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World Rankings — Men’s Discus

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1947 1949 1...... (US) 1...... Fortune Gordien (US) 2...... (US) 2...... () 3...... Adolfo Consolini (Italy) 3...... (US) 4...... (Italy) 4...... Giuseppe Tosi (Italy) 5...... Heino Lipp () 5...... (US) 6...... Veikko Nyqvist () 6...... Byrl Thompson (US) 7...... Ivar Ramstad () 7...... Ferenc Klics () 8...... Arvo Huutoniemi (Finland) 8...... John Donaldson (US) 9...... Max Dodge (US) 9...... Ivar Ramstad (Norway) 10...... Ferenc Klics (Hungary) 10...... (US) 1948 1950 1...... Adolfo Consolini (Italy) 1...... Adolfo Consolini (Italy) 2...... Giuseppe Tosi (Italy) 2...... Giuseppe Tosi (Italy) 3...... Fortune Gordien (US) 3...... Fortune Gordien (US) 4...... Ivar Ramstad (Norway) 4...... Jim Fuchs (US) 5...... Heino Lipp (Soviet Union) 5...... Dick Doyle (US) 6...... Vic Frank (US) 6...... Vic Frank (US) 7...... Byrl Thompson (US) 7...... Taylor Lewis (US) 8...... Ferenc Klics (Hungary) 8...... Byrl Thompson (US) 9...... William Burton (US) 9...... (US) 10...... George Kadera (US) 10...... Ferenc Klics (Hungary)

© Track & Field News 2020 — 1 — World Rankings — Men’s Discus 1951 1955 1...... Adolfo Consolini (Italy) 1...... Adolfo Consolini (Italy) 2...... Giuseppe Tosi (Italy) 2...... Merta (Czechoslovakia) 3...... Dick Doyle (US) 3...... Fortune Gordien (US) 4...... Vic Frank (US) 4...... Sim Iness (US) 5...... Ferenc Klics (Hungary) 5...... Otto Grigalka (Soviet Union) 6...... Jim Dillion (US) 6...... Parry O’Brien (US) 7...... (US) 7...... József Szécsényi (Hungary) 8...... Jim Fuchs (US) 8...... Boris Matveyev (Soviet Union) 9...... Taylor Lewis (US) 9...... Des Koch (US) 10...... Cliff Anderson (US) 10...... Zdeněk Čihák (Czechoslovakia) 1952 1956 1...... Sim Iness (US) 1...... (US) 2...... Adolfo Consolini (Italy) 2...... Fortune Gordien (US) 3...... Jim Dillion (US) 3...... Adolfo Consolini (Italy) 4...... Fortune Gordien (US) 4...... Ron Drummond (US) 5...... Ferenc Klics (Hungary) 5...... Parry O’Brien (US) 6...... Dick Doyle (US) 6...... Des Koch (US) 7...... Parry O’Brien (US) 7...... Karel Merta (Czechoslovakia) 8...... Roland Nilsson () 8...... Otto Grigalka (Soviet Union) 9...... Otto Grigalka (Soviet Union) 9...... Mark Pharaoh () 10...... Boris Matveyev (Soviet Union) 10...... Ferenc Klics (Hungary) 1953 1957 1...... Fortune Gordien (US) 1...... Parry O’Brien (US) 2...... Sim Iness (US) 2...... (US) 3...... Adolfo Consolini (Italy) 3...... Jack Ellis (US) 4...... Ferenc Klics (Hungary) 4...... Al Oerter (US) 5...... Jack Ellis (US) 5...... Karel Merta (Czechoslovakia) 6...... Parry O’Brien (US) 6...... Edmund Piątkowski (Poland) 7...... Roland Nilsson (Sweden) 7...... Fortune Gordien (US) 8...... Giuseppe Tosi (Italy) 8...... József Szécsényi (Hungary) 9...... Vitomir Krivokapić (Yugoslavia) 9...... Adolfo Consolini (Italy) 10...... Otto Grigalka (Soviet Union) 10...... Otto