Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's discus throw

Men's discus throw at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	August 2 (qualifying and final)
Medalists
Adolfo Consolini Italy   Giuseppe Tosi Italy   Fortune Gordien United States

Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
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
10 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 event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on August 2. The final was won by Italian Adolfo Consolini.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Bob Fitch (USA)	54.93 m	Minneapolis, United States	8 June 1946
Olympic record	Ken Carpenter (USA)	50.48 m	Berlin, Germany	5 August 1936

The following new Olympic record was set during this competition:

Date	Event	Athlete	Height	Notes
2 August	Final	Adolfo Consolini (ITA)	52.78 m	OR

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Date	Time	Round
Monday, 2 August 1948	11:00	Qualifications
Monday, 2 August 1948	15:30	Finals

Results

Qualifying Round

Qual. rule: qualification standard 46.00m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	51.08	Q OR
2	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	50.56	Q
3	Fortune Gordien	United States	48.40	Q
4	Veikko Nyqvist	Finland	47.75	Q
5	Ivar Ramstad	Norway	47.34	Q
6	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece	47.03	Q
7	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	46.65	Q
8	Stein Johnson	Norway	46.54	Q
9	Uno Fransson	Sweden	45.99	q
10	Hermann Tunner	Austria	45.92	q
11	Eduardo Julve	Peru	45.86	q
12	Arvo Huutoniemi	Finland	44.77	q
13	Bill Burton	United States	43.78
14	Félix Erauzquin	Spain	43.66
15	Giorgio Oberweger	Italy	43.13
16	Danilo Žerjal	Yugoslavia	43.07
17	Manuel Consiglieri	Peru	43.01
18	Emilio Malchiodi	Argentina	42.98
19	James Nesbitt	Great Britain	42.09
20	Vic Frank	United States	42.00
21	Jack Brewer	Great Britain	41.95
22	Cummin Clancy	Ireland	40.73
23	Eric Coy	Canada	39.53
24	Roger Verhaes	Belgium	39.14
25	Laurence Reavell-Carter	Great Britain	38.04
26	Nazar Muhammad Khan Malik	Pakistan	36.23
27	Ahmed Zahur Khan	Pakistan	36.23
28	An Yeong-han	South Korea	NM

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	49.67	52.78	47.94	x	50.51	50.43	52.78	OR
	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	51.78	48.81	50.11	50.09	x	51.18	51.78
	Fortune Gordien	United States	47.95	49.20	50.77	x	48.74	x	50.77
4	Ivar Ramstad	Norway							49.21
5	Ferenc Klics	Hungary							48.21
6	Veikko Nyqvist	Finland							47.33
7	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece							47.25
8	Stein Johnson	Norway							46.54
9	Arvo Huutoniemi	Finland							45.28
10	Uno Fransson	Sweden							45.25
11	Hermann Tunner	Austria							44.43
12	Eduardo Julve	Peru							44.05

Key: OR = Olympic record

External links

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Men's discus throw, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-07-11.
• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 5 September 2016.