Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's discus throw

The Men's Discus Throw event at the 1952 Summer Olympics took place on 22 July at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.

Medalists

Gold	Sim Iness (USA)
Silver	Adolfo Consolini (ITA)
Bronze	James Dillion (USA)

Records

Standing records prior to the 1952 Summer Olympics
World Record	Fortune Gordien (USA)	56.97 m	August 14, 1949	Hämeenlinna, Finland
Olympic Record	Adolfo Consolini (ITA)	52.78 m	August 2, 1948	London, United Kingdom

Results

Qualifying round

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 46.00 advance to the Final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	A	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	51.89
2	A	Fortune Gordien	United States	50.34
3	A	Oto Grigalka	Soviet Union	48.93
4	A	Sim Iness	United States	48.90
5	A	James Dillion	United States	47.92
6	B	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece	47.84
7	A	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	47.63
8	B	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	47.18
9	B	Per Stavem	Norway	46.74
10	B	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	46.59
11	B	Roy Pella	Canada	46.58
12	B	Jørgen Munk Plum	Denmark	46.58
13	B	Jean Maissant	France	46.47
14	A	Boris Butenko	Soviet Union	46.43
15	B	Veikko Nyqvist	Finland	46.41
16	B	Boris Matveyev	Soviet Union	46.31
17	B	Konstantinos Giataganas	Greece	46.05
18	B	Olli Partanen	Finland	45.24
19	B	Mark Pharaoh	Great Britain	45.19
20	A	Stein Johnson	Norway	45.12
21	B	Ian Reed	Australia	45.00
22	A	Friðrik Guðmundsson	Iceland	44.73
23	A	Oskar Häfliger	Switzerland	44.73
24	B	Þorsteinn Löve	Iceland	44.28
25	A	Lucien Guillier	France	43.88
26	A	Kristian Johansen	Norway	43.46
27	A	Sepp Hipp	Germany	43.38
28	A	Hernán Haddad	Chile	42.89
29	A	Arvo Huutoniemi	Finland	42.79
30	A	Raymond Kintziger	Belgium	41.46
31	B	Nuri Turan	Turkey	41.45
32	A	Uri Gallin	Israel	40.76

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Sim Iness	United States	53.47	54.60	55.03	53.49	54.13	52.82	55.03	OR
	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	51.69	53.78	53.45	50.63	50.08	51.20	53.78
	James Dillion	United States	52.47	48.06	51.76	53.28	x	52.28	53.28
4	Fortune Gordien	United States	52.52	52.66	51.71	51.48	x	49.93	52.66
5	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	48.74	49.07	51.13	x	49.79	x	51.13
6	Oto Grigalka	Soviet Union	50.71	x	47.84	x	x	x	50.71
7	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	x	48.90	50.06				50.06
8	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	45.85	49.03	48.97				49.03
9	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece	48.99	48.36	47.17				48.99
10	Boris Matveyev	Soviet Union	47.27	44.47	48.70				48.70
11	Boris Butenko	Soviet Union	x	43.66	48.15				48.15
12	Veikko Nyqvist	Finland	47.72	45.99	46.63				47.72
13	Jørgen Munk Plum	Denmark	38.73	45.20	47.26				47.26
14	Roy Pella	Canada	x	46.63	45.47				46.63
15	Konstantinos Giataganas	Greece	42.40	46.23	x				46.23
16	Per Stavem	Norway	39.78	x	46.00				46.00
17	Jean Maissant	France	43.40	42.11	35.82				43.40

References

• Official Olympic Report, la84.org.