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The Top Ranked Discus Athletes of All-Time

 

Rnk Athlete Nation
1 Al Oerter USA
2 Virgilijus Alekna Lithuania
3 Bud Houser USA
4 Martin Sheridan USA
5 Ludvik Danek Czechoslovakia
6 Jurgen Schult East Germany
7 Lars Riedel Germany
8 Adolfo Consolini Italy
9 Mac Wilkins USA
10 Armas Taipale Finland
11 Romas Ubartas Lithuania
12 Gerd Kanter Estonia
13 Rolf Danneberg West Germany
14 Elmer Niklander Finland
15 Robert Harting Germany
16 John Anderson USA
17 Daniel Stahl Sweden
18 Bob Garrett USA
19 Christoph Harting Germany
20 Ken Carpenter USA
21 Rudolf Bauer Hungary
22 Sim Iness USA
23 Viktor Rashchupkin Soviet Union
24 Piotr Malachowski Poland
25 Fortune Gordien USA
26 Nikolaos Georgantas Greece
27 Jay Silvester USA
28 Ehsan Haddadi Iran
29 Zoltan Kovago Hungary
30 Lothar Milde East Germany
31 Imrich Bugar Czechoslovakia
32 Frantisek Janda-Suk Bohemia
33 Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos Greece
34 Wolfgang Schmidt East Germany
35 Vladimir Dubrovshchik Belarus
36 Giuseppe Tosi Italy
37 Ralph Rose USA
38 Andrius Gudzius Lithuania
39 Antero Kivi Finland
40 Dick Byrd USA
41 Gordon Dunn USA
42 Henri LaBorde USA
43 Merritt Giffin USA
44 Rink Babka USA
45 Vilho Niittymaa Finland
46 John Powell USA
47 Aleksander Tammert Estonia
48 Vasily Kaptyukh Belarus
49 Frantz Kruger South Africa
50 Verner Jarvinen Finland
51 Ricky Bruch Sweden
52 Gus Pope USA
53 Daniel Jasinski Germany
54 Paul Winter France
55 Giorgio Oberweger Italy
56 Roberto Moya Cuba
57 Bill Horr USA
58 Dave Weill USA
59 Des Koch USA
60 Dick Cochran USA
61 Dick Sheldon USA
62 Jim Corson USA
63 Jim Dillion USA
64 Jim Duncan USA
65 Kristjan Ceh Slovenia
66 Luis Delis Cuba
67 Sotirios Versis Greece
68 Tom Lieb USA
69 Knut Hjeltnes Norway
70 John Flanagan USA
71 Tony Washington USA
72 Hartmut Losch East Germany
73 Jules Noel France
74 Costel Grasu Romania
75 Jozsef Szecsenyi Hungary
76 Yury Dumchev Soviet Union
77 Mark Pharaoh Great Britain
78 Matthew Denny Australia
79 George Stuart Robertson Great Britain
80 Harald Stenerud Norway
81 Ivar Ramstad Norway
82 Martin Kupper Estonia
83 Norbert Thiede East Germany
84 Oscar Zallhagen Sweden
85 Reidar Sorlie Norway
86 Frank Casanas Spain
87 Ferenc Klics Hungary
88 Andre Tison France
89 Edmund Piatkowski Poland
90 Lukas Weisshaidinger Austria
91 Oto Grigalka Soviet Union
92 Attila Horvath Hungary
93 Adam Setliff USA
94 Kittil Askilt Norway
95 Istvan Donogan Hungary
96 Alphonse Grisel France
97 Art Burns USA
98 Arthur Dearborn USA
99 Georgios Papasideris Greece
100 Geza Fejer Hungary
101 Hans Tronner Austria
102 Henrik Sjoberg Sweden
103 Holger Nielsen Denmark
104 John Biller USA
105 Kenneth Bartlett USA
106 Rezso Crettier Hungary
107 Siegfried Pachale East Germany
108 Viggo Jensen Denmark
109 Willy Schroder Germany
110 Nikolaos Syllas Greece
111 Mikhail Dorizas Greece
112 Gyorgy Luntzer Hungary
113 Jason Tunks Canada
114 Miroslav Sustera Bohemia
115 Pentti Kahma Finland
116 Frantisek Soucek Bohemia
117 Veikko Nyqvist Finland
118 Viktor Kompaniyets Soviet Union