Grigalka (Soviet Union) 1954 1958 1...... Fortune Gordien (US) 1...... Rink Babka (US) 2...... Adolfo Consolini (Italy) 2...... Al Oerter (US) 3...... Parry O’Brien (US) 3...... Edmund Piątkowski (Poland) 4...... Ferenc Klics (Hungary) 4...... József Szécsényi (Hungary) 5...... Jim Dillion (US) 5...... Jack Ellis (US) 6...... Des Koch (US) 6...... Vladimir Trusenyov (Soviet Union) 7...... József Szécsényi (Hungary) 7....Algimantas Baltusnikas (Soviet Union) 8...... Giuseppe Tosi (Italy) 8...... Adolfo Consolini (Italy) 9...... Roland Nilsson (Sweden) 9....Stephanus du Plessis () 10...... Leon Patterson (US) 10...... (US)

© Track & Field News 2020 — 2 — World Rankings — Men’s Discus 1959 1963 1...... Edmund Piątkowski (Poland) 1...... Al Oerter (US) 2...... József Szécsényi (Hungary) 2...... Jay Silvester (US) 3...... Al Oerter (US) 3...... Ludvík Daněk (Czechoslovakia) 4...... Rink Babka (US) 4...... Rink Babka (US) 5...... Antónios Kounádis () 5...... (US) 6...... Vladimir Lyakhov (Soviet Union) 6...... Edmund Piątkowski (Poland) 7...... Parry O’Brien (US) 7...... Milde (East ) 8...... (US) 8...... (US) 9....Stephanus du Plessis (South Africa) 9...... Jens Reimers (West Germany) 10...... Otto Grigalka (Soviet Union) 10...... Jiří Žemba (Czechoslovakia) 1960 1964 1...... Al Oerter (US) 1...... Al Oerter (US) 2...... Rink Babka (US) 2...... Ludvík Daněk (Czechoslovakia) 3...... József Szécsényi (Hungary) 3...... Dave Weill (US) 4...... Dick Cochran (US) 4...... Jay Silvester (US) 5...... Jay Silvester (US) 5...... Rink Babka (US) 6...... Edmund Piątkowski (Poland) 6...... Edmund Piątkowski (Poland) 7...... Bob Humphreys (US) 7...... Zenon Begier (Poland) 8...... Jack Ellis (US) 8...... Jiří Žemba (Czechoslovakia) 9... Viktor Kompanyeyets (Soviet Union) 9...... József Szécsényi (Hungary) 10...... Kim Bukhantsev (Soviet Union) 10...... Glenn Passey (US) 1961 1965 1...... Edmund Piątkowski (Poland) 1...... Ludvík Daněk (Czechoslovakia) 2...... Jay Silvester (US) 2...... Jay Silvester (US) 3...... Rink Babka (US) 3...... Zenon Begier (Poland) 4...... József Szécsényi (Hungary) 4...... Dave Weill (US) 5...... Al Oerter (US) 5...... (US) 6...... Kim Bukhantsev (Soviet Union) 6...... Edmund Piątkowski (Poland) 7...... Bob Humphreys (US) 7...... Rink Babka (US) 8...... Elfranco Malan (South Africa) 8...... (Sweden) 9...... Parry O’Brien (US) 9...... Bob Humphreys (US) 10... Algimantas Baltusnikas (Soviet Union) 10...... Parry O’Brien (US) 1962 1966 1...... Al Oerter (US) 1...... Al Oerter (US) 2...... Jay Silvester (US) 2...... Ludvík Daněk (Czechoslovakia) 3...... Vladimir Trusenyov (Soviet Union) 3...... Rink Babka (US) 4...... Rink Babka (US) 4...... Edmund Piątkowski (Poland) 5...... Edmund Piątkowski (Poland) 5...... Randy Matson (US) 6...... Dave Weill (US) 6...... Detlef Thorith () 7...... Bob Humphreys (US) 7...... (US) 8...... Elfranco Malan (South Africa) 8...... Zenon Begier (Poland) 9...... Kees Koch () 9...... (East Germany) 10...... Parry O’Brien (US) 10...... Lothar Milde (East Germany)

