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2001 World Championships In Athletics – Men's Discus Throw
These are the official results of the Men's Discus Throw event at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. There were a total number of 26 participating athletes, with the final held on Wednesday 8 August 2001. The qualification mark was set at 65.50 metres. Medalists Schedule *''All times are Mountain Standard Time The Mountain Time Zone of North America keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when standard time ( UTC−07:00) is in effect, and by subtracting six hours during daylight saving time ( UTC−06:00). The clo ... ( UTC-7)'' Abbreviations *''All results shown are in metres'' Records Startlist Qualification Group A Group B Final See also * 2002 European Championships References Results {{DEFAULTSORT:2001 World Championships In Athletics - Men's Discus Throw D Discus throw at the World Athletics Championships ... [...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] |
Spain
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Jo Van Daele
Jo Van Daele (born 6 April 1972) is a male discus thrower from Belgium. His personal best throw is 64.24 metres, achieved in May 2001 in Halle. He finished tenth at the 2002 European Championships. He also competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the World Championships in 1997, 2001, 2003 and 2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ... without qualifying for the final round. Achievements References * 1972 births Living people Belgian male discus throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Belgium {{Belgium-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Weir (athlete)
Robert 'Bob' Boyd Weir (born 4 February 1961 in Birmingham) is a male retired English athlete, best known as a discus thrower, who was a twelve-time national champion. Weir also achieved success in hammer throw, winning Commonwealth Games gold in 1982, and competed in strongman competitions. His daughter, Jillian Weir, representing Canada, won bronze in the women's hammer at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, emulating her father's achievement 20 years before. Education Weir attended Handsworth Grammar School in Birmingham. Weir studied at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas attaining a degree in Business Studies in 1983. Athletics career His personal best throw was 65.08 metres, achieved in August 2000 in Bedford. This places him fifth among English discus throwers, behind Perriss Wilkins, Richard Slaney, Glen Smith and Carl Myerscough. Weir represented Great Britain in the 1984 Summer Olympics. He represented England in the discus event and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcelo Pugliese
Marcelo Adrián Pugliese (born 2 September 1968 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine discus thrower. His personal best throw is 64.23 metres, achieved in April 2002 in Mar del Plata. He became South American champion in 1999, 2001 and 2003. He also competed at the Olympic Games in 1996, 2000 and 2004 as well as the World Championships in 1997 and 2001 without qualifying for the final round. In March 2007 Pugliese was found guilty of stanozolol doping. The sample was delivered on 27 May 2006 in an in-competition test. He received a suspension from July 2006 to July 2008. Achievements See also *List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences The following is an incomplete list of sportspeople who have been involved in doping offences. It contains those who have been found to have, or have admitted to having, taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs, prohibited recreational drugs or ... References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pugliese, Marcelo 1968 birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Godina
John Carl Godina (born May 31, 1972) is an American shot putter, whose record includes three World Championship wins and two Olympic medals. He also competes in discus. Godina was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. High school years While attending Cheyenne Central High School in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Godina was a letterman in football and outdoor track and field. He was an All-State honoree, and an All-American in both sports. College years and Olympic Games At college level, competing for UCLA, he won three outdoor NCAA championship victories, two in discus and one in shot put. His 1995 NCAA Outdoor shot put title was a national record with a throw of 22.00 meters (72'2.25"). In 1995, he won his first World Championship title in shot put, adding additional titles in 1997, and 2001. In the same discipline, he finished second in the 1996 Olympics and third in the 2000 Olympics. He also qualified to those same Olympics in the Discus, the first American to qualify in both since ... [...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] |
Jason Tunks
