The men's discus throw at the 2025 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Stadium in Tokyo on 20 and 21 September 2025. Because of heavy rain in Tokyo, the final was delayed for several hours and became the championship's last event.Ståhl leaves it late to win discus gold in delayed final Reuters. Retrieved 21 September 2025.

Summary Thirty-seven athletes entered the competition, including defending champion Daniel Ståhl, world record holder Mykolas Alekna, 2022 champion Kristjan Čeh, and world number 2 Matthew Denny. Olympic champion Rojé Stona was a notable absence, as he had recently changed his sporting nationality to Turkey.

In the qualifying round, the automatic qualification mark of was reached by three of the pre-event favourites, as well as Martynas Alekna, his brother Mykolas was amongst the eight other finalists.

The final, scheduled just after 8pm local time, ended up becoming the final event of the championship due to rain suspending competition and threatening to cancel it entirely. On only the second throw of the night, Denny slipped and fell in the wet ring. Proceedings were brought to a halt, and eventually the competition was restarted. The competition eventually restarted after the conclusion of the closing ceremony hours later. After the restart, Mykolas Alekna's first round result stood, while Denny was allowed to retake his failed throw. The rain continued to fall however, resulting in unusual behaviour by the competitors such as Miká Sosna wearing only socks for one of his throws, as the throwers attempted to find grip. Conditions improved and degraded as the competition wore on, with 50% of throws fouled and only three throwers exceeding their qualifying marks.

After four rounds of competition, eight competitors qualified for the final two rounds. Fouls from Martynas Alekna and Čeh guaranteed 6th place for Andrius Gudžius, who forfeited his final two throws. This left just Cuban Mario Díaz and Samoan Alex Rose to try and best Mykolas Alekna, Ståhl, and Denny, who held the medal placings. Mykolas Alekna's second-round throw of was the longest throw at that point. With a surprising fifth-round throw of , Rose managed to unseat Denny for the bronze-medal position, and two fouls from Denny in the wet weather ensured Samoa's first world championship medal. After Rose fouled his final throw, Ståhl threw the first throw of the night over 70 meters, which after a foul from Alekna, was enough to claim gold.

Records Before the competition, records were as follows: RecordAthlete & LocationDate World record 75.56 m Ramona, United States 13 April 2025 Championship record 71.46 m Budapest, Hungary 21 August 2023 World Leading 75.56 m Ramona, United States 13 April 2025 African Record 70.32 m Salon-de-Provence, France 26 May 2002 Asian Record 69.32 m Tallinn, Estonia 3 June 2008 European Record 75.56 m Ramona, United States 13 April 2025 North, Central American and Caribbean record 72.01 m 16 August 2025 Oceanian record 74.78 m 13 April 2025 South American Record 70.29 m Lovelhe, Portugal 22 July 2020

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for the world championships was 67.50 m.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+9), was as follows: Date Time Round 20 September 09:00 Qualification 21 September 20:10 Final

Results Qualification All athletes over (Q) or at least the 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final. Fouls are denoted by "x".

Group A PlaceAthleteNationRoundMarkNotes #1 #2 #3 1 Daniel Ståhl 69.90 69.90 m 2 Martynas Alekna 67.16 67.16 m , 3 Lukas Weißhaidinger 65.72 65.91 x 65.91 m 4 Mykolas Alekna 65.39 x 65.29 65.39 m 5 Alex Rose 63.67 65.13 62.63 65.13 m 6 Mika Sosna 64.65 64.99 x 64.99 m 7 Steven Richter x 63.56 64.06 64.06 m 8 Reginald Jagers III 63.59 62.74 61.45 63.59 m 9 Abuduaini Tuergong 61.38 61.29 63.34 63.34 m 10 Chad Wright 62.73 62.87 62.67 62.87 m 11 Sam Mattis 61.99 53.48 62.86 62.86 m 12 Diego Casas 60.81 61.92 62.54 62.54 m 13 Shaquille Emanuelson 62.04 60.05 59.96 62.04 m 14 Victor Hogan 61.51 x 60.37 61.51 m 15 Alin Firfirică 57.59 58.67 60.78 60.78 m 16 Nicholas Percy 57.08 55.94 56.86 57.08 m 17 Ralford Mullings x 56.82 x 56.82 m 18 56.64 x 55.18 56.64 m 19 Masateru Yugami 53.75 56.40 56.23 56.40 m

Group B PlaceAthleteNationRoundMarkNotes #1 #2 #3 1 Kristjan Čeh 68.08 68.08 m 2 Matthew Denny 66.63 66.63 m 3 Henrik Janssen 62.76 66.47 x 66.47 m 4 Mario Díaz 63.6663.43 65.66 65.66 m 5 Andrius Gudžius 65.18 x 65.05 65.18 m 6 Connor Bell 65.0962.6765.03 65.09 m 7 Lawrence Okoye 63.5063.29 x 63.50 m 8 Ruben Rolvink 61.96 x 63.28 63.28 m 9 Lolassonn Djouhan 63.1362.5562.84 63.13 m 10 Dimitrios Pavlidis 60.17 62.4960.78 62.49 m 11 Juan José Caicedo x 60.94 x 60.94 m 12 Mauricio Ortega 60.57 x x 60.57 m 13 Fedrick Dacres x x 60.54 60.54 m 14 Claudio Romero 60.48 x60.32 60.48 m 15 x x 59.16 59.16 m 16 Marcus Gustaveson x 59.12 x 59.12 m 17 x 57.6056.67 57.60 m 18 Emanuel Sousa xx 56.97 56.97 m

Final PlaceAthleteNationRoundMarkNotes #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Daniel Ståhl x 63.74 65.60 67.47 66.97 70.47 70.47m Mykolas Alekna 62.91 67.84 66.00 x 64.57 x 67.84m Alex Rose 57.93 64.63 x x 66.96 x 66.96m 4 Matthew Denny 59.09 63.18 65.57 65.23 x x 65.57m 5 Mario Díaz x 64.71 59.95 61.61 63.16 63.32 64.71m 6 Andrius Gudžius x 63.43 x x r 63.43m 7 Martynas Alekna 63.05 63.34 x 62.47 x 63.34m 8 Kristjan Čeh 55.18 x 63.07 x x 63.07m 9 Lukas Weißhaidinger 62.26 x x x 62.26m 10 Connor Bell 54.73 59.46 x 59.97 59.97m 11 Mika Sosna x 58.60 x 58.60m — Henrik Janssen x x x

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