2013 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw

The men's discus throw at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 12–13 August.^[1]

Men's discus throw at the 2013 World Championships
Venue	Luzhniki Stadium
Dates	12 August (qualification) 13 August (final)
Competitors	30 from 25 nations
Winning distance	69.11 m (226 ft 8+3⁄4 in)
Medalists
Robert Harting  Germany (GER)   Piotr Małachowski  Poland (POL)   Gerd Kanter  Estonia (EST)
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Official Video

The three automatic qualifiers turned out to be the three players in this event. On the second throw of the competition Piotr Małachowski took the lead which lasted for about a minute before Gerd Kanter made his first attempt. It was Robert Harting's second attempt that took the lead he would not relinquish. In the fourth round he unleashed his winner at 69.11. Between World Championships and Olympics, he continued his streak of four straight golds. Małachowski's fifth round 68.36 continued his streak of three silvers behind Harting in the same championships. Kanter, Harting's predecessor in both titles, held on for bronze.

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:^[2]

World record	Jürgen Schult (GDR)	74.08	Neubrandenburg, East Germany	6 June 1986
Championship record	Virgilijus Alekna (LTU)	70.17	Helsinki, Finland	7 August 2005
World leading	Piotr Małachowski (POL)	71.84	Hengelo, Netherlands	8 June 2013
African record	Frantz Kruger (RSA)	70.32	Salon-de-Provence, France	26 May 2002
Asian record	Ehsan Hadadi (IRI)	69.32	Tallinn, Estonia	3 June 2008
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Ben Plucknett (USA)	72.34	Stockholm, Sweden	7 July 1981
South American record	Jorge Balliengo (ARG)	66.32	Rosario, Argentina	15 April 2006
European record	Jürgen Schult (GDR)	74.08	Neubrandenburg, East Germany	6 June 1986
Oceanian record	Benn Harradine (AUS)	68.20	Townsville, Australia	10 May 2013

Qualification standards

A result[3]	B result
66.00	64.00

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
12 August 2013	09:40	Qualification
13 August 2013	19:00	Final

All times are local times (UTC+4)

Results

KEY:

Q

Qualified

q

12 best performers

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Qualification

Qualification: 65.00 m (Q) and at least 12 best (q) advanced to the final.^[4]

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	No. 1	No. 2	No. 3	Mark	Notes
1	A	Robert Harting	Germany (GER)	66.62			66.62	Q
2	B	Piotr Małachowski	Poland (POL)	66.00			66.00	Q
3	A	Gerd Kanter	Estonia (EST)	65.54			65.54	Q
4	B	Jorge Fernández	Cuba (CUB)	64.86			64.86	q
5	A	Robert Urbanek	Poland (POL)	62.89	x	64.21	64.21	q
6	B	Martin Wierig	Germany (GER)	63.47	64.06		64.06	q
7	A	Vikas Gowda	India (IND)	63.64	62.59	62.67	63.64	q
8	B	Frank Casañas	Spain (ESP)	x	x	63.17	63.17	q
9	B	Victor Butenko	Russia (RUS)	x	63.07	x	63.07	q
10	A	Mario Pestano	Spain (ESP)	62.80	61.79	62.15	62.80	q
11	B	Julian Wruck	Australia (AUS)	60.36	60.84	62.48	62.48	q
12	A	Victor Hogan	South Africa (RSA)	x	62.45	61.59	62.45	q
13	A	Christoph Harting	Germany (GER)	62.17	62.28	60.36	62.28
14	B	Erik Cadée	Netherlands (NED)	61.75	62.14	x	62.14
15	B	Martin Marić	Croatia (CRO)	61.98	x	61.58	61.98
16	B	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania (LTU)	61.91	61.56	61.27	61.91
17	A	Ercüment Olgundeniz	Turkey (TUR)	59.55	60.81	x	60.81
18	B	Gerhard Mayer	Austria (AUT)	59.85	58.19	59.81	59.85
19	A	Apostolos Parellis	Cyprus (CYP)	59.84	56.95	59.08	59.84
20	A	Benn Harradine	Australia (AUS)	x	59.68	x	59.68
21	B	Musab Ibrahim Al-Momani	Jordan (JOR)	58.20	58.84	59.38	59.38
22	B	Ronald Julião	Brazil (BRA)	x	59.36	57.77	59.36
23	A	Brett Morse	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	x	59.23	58.60	59.23
24	A	Niklas Arrhenius	Sweden (SWE)	59.13	57.39	57.42	59.13
25	A	Lance Brooks	United States (USA)	59.08	x	57.94	59.08
26	A	Danijel Furtula	Montenegro (MNE)	x	58.28	58.26	58.28
27	B	Giovanni Faloci	Italy (ITA)	57.23	55.66	57.54	57.54
28	A	Mahmoud Samimi	Iran (IRI)	x	57.38	57.77	57.77
29	B	Alex Rose	Samoa (SAM)	54.62	56.19	54.31	56.19
30	B	Sultan Al-Dawoodi	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	55.94	54.08	x	55.94

Final

The final was started at 19:00.^[5]

Rank	Name	Nationality	No. 1	No. 2	No. 3	No. 4	No. 5	No. 6	Mark	Notes
	Robert Harting	Germany (GER)	62.16	68.13	x	69.11	-	69.08	69.11
	Piotr Małachowski	Poland (POL)	64.49	x	65.09	67.18	68.36	67.21	68.36
	Gerd Kanter	Estonia (EST)	64.90	65.19	x	x	x	x	65.19
4	Martin Wierig	Germany (GER)	x	63.72	x	65.02	x	63.42	65.02
5	Victor Hogan	South Africa (RSA)	64.35	62.84	60.98	61.69	x	63.44	64.35
6	Robert Urbanek	Poland (POL)	63.58	62.20	64.32	64.01	62.05	62.70	64.32
7	Vikas Gowda	India (IND)	63.41	x	62.20	64.03	63.67	63.64	64.03
8	Victor Butenko	Russia (RUS)	x	63.38	x	x	x	x	63.38
9	Frank Casañas	Spain (ESP)	62.40	62.89	61.26				62.89
10	Jorge Fernández	Cuba (CUB)	62.88	62.39	62.50				62.88
11	Julian Wruck	Australia (AUS)	60.91	61.80	62.40				62.40
12	Mario Pestano	Spain (ESP)	x	60.13	61.88				61.88