Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's discus throw

Men's discus throw at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 6 (qualifying round) September 7 (final round)
Medalists
Al Oerter United States   Rink Babka United States   Dick Cochran United States

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
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
Decathlon		men

The men's discus throw throwing event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 6 & September 7.

Results

All throwers reaching 52.00 metres advanced to the finals. All distances are listen in metres.

Qualifying

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	Notes
1	Al Oerter	United States	58.43	OR
2	József Szécsényi	Hungary	55.52
3	Pentti Repo	Finland	54.84
4	Rink Babka	United States	54.48
5	Edmund Piątkowski	Poland	54.41
6	Vladimir Trusenyov	Soviet Union	54.31
7	Dick Cochran	United States	53.79
8	Cees Koch	Netherlands	53.48
9	Zdeněk Čihák	Czechoslovakia	53.42
10	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	53.34
11	Todor Artarski	Bulgaria	53.33
12	Kim Bukhantsov	Soviet Union	53.08
13	Lothar Milde	United Team of Germany	53.04
14	Zenon Begier	Poland	53.03
15	Carmelo Rado	Italy	52.98
16	Stein Haugen	Norway	52.75
17	Zdeněk Němec	Czechoslovakia	52.68
18	Viktor Kompaneyets	Soviet Union	52.66
19	Antonios Kounadis	Greece	52.49
20	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	52.38
21	Manfred Grieser	United Team of Germany	52.20
22	Warwick Selvey	Australia	52.07
23	Fanie du Plessis	South Africa	51.86
24	Östen Edlund	Sweden	51.76
25	Carol Lindroos	Finland	51.07
26	Pierre Alard	France	51.02
27	Erik Uddebom	Sweden	50.87
28	Les Mills	New Zealand	50.76
29	Franco Grossi	Italy	50.43
30	Fritz Kühl	United Team of Germany	50.40
31	Mike Lindsay	Great Britain	50.15
32	Mesulame Rakuro	Fiji	47.18
33	Haider Khan	Pakistan	46.57
34	Nayef Mohamed Hameed	Iraq	39.37
-	Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo	Spain		NM

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3	4	5	6	Notes
01 !	Al Oerter	United States	59.18	57.64	56.73	56.53	56.73	59.18 OR	57.19	OR
02 !	Rink Babka	United States	58.02	58.02	58.02	56.14	54.93	57.52	57.41
03 !	Dick Cochran	United States	57.16	foul	54.75	48.71	54.51	57.16	54.49
4	József Szécsényi	Hungary	55.79	54.58	foul	54.86	55.22	55.79	55.61
5	Edmund Piątkowski	Poland	55.12	54.06	51.52	54.29	foul	55.12	foul
6	Viktor Kompaneyets	Soviet Union	55.06	55.06	53.38	foul	53.52	foul	51.08
7	Carmelo Rado	Italy	54.00	51.10	52.65	54.00
8	Kim Bukhantsov	Soviet Union	53.61	52.42	52.59	53.61
9	Pentti Repo	Finland	53.44	53.44	52.81	51.08
10	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	53.37	50.10	51.61	53.37
11	Stein Haugen	Norway	53.36	foul	foul	53.36
12	Lothar Milde	United Team of Germany	53.33	52.22	51.26	53.33
13	Zdeněk Čihák	Czechoslovakia	53.29	52.75	53.29	51.51
14	Zenon Begier	Poland	53.18	51.67	50.93	53.18
15	Vladimir Trusenyov	Soviet Union	52.93	52.16	51.98	52.93
16	Manfred Grieser	United Team of Germany	52.69	52.17	52.11	52.69
17	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	52.44	50.84	52.44	51.08
18	Antonios Kounadis	Greece	52.42	52.42	foul	50.56
19	Zdeněk Němec	Czechoslovakia	52.14	52.05	49.44	52.14
20	Todor Artarski	Bulgaria	52.12	49.14	52.12	foul
21	Warwick Selvey	Australia	49.34	foul	49.34	foul
22	Cees Koch	Netherlands	49.21	foul	49.21	foul

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Men's discus throw, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-12.