Beijing Olympics 2008 Discus throw Men Field Events Athletics

Gold	Gerd Kanter Estonia (EST)
Silver	Piotr Małachowski Poland (POL)
Bronze	Virgilijus Alekna Lithuania (LTU)

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World Record	Jürgen Schult (GDR)	74.08 m	Neubrandenburg, Germany	6 June 1986
Olympic Record	Virgilijus Alekna (LTU)	69.89 m	Athens, Greece	23 August 2004

Group	Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
A	1	Piotr Małachowski	Poland	65.94	Q
A	2	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	65.84	Q
B	3	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	65.65	Q
B	4	Yennifer Frank Casañas	Spain	64.99	Q
B	5	Gerd Kanter	Estonia	64.66	Q
A	6	Bogdan Pishchalnikov	Russia	64.60	Q
A	7	Mario Pestano	Spain	64.42	q
A	8	Robert Harting	Germany	64.19	q
B	9	Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari	Qatar	63.83	q
A	10	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia	63.10	q
A	11	Róbert Fazekas	Hungary	62.64	q
B	12	Frantz Kruger	Finland	62.48	q
A	13	Gabor Mate	Hungary	62.44
B	14	Märt Israel	Estonia	61.98
A	15	Dzmitry Sivakou	Belarus	61.75
A	16	Michael Robertson	United States	61.64
B	17	Ehsan Hadadi	Iran	61.34
B	18	Gerhard Mayer	Austria	61.32
A	19	Casey Malone	United States	61.26
B	20	Ercüment Olgundeniz	Turkey	60.83
B	21	Zoltán Kövágó	Hungary	60.79
B	22	Vikas Gowda	India	60.69
A	23	Omar Ahmed El Ghazaly	Egypt	60.24
A	24	Oleksiy Semenov	Ukraine	60.18
B	25	Ian Waltz	United States	60.02
A	26	Abbas Samimi	Iran	59.92
A	27	Jorge Fernández	Cuba	59.60
A	28	Jan Marcell	Czech Republic	59.52
B	29	Jorge Balliengo	Argentina	58.82
A	30	Ben Harradine	Australia	58.55
B	31	Niklas Arrhenius	Sweden	58.22
B	32	Hannes Kirchler	Italy	56.44
A	33	Sultan Mubarak Al-Dawoodi	Saudi Arabia	56.29
A	34	Vadim Hranovschi	Moldova	56.19
B	35	Haidar Nasser Shaheed	Iraq	54.19
B	36	Eric Matthias	British Virgin Islands	53.11

AR Area record \| CR championship record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB/PR personal best/record \| SB seasonal best \| WL world leading (in a given season) \| WR world record
DNF = did not finish \| DNS = did not start \| DQ = disqualification \| NM = no mark (i.e. no valid result) \| Q = qualification by place in heat \| q = qualification by overall place

Position	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Remarks
1	Gerd Kanter	Estonia	63.44	66.38	62.75	68.82	x	65.98	68.82
2	Piotr Małachowski	Poland	66.45	67.82	66.98	63.91	65.78	x	67.82
3	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	x	65.77	64.42	67.79	x	67.18	67.79
4	Robert Harting	Germany	65.58	64.84	67.09	x		66.51	67.09
5	Yennifer Frank Casañas	Spain	59.54	62.16	64.46	64.11	64.97	66.49	66.49
6	Bogdan Pishchalnikov	Russia	64.09	64.25	61.13	65.88	x	x	65.88	PB
7	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	64.61	65.31	64.36	64.25	x	65.39	65.39
8	Róbert Fazekas	Hungary	62.25	63.43	62.49	x	x	59.34	63.43
9	Mario Pestano	Spain	60.46	62.84	63.42				63.42
10	Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari	Qatar	59.62	x	62.55				62.55
11	Frantz Kruger	Finland	61.98	61.80	60.71				61.98
12	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia	x	61.32	61.38				61.38