Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's discus throw

Men's discus throw; at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
	Pictogram for athletics
Venue	Stadium Australia
Date	24 September 2000 (qualifications); 25 September 2000 (finals)
Competitors	45 from 28 nations
Winning distance	69.30
Medalists

The Men's Discus Throw event at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Olympic Stadium on Sunday, 24 September and Monday, 25 September.[1]

Video on YouTube Official Video Highlights, winning throw @ 6:25

The qualifying athletes progressed through to the final where the qualifying distances are scrapped and they start afresh with up to six throws. The qualifying distance was 64.00 metres. For all qualifiers who did not achieve the standard, the remaining spaces in the final were filled by the longest throws until a total of 12 qualifiers.

Medalists

Gold	Virgilijus Alekna Lithuania
Silver	Lars Riedel Germany
Bronze	Frantz Kruger South Africa

Schedule

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
24.09.2000 – 10:00h	24.09.2000 – 12:10h
Final Round
25.09.2000 – 19:00h

Abbreviations

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics
World Record	Jürgen Schult (GDR)	74.08 m	6 June 1986	Neubrandenburg, East Germany
Olympic Record	Lars Riedel (GER)	69.40 m	31 July 1996	Atlanta, United States

Qualification

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Country	Attempts			Distance	Note
Rank	Overall	Athlete	Country	1	2	3	Distance	Note
1	1	Lars Riedel	Germany	68.15	—	—	68.15 m
2	2	Frantz Kruger	South Africa	67.54	—	—	67.54 m
3	4	Vasiliy Kaptyukh	Belarus	65.90	—	—	65.90 m	SB
4	5	Dmitriy Shevchenko	Russia	62.82	63.09	65.29	65.29 m
5	7	Vladimir Dubrovshchik	Belarus	64.03	—	—	64.03 m
6	8	Jürgen Schult	Germany	63.76	60.97	X	63.76 m
7	9	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia	63.52	61.84	60.90	63.52 m
8	13	Li Shaojie	China	62.29	X	59.71	62.29 m	SB
9	21	Magnús Aron Hallgrímsson	Iceland	60.95	58.79	60.03	60.95 m
10	24	Frank Casañas	Cuba	60.84	X	60.79	60.84 m
11	25	Libor Malina	Czech Republic	59.38	X	60.83	60.83 m
12	27	Romas Ubartas	Lithuania	60.43	60.50	X	60.50 m
13	28	Robert Weir	Great Britain	57.57	X	60.01	60.01 m
14	29	Olgierd Stański	Poland	59.31	58.06	X	59.31 m
15	31	Ian Winchester	New Zealand	58.61	58.64	X	58.64 m
16	33	Leonid Cherevko	Belarus	57.63	X	58.32	58.32 m
17	34	Dragan Mustapić	Croatia	53.76	58.10	X	58.10 m
18	35	Mickaël Conjungo	Central African Republic	X	57.85	55.60	57.85 m
19	37	Marcelo Pugliese	Argentina	X	53.49	56.30	56.30 m
20	40	John Menton	Ireland	X	54.21	50.95	54.21 m
21	41	Roman Poltoratskiy	Uzbekistan	45.40	X	47.83	47.83 m
—	—	Zoltán Kővágó	Hungary	X	X	X	NM
—	—	Chary Mamedov	Turkmenistan	X	X	X	NM

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Country	Attempts			Distance	Note
Rank	Overall	Athlete	Country	1	2	3	Distance	Note
1	3	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	67.10	—	—	67.10 m
2	6	Jason Tunks	Canada	64.40	—	—	64.40 m
3	10	Adam Setliff	United States	X	63.25	—	63.25 m
4	11	Anthony Washington	United States	62.82	X	X	62.82 m
5	12	Michael Möllenbeck	Germany	62.30	62.72	61.92	62.72 m
6	14	Diego Fortuna	Italy	60.12	X	62.24	62.24 m
7	15	Aleksandr Borichevskiy	Russia	59.78	61.98	61.89	61.98 m
8	16	Róbert Fazekas	Hungary	X	X	61.76	61.76 m
9	17	John Godina	United States	57.67	61.60	X	61.60 m
10	18	Frits Potgieter	South Africa	61.56	60.27	60.83	61.56 m
11	19	David Martínez	Spain	61.50	X	59.97	61.50 m
12	20	Alexis Elizalde	Cuba	57.75	61.13	59.96	61.13 m
13	22	Jo Van Daele	Belgium	60.89	60.93	X	60.93 m
14	23	Gábor Máté	Hungary	59.43	60.69	60.86	60.86 m
15	25	Vitaliy Sidorov	Russia	58.32	59.43	60.65	60.65 m
16	30	Vaclavas Kidykas	Lithuania	57.86	58.96	58.09	58.96 m
17	32	Kyrylo Chuprynin	Ukraine	X	58.38	57.32	58.38 m
18	36	Nick Sweeney	Ireland	56.73	56.24	57.37	57.37 m
19	38	Glen Smith	Great Britain	56.22	55.31	54.36	56.22 m
21	39	Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari	Qatar	X	54.47	53.42	54.47 m
—	—	Jason Gervais	Canada	X	X	X	NM
—	—	Costel Grasu	Romania	X	X	X	NM
—	—	Chima Ugwu	Nigeria	—	—	—	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
Rank	Athlete	1	2	3	4	5	6	Distance	Note
	Virgilijus Alekna (LTU)	58.55	67.54	68.73	66.64	69.30	64.78	69.30 m
	Lars Riedel (GER)	65.18	X	68.50	68.08	67.33	63.87	68.50 m
	Frantz Kruger (RSA)	67.89	X	68.19	68.06	X	62.72	68.19 m	AR
4	Vasiliy Kaptyukh (BLR)	58.93	64.50	67.59	64.42	65.07	66.70	67.59 m	PB
5	Adam Setliff (USA)	60.50	66.02	64.72	65.10	63.10	61.99	66.02 m
6	Jason Tunks (CAN)	59.59	64.58	65.35	X	65.80	64.38	65.80 m
7	Vladimir Dubrovshchik (BLR)	63.95	65.13	X	64.32	X	60.15	65.13 m
8	Jürgen Schult (GER)	X	60.83	63.34	64.41	62.63	61.96	64.41 m

9	Aleksander Tammert (EST)	55.84	59.26	63.25				63.25 m
10	Michael Möllenbeck (GER)	61.19	60.13	63.14				63.14 m
11	Dmitriy Shevchenko (RUS)	X	X	62.65				62.65 m
12	Anthony Washington (USA)	X	X	59.87				59.87 m

References

"Athletics at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Discus Throw". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2018.

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Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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Discus throw at the Olympic Games
Summary
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See also: 1912 Men's two handed discus throw