1991 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw

Events at the 1991 World Championships
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
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
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
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

These are the official results of the Men's Discus Throw event at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. There were a total of 36 participating athletes, with the final held on Tuesday August 27, 1991.

Medalists

Gold	Lars Riedel Germany (GER)
Silver	Erik de Bruin Netherlands (NED)
Bronze	Attila Horváth Hungary (HUN)

Schedule

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
26.08.1991 – 11:40h	26.08.1991 – 11:40h
Final Round
27.08.1991 – 19:00h

Abbreviations

All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Qualification

Held on Monday 1991-08-26

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Lars Riedel (GER)	65.30 m
2.	Attila Horváth (HUN)	64.54 m
3.	Mike Buncic (USA)	63.12 m
4.	Sergey Lyakhov (URS)	63.02 m
5.	Vasiliy Kaptyukh (URS)	62.88 m
6.	Jürgen Schult (GER)	62.56 m
7.	Nikolay Kolev (BUL)	62.40 m
8.	Roberto Moya (CUB)	62.32 m
9.	David Martínez (ESP)	61.14 m
10.	Svein Inge Valvik (NOR)	60.86 m
11.	Simon Williams (GBR)	60.68 m
12.	Vesteinn Hafsteinsson (ISL)	60.12 m
13.	Marcel Tirle (ROM)	59.80 m
14.	Luciano Zerbini (ITA)	58.34 m
15.	Anthony Washington (USA)	58.02 m
16.	Ray Lazdins (CAN)	56.58 m
17.	Tuck Yim Wong (SIN)	44.26 m
—	Christian Erb (SUI)	DNS

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Wolfgang Schmidt (GER)	65.18 m
2.	Dmitriy Shevchenko (URS)	63.70 m
3.	Erik de Bruin (NED)	63.34 m
4.	Adewale Olukoju (NGR)	62.36 m
5.	Imrich Bugár (TCH)	61.90 m
6.	Werner Reiterer (AUS)	60.40 m
7.	Marco Martino (ITA)	60.34 m
8.	Georgi Georgiev (BUL)	60.08 m
9.	Ramón Jiménez Gaona (PAR)	60.02 m
10.	Costel Grasu (ROM)	60.00 m
11.	József Ficsór (HUN)	59.98 m
11.	Juan Martínez (CUB)	59.98 m
13.	Mike Gravelle (USA)	58.28 m
14.	Kamen Dimitrov (BUL)	57.72 m
15.	Igor Avrunin (ISR)	56.74 m
16.	Mickaël Conjungo (CAF)	53.02 m
17.	Herberth Rodríguez (ESA)	46.62 m
—	Stefan Fernholm (SWE)	DNS

Final

RANK	FINAL	DISTANCE
	Lars Riedel (GER)	66.20 m
	Erik de Bruin (NED)	65.82 m
	Attila Horváth (HUN)	65.32 m
4.	Wolfgang Schmidt (GER)	64.76 m
5.	Mike Buncic (USA)	64.20 m
6.	Jürgen Schult (GER)	63.12 m
7.	Dmitriy Shevchenko (URS)	62.90 m
8.	Roberto Moya (CUB)	61.44 m
9.	Sergey Lyakhov (URS)	61.00 m
10.	Nikolay Kolev (BUL)	60.44 m
11.	Adewale Olukoju (NGR)	59.44 m
—	Vasiliy Kaptyukh (URS)	DNS

References

Results

Discus throw at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics

Complete event overview

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