1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw

Events at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
5000 m walk				women
10,000 m walk		men
Road events
20 km road run		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's discus throw event at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, at Laurentian University Stadium on 27 and 28 July.^[1][2] A 2kg (senior implement) discus was used.

Medalists

Gold	Andreas Seelig  East Germany
Silver	Kamy Keshmiri  United States
Bronze	Yuriy Nesteryets  Soviet Union

Results

Final

28 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts						Result	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Andreas Seelig	East Germany	54.06	56.96	56.90	57.90	58.60	56.20	58.60
	Kamy Keshmiri	United States	48.38	48.60	53.18	50.86	54.68	54.36	54.68
	Yuriy Nesteryets	Soviet Union	51.26	x	x	51.96	53.70	52.72	53.70
4	Vitaliy Sidorov	Soviet Union	53.00	x	x	x	x	52.08	53.00
5	Tapani Alentola	Finland	45.78	46.68	49.70	48.90	51.40	x	51.44
6	Pedro Acosta	Cuba	x	49.66	49.24	49.62	49.98	50.98	50.98
7	Jaroslav Žitnanský	Czechoslovakia	49.66	48.30	49.26	x	x	50.16	50.16
8	Ma Wei	China	x	50.16	x	x	x	x	50.16
9	Michael Möllenbeck	West Germany	44.74	x	49.30				49.30
10	Dariusz Kosinski	Poland	48.74	x	x				48.74
11	Joachim Tidow	West Germany	47.92	x	46.22				47.92
12	Ramón Jiménez Gaona	Paraguay	44.26	x	45.46				45.46

Qualifications

27 Jul

Group A

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts			Result	Notes
			1	2	3
1	Andreas Seelig	East Germany	55.94	-	-	55.94	Q
2	Vitaliy Sidorov	Soviet Union	49.32	52.88	-	52.88	Q
3	Yuriy Nesteryets	Soviet Union	50.82	52.80	-	52.80	Q
4	Michael Möllenbeck	West Germany	52.68	-	-	52.68	Q
5	Pedro Acosta	Cuba	x	52.44	-	52.44	Q
6	Kamy Keshmiri	United States	48.50	45.78	51.28	51.28	Q
7	Tapani Alentola	Finland	50.60	x	47.38	50.60	q
8	Jaroslav Žitnanský	Czechoslovakia	47.68	50.18	x	50.18	q
9	Dariusz Kosinski	Poland	49.88	x	x	49.88	q
10	Joachim Tidow	West Germany	49.56	47.98	x	49.56	q
11	Ramón Jiménez Gaona	Paraguay	49.30	48.88	47.92	49.30	q
12	Ma Wei	China	47.36	48.78	48.84	48.84	q
13	Jean Pons	France	45.02	48.48	48.38	48.48
14	John Nichols	United States	44.90	48.14	x	48.14
15	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	44.84	46.58	48.12	48.12
16	Janne Sandvik	Finland	46.88	x	47.80	47.80
17	Hussein Ali Al-Sayed	Kuwait	32.96	x	32.82	32.96
18	Lee Andrews	Canada	x	x	x	NM

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

•  Canada (1)
•  China (1)
•  Cuba (1)
•  Czechoslovakia (1)
•  East Germany (1)
•  Finland (2)
•  France (1)
•  Italy (1)
•  Kuwait (1)
•  Paraguay (1)
•  Poland (1)
•  Soviet Union (2)
•  United States (2)
•  West Germany (2)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1988 Sudbury CAN Jul 27-31, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 7 Apr 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015