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2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's Discus Throw
The men's discus throw at the 2016 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic stadium for the finals and at the Museumplein The Museumplein (; ) is a public space in the Museumkwartier neighbourhood of the Amsterdam-Zuid borough in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Located at the Museumplein are three major museums – the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, and Stedelijk Museum â ... for qualifying on 7 and 9 July. Records Schedule Results Qualification Qualification: 64.00 m (Q) or best 12 performers (q) Final References External links amsterdam2016.org, official championship site {{DEFAULTSORT:2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discus Throw
The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiquity, ancient sport, as demonstrated by the fifth-century-BC Myron statue ''Discobolus''. Although not part of the current pentathlon, it was one of the events of the Ancient Olympic pentathlon, ancient Greek pentathlon, which can be dated back to at least 708 BC, and it is part of the modern decathlon. History The sport of throwing the discus traces back to it being an event in the Ancient Olympic Games, original Olympic Games of Ancient Greece. The discus as a sport was resurrected in Magdeburg, Germany, by gymnastics teacher Christian Georg Kohlrausch and his students in the 1870s. Organized men's competition was resumed in the late 19th century, and has been a part of the modern Summer Olympic Games since the first modern competition, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qualifying
Qualification is either the process of qualifying for an achievement, or a credential attesting to that achievement, and may refer to: * Professional qualification, attributes developed by obtaining academic degrees or through professional experience * Qualification badge, a decoration of People's Liberation Army Type 07 indicating military rank or length of service * Qualifications-Based Selection (QBS), a competitive contract procurement process established by the United States Congress * Qualifications for professional social work, professional degrees in social work in various nations * Qualification problem, the impossibility of listing all the preconditions required for an action to have its intended effect * Qualification principle, in programming language theory, the statement that syntactic classes may admit local definitions * Qualification types in the United Kingdom, different levels of academic, vocational or skills-related education achievements * International Quali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrius Gudžius
Andrius Gudžius (born 14 February 1991) is a Lithuanian discus thrower. Gudzius won the gold at the 2017 World Championships. He had his first national placing at the 2008 Lithuanian Athletics Championships, where he was third with 53.52 m. Two years later, the teenage Gudžius improved to second at the Lithuanian Championships with 60.98 m. He won the gold medal at the 2018 European Championships The 2018 European Championships were the first edition of the European Championships. It was a multi-sport event which took place in Berlin, Germany, and Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom (with Edinburgh hosting the diving events and Gleneagles .... Gudzius has a personal best of 69.59 m. International competitions References * 1991 births Living people Sportspeople from Kaunas Lithuanian male discus throwers Olympic athletes of Lithuania Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Lithuania World Ath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannes Kirchler
Hannes Kirchler (born 22 December 1978 in Merano) is an Italian discus thrower. Biography He is an eleven-time national champion in the discus throw, and a member of C.S. Carabinieri, an Italian military police sporting club. In 2007, Kirchler achieved his personal best throw of 65.01 metres at the Italian national championships in Bolzano. Kirchler competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and qualified for the men's discus throw. His biggest achievement was to reach the Final at the 2016 European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he threw 63.74m in the Qualifying and 60.18m in the Final. He finished tenth. Progression {, class="wikitable" width=45% style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;" !Year!!Performance!!Venue!!Date!!World Ranking , - , 2016 , 64.97 m , align="left" , Tarquinia. Italy , 15 June 2016 , 39° , - , 2015 , 62.56 m , align="left" , Castiglione della Pescaia. Italy , 1 June 2015 , 56° , - , 2014 , 63.33 m , align="left" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutger Smith
Rutger Smith (born 9 July 1981 in Groningen) is a retired Dutch track and field athlete who competed in the shot put and discus throw. He is the first athlete to win medals at the World Championships in both events. He represented the Netherlands at the Summer Olympics in 2004, 2008 and 2012. His personal best of 21.62 m for the shot put is the Dutch national record. In his first international competition, he won a shot put and discus double at the 1999 European Athletics Junior Championships. At the 2000 World Junior Championships he won medals in both events, and he also competed in both events at the 2004 Olympics. In 2005 he won silver medals in shot put at the European Indoor Championships and World Championships. Two years later he won the bronze medal in the discus at the 2007 World Championships and narrowly missed a shot put medal with a fourth-place finish. A series of back problems affected his throwing after he competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Kupper
Martin Kupper (born 31 May 1989, in Tallinn) is an Estonian track and field athlete who competes in the discus throw. He has a personal best of , set in 2015. He is a member of the Audentese SK sports club. He competed in the discus as a teenager and began to improve in 2010, setting a best of and coming seventh at the Nordic Under-23 Athletics Championships. He cleared the sixty-metre mark for the first time in 2011 with a new best of and made his debut at continental level at the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships (competing in the qualifiers only). He improved for a third successive season in 2012, having a best of at the Kohila leg of the series.Martin Kupper Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2015-08-03. He threw beyond sixty metres to finish eighth at the |
