2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw

These are the official results of the Men's Discus Throw event at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, France. There were a total number of 27 participating athletes, with the final held on Tuesday 26 August 2003.

Medalists

Gold	Virgilijus Alekna Lithuania (LTU)
Silver	Róbert Fazekas Hungary (HUN)
Bronze	Vasiliy Kaptyukh Belarus (BLR)

Schedule

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
24.08.2003 – 09:45h	24.08.2003 – 11:35h
Final Round
26.08.2003 – 19:50h

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 Saturday 23 August 2003

RANK	FINAL	GROUP A
1.	Vasiliy Kaptyukh (BLR)	65.76 m
2.	Michael Möllenbeck (GER)	65.19 m
3.	Frantz Kruger (RSA)	65.04 m
4.	Róbert Fazekas (HUN)	64.44 m
5.	Dmitriy Shevchenko (RUS)	63.21 m
6.	Jason Tunks (CAN)	63.00 m
7.	Mario Pestano (ESP)	62.63 m
8.	Sergiu Ursu (ROU)	61.98 m
9.	Jo Van Daele (BEL)	61.64 m
10.	Casey Malone (USA)	61.50 m
11.	Nick Petrucci (USA)	59.58 m
12.	Lois Maikel Martínez (CUB)	57.87 m
13.	Gerd Kanter (EST)	56.63 m

RANK	FINAL	GROUP B
1.	Virgilijus Alekna (LTU)	68.29 m
2.	Lars Riedel (GER)	64.51 m
3.	Aleksander Tammert (EST)	63.53 m
4.	Carl Brown (USA)	63.01 m
5.	Leonid Cherevko (BLR)	62.46 m
6.	Rutger Smith (NED)	61.55 m
7.	Diego Fortuna (ITA)	61.46 m
8.	Libor Malina (CZE)	61.35 m
9.	Zoltán Kővágó (HUN)	61.31 m
10.	Aleksandr Borichevskiy (RUS)	60.21 m
11.	Frank Casañas (CUB)	59.99 m
12.	Chima Ugwu (NGR)	58.13 m
—	Yuriy Bilonoh (UKR)	NM
—	Gábor Máté (HUN)	NM

Final

Rank	Athlete	Throws						Result	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Virgilijus Alekna (LTU)	69.69	X	66.14	68.75	X	X	69.69 m	SB
	Róbert Fazekas (HUN)	66.86	69.01	X	64.94	65.63	68.78	69.01 m
	Vasiliy Kaptyukh (BLR)	66.51	66.15	62.79	63.71	64.72	62.62	66.51 m	SB
4	Lars Riedel (GER)	66.28	63.81	66.28	X	65.51	62.67	66.28 m
5	Michael Möllenbeck (GER)	62.27	66.11	65.49	66.23	X	X	66.23 m
6	Frantz Kruger (RSA)	65.26	61.28	65.16	60.83	X	X	65.26 m
7	Aleksander Tammert (EST)	61.15	63.02	X	64.50	60.88	61.86	64.50 m
8	Mario Pestano (ESP)	64.39	63.92	61.97	61.86	63.29	X	64.39 m
9	Carl Brown (USA)	58.11	61.23	62.66				62.66 m
10	Dmitriy Shevchenko (RUS)	62.24	62.28	61.21				62.28 m
11	Jason Tunks (CAN)	60.61	60.01	62.21				62.21 m
12	Leonid Cherevko (BLR)	58.67	X	61.90				61.90 m

See also

• 2002 European Championships
• 2003 Pan American Games

References

• Results (Archived 2009-05-14)