119 Endre Madarasz Hungary
120 Gyula Strausz Hungary
121 Zenon Begier Poland
122 Bogdan Pishchalnikov Russia
123 Mauricio Ortega Colombia
124 Casey Malone USA
125 Alberto Masprone Italy
126 Allan Eriksson Sweden
127 Alwin Wagner West Germany
128 Andre Desfarges France
129 Arlie Mucks USA
130 Detlef Thorith East Germany
131 Eino Kentta Finland
132 Gary Carlsen USA
133 Gejza Valent Czechoslovakia
134 Georgios Papakhristou Greece
135 Glenn Hartranft USA
136 Gustaf Soderstrom Sweden
137 Heikki Ahlman Finland
138 Ihor Duhinets Soviet Union
139 Istvan Mudin Hungary
140 Jim Mitchel USA
141 Juan Martinez (CUB) Cuba
142 Karl Kaltenbach Germany
143 Lee Talbott USA
144 Martin Wierig Germany
145 Mihaly David Hungary
146 Robert Edgren USA
147 Uno Haggman Finland
148 Vasilios Papageorgiou Greece
149 Ferenc Tegla Hungary
150 Rutger Smith Netherlands
151 Kalevi Kotkas Finland
152 Vitaly Sidorov Ukraine
153 Luciano Zerbini Italy
154 Carmelo Rado Italy
155 Dmytro Kovtsun Unified Team
156 Emil Vladimirov Bulgaria
157 Ernst Paulus Germany
158 George Philbrook USA
159 Gunnar Bergh Sweden
160 Roland Nilsson Sweden
161 Simon Pettersson Sweden
162 Valther Jensen Denmark
163 Vaclavas Kidykas Lithuania
164 Vikas Gowda India
165 Kim Bukhantsov Soviet Union
166 Robert Fazekas Hungary
167 Apostolos Parellis Cyprus
168 Dmitry Shevchenko Russia
169 Velko Velev Bulgaria
170 Eric Lemming Sweden
171 Vladimir Trusenyov Soviet Union
172 Dako Radosevic Yugoslavia
173 Stein Johnson Norway
174 Ake Hedvall Sweden
175 Alois Hannecker West Germany
176 Charles Winckler Denmark
177 Emil Magnusson Sweden
178 Hannes Hopley South Africa
179 Heikki Malmivirta Finland
180 Johan Trandem Norway
181 Paul Jessup USA
182 Sam Mattis USA
183 Stefan Fernholm Sweden
184 Tim Vollmer USA
185 Ville Porhola Finland
186 Mario Pestano Spain
187 Hein-Direck Neu West Germany
188 Benn Harradine Australia
189 David Martinez Spain
190 Erik de Bruin Netherlands
191 Boris Matveyev Soviet Union
192 Pentti Repo Finland
193 Markku Tuokko Finland
194 Aurelio Lenzi Italy
195 Alexis Elizalde Cuba
196 Arvo Huutoniemi Finland
197 Fred Weicker USA
198 Johann Wotapek Austria
199 Jozsef Remetz Hungary
200 Philip Milanov Belgium
201 Rezso Ujlaki Hungary
202 Sandor Toldi Hungary
203 Torsten Schmidt Germany
204 Bob Weir Great Britain
205 Michael Mollenbeck Germany
206 Emil Janausch Austria
207 Gustav Kalkun Estonia
208 Werner Reiterer Australia
209 Mike Buncic USA
210 Silvano Simeon Italy
211 Kalman Marvalits Hungary
212 Libor Malina Czech Republic
213 Rashid Al-Dosari Qatar
214 Axel Harstedt Sweden
215 Einar Nilsson Sweden
216 Erik Cadee Netherlands
217 Gerald Carr Great Britain
218 Gunter Schaumburg East Germany
219 Helge Sivertsen Norway
220 Jose Santa Cruz Cuba
221 Josiah McCracken USA
222 Kenneth Wilson USA
223 Ola Stunes Isene Norway
224 Roy Hollingsworth Great Britain
225 Uno Fransson Sweden
226 Wilbur Burroughs USA
227 Vesteinn Hafsteinsson Iceland
228 Gabor Mate Hungary
229 Jorge Fernandez Cuba
230 Mason Finley USA
231 Emil Welz Germany
232 Artur Coray Hungary
233 Boris Butenko Soviet Union
234 Clemens Prufer Germany
