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Athletics at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games:

Men's Decathlon Discus throw

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Host City: Ciudad de México, Mexico
Venue(s): University Olympic Stadium, Ciudad de México
Date Started: October 19, 1968
Date Finished: October 19, 1968

Gold: USA Bill Toomey
Silver: FRG Hans-Joachim Walde
Bronze: FRG Kurt Bendlin

Discus throw

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC D P(1962T) P(1985T)
1 Jānis Lanka 28 Soviet Union URS 49.90 870 868
2 Clive Longe 29 Great Britain GBR 47.60 829 821
3 Joachim Kirst 21 East Germany GDR 46.89 816 806
4 Kurt Bendlin 25 West Germany FRG 46.78 814 804
5 Mykola Avilov 20 Soviet Union URS 46.64 812 801
6 Urs Trautmann 28 Switzerland SUI 46.20 804 792
7 Rick Sloan 21 United States USA 45.58 792 779
8 Tom Waddell 30 United States USA 43.73 758 741
9 Bill Toomey 29 United States USA 43.68 757 740
10 Hans-Joachim Walde 26 West Germany FRG 43.54 754 737
11 Lennart Hedmark 24 Sweden SWE 42.96 743 725
12 Walter Dießl 25 Austria AUT 42.23 729 710
13 Ed de Noorlander 23 Netherlands NED 41.70 719 699
14 Steen Smidt-Jensen 23 Denmark DEN 41.07 706 686
15 Spas Dzhurov 23 Bulgaria BUL 40.90 703 683
16 Gert Herunter 26 Austria AUT 40.38 693 672
17 Manfred Tiedtke 26 East Germany GDR 40.31 692 671
18 Wu Ah-Min 30 Chinese Taipei TPE 40.25 690 670
19 Hansruedi Kunz 23 Switzerland SUI 40.18 689 668
20 Charlemagne Anyamah 30 France FRA 39.88 683 662
21 Roger Lespagnard 21 Belgium BEL 37.74 640 619
22 Don Vélez 20 Nicaragua NCA 36.43 613 592
23 Franz Biedermann 22 Liechtenstein LIE 30.67 489 478