2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw

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The men's discus throw event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on August 29 and 30.

Defending champion Robert Harting was a clear winner, with three throws better than silver medalist Gerd Kanter.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Robert Harting   Germany  (GER)	Gerd Kanter   Estonia  (EST)	Ehsan Haddadi   Iran  (IRI)

Records

World record	Jürgen Schult  (GDR)	74.08	Neubrandenburg, East Germany	6 June 1986
Championship record	Virgilijus Alekna  (LTU)	70.14	Helsinki, Finland	7 August 2005
World leading	Zoltán Kővágó  (HUN)	69.50	Budapest, Hungary	30 July 2011
African record	Frantz Kruger  (RSA)	70.32	Salon-de-Provence, France	26 May 2002
Asian record	Ehsan Haddadi  (IRI)	69.32	Tallinn, Estonia	3 June 2008
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Ben Plucknett  (USA)	71.32	Eugene, OR, United States	4 June 1983
South American record	Jorge Balliengo  (ARG)	66.32	Rosario, Argentina	15 April 2006
European record	Jürgen Schult  (GDR)	74.08	Neubrandenburg, East Germany	6 June 1986
Oceanian record	Benn Harradine  (AUS)	66.45	Split, Croatia	5 September 2010

Qualification standards

A standard	B standard
65.00 m	63.00 m

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 29, 2011	10:10	Qualification
August 30, 2011	19:55	Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 65.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	B	Piotr Małachowski	Poland  (POL)	64.22	x	65.48	65.48	q
2	A	Ehsan Haddadi	Iran  (IRI)	65.21	64.74	-	65.21	q
3	B	Mario Pestano	Spain  (ESP)	65.13	-	-	65.13	q
4	B	Jorge Fernández	Cuba  (CUB)	64.94	-	-	64.94	q
5	A	Robert Harting	Germany  (GER)	64.93	63.75	-	64.93	q
6	A	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania  (LTU)	64.21	63.57	x	64.21	q
7	B	Märt Israel	Estonia  (EST)	63.49	64.19	x	64.19	q
8	A	Vikas Gowda	India  (IND)	62.37	63.99	61.85	63.99	q
9	A	Gerd Kanter	Estonia  (EST)	62.77	63.50	x	63.50	q
10	A	Benn Harradine	Australia  (AUS)	x	63.49	51.86	63.49	q
11	A	Jason Young	United States  (USA)	61.75	x	63.14	63.14	q
12	B	Brett Morse	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	60.62	62.38	59.29	62.38	q
13	B	Jan Marcell	Czech Republic  (CZE)	60.46	62.29	59.26	62.29
14	A	Jarred Rome	United States  (USA)	58.86	62.22	61.00	62.22
15	B	Zoltán Kővágó	Hungary  (HUN)	58.14	62.16	x	62.16
16	B	Rutger Smith	Netherlands  (NED)	60.17	59.64	62.12	62.12
17	A	Wu Jian	China  (CHN)	59.51	62.07	x	62.07
18	A	Jason Morgan	Jamaica  (JAM)	58.51	57.56	61.75	61.75
19	B	Martin Wierig	Germany  (GER)	x	x	61.68	61.68
20	A	Erik Cadée	Netherlands  (NED)	61.03	x	61.62	61.62
21	B	Gerhard Mayer	Austria  (AUT)	61.47	55.33	59.60	61.47
22	B	Leif Arrhenius	Sweden  (SWE)	61.33	x	x	61.33
23	B	Mohammad Samimi	Iran  (IRI)	x	x	61.10	61.10
24	B	Lance Brooks	United States  (USA)	60.55	61.01	61.07	61.07
25	B	Ercüment Olgundeniz	Turkey  (TUR)	53.34	x	60.86	60.86
26	B	Markus Münch	Germany  (GER)	58.27	60.80	60.59	60.80
27	B	Martin Marić	Croatia  (CRO)	59.72	x	60.61	60.61
28	A	Niklas Arrhenius	Sweden  (SWE)	60.57	x	x	60.57
29	B	Carl Myerscough	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	60.29	57.65	59.40	60.29
30	A	Abdul Buhari	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	x	60.21	58.37	60.21
31	A	Roland Varga	Croatia  (CRO)	x	59.09	x	59.09
	A	Róbert Fazekas	Hungary  (HUN)	x	x	x	NM
	A	Frank Casañas	Spain  (ESP)				DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Robert Harting	Germany  (GER)	68.49	x	68.10	68.97	66.33	x	68.97
	Gerd Kanter	Estonia  (EST)	62.79	66.95	66.13	66.90	x	65.83	66.95
	Ehsan Haddadi	Iran  (IRI)	65.29	64.07	x	x	65.50	66.08	66.08	SB
4	Märt Israel	Estonia  (EST)	61.87	63.60	64.31	63.73	65.20	x	65.20
5	Benn Harradine	Australia  (AUS)	64.43	64.02	62.08	x	64.18	64.77	64.77
6	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania  (LTU)	62.75	x	64.09	62.62	x	61.25	64.09
7	Vikas Gowda	India  (IND)	60.79	61.51	64.05	62.81	62.16	62.16	64.05
8	Jorge Fernández	Cuba  (CUB)	61.05	63.54	63.10	x	60.11	61.77	63.54
9	Piotr Małachowski	Poland  (POL)	58.28	x	63.37				63.37
10	Jason Young	United States  (USA)	62.54	x	63.20				63.20
11	Mario Pestano	Spain  (ESP)	62.97	63.00	62.74				63.00
12	Brett Morse	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	60.84	62.69	57.87				62.69

External links

• Discus throw results at IAAF website