Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's discus throw

Men's discus throw; at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 6 (qualifying round); September 7 (final round)
Medalists

The men's discus throw throwing event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 6 & September 7.[1]

Results

All throwers reaching 52.00 metres advanced to the finals. All distances are listen in metres.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	Notes
1	Al Oerter	United States	58.43	OR
2	József Szécsényi	Hungary	55.52
3	Pentti Repo	Finland	54.84
4	Rink Babka	United States	54.48
5	Edmund Piątkowski	Poland	54.41
6	Vladimir Trusenyov	Soviet Union	54.31
7	Dick Cochran	United States	53.79
8	Cees Koch	Netherlands	53.48
9	Zdeněk Čihák	Czechoslovakia	53.42
10	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	53.34
11	Todor Artarski	Bulgaria	53.33
12	Kim Bukhantsov	Soviet Union	53.08
13	Lothar Milde	United Team of Germany	53.04
14	Zenon Begier	Poland	53.03
15	Carmelo Rado	Italy	52.98
16	Stein Haugen	Norway	52.75
17	Zdeněk Němec	Czechoslovakia	52.68
18	Viktor Kompaniyets	Soviet Union	52.66
19	Antonios Kounadis	Greece	52.49
20	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	52.38
21	Manfred Grieser	United Team of Germany	52.20
22	Warwick Selvey	Australia	52.07
23	Fanie du Plessis	South Africa	51.86
24	Östen Edlund	Sweden	51.76
25	Carol Lindroos	Finland	51.07
26	Pierre Alard	France	51.02
27	Erik Uddebom	Sweden	50.87
28	Les Mills	New Zealand	50.76
29	Franco Grossi	Italy	50.43
30	Fritz Kühl	United Team of Germany	50.40
31	Mike Lindsay	Great Britain	50.15
32	Mesulame Rakuro	Fiji	47.18
33	Haider Khan	Pakistan	46.57
34	Nayef Mohamed Hameed	Iraq	39.37
-	Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo	Spain		NM

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3	4	5	6	Notes
	Al Oerter	United States	59.18	57.64	56.73	56.53	56.73	59.18 OR	57.19	OR
	Rink Babka	United States	58.02	58.02	58.02	56.14	54.93	57.52	57.41
	Dick Cochran	United States	57.16	foul	54.75	48.71	54.51	57.16	54.49
4	József Szécsényi	Hungary	55.79	54.58	foul	54.86	55.22	55.79	55.61
5	Edmund Piątkowski	Poland	55.12	54.06	51.52	54.29	foul	55.12	foul
6	Viktor Kompaniyets	Soviet Union	55.06	55.06	53.38	foul	53.52	foul	51.08
7	Carmelo Rado	Italy	54.00	51.10	52.65	54.00
8	Kim Bukhantsov	Soviet Union	53.61	52.42	52.59	53.61
9	Pentti Repo	Finland	53.44	53.44	52.81	51.08
10	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	53.37	50.10	51.61	53.37
11	Stein Haugen	Norway	53.36	foul	foul	53.36
12	Lothar Milde	United Team of Germany	53.33	52.22	51.26	53.33
13	Zdeněk Čihák	Czechoslovakia	53.29	52.75	53.29	51.51
14	Zenon Begier	Poland	53.18	51.67	50.93	53.18
15	Vladimir Trusenyov	Soviet Union	52.93	52.16	51.98	52.93
16	Manfred Grieser	United Team of Germany	52.69	52.17	52.11	52.69
17	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	52.44	50.84	52.44	51.08
18	Antonios Kounadis	Greece	52.42	52.42	foul	50.56
19	Zdeněk Němec	Czechoslovakia	52.14	52.05	49.44	52.14
20	Todor Artarski	Bulgaria	52.12	49.14	52.12	foul
21	Warwick Selvey	Australia	49.34	foul	49.34	foul
22	Cees Koch	Netherlands	49.21	foul	49.21	foul

Key: OR = Olympic record

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Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
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
20 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