 June 2008North, Central American and Caribbean record72.34Stockholm, Sweden7 July 1981South American record66.32Rosario, Argentina15 April 2006European record74.08Neubrandenburg, East Germany6 June 1986Oceanian record68.20Townsville, Australia10 May 2013

Qualification standards A resultB result 66.00 64.00

Schedule Date Time Round12 August 2013 09:40 Qualification13 August 2013 19:00 Final

Results KEY:QQualifiedq12 best performersNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Qualification Qualification: 65.00 m (Q) and at least 12 best (q) advanced to the final.

Rank Group Name Nationality No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 Mark Notes 1 A Robert Harting 66.62 66.62 Q 2 B Piotr Małachowski 66.00 66.00 Q 3 A Gerd Kanter 65.54 65.54 Q 4 B Jorge Fernández 64.86 64.86 q 5 A Robert Urbanek 62.89 x 64.21 64.21 q 6 B Martin Wierig 63.47 64.06 64.06 q 7 A Vikas Gowda 63.64 62.59 62.67 63.64 q 8 B Frank Casañas x x 63.17 63.17 q 9 B Victor Butenko x 63.07 x 63.07 q 10 A Mario Pestano 62.80 61.79 62.15 62.80 q 11 B Julian Wruck 60.36 60.84 62.48 62.48 q 12 A Victor Hogan x 62.45 61.59 62.45 q 13 A Christoph Harting 62.17 62.28 60.36 62.28 14 B Erik Cadée 61.75 62.14 x 62.14 15 B Martin Marić 61.98 x 61.58 61.98 16 B Virgilijus Alekna 61.91 61.56 61.27 61.91 17 A Ercüment Olgundeniz 59.55 60.81 x 60.81 18 B Gerhard Mayer 59.85 58.19 59.81 59.85 19 A Apostolos Parellis 59.84 56.95 59.08 59.84 20 A Benn Harradine x 59.68 x 59.68 21 B Musab Ibrahim Al-Momani 58.20 58.84 59.38 59.38 22 B Ronald Julião x 59.36 57.77 59.36 23 A Brett Morse x 59.23 58.60 59.23 24 A Niklas Arrhenius 59.13 57.39 57.42 59.13 25 A Lance Brooks 59.08 x 57.94 59.08 26 A Danijel Furtula x 58.28 58.26 58.28 27 B Giovanni Faloci 57.23 55.66 57.54 57.54 28 A Mahmoud Samimi x 57.38 57.77 57.77 29 B Alex Rose 54.62 56.19 54.31 56.19 30 B Sultan Al-Dawoodi 55.94 54.08 x 55.94

Final The final was started at 19:00.Final Results

Rank Name Nationality No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 Mark Notes Robert Harting 62.1668.13 x 69.11 - 69.08 69.11 Piotr Małachowski 64.49x 65.09 67.1868.36 67.21 68.36 Gerd Kanter 64.9065.19 x xxx 65.19 Martin Wierig x 63.72 x65.02 x 63.42 65.02 Victor Hogan 64.35 62.84 60.98 61.69 x 63.44 64.35 Robert Urbanek 63.58 62.20 64.32 64.0162.05 62.70 64.32 Vikas Gowda 63.41 x 62.2064.03 63.67 63.64 64.03 Victor Butenko x 63.38x xxx 63.38 Frank Casañas 62.40 62.89 61.26 62.89 10 Jorge Fernández 62.88 62.39 62.50 62.88 11 Julian Wruck 60.91 61.80 62.40 62.40 12 Mario Pestano x 60.13 61.88 61.88

References

External links Discus throw results at IAAF website