© Track & Field News 2020 — 3 — World Rankings — Men’s Discus 1967 1971 1...... Ludvík Daněk (Czechoslovakia) 1...... Jay Silvester (US) 2...... Rink Babka (US) 2...... Ludvík Daněk (Czechoslovakia) 3...... Gary Carlsen (US) 3...... Ricky Bruch (Sweden) 4...... Jay Silvester (US) 4...... Géza Fejér (Hungary) 5...... Edmund Piątkowski (Poland) 5...... Lothar Milde (East Germany) 6...... (Italy) 6....Klaus-Peter Hennig (West Germany) 7...... Randy Matson (US) 7...... Dirk Wippermann (West Germany) 8...... Detlef Thorith (East Germany) 8...... (US) 9...... Al Oerter (US) 9...... Ferenc Tégla (Hungary) 10...... (US) 10...... Hartmut Losch (East Germany) 1968 1972 1...... Jay Silvester (US) 1...... Ludvík Daněk (Czechoslovakia) 2...... Al Oerter (US) 2...... Ricky Bruch (Sweden) 3...... Lothar Milde (East Germany) 3...... Jay Silvester (US) 4...... Ludvík Daněk (Czechoslovakia) 4...... (South Africa) 5...... Hartmut Losch (East Germany) 5...... John Powell (US) 6...... Gary Carlsen (US) 6...... Géza Fejér (Hungary) 7...... Rink Babka (US) 7...... Detlef Thorith (East Germany) 8...... Ricky Bruch (Sweden) 8...... Ferenc Tégla (Hungary) 9...... Hein-Direck Neu (West Germany) 9...... Tim Vollmer (US) 10...... Edmund Piątkowski (Poland) 10...... Vladimir Lyakhov (Soviet Union) 1969 1973 1...... Ludvík Daněk (Czechoslovakia) 1...... Ricky Bruch (Sweden) 2...... Ricky Bruch (Sweden) 2...... (Finland) 3...... Jay Silvester (US) 3...... Siegfried Pachale (East Germany) 4...... Lothar Milde (East Germany) 4...... John Powell (US) 5...... Hartmut Losch (East Germany) 5...... (Finland) 6...... Jon Cole (US) 6...... Géza Fejér (Hungary) 7...... John van Reenen (South Africa) 7...... Tim Vollmer (US) 8...... Vladimir Lyakhov (Soviet Union) 8...... (US) 9...... Ferenc Tégla (Hungary) 9...... Jay Silvester (US) 10...... Al Oerter (US) 10...... Silvano Simeon (Italy) 1970 1974 1...... Jay Silvester (US) 1...... Pentti Kahma (Finland) 2...... Ricky Bruch (Sweden) 2...... John Powell (US) 3...... Ludvík Daněk (Czechoslovakia) 3...... Ricky Bruch (Sweden) 4...... Ferenc Tégla (Hungary) 4...... Ludvík Daněk (Czechoslovakia) 5...... Géza Fejér (Hungary) 5...... John van Reenen (South Africa) 6...... John van Reenen (South Africa) 6...... Mac Wilkins (US) 7...... Dirk Wippermann (West Germany) 7...... Siegfried Pachale (East Germany) 8...... Hein-Direck Neu (West Germany) 8...... Markku Tuokko (Finland) 9...... Vladimir Lyakhov (Soviet Union) 9...... Hein-Direck Neu (West Germany) 10...... Detlef Thorith (East Germany) 10...... Velko Velev ()

