Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's discus throw

Medalists

Standing records prior to the 1952 Summer Olympics
World Record	Fortune Gordien (USA)	56.97 m	August 14, 1949	Hämeenlinna, Finland
Olympic Record	Adolfo Consolini (ITA)	52.78 m	August 2, 1948	London, United Kingdom

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 46.00 advance to the Final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	Result
1	A	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	51.89
2	A	Fortune Gordien	United States	50.34
3	A	Oto Grigalka	Soviet Union	48.93
4	A	Sim Iness	United States	48.90
5	A	James Dillion	United States	47.92
6	B	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece	47.84
7	A	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	47.63
8	B	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	47.18
9	B	Per Stavem	Norway	46.74
10	B	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	46.59
11	B	Roy Pella	Canada	46.58
12	B	Jørgen Munk Plum	Denmark	46.58
13	B	Jean Maissant	France	46.47
14	A	Boris Butenko	Soviet Union	46.43
15	B	Veikko Nyqvist	Finland	46.41
16	B	Boris Matveyev	Soviet Union	46.31
17	B	Konstantinos Giataganas	Greece	46.05
18	B	Olli Partanen	Finland	45.24
19	B	Mark Pharaoh	Great Britain	45.19
20	A	Stein Johnson	Norway	45.12
21	B	Ian Reed	Australia	45.00
22	A	Friðrik Guðmundsson	Iceland	44.73
23	A	Oskar Häfliger	Switzerland	44.73
24	B	Þorsteinn Löve	Iceland	44.28
25	A	Lucien Guillier	France	43.88
26	A	Kristian Johansen	Norway	43.46
27	A	Josef Hipp	Germany	43.38
28	A	Hernán Haddad	Chile	42.89
29	A	Arvo Huutoniemi	Finland	42.79
30	A	Raymond Kintziger	Belgium	41.46
31	B	Nuri Turan	Turkey	41.45
32	A	Uri Gallin	Israel	40.76

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Sim Iness	United States	53.47	54.60	55.03	53.49	54.13	52.82	55.03	OR
	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	51.69	53.78	53.45	50.63	50.08	51.20	53.78
	James Dillion	United States	52.47	48.06	51.76	53.28	x	52.28	53.28
4	Fortune Gordien	United States	52.52	52.66	51.71	51.48	x	49.93	52.66
5	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	48.74	49.07	51.13	x	49.79	x	51.13
6	Oto Grigalka	Soviet Union	50.71	x	47.84	x	x	x	50.71

7	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	x	48.90	50.06				50.06
8	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	45.85	49.03	48.97				49.03
9	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece	48.99	48.36	47.17				48.99
10	Boris Matveyev	Soviet Union	47.27	44.47	48.70				48.70
11	Boris Butenko	Soviet Union	x	43.66	48.15				48.15
12	Veikko Nyqvist	Finland	47.72	45.99	46.63				47.72
13	Jørgen Munk Plum	Denmark	38.73	45.20	47.26				47.26
14	Roy Pella	Canada	x	46.63	45.47				46.63
15	Konstantinos Giataganas	Greece	42.40	46.23	x				46.23
16	Per Stavem	Norway	39.78	x	46.00				46.00
17	Jean Maissant	France	43.40	42.11	35.82				43.40

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Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
10 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

Discus throw at the Olympic Games
Summary
Men	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016
Women	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016
See also: 1912 Men's two handed discus throw