Men Discus Throw Athletics IV World Championship 1993 Stuttgart (GER) - Tuesday 17.08

Men Discus Throw Athletics IV World Championship 1993 Stuttgart (GER) - Tuesday 17.08 - Gold Medal: Lars Riedel, Germany

Final 19:20		Distance	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
1. Lars Riedel	GER	67.72m	56.24	67.72	60.54	64.94	X	67.34
2. Dmitriy Shevchenko	RUS	66.90m	61.58	61.54	X	63.94	66.14	66.90
3. Jurgen Schult	GER	66.12m	64.32	66.12	63.32	62.84	64.46	X
4. Costel Grasu	ROM	65.24m	61.92	65.24	62.12	62.66	62.60	61.54
5. Vladimir Zinchenko	UKR	62.02m	59.42	61.28	60.92	59.92	62.02	59.56
6. Nick Sweeney	IRL	61.66m	61.66	61.26	X	60.84	60.70	X
7. Vasiliy Kaptyukh	BLR	61.64m	61.64	X	60.96	57.46	61.00	58.78
8. Mike Buncic	USA	61.06m	60.92	61.06	60.78
9. Luis Delis	CUB	60.76m
10.Anthony Washington	USA	60.72m
11.Vaclavas Kidykas	LTU	58.62m
-. Romas Ubartas	LTU	DQ 65.24	59.06	61.66	61.42	X	65.24	63.98

Men Dicus Throw History

The crowd were pleased to see Schult – the 1987 Champion – take the lead after the first round, and delighted when defending champion Riedel went ahead in the second with an excellent 67.22. Schult also improved with his second throw and Germany were to hold the first two positions for most of the competition.
With his final throw, Shevchenko produced 66.90 to split the Germans. In fourth place was Olympic Champion Ubartas, but his name was removed from the order after he failed a doping test. The 46,200 spectators clapped and cheered when each of the Germans went into the ring, but during the contest Riedel and Schult took the unusual step of issuing a statement to ask the crowd to pleasebe quiet at these times. A small section of the crowd appeared to ignore this request, but they simply had not seen the statement as the main scoreboard was not visible from their seats!

Qualification - Monday 16.08

Mark 63.00m 4+8 Athletes

Group A 10:00		Distance	Rk.
1. Romas Ubartas	LTU	65.92m	1.
2. Dmitriy Shevchenko	RUS	63.68m	3.
3. Anthony Washington	USA	62.78m	5.
4. Nick Sweeney	IRL	62.10m	7.
5. Jurgen Schult	GER	62.10m	8.
6. Alexis Elizalde	CUB	60.76m	14.
7. Ramon Jimenez-Gaona	PAR	60.50m	15.
8. Vladimir Dubrovshchik	BLR	60.38m	16.
9. Robert Weir	GBR	59.74m	18.
10.Dmitriy Kovtsun	UKR	58.90m	20.
11.Imrich Bugar	CZE	58.76m	21.
12.Mike Gravelle	USA	56.42m	24.
13.Mickael Conjungo	CAF	53.60m	25.
14.Gordon Barff	TAH	46.56m	29.
-. Erik De Bruin	NED	DNS

Group B 11:45		Distance	Rk.
1. Lars Riedel	GER	65.88m	2.
2. Mike Buncic	USA	63.64m	4.
3. Vasiliy Kaptyukh	BLR	62.56m	6.
4. Vaclavas Kidykas	LTU	61.94m	9.
5. Luis Delis	CUB	61.76m	10.
6. Vladimir Zinchenko	UKR	61.74m	11.
7. Costel Grasu	ROM	61.52m	12.
8. Sergey Lukashok	ISR	60.88m	13.
9. Roberto Moya	CUB	60.10m	17.
10.Viktor Baraznovskiy	BLR	59.30m	19.
11.Vesteinn Hafsteinsson	ISL	58.56m	22.
12.Ray Lazdins	CAN	57.48m	23.
13.Dashdendev Makhashiri	MGL	51.62m	26.
14.Shakti Singh	IND	48.78m	27.
15.Tuck Yim Wong	SIN	46.86m	28.
16.Wesley Tuilefano	AMS	27.34m	30.