© Track & Field News 2020 — 4 — World Rankings — Men’s Discus 1975 1979 1...... (East Germany) 1...... Wolfgang Schmidt (East Germany) 2...... Ricky Bruch (Sweden) 2...... Markku Tuokko (Finland) 3...... John Powell (US) 3...... Knut Hjeltnes (Norway) 4...... Markku Tuokko (Finland) 4...... Mac Wilkins (US) 5...... Pentti Kahma (Finland) 5...... Ken Stadel (US) 6...... Mac Wilkins (US) 6...... John Powell (US) 7...... John van Reenen (South Africa) 7...... Velko Velev (Bulgaria) 8...... Ludvík Daněk (Czechoslovakia) 8...... Luis Delís () 9...... Hein-Direck Neu (West Germany) 9...... Al Oerter (US) 10...... Siegfried Pachale (East Germany) 10...... (US) 1976 1980 1...... Mac Wilkins (US) 1...... Mac Wilkins (US) 2...... Wolfgang Schmidt (East Germany) 2...... Wolfgang Schmidt (East Germany) 3...... John Powell (US) 3...... Luis Delís (Cuba) 4...... Norbert Thiede (East Germany) 4...... Knut Hjeltnes (Norway) 5...... Siegfried Pachale (East Germany) 5...... John Powell (US) 6...... Pentti Kahma (Finland) 6...... Ben Plucknett (US) 7...... Knut Hjeltnes (Norway) 7...... Viktor Rashchupkin (Soviet Union) 8....Hans-Jürgen Jacobi (East Germany) 8...... Imrich Bugár (Czechoslovakia) 9...... Jay Silvester (US) 9...... Yuriy Dumchev (Soviet Union) 10...... Ludvík Daněk (Czechoslovakia) 10...... Markku Tuokko (Finland) 1977 1981 1...... Wolfgang Schmidt (East Germany) 1...... Ben Plucknett (US) 2...... Mac Wilkins (US) 2...... Wolfgang Schmidt (East Germany) 3...... Markku Tuokko (Finland) 3...... Luis Delís (Cuba) 4...... John Powell (US) 4...... John Powell (US) 5...... Ken Stadel (US) 5...... (East Germany) 6...... Nikolay Vikhor (Soviet Union) 6...... Imrich Bugár (Czechoslovakia) 7...... Knut Hjeltnes (Norway) 7...... Markku Tuokko (Finland) 8...... Hein-Direck Neu (West Germany) 8...... Art Burns (US) 9...... (West Germany) 9...... Knut Hjeltnes (Norway) 10...... Vladimir Lyakhov (Soviet Union) 10...... Iosif Nagy (Romania) 1978 1982 1...... Wolfgang Schmidt (East Germany) 1...... Luis Delís (Cuba) 2...... Mac Wilkins (US) 2...... Imrich Bugár (Czechoslovakia) 3...... Ken Stadel (US) 3...... Mac Wilkins (US) 4...... Markku Tuokko (Finland) 4...... Art Burns (US) 5...... Imrich Bugár (Czechoslovakia) 5...... Armin Lemme (East Germany) 6...... Velko Velev (Bulgaria) 6...... John Powell (US) 7...... Knut Hjeltnes (Norway) 7...... Igor Duginyets (Soviet Union) 8...... Alwin Wagner (West Germany) 8...... Yuriy Dumchev (Soviet Union) 9..... Wolfgang Warnemünde (East Germany) 9.Georgiy Kolnootchenko (Soviet Union) 10.... Viktor Rashchupkin (Soviet Union) 10....Wolfgang Warnemünde (East Germany)

© Track & Field News 2020 — 5 — World Rankings — Men’s Discus 1983 1987 1...... Imrich Bugár (Czechoslovakia) 1...... Jürgen Schult (East Germany) 2...... Luis Delís (Cuba) 2...... Luis Delís (Cuba) 3...... Gejza Valent (Czechoslovakia) 3...... (West Germany) 4...... John Powell (US) 4...... John Powell (US) 5...... Ben Plucknett (US) 5...... Viadimir Zinchenko (Ukraine) 6...... Juan Martínez (Cuba) 6...... (Soviet Union) 7...... Art Burns (US) 7...... Imrich Bugár (Czechoslovakia) 8...... Mac Wilkins (US) 8...... Vaclovas Kidykas (Soviet Union) 9...... Jürgen Schult (East Germany) 9...... Alois Hannecker (West Germany) 10...... Yuriy Dumchev (Soviet Union) 10...... Dmitriy Kovtsun (Soviet