Jason Tunks (born May 7, 1975 in London, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian former discus thrower who represented Canada in the Olympics three times. He is the holder of Canadian National Record at . Tunks was inducted into the London (Ontario) Sports Hall of Fame in 2012, the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 2014, and the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2017. Personal Bests * Discus throw - 67.88m (222-8) - ACU, Abilene, Texas, May 14, 1998 - National Record * Shot put - Outdoor: 19.06m (62' 6½'') - Austin, Texas, April 5, 1997 Indoor: 18.97m (62' 3'') - Blacksburg, Virginia, February 23, 2001 Major events Olympics Atlanta 1996 - 33rd - 55.84 m (183.20 ft) Sydney 2000 - 6th - 65.80 m (215.88 ft) Athens 2004 - 15th - 61.21 m (200.82 ft) IAAF World Championships in Athletics 1997 World Championships in Athletics at Athens - 9th - 62.30 m (204.40 ft) 1999 World Championships in Athletics at Seville - 20th - 60.20 m (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Bloom (athlete)
Andrew Bloom (born August 11, 1973) is an American former Olympic shot putter, two-time national indoor shot put champion, Athletics at the 1999 Summer Universiade, World University Games shot put champion, and NCAA champion in both discus and shot put. Early and personal life Bloom is Jewish, and was born in Stamford, Connecticut, Stamford, Connecticut. He later lived in Niskayuna, New York, where he attended Niskayuna High School, graduating in 1991. While there, he set a New York State high school discus throw record in 1991, with a distance of 202 feet, 9 inches. He earned a master's degree in mathematics education from Wake Forest University in 1998. He is married, and lives in Vacaville, California. He currently teaches mathematics at Ohlone College in Fremont, CA. Shot put and discus career Bloom attended Wake Forest University as an undergraduate, graduating in 1996. At Wake Forest, he earned All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors each year. As a senior, he won both th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romas Ubartas
Romas Ubartas (born 26 May 1960 in Panevėžys) is a retired male discus thrower from Lithuania who won a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics for the USSR and a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics for Lithuania, the nation's first gold. , - His personal best was 70.06m. He also became European champion, in 1986. When Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union, he trained at Dynamo in Vilnius. In 1993, after finishing fourth at the World Track and Field Championships last month in Germany, Ubartas failed a doping test and was disqualified for four years. Achievements See also *List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences The following is an incomplete list of sportspeople who have been involved in doping offences. It contains those who have been found to have, or have admitted to having, taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs, prohibited recreational drugs or ... References External links * * 1960 births Living people Soviet male discus throwers L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Einar Kristian Tveitå
Einar Kristian Tveitå (born 22 February 1973) is a retired Norwegian discus thrower. Biography He finished twelfth in the discus final at the 2001 World Championships with a throw of 59.11 metres. He competed at the 1992 World Junior Championships and the 2002 European Championships without reaching the final, and also participated at the European Cup in 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2002. He became Norwegian champion in discus throw in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, representing the club IL i BUL. His personal best throw was 63.64 metres, achieved in September 1999 in Hafnarfjörður. In February 2010 he took the PhD degree at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, with the thesis ''Adhesive Capsulitis, Hydrodilatation and Some Aspects of Validity Regarding Shoulder Assessments''. The thesis was about the treatment of adhesive capsulitis of shoulder Adhesive capsulitis, also known as frozen shoulder, is a condition associated with shoulder pain and stiffness. It is a common shou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frantz Kruger
Frantz Kruger (born 22 May 1975 in Kempton Park, South Africa) is a South African born Finnish discus thrower who won the Olympic bronze medal in 2000. He is also a double African champion. His personal best throw of 70.32 metres, achieved in May 2002 in Salon-de-Provence, is the current African record. He was married to Finnish former triple jumper Heli Koivula Kruger (divorced 2016), and received Finnish citizenship in 2007. Kruger has been available to represent Finland by a special permit from the government of IAAF since 20 August 2007. In international discus competition at Helsingborg Helsingborg (, , , ) is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Scania (Skåne), Sweden. It is the second-largest city in Scania (after Malmö) and ninth-largest in Sweden, with a population of 113,816 (2020). Helsingborg is the cent ..., he set a new Finnish discus record, 69.97 metres. Competition record See also * List of eligibility transfers in athletics Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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