Men Discus Throw Athletics XXV Olympic Games Barcelona, Spain, 1992 - Wednesday, 5th August

Men Discus Throw Athletics XXV Olympic Games Barcelona, Spain, 1992 - Wednesday, 5th August - Gold Medal: Romas Ubartas, Lithuania

Final		Distance	SO	1.	2	3.	4.	5.	6.
1. Romas Ubartas	Lithuania	65.12m	12.	60.90	62.64	64.36	X	65.12	X
2. Jürgen Schult	Germany	64.94m	8.	64.26	63.54	63.84	63.38	64.94	63.08
3. Roberto Moya	Cuba	64.12m	4.	64.12	X	X	62.72	X	62.02
4. Costel Grasu	Romania	62.86m	9.	59.90	60.50	62.18	62.86	62.40	X
5. Attila Horváth	Hungary	62.82m	10.	62.50	62.72	62.82	X	62.56	62.06
6. Juan Martínez	Cuba	62.64m	3.	61.72	61.30	61.86	62.64	62.10	X
7. Dmitriy Kovtsun	United Team	62.04m	2.	X	60.04	60.58	X	60.66	62.04
8. Dmitriy Shevchenko	United Team	61.78m	6.	61.78	60.92	X	X	X	X
9. David Martínez	Spain	60.16m		59.74	59.54	60.16
10.Werner Reiterer	Australia	60.12m		60.12	58.92	X
11.Vésteinn Hafsteinsson	Iceland	60.06m		60.06	X	58.90
12.Anthony Washington	United States	59.96m		59.96	X	58.76

world Men Discus Throw History

Venue: Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc 67,007.

32 competitors from 24 nations.

Qualification

World Record: Jürgen Schult, East Germany 74.08m June 6, 1986 Neubrandenburg, East Germany.

Olympic Record: Jürgen Schult, East Germany 68.82m October 1, 1988 Seoul, South Korea.

The Soviet Union was in the middle of disintegrating during 1992, with only the Baltic countries fully seceded from the USSR by the time of Barcelona. Romas Ubartas had been the top thrower of 1991 but had missed the World Championships, preferring to wait a year to compete for Lithuania rather than represent the USSR again. Ubartas led the qualifiers with 66.08, but had to wait until round 3 of the final before overtaking Schult’s 64.26 by 10cm. Schult regained the lead in the penultimate round with 64.94, only for Ubartas to respond immediately with 65.12. Roberto Moya was the surprise bronze medallist, having thrown 64.12 in the opening round. A bigger surprise was that World Champion Lars Riedel and Ubartas’s experienced countryman Vaclavas Kidykas each failed to qualify.

Qualification - Monday, 3rd August

Mark 63.00m. Virtual 60.20m. 3 Athletes passed the Mark and nexh 9 Best were added to Final.

Group A		Distance	Rk	1.	2.	3.
1. Costel Grasu	Romania	63.06m	3.	61.30	X	63.06
2. Attila Horváth	Hungary	62.26m	4.	62.26	59.98	58.30
3. Dmitriy Kovtsun	United Team	61.62m	8.	61.22	X	X
4. David Martínez	Spain	61.22m	9.	56.00	60.34	59.70
5. Juan Martínez	Cuba	60.34m	10.	57.20	60.22	X
6. Dmitriy Shevchenko	United Team	60.22m	11.	57.20	60.22	X
7. Lars Riedel	Germany	59.98m	14.	57.54	X	59.98
8. Vaclavas Kidykas	Lithuania	59.96m	15.	X	59.10	59.96
9. Ramón Jiménez Gaona	Paraguay	59.78m	16.	56.98	X	58.78
10.Mike Buncic	United States	59.12m	18.	X	57.84	59.12
11.Imrich Bugár	Czechoslovakia	58.70m	19.	53.88	58.70	56.84
12.Nikolay Kolev	Bulgaria	58.12m	22.	50.94	58.12	X
13.Brian Blutreich	United States	57.08m	25.	57.08	54.44	55.40
14.Simon Williams	Great Britain	53.12m	28.	X	53.12	52.96
15.Dragan Mustapić	Bosnia Herzegovina	48.80m	29.	X	47.88	48.80
16.Herbert Rodríguez	El Salvador	43.22m	31.	43.22	X	40.76

Group B		Distance	Rk	1.	2.	3.
1. Romas Ubartas	Lithuania	66.08m	1.	66.08
2. Jürgen Schult	Germany	63.46m	2.	61.04	63.46
3. Werner Reiterer	Australia	62.20m	5.	60.64	X	62.20
4. Anthony Washington	United States	62.18m	6.	58.18	57.86	62.18
5. Roberto Moya	Cuba	62.06m	7.	X	62.06	61.44
6. Vesteinn Hafsteinsson	Iceland	60.20m	12.	60.20	58.64	58.08
7. Olav Jenssen	Norway	60.00m	13.	60.00	59.74	X
8. Wenge Yu	China	59.42m	17.	58.92	X	59.42
9. Ficsor József	Hungary	58.84m	20.	56.30	58.84	X
10.Ray Lazdins	Canada	58.26m	21.	X	55.60	58.26
11.Nick Sweeney	Ireland	57.68m	23.	57.68	57.26	56.22
12.Mickaël Conjungo	Central Africa	57.46m	24.	57.46	X	54.40
13.Vladimir Zinchenko	United Team	56.94m	26.	56.94	56.64	56.46
14.Christian Erb	Switzerland	55.16m	27.	X	55.16	54.38
15.Khaled Al-Khalidi	Saudi Arabia	47.96m	30.	X	X	47.96
-. Luciano Zerbini	Italy	NM		X	X	X

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index Athletics

Barcelona 1992 index

Athletics Barcelona 1992
Men 100m	Women 100m
Men 200m	Women 200m
Men 400m	Women 400m
Men 800m	Women 800m
Men 1500m	Women 1500m
Men 5000m	Women 3000m
Men 10000m
Men Marathon	Women Marathon
Men 110m Hurdles	Women 100m Hurdles
Men 400m Hurdles	Women 400m Hurdles
Men 3000m Steeplechase
Men 4x100m Relay	Women 4x100m Relay
Men 4x400m Relay	Women 4x400m Relay
Men High Jump	Women High Jump
Men Pole Vault
Men Long Jump	Women Long Jump
Men Triple Jump
Men Shot Put	Women Shot Put
Men Discus Throw	Women Discus Throw
Men Hammer Throw
Men Javelin Throw	Women Javelin Throw
Men 20km Walk	Women 10km Walk
Men 50km Walk
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Men Decathlon	Women Heptathlon
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