Union) 1984 1988 1...... Luis Delís (Cuba) 1...... Jürgen Schult (East Germany) 2...... Imrich Bugár (Czechoslovakia) 2...... Romas Ubartas (Soviet Union) 3...... Mac Wilkins (US) 3...... Rolf Danneberg (West Germany) 4...... John Powell (US) 4...... Yuriy Dumchev (Soviet Union) 5...... Juan Martínez (Cuba) 5...... Mac Wilkins (US) 6...... Gejza Valent (Czechoslovakia) 6...... Wolfgang Schmidt (West Germany) 7...... Yuriy Dumchev (Soviet Union) 7...... Vladimir Zinchenko (Soviet Union) 8...... Rolf Danneberg (West Germany) 8...... Juan Martínez (Cuba) 9...... Art Burns (US) 9...... Luis Delís (Cuba) 10...... Jürgen Schult (East Germany) 10...... Gejza Valent (Czechoslovakia) 1985 1989 1...... Luis Delís (Cuba) 1...... Jürgen Schult (East Germany) 2...... Imrich Bugár (Czechoslovakia) 2...... Wolfgang Schmidt (West Germany) 3....Georgiy Kolnootchenko (Soviet Union) 3...... Luis Delís (Cuba) 4...... Knut Hjeltnes (Norway) 4...... Erik de Bruin (Netherlands) 5...... Juan Martínez (Cuba) 5...... Rolf Danneberg (West Germany) 6...... Gejza Valent (Czechoslovakia) 6...... Romas Ubartas (Soviet Union) 7...... Jürgen Schult (East Germany) 7...... Gejza Valent (Czechoslovakia) 8...... Yuriy Dumchev (Soviet Union) 8...... Imrich Bugár (Czechoslovakia) 9...... Dmitriy Kovtsun (Soviet Union) 9...... (US) 10...... Art Burns (US) 10...... (US) 1986 1990 1...... Romas Ubartas (Soviet Union) 1...... Wolfgang Schmidt (West Germany) 2...... Knut Hjeltnes (Norway) 2...... Romas Ubartas (Soviet Union) 3...... Vaclovas Kidykas (Soviet Union) 3...... Jürgen Schult (East Germany) 4...... Art Burns (US) 4...... Vaclovas Kidykas (Soviet Union) 5...... Imrich Bugár (Czechoslovakia) 5...... Erik de Bruin (Netherlands) 6....Georgiy Kolnootchenko (Soviet Union) 6...... Rolf Danneberg (West Germany) 7...... Luis Delís (Cuba) 7...... Juan Martínez (Cuba) 8...... Jürgen Schult (East Germany) 8...... Kamy Keshmiri (US) 9...... Juan Martínez (Cuba) 9...... Alois Hannecker (West Germany) 10...... Erik de Bruin (Netherlands) 10...... Vasiliy Kaptyukh (Soviet Union)

© Track & Field News 2020 — 6 — World Rankings — Men’s Discus 1991 1995 1...... Romas Ubartas () 1...... (Germany) 2...... Lars Riedel (Germany) 2...... Vladimir Dubrovshchik (Belarus) 3...... Attila Horváth (Hungary) 3...... Vasiliy Kaptyukh (Belarus) 4...... Mike Buncic (US) 4...... (US) 5...... Wolfgang Schmidt (Germany) 5...... (Russia) 6...... Jürgen Schult (Germany) 6...... Attila Horváth (Hungary) 7...... Kamy Keshmiri (US) 7...... Jürgen Schult (Germany) 8...... Erik de Bruin (Netherlands) 8...... Ade Olukoju (Nigeria) 9...... Vaclovas Kidykas (Lithuania) 9...... (US) 10...... Ade Olukoju (Nigeria) 10...... (Cuba) 1992 1996 1...... Romas Ubartas (Lithuania) 1...... Lars Riedel (Germany) 2...... Lars Riedel (Germany) 2...... Anthony Washington (US) 3...... Jürgen Schult (Germany) 3...... Vladimir Dubrovshchik (Belarus) 4...... Anthony Washington (US) 4...... Vasiliy Kaptyukh (Belarus) 