1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw

1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics
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
2000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Road events
20 km	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's discus throw event at the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, at Olympic Stadium on 16 and 17 July.^[1][2] A 2kg (senior implement) discus was used.

Medalists[]

Gold	Bulgaria
Silver	Werner Reiterer  Australia
Bronze	Vasiliy Kaptyukh  Soviet Union

Results[]

Final[]

17 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
		Bulgaria	60.60
	Werner Reiterer	Australia	58.64
	Vasiliy Kaptyukh	Soviet Union	58.22
4	Lars Riedel	East Germany	58.16
5	Attila Horváth	Hungary	58.04
6		Bulgaria	56.16
7	Adewale Olukoju	Nigeria	54.00
8		Czechoslovakia	53.82
9		Australia	53.70
10		Soviet Union	53.66
11	Zdenek Kohout	Czechoslovakia	53.12
12	David Martínez	Spain	52.32

Qualifications[]

16 Jul

Group A[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1		Soviet Union	59.00	Q
2	Lars Riedel	East Germany	52.92	Q
3	Adewale Olukoju	Nigeria	52.90	Q
4	Zdenek Kohout	Czechoslovakia	51.46	Q
5		Bulgaria	51.44	Q
6		Australia	51.36	Q
7	David Martínez	Spain	49.68	q
8		Cuba	47.68
9	Simon Williams	United Kingdom	46.95
10		Norway	46.76
11		United States	46.02
12		Israel	45.42
13	Ramón Jiménez Gaona	Paraguay	43.42
14		Canada	40.72
15		Egypt	31.70
		British Virgin Islands	NM
	Khalid Al-Khalidi	Saudi Arabia	NM

Group B[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Attila Horváth	Hungary	57.18	Q
2	Vasiliy Kaptyukh	Soviet Union	54.02	Q
3	Werner Reiterer	Australia	52.22	Q
4		Bulgaria	52.20	Q
5		Czechoslovakia	51.10	Q
6		East Germany	49.66
7		United States	48.82
8	Alexis Elizalde	Cuba	47.78
9		West Germany	47.14
10		Norway	45.48
11		Zimbabwe	43.12
12		Argentina	42.78
13		Barbados	40.98
14		Kuwait	39.04
15		Canada	38.12
16		Cyprus	37.78
17		El Salvador	37.14
18		Singapore	35.42

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 35 athletes from 26 countries participated in the event.

References[]