Men Discus Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) - Tuesday 27.08

Men Discus Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) - Tuesday 27.08 - Gold Medal: Lars Riedel, Germany

Final 19:00		Distance	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
1. Lars Riedel	GER	66.20m	66.20	64.52	65.78	X	65.82	X
2. Erik De Bruin	NED	65.82m	X	62.58	X	64.40	63.10	65.82
3. Attila Horváth	HUN	65.32m	64.36	64.38	64.66	63.72	65.20	65.32
4. Wolfgang Schmidt	GER	64.76m	63.66	61.84	60.58	64.48	64.76	60.72
5. Mike Buncic	USA	64.20m	64.20	X	64.12	61.16	62.28	X
6. Jurgen Schult	GER	63.12m	61.78	61.62	61.60	63.12	63.04	62.78
7. Dmitriy Shevchenko	URS	62.90m	62.90	61.82	62.56	X	61.96	61.60
8. Roberto Moya	CUB	61.44m	61.44	57.98	61.16	X	58.28	59.16
9. Sergey Lyakhov	URS	61.00m
10.Nikolay Kolev	BUL	60.44m
11.Adewale Olukoju	NGR	59.44m
-.Vasiliy Kaptyukh	URS	DNS

Men Discus Throw History

The gold medal again went to a German but it was not defending champion Schult nor former world record holder Schmidt. It was a 24 yearold who was competing at his first senior championship final. Riedel was the best of the qualifiers and he went even further in the first round of the final with 66.20. The conditions were not ideal for long throws and it became obvious that this throw might well hold up for victory.
Horváth held second place until the last round, when an ecstatic de Bruin moved up from fourth spot with 65.82.

Qualification - Monday 26.08 11:40

Mark 64.00m 3 + 9 Athletes.

Group A		Distance	Rk.
1. Lars Riedel	GER	65.30m	1.
2. Attila Horváth	HUN	64.54m	3.
3. Mike Buncic	USA	63.12m	6.
4. Sergey Lyakhov	URS	63.02m	7.
5. Vasiliy Kaptyukh	URS	62.88m	8.
6. Jurgen Schult	GER	62.56m	9.
7. Nikolay Kolev	BUL	62.40m	10.
8. Roberto Moya	CUB	62.32m	12.
9. David Martinez	ESP	61.14m	14.
10.Svein Inge Valvik	NOR	60.86m	15.
11.Simon Williams	GBR	60.68m	16.
12.Vesteinn Hafsteinsson	ISL	60.12m	19.
13.Marcel Tirle	ROM	59.80m	25.
14.Luciano Zerbini	ITA	58.34m	26.
15.Anthony Washington	USA	58.02m	28.
16.Ray Lazdins	CAN	56.58m	31.
17.Tuck Yim Wong	SIN	44.26m	34.
-.Christian Erb	SUI	DNS

Group B		Distance	Rk.
1. Wolfgang Schmidt	GER	65.18m	2.
2. Dmitriy Shevchenko	URS	63.70m	4.
3. Erik De Bruin	NED	63.34m	5.
4. Adewale Olukoju	NGR	62.36m	11.
5. Imrich Bugar	TCH	61.90m	13.
6. Werner Reiterer	AUS	60.40m	17.
7. Marco Martino	ITA	60.34m	18.
8. Georgi D. Georgiev	BUL	60.08m	20.
9. Ramon Jimenez-Gaona	PAR	60.02m	21.
10.Costel Grasu	ROU	60.00m	22.
11.Jozsef Ficsor	HUN	59.98m	23.
12.Juan Martinez	CUB	59.98m	24.
13.Mike Gravelle	USA	58.28m	27.
14.Kamen Dimitrov	BUL	57.72m	29.
15.Igor Avrunin	ISR	56.74m	30.
16.Mickael Conjungo	CAF	53.02m	32.
17.Herbert Rodriguez	ESA	46.62m	33.
-. Stefan Fernholm	SWE	DNS