Robert Urbanek
Robert Urbanek (born 29 April 1987) is a Polish athlete specializing in the discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an ancient sport, as demonstrated by th .... His personal best in the event is 66.93 meters, achieved in 2012 in Halle. He competed for Poland at the 2012 Summer Olympics, failing to qualify for the final. His biggest achievement to date is the bronze medal at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing. Competition record Progression *2006 – 50.84 *2007 – 56.18 *2008 – 62.22 *2009 – 60.54 *2010 – 60.74 *2011 – 64.37 *2012 – 66.93 *2013 – 65.30 *2014 – 65.75 *2015 – 66.31 *2016 – 65.56 *2017 – 66.73 *2018 – 65.15 *2019 – 65.81 References External links * * Robert Urbanekat the ''Polski Związek Lekkiej Atletyki'' * * * 1987 births Living peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Milanov
Philip Milanov (born 6 July 1991) is a Belgian discus thrower. He is a five-time Belgian champion and the 2015 World University Games champion in men's discus throw. Biography Milanov was born in Bruges, Belgium on 6 July 1991. His father and coach, Emil Milanov, was himself a discus thrower in his native Bulgaria before moving to Belgium in 1989. Philip Milanov won the Belgian junior championship in 2010 with a throw of 54.28 m (1.75 kg), ranking him fourth on the Belgian all-time junior list. In 2011 he represented Belgium at the European Team Championships First League, placing ninth with 54.88 m; at that summer's Belgian championships he was second to Maarten Persoon of the Netherlands but the top Belgian, winning his first national senior title. He repeated as Belgian champion in 2012. Milanov broke 60 metres for the first time in 2013, setting a Belgian under-23 record of 61.81 m in Vilvoorde and placing fifth at the European U23 Championships in Tamp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Jasinski
Daniel Jasinski (born 5 August 1989 in Bochum) is a male discus thrower from Germany. He won the Olympic bronze medal in 2016. It was an unexpected first medal in a major championship. Career He competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without qualifying for the final. In addition, he finished seventh at the 2014 European Championships in Zürich. His father and coach Mirosław Jasiński, a former discus thrower himself, comes from Bydgoszcz, Poland. His father had previously coached Michael Möllenbeck and Oliver-Sven Buder to world championship medals. His personal best in the event is 67.16 metres set in Wiesbaden Wiesbaden () is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the state of Hesse. , it had 290,955 inhabitants, plus approximately 21,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the United States Army). The Wiesbaden urban area ... in 2016. Competition record See also * Germany at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Harting
Christoph Harting (born 10 April 1990) is a German athlete specialising in the discus throw. He won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He competed at the 2013 and 2015 World Championships, reaching the final on the second occasion. He is the younger brother of multiple-time world champion and fellow Olympic gold medalist Robert Harting Robert Harting (; born 18 October 1984) is a retired German discus thrower. He represents the sports club SCC Berlin, his coach is Torsten Schmidt. He is a former Olympic, World, and European champion in the men's discus throw. His younger bro .... International competitions References External links * * * * * * 1990 births Living people German male discus throwers Sportspeople from Cottbus World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Germany Olympic gold medalists for Germany Medalists at the 2016 Summer O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerd Kanter
Gerd Kanter (born 6 May 1979) is a retired Estonian discus thrower. He was the 2007 World Champion in the event and won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and bronze in London 2012. His personal best throw of 73.38 m is the Estonian record and the third best mark of all time. He made his first Olympic appearance in 2004 and established himself a year later by taking the silver medal at the 2005 World Championships. He was runner-up at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and won further medals at the World Championships in 2009 (bronze) and 2011 (silver). He won the 2012 and the 2013 IAAF Diamond League in discus throw. Career He competed at the 2004 Olympics, but did not reach the final. The season 2005 was his breakthrough year as he won silver medals at the World Championships and World Athletics Final, took home a victory in the European Cup and won the World University Games. He also threw more than 70 metres for the first time. On 4 September 2006 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoltán Kővágó
Zoltán Kővágó (born 10 April 1979 in Szolnok) is a Hungarian discus thrower. At the 2004 Olympic Games he initially won the bronze medal, but was promoted to silver when countryfellow Róbert Fazekas was disqualified following a doping rule violation. He himself was serving a competition ban for "evading doping testing". In August 2011 an Austrian doping controller searched for him in his former address. Kővágó already moved from there – he also officially reported his new address earlier – thus according to the controller's own admission he made an appointment with him on the phone and he stated Kővágó had not wanted to meet with him and had refused to give a sample. On the contrary Kővágó could be able to prove with the call registry that in said period the controller did not make any attempt to search for him. The standpoint of the Hungarian Anti-Doping Committee was that the athlete is innocent and the charge does not hold and together with the Hungarian O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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