Athletics at the 2002 Commonwealth Games – Men's discus throw

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Athletics at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Para-athletics
100 m blind	men
800 m wheelchair		women
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The men's discus throw event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games was held on 26–27 July.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Frantz Kruger  South Africa	Jason Tunks  Canada	Robert Weir  England

Results

Qualification

Qualification: 60.00 m (Q) or at least 12 best (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	Frantz Kruger	South Africa	66.25			66.25	Q, GR
2	Jason Tunks	Canada	59.87	–	–	59.87	q
3	Glen Smith	England	59.30	–	–	59.30	q
4	Robert Weir	England	59.14	–	–	59.14	q
5	Chima Ugwu	Nigeria	54.41	58.48	–	58.48	q
6	Janus Robberts	South Africa	57.49	x	x	57.49	q
7	Emeka Udechuku	England	55.40	54.41	55.72	55.72	q
8	Kevin Brown	Jamaica	52.09	52.27	54.74	54.74	q
9	Georgios Arestis	Cyprus	x	50.09	53.36	53.36	q
10	Lee Newman	Wales	52.88	52.81	x	52.88	q
11	Petros Mitsides	Cyprus	46.87	x	50.48	50.48	q
12	Ihtsham Ul Haq	Pakistan	47.75	46.09	x	47.75	q
13	Anthony Soalla-Bell	Sierra Leone	x	37.05	44.75	44.75	NR
13	Robert Kidd	Belize	x	30.09	33.93	33.93
	Eric Koo Wan Siong	Mauritius	x	x	x	NM
	Elvis Smith	Turks and Caicos Islands	x	x	x	NM

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Frantz Kruger	South Africa	65.67	66.39	65.12	64.61	x	x	66.39	GR
	Jason Tunks	Canada	59.37	62.61	x	–	x	–	62.61
	Robert Weir	England	57.86	59.24	x	58.05	x	58.42	59.24
4	Chima Ugwu	Nigeria	59.19	x	58.61	x	x	x	59.19
5	Glen Smith	England	57.49	57.52	x	x	x	x	57.52
6	Emeka Udechuku	England	55.15	57.33	x	56.32	55.85	x	57.33
7	Janus Robberts	South Africa	56.98	57.02	x	x	55.50	x	57.02
8	Lee Newman	Wales	53.81	x	x	53.06	52.71	x	53.81
9	Kevin Brown	Jamaica	52.04	52.51	51.59				52.51
10	Petros Mitsides	Cyprus	x	52.36	49.68				52.36
11	Georgios Arestis	Cyprus	48.06	x	51.14				51.14
12	Ihtsham Ul Haq	Pakistan	48.31	x	46.77				48.31

References

• Official results
• Results at BBC