1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw

These are the official results of the Men's Discus Throw event at the 1997 World Championships in Athens, Greece. There were a total number of 42 participating athletes, with the final held on Sunday August 10, 1997. The qualification mark was set at 63.00 metres.

Medalists

Gold	Lars Riedel Germany (GER)
Silver	Virgilijus Alekna Lithuania (LTU)
Bronze	Jürgen Schult Germany (GER)

Schedule

• All times are Eastern European Time (UTC+2)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
08.08.1997 – 17:30h	08.08.1997 – 19:30h
Final Round
10.08.1997 – 18:00h

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Qualification

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Jürgen Schult  (GER)	64.60 m
2.	Vitaliy Sidorov  (UKR)	63.08 m
3.	Vasiliy Kaptyukh  (BLR)	63.06 m
4.	Andreas Seelig  (GER)	62.94 m
5.	Aleksander Tammert  (EST)	62.18 m
6.	Jason Tunks  (CAN)	61.82 m
7.	Alexis Elizalde  (CUB)	61.48 m
8.	Vaclavas Kidykas  (LTU)	61.40 m
9.	Andy Bloom  (USA)	60.74 m
10.	Olav Jenssen  (NOR)	60.52 m
11.	Igor Primc  (SLO)	59.98 m
12.	Ian Winchester  (NZL)	59.70 m
13.	Jo Van Daele  (BEL)	58.66 m
14.	Aleksandr Borichevskiy  (RUS)	57.90 m
15.	Yu Wenge  (CHN)	57.14 m
16.	Costel Grasu  (ROM)	56.70 m
17.	Christos Papadopoulos  (GRE)	56.44 m
18.	Shakti Singh  (IND)	56.28 m
19.	Glen Smith  (GBR)	54.40 m
20.	Dashdendev Makhashiri  (MGL)	52.12 m
—	Duke Uperesa  (ASA)	DNS

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Lars Riedel  (GER)	66.46 m
2.	Virgilijus Alekna  (LTU)	65.22 m
3.	Adam Setliff  (USA)	63.72 m
4.	John Godina  (USA)	63.48 m
5.	Vladimir Dubrovshchik  (BLR)	62.30 m
6.	Robert Weir  (GBR)	62.26 m
7.	Frits Potgieter  (RSA)	61.30 m
8.	Pieter van der Kruk Jr.  (NED)	60.16 m
9.	Diego Fortuna  (ITA)	60.06 m
10.	Leonid Cherevko  (BLR)	60.06 m
11.	Sergey Lyakhov  (RUS)	59.72 m
12.	Jean Pons  (FRA)	59.46 m
13.	Li Shaojie  (CHN)	58.24 m
14.	Libor Malina  (CZE)	58.00 m
15.	Mickaël Conjungo  (CAF)	57.82 m
16.	Attila Horváth  (HUN)	57.72 m
17.	Marcelo Pugliese  (ARG)	57.34 m
18.	Kjell Ove Hauge  (NOR)	57.00 m
19.	Ramón Jiménez Gaona  (PAR)	52.96 m
20.	Vansavang Savatdee  (THA)	47.98 m
21.	Robert McNabb  (COK)	41.00 m

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Lars Riedel  (GER)	65.48	68.24	68.54	X	X	66.80	68.54 m
	Virgilijus Alekna  (LTU)	62.44	66.70	63.20	63.12	X	X	66.70 m	SB
	Jürgen Schult  (GER)	66.14	65.20	65.54	X	62.34	64.94	66.14 m	SB
4	Vladimir Dubrovshchik  (BLR)	62.98	60.30	65.36	65.46	62.44	66.12	66.12 m	SB
5	John Godina  (USA)	65.40	X	57.32	64.82	64.92	64.30	65.40 m
6	Andreas Seelig  (GER)	63.00	64.48	62.80	X	64.12	63.64	64.48 m
7	Adam Setliff  (USA)	62.32	62.80	X	61.84	X	63.44	63.44 m
8	Robert Weir  (GBR)	63.06	60.18	61.40	62.22	X	58.70	63.06 m
9	Jason Tunks  (CAN)	59.16	62.30	61.88				62.30 m
10	Vitaliy Sidorov  (UKR)	60.32	59.68	X				60.32 m
11	Vasiliy Kaptyukh  (BLR)	60.12	X	X				60.12 m
12	Aleksander Tammert  (EST)	59.44	59.18	58.46				59.44 m

See also

• 1994 Men's European Championships Discus Throw (Helsinki)
• 1996 Men's Olympic Discus Throw (Atlanta)
• 1998 Men's European Championships Discus Throw (Budapest)

References

• Results