Athletics at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's discus throw

Men's discus throw at the 2010 Asian Games
Venue	Aoti Main Stadium
Date	November 24, 2010
Competitors	11 from 9 nations
Medalists
Ehsan Haddadi   Iran   Mohammad Samimi   Iran   Vikas Gowda   India

Athletics at the 2010 Asian Games
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m s'chase		men		women
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's discus throw event at the 2010 Asian Games was held at the Aoti Main Stadium, Guangzhou, China on 24 November.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Date	Time	Event
Wednesday, 24 November 2010	17:15	Final

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Asian records were as follows.

World Record	Jürgen Schult (GDR)	74.08	Neubrandenburg, East Germany	6 June 1986
Asian Record	Ehsan Haddadi (IRI)	69.32	Tallinn, Estonia	3 June 2008
Games Record	Li Shaojie (CHN)	64.58	Bangkok, Thailand	17 December 1998

Results

Legend

• X — Failure

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Result	Notes
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Ehsan Haddadi (IRI)	63.50	65.07	65.23	62.21	67.99	X	67.99	GR
	Mohammad Samimi (IRI)	63.46	63.08	61.50	X	62.06	X	63.46
	Vikas Gowda (IND)	62.27	63.13	62.33	62.97	62.72	62.43	63.13
4	Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari (QAT)	X	60.98	X	X	X	59.46	60.98
5	Shigeo Hatakeyama (JPN)	53.44	53.07	55.87	55.47	X	56.89	56.89
6	Haidar Nasir (IRQ)	50.99	54.87	X	54.59	55.44	X	55.44
7	Choi Jong-bum (KOR)	52.51	54.58	X	54.73	54.00	52.83	54.73
8	Eisa Al-Zinkawi (IOC)	54.19	X	53.16				54.19
9	Wang Yao-hui (TPE)	X	53.97	X				53.97
10	Kvanchai Numsomboon (THA)	49.85	50.77	51.31				51.31
DQ	Ahmed Dheeb (QAT)	64.56	63.58	63.29	X	60.16	63.61	64.56

• Ahmed Dheeb of Qatar originally won the silver medal, but was later disqualified after he tested positive for Testosterone.^[1]

References

1. "2 Asian Games athletes fail drug test". ESPN. 25 January 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2013.

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