2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw

Events at the
2010 World Junior Championships
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1,500 m men women
3,000 m women
5,000 m men women
10,000 m men
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men women
3,000 m
steeplechase		 men women
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men women
10,000 m walk men women
Field events
Long jump men women
Triple jump men women
High jump men women
Pole vault men women
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men women
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men
 

The men's discus throw at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Moncton 2010 Stadium on 23 & 24 July.

Contents

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
Andrius Gudžius
 Lithuania		 Andrei Gag
 Romania		 Julian Wruck
 Australia

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

Name Nationality Time Location Date
World junior record Mykyta Nesterenko Ukraine 70.13 Halle (Saale) May 24, 2008

Results

Qualifications

Qualification standard 59.40m or at least best 12 qualified.

A group

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1 Julian Wruck  Australia 59.87 Q
2 Traves Smikle  Jamaica 59.59 Q
3 Lawrence Okoye  Great Britain 59.56 Q
4 Michael Salzer  Germany 58.57 q
5 Danijel Furtula  Montenegro 57.71 q
6 Andrei Gag  Romania 56.99 q

B group

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1 Andrius Gudžius  Lithuania 63.14 Q
2 Mykyta Nesterenko  Ukraine 60.90 Q
3 Chad Wright  Jamaica 59.55 Q
4 David Wrobel  Germany 58.48 q
5 Eduardo Albertazzi  Italy 58.36 q
6 Andrew Evans  United States 57.18 q

Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
Andrius Gudžius  Lithuania 63.78
Andrei Gag  Romania 61.85 PB
Julian Wruck  Australia 61.09
4 Mykyta Nesterenko  Ukraine 60.54
5 Chad Wright  Jamaica 60.33
6 Lawrence Okoye  Great Britain 59.77
7 Traves Smikle  Jamaica 59.59
8 Michael Salzer  Germany 59.51
9 David Wrobel  Germany 57.81
10 Andrew Evans  United States 56.91
11 Eduardo Albertazzi  Italy 56.08
12 Danijel Furtula  Montenegro 54.64

References