Athletics at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's discus throw

Men's discus throw at the 2010 Asian Games
Venue	Aoti Main Stadium
Date	November 24, 2010 (2010-11-24)
Competitors	11 from 9 nations
Medalists
Ehsan Haddadi    Iran   Mohammad Samimi    Iran   Vikas Gowda    India

Athletics at the 2010 Asian Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's discus throw event at the 2010 Asian Games was held at the Aoti Main Stadium, Guangzhou, China on 24 November.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record	Jürgen Schult (GDR)	74.08	Neubrandenburg, East Germany	6 June 1986
Asian Record	Ehsan Haddadi (IRI)	69.32	Tallinn, Estonia	3 June 2008
Games Record	Li Shaojie (CHN)	64.58	Bangkok, Thailand	17 December 1998

Results

Legend

• X — Failure

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Result	Notes
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Ehsan Haddadi (IRI)	63.50	65.07	65.23	62.21	67.99	X	67.99	GR
	Mohammad Samimi (IRI)	63.46	63.08	61.50	X	62.06	X	63.46
	Vikas Gowda (IND)	62.27	63.13	62.33	62.97	62.72	62.43	63.13
4	Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari (QAT)	X	60.98	X	X	X	59.46	60.98
5	Shigeo Hatakeyama (JPN)	53.44	53.07	55.87	55.47	X	56.89	56.89
6	Haidar Nasir (IRQ)	50.99	54.87	X	54.59	55.44	X	55.44
7	Choi Jong-bum (KOR)	52.51	54.58	X	54.73	54.00	52.83	54.73
8	Eisa Al-Zinkawi (IOC)	54.19	X	53.16				54.19
9	Wang Yao-hui (TPE)	X	53.97	X				53.97
10	Kvanchai Numsomboon (THA)	49.85	50.77	51.31				51.31
DQ	Ahmed Dheeb (QAT)	64.56	63.58	63.29	X	60.16	63.61	64.56

• Ahmed Dheeb of Qatar originally won the silver medal, but was later disqualified after he tested positive for Testosterone.^[1]

References

• Results