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

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
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3000 m
steeplechase
men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men
Road events
Marathon men
10 km walk men
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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

The Men's Discus Throw event at the 1952 Summer Olympics took place on 22 July at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.

Medalists

Gold Sim Iness (USA)
Silver Adolfo Consolini (ITA)
Bronze James Dillion (USA)

Records

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

Results

Qualifying round

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 46.00 advance to the Final.

Rank Group Athlete Nationality Result Notes
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 Sepp 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

Final

RankAthleteNationality123456ResultNotes
1st, gold medalist(s) Sim Iness United States 53.4754.6055.0353.4954.1352.8255.03OR
2nd, silver medalist(s) Adolfo Consolini Italy 51.6953.7853.4550.6350.0851.2053.78
3rd, bronze medalist(s) James Dillion United States 52.4748.0651.7653.28x52.2853.28
4Fortune Gordien United States 52.5252.6651.7151.48x49.9352.66
5Ferenc Klics Hungary 48.7449.0751.13x49.79x51.13
6Oto Grigalka Soviet Union 50.71x47.84xx x50.71
7Roland Nilsson Sweden x48.9050.06 50.06
8Giuseppe Tosi Italy 45.8549.0348.97 49.03
9Nikolaos Syllas Greece 48.9948.3647.17 48.99
10Boris Matveyev Soviet Union 47.2744.4748.70 48.70
11Boris Butenko Soviet Union x43.6648.15 48.15
12Veikko Nyqvist Finland 47.7245.9946.63 47.72
13Jørgen Munk Plum Denmark 38.7345.2047.26 47.26
14Roy Pella Canada x46.6345.47 46.63
15Konstantinos Giataganas Greece 42.4046.23x 46.23
16Per Stavem Norway 39.78x46.00 46.00
17Jean Maissant France 43.4042.1135.82 43.40

References


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