2025 World Athletics Championships – Men's discus throw

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Men's discus throw
at the 2025 World Athletics Championships
Venue National Stadium
Location Tokyo, Japan
Dates20 September (qualification)
21 September (final)
Winning distance70.47 m SB
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Samoa.svg  Samoa
  2023
2027  

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. [1] Because of heavy rain in Tokyo, the final was delayed for several hours and became the championship's last event. [2]

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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. [3]

In the qualifying round, the automatic qualification mark of 66.50 m (218 ft 2 in) was reached by three of the pre-event favourites, as well as Martynas Alekna, his brother Mykolas was amongst the eight other finalists. [4]

The final, scheduled just after 8 pm 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 67.84 m (222 ft 6 in) was the longest throw at that point. With a surprising fifth-round throw of 66.96 m (219 ft 8 in), 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, 70.47 m (231 ft 2 in) which after a foul from Alekna, was enough to claim gold. [5] [6]

Records

Before the competition, records were as follows: [7]

RecordAthlete & Nat.Perf.LocationDate
World record Flag of Lithuania.svg  Mykolas Alekna  (LTU)75.56 m Ramona, United States13 April 2025
Championship record Flag of Sweden.svg  Daniel Ståhl  (SWE)71.46 m Budapest, Hungary21 August 2023
World LeadingFlag of Lithuania.svg  Mykolas Alekna  (LTU)75.56 m Ramona, United States13 April 2025
African Record Flag of South Africa.svg  Frantz Kruger  (RSA)70.32 m Salon-de-Provence, France26 May 2002
Asian Record Flag of Iran.svg  Ehsan Hadadi  (IRI)69.32 m Tallinn, Estonia3 June 2008
European Record Flag of Lithuania.svg  Mykolas Alekna  (LTU)75.56 m Ramona, United States13 April 2025
North, Central American and Caribbean record Flag of Jamaica.svg  Ralford Mullings  (JAM)72.01 m16 August 2025
Oceanian record Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Matthew Denny  (AUS)74.78 m13 April 2025
South American Record Flag of Colombia.svg  Mauricio Ortega  (COL)70.29 m Lovelhe, Portugal22 July 2020

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for the world championships was 67.50 m. [8]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+9), was as follows: [1]

DateTimeRound
20 September09:00 Qualification
21 September20:10 Final

Results

Qualification

All athletes over 66.50 metres (218.2 ft) (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 Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 69.9069.90 m Q
2 Martynas Alekna Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 67.1667.16 m Q, SB
3 Lukas Weißhaidinger Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 65.7265.91x65.91 m q
4 Mykolas Alekna Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 65.39x65.2965.39 m q
5 Alex Rose Flag of Samoa.svg  Samoa 63.6765.1362.6365.13 m q
6 Mika Sosna Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 64.6564.99x64.99 m q
7 Steven Richter Flag of Germany.svg  Germany x63.5664.0664.06 m
8 Reginald Jagers III Flag of the United States.svg  United States 63.5962.7461.4563.59 m
9 Abuduaini Tuergong Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 61.3861.2963.3463.34 m
10 Chad Wright Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 62.7362.8762.6762.87 m
11 Sam Mattis Flag of the United States.svg  United States 61.9953.4862.8662.86 m
12 Diego Casas Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 60.8161.9262.5462.54 m
13 Shaquille Emanuelson Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 62.0460.0559.9662.04 m
14 Victor Hogan Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 61.51x60.3761.51 m
15 Alin Firfirică Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 57.5958.6760.7860.78 m
16 Nicholas Percy Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain & N.I. 57.0855.9456.8657.08 m
17 Ralford Mullings Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica x56.82x56.82 m
18 Jordan Guehaseim  [ fr ]Flag of France.svg  France 56.64x55.1856.64 m
19 Masateru Yugami  [ de; fr; ja ]Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 53.7556.4056.2356.40 m
[4]

Group B

PlaceAthleteNationRoundMarkNotes
#1#2#3
1 Kristjan Čeh Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 68.0868.08 m Q
2 Matthew Denny Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 66.6366.63 m Q
3 Henrik Janssen Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 62.7666.47x66.47 m q
4 Mario Díaz Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 63.6663.4365.6665.66 m q
5 Andrius Gudžius Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 65.18x65.0565.18 m q
6 Connor Bell Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 65.0962.6765.0365.09 m q
7 Lawrence Okoye Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain & N.I. 63.5063.29x63.50 m
8 Ruben Rolvink Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 61.96x63.2863.28 m
9 Lolassonn Djouhan Flag of France.svg  France 63.1362.5562.8463.13 m
10 Dimitrios Pavlidis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 60.1762.4960.7862.49 m
11 Juan José Caicedo Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador x60.94x60.94 m
12 Mauricio Ortega Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 60.57xx60.57 m
13 Fedrick Dacres Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica xx60.5460.54 m
14 Claudio Romero Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 60.48x60.3260.48 m
15 Wellinton da Cruz Filho  [ de ]Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil xx59.1659.16 m
16 Marcus Gustaveson Flag of the United States.svg  United States x59.12x59.12 m
17 Marek Bárta  [ de ]Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic x57.6056.6757.60 m
18 Emanuel Sousa Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal xx56.9756.97 m
[4]

Final

PlaceAthleteNationRoundMarkNotes
#1#2#3#4#5#6
Gold medal icon.svg Daniel Ståhl Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden x63.7465.6067.4766.9770.4770.47m SB
Silver medal icon.svg Mykolas Alekna Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 62.9167.8466.00x64.57x67.84m
Bronze medal icon.svg Alex Rose Flag of Samoa.svg  Samoa 57.9364.63xx66.96x66.96m
4 Matthew Denny Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 59.0963.1865.5765.23xx65.57m
5 Mario Díaz Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba x64.7159.9561.6163.1663.3264.71m
6 Andrius Gudžius Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania x63.43xxr63.43m
7 Martynas Alekna Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 63.0563.34x62.47x63.34m
8 Kristjan Čeh Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 55.18x63.07xx63.07m
9 Lukas Weißhaidinger Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 62.26xxx62.26m
10 Connor Bell Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 54.7359.46x59.9759.97m
11 Mika Sosna Flag of Germany.svg  Germany x58.60x58.60m
Henrik Janssen Flag of Germany.svg  Germany xxx NM
[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Timetable - Tokyo 25 - World Athletics Championship - Men discus throw". World Athletics. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  2. Ståhl leaves it late to win discus gold in delayed final Reuters. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  3. "Jamaican Olympic medallist Campbell switches allegiance to Turkey". reuters.com. 20 June 2025. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 "Men's discus throw - Qualification results" (PDF). World Athletics. 20 September 2025. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  5. "Stahl leaves it late to win discus gold in delayed final". reuters.com. 21 September 2025. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
  6. "Matt Denny finishes fourth in farcical discus competition at World Athletics Championships 2025 in Tokyo". abc.net.au. 22 September 2025. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
  7. "Men's discus throw – Records". World Athletics. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  8. "World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 – Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). World Athletics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 September 2025. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  9. "Official Results / リザルト Discus men - Final" (PDF). media.aws.iaaf.org. 21 September 2025. Retrieved 21 September 2025.