5...... Wolfgang Schmidt (Germany) 5...... (Lithuania) 6...... Costel Grasu (Romania) 6...... Jürgen Schult (Germany) 7...... Attila Horváth (Hungary) 7...... Vitaliy Sidorov (Ukraine) 8...... (Cuba) 8...... Michael Möllenbeck (Germany) 9...... Vaclovas Kidykas (Lithuania) 9...... Sergey Lyakhov (Russia) 10...... Dmitriy Shevchenko (Russia) 10...... Vaclovas Kidykas (Lithuania) 1993 1997 1...... Lars Riedel (Germany) 1...... Lars Riedel (Germany) 2...... Dmitriy Shevchenko (Russia) 2...... Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania) 3...... Anthony Washington (US) 3...... Jürgen Schult (Germany) 4...... Jürgen Schult (Germany) 4...... John Godina (US) 5...... Costel Grasu (Romania) 5...... (US) 6...... Sergey Lyakhov (Russia) 6...... Vladimir Dubrovshchik (Belarus) 7...... Ade Olukoju (Nigeria) 7...... (Germany) 8...... Vladimir Zinchenko (Ukraine) 8...... (Great Britain) 9...... Vaclovas Kidykas (Lithuania) 9...... Vasiliy Kaptyukh (Belarus) 10...... Vasiliy Kaptyukh (Belarus) 10...... () 1994 1998 1...... Vladimir Dubrovshchik (Belarus) 1...... Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania) 2...... Lars Riedel (Germany) 2...... Lars Riedel (Germany) 3...... Dmitriy Shevchenko (Russia) 3...... John Godina (US) 4...... Sergey Lyakhov (Russia) 4...... Adam Setliff (US) 5...... Jürgen Schult (Germany) 5...... Jürgen Schult (Germany) 6...... (Ireland) 6...... Róbert Fazekas (Hungary) 7...... Attila Horváth (Hungary) 7...... Dmitriy Shevchenko (Russia) 8...... Vladimir Zinchenko (Ukraine) 8...... (South Africa) 9...... Alexis Elizalde (Cuba) 9...... Anthony Washington (US) 10...... Ade Olukoju (Nigeria) 10...... Andy Bloom (US)

© Track & Field News 2020 — 7 — World Rankings — Men’s Discus 1999 2003 1...... Anthony Washington (US) 1...... Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania) 2...... Lars Riedel (Germany) 2...... Róbert Fazekas (Hungary) 3...... Jürgen Schult (Germany) 3...... Vasiliy Kaptyukh (Belarus) 4...... Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania) 4...... Lars Riedel (Germany) 5...... Andy Bloom (US) 5...... Michael Möllenbeck (Germany) 6...... Michael Möllenbeck (Germany) 6...... Frantz Kruger (South Africa) 7...... John Godina (US) 7...... () 8...... Frantz Kruger (South Africa) 8...... (US) 9...... Vaclovas Kidykas (Lithuania) 9...... (Estonia) 10...... Vladimir Dubrovshchik (Belarus) 10...... () 2000 2004 1...... Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania) 1...... Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania) 2...... Lars Riedel (Germany) 2...... Zoltán Kővágó (Hungary) 3...... Frantz Kruger (South Africa) 3...... Aleksander Tammert (Estonia) 4...... Vasiliy Kaptyukh (Belarus) 4...... Mario Pestano (Spain) 5...... Adam Setliff (US) 5...... Lars Riedel (Germany) 6...... Vladimir Dubrovshchik (Belarus) 6...... Gerd Kanter (Estonia) 7...... Aleksander Tammert (Estonia) 7...... Vasiliy Kaptyukh (Belarus) 8...... Jason Tunks (Canada) 8...... Frantz Kruger (South Africa) 9...... Jürgen Schult (Germany) 9...... (US) 10...... Michael Möllenbeck (Germany) 10...... (South Africa) 2001 2005 1...... Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania) 1...... Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania) 2...... Lars Riedel (Germany) 2...... Gerd Kanter (Estonia) 3...... Frantz Kruger (South Africa) 3...... Aleksander Tammert (Estonia) 4...... Adam Setliff (US) 4...... Frantz Kruger (South Africa) 5...... Michael Möllenbeck (Germany) 5...... Zoltán Kővágó (Hungary) 6...... Dmitriy Shevchenko (Russia) 6...... Mario Pestano (Spain) 7...... Jason Tunks (Canada) 7...... Michael Möllenbeck (Germany) 8...... Vasiliy Kaptyukh (Belarus) 8...... (US) 9...... Aleksander Tammert (Estonia) 9...... Jarred (US) 10...... Róbert Fazekas (Hungary) 10...... Jason Tunks (Canada) 2002 2006 1...... Róbert Fazekas (Hungary) 1...... Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania) 2...... Frantz Kruger (South Africa) 2...... Gerd Kanter (Estonia) 3...... Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania) 3...... Zoltán Kővágó (Hungary) 4...... Michael Möllenbeck (Germany) 4...... Ian Waltz (US) 5...... Mario Pestano (Spain) 5...... Aleksander Tammert (Estonia) 6...... Aleksander Tammert (Estonia) 6...... Piotr Małachowski (Poland) 7...... Roland Varga (Hungary) 7...... Mario Pestano (Spain) 8...... Lars Riedel (Germany) 8...... Frank Casañas (Cuba) 9...... Dmitriy Shevchenko (Russia) 9...... (US) 10...... Zoltán Kővágó (Hungary) 10...... Lars Riedel (Germany)

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2007 2011¶ 1...... Gerd Kanter (Estonia) 1...... (Germany) 2...... Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania) 2...... Gerd Kanter (Estonia) 3...... Robert Harting (Germany) 3...... Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania) 4...... Rutger Smith (Netherlands) 4...... Ehsan Hadadi (Iran) 5...... Piotr Małachowski (Poland) 5...... Piotr Małachowski (Poland) 6...... Gábor Máté (Hungary) 6...... Märt Israel (Estonia) 7...... Ehsan Hadadi (Iran) 7...... () 8...... Mario Pestano (Spain) 8...... Frank Casañas (Spain) 9...... Omar El-Ghazaly (Egypt) 9...... Erik Cadée (Netherlands) 10...... Zoltán Kővágó (Hungary) 10...... (Germany) 2008 2012 1...... Gerd Kanter (Estonia) 1...... Robert Harting (Germany) 2...... Piotr Małachowski (Poland) 2...... Gerd Kanter (Estonia) 3...... Robert Harting (Germany) 3...... Ehsan Hadadi (Iran) 4...... Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania) 4...... Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania) 5...... Ehsan Hadadi (Iran) 5...... Piotr Małachowski (Poland) 6...... Mario Pestano (Spain) 6...... Martin Wierig (Germany) 7...... Frank Casañas (Spain) 7...... Frank Casañas (Spain) 8...... Zoltán Kővágó (Hungary) 8...... Erik Cadée (Netherlands) 9...... Gábor Máté (Hungary) 9...... Lawrence Okoye (GB) 10...... Rutger Smith (Netherlands) 10...... () 2009 2013 1...... Robert Harting (Germany) 1...... Robert Harting (Germany) 2...... Piotr Małachowski (Poland) 2...... Piotr Małachowski (Poland) 3...... Gerd Kanter (Estonia) 3...... Gerd Kanter (Estonia) 4...... Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania) 4...... Ehsan Hadadi (Iran) 5...... Zoltán Kővágó (Hungary) 5...... Martin Wierig (Germany) 6...... Casey Malone (US) 6...... (Poland) 7...... Mario Pestano (Spain) 7...... Erik Cadée (Netherlands) 8...... Frank Casañas (Spain) 8...... Vikas Gowda (India) 9...... Bogdan Pishchalnikov (Russia) 9...... Frank Casañas (Spain) 10...... Omar El-Ghazaly (Egypt) 10...... (South Africa) 2010 2014 1...... Robert Harting (Germany) 1...... Robert Harting (Germany) 2...... Piotr Małachowski (Poland) 2...... Piotr Małachowski (Poland) 3...... Gerd Kanter (Estonia) 3...... Gerd Kanter (Estonia) 4...... Zoltán Kővágó (Hungary) 4...... Jorge Fernández (Cuba) 5...... Róbert Fazekas (Hungary) 5...... Robert Urbanek (Poland) 6...... Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania) 6...... Martin Wierig (Germany) 7...... Mario Pestano (Spain) 7...... Ehsan Hadadi (Iran) 8...... Casey Malone (US) 8...... (Russia) 9...... Benn Harradine (Australia) 9...... (Belgium) 10...... Ehsan Hadadi (Iran) 10...... Vikas Gowda (India)

© Track & Field News 2020 — 9 — World Rankings — Men’s Discus 2015 2018 1...... Piotr Małachowski (Poland) 1...... (Jamaica) 2...... Robert Urbanek (Poland) 2...... Andrius Gudžius (Lithuania) 3...... Philip Milanov (Belgium) 3...... Ehsan Hadadi (Iran) 4...... Gerd Kanter (Estonia) 4...... Daniel Ståhl (Sweden) 5...... (Germany) 5...... Lukas Weißhaidinger (Austria) 6...... Vikas Gowda (India) 6...... Christoph Harting (Germany) 7...... () 7...... (US) 8...... Daniel Ståhl (Sweden) 8...... Robert Harting (Germany) 9...... Benn Harradine (Australia) 9...... Robert Urbanek (Poland) 10...... Zoltán Kővágó (Hungary) 10...... Reggie Jagers (US) 2016 2019 1...... Piotr Małachowski (Poland) 1...... Daniel Ståhl (Sweden) 2...... Christoph Harting (Germany) 2...... Fedrick Dacres (Jamaica) 3...... Lukas Weißhaidinger (Austria) 3...... Lukas Weißhaidinger (Austria) 4...... Robert Harting (Germany) 4...... Alin Alexandru Firfirica (Romania) 5...... Philip Milanov (Belgium) 5...... Andrius Gudžius (Lithuania) 6...... Daniel Ståhl (Sweden) 6...... Piotr Małachowski (Poland) 7...... Martin Kupper (Estonia) 7...... Ehsan Hadadi (Iran) 8...... Robert Urbanek (Poland) 8...... Ola Isene (Norway) 9...... Gerd Kanter (Estonia) 9...... Apostolos Parellis (Cyprus) 10...... Zoltán Kővágó (Hungary) 10...... Matt Denny (Australia) 2017 1...... Andrius Gudžius (Lithuania) 2...... Daniel Ståhl (Sweden) 3...... Fedrick Dacres (Jamaica) 4...... Piotr Małachowski (Poland) 5...... Philip Milanov (Belgium) 6...... Mason Finley (US) 7...... Robert Harting (Germany) 8...... Lukas Weißhaidinger (Austria) 9...... Robert Urbanek (Poland) 10...... Martin Wierig (Germany)

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