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	Gerd Kanter   Estonia	Ehsan Haddadi   Iran

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

Final

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

External links

• Discus throw results at IAAF website