235 Georgi Georgiev Bulgaria
236 Gunther Kruse Argentina
237 Hans Fritsch Germany
238 Hans-Heinrich Sievert Germany
239 Heikki Taskinen Finland
240 Hermann Tunner Austria
241 Hilmar Hossfeld East Germany
242 Jorma Rinne Finland
243 Kostas Georgakopoulos Greece
244 Launceston Elliot Great Britain
245 Paddy Bermingham Ireland
246 Sergey Lyakhov Russia
247 Stein Haugen Norway
248 Robin Tait New Zealand
249 Folke Fleetwood Sweden
250 Lawrence Okoye Great Britain
251 Walter Henderson Great Britain
252 Miklos Kovacs Hungary
253 Charles Lagarde France
254 Otto Nilsson Sweden
255 Aarne Salovaara Finland
256 Alfred Flaxman Great Britain
257 Chad Wright Jamaica
258 Eduardo Julve Peru
259 Edward Barrett Great Britain
260 Emil Muller USA
261 Ernest May Great Britain
262 Ferenc Jesina Hungary
263 Harry Hart South Africa
264 Henry Leeke Great Britain
265 Hugo Wieslander Sweden
266 Imre Mudin Hungary
267 Jack Murray Great Britain
268 Jalmari Sauli Finland
269 Janis Jordans Latvia
270 Janos Muranyi Hungary
271 John Falchenberg Norway
272 Johnny Garrels USA
273 Jonni Myyra Finland
274 Kenth Gardenkrans Sweden
275 Lauri Pihkala Finland
276 Lauri Wilskman Finland
277 Ludwig Uettwiller Germany
278 Marco Martino Italy
279 Michael Collins Great Britain
280 Platt Adams USA
281 Simon Gillis USA
282 Theodor Neijstrom Sweden
283 Umberto Avattaneo Italy
284 Namakoro Niare Mali
285 Nick Sweeney Ireland
286 Li Shaojie China
287 Fanie du Plessis South Africa
288 Fritz Kuhl Germany
289 Armin Lemme East Germany
290 Bill Burton USA
291 Emile Gontier France
292 Frantisek Hoplicek Czechoslovakia
293 Fredrick Dacres Jamaica
294 Guram Gudashvili Soviet Union
295 Jorgen Munk Plum Denmark
296 Josef Silhavy Czechoslovakia
297 Karl Jensen Denmark
298 Olav Jenssen Norway
299 Sven Martin Skagestad Norway
300 Walter Wood USA
301 Werner Hartmann West Germany
302 Zdenek Cihak Czechoslovakia
303 Zygmunt Heljasz Poland
304 Veljko Narancic Yugoslavia
305 Les Mills New Zealand
306 Janos Farago Hungary
307 John Godina USA
308 Diego Fortuna Italy
309 Svein-Inge Valvik Norway
310 Iosif Naghi Romania
311 Laurence Reavell-Carter Great Britain
312 Mart Israel Estonia
313 Erik Uddebom Sweden
314 Jarred Rome USA
315 Bartlomiej Stoj Poland
316 Bernard Prendergast Great Britain
317 Bob Gray Canada
318 Duncan Gillis Canada
319 Emil Hirschfeld Germany
320 Emile Ecuyer France
321 Felix Erauzquin Spain
322 George Puce Canada
323 Gerhard Hilbrecht Germany
324 Gino Roy Pella Canada
325 Guo Jie China
326 Harald Andersson Sweden
327 Hermann Hanchen Germany
328 Jean Wagner Luxembourg
329 Ling Peigen China
330 Miroslav Vítek Czechoslovakia
331 Nikola Kleut Yugoslavia
332 Oskar Ospelt Liechtenstein
333 Paul Beranger France
334 Petre Havalet Romania
335 Ruggero Biancani Italy
336 Valer Barac Czechoslovakia
337 Aleksandr Borichevsky Russia
338 Daniel Pierre France
339 Frantisek Douda Czechoslovakia
340 Klaus-Peter Hennig West Germany
341 Armando De Vincentis Italy
342 Mesulame Rakuro Fiji
343 Arturo Conturbia Switzerland
344 Dmitry Sivakov Belarus
345 Konstantinos Giataganas Greece
346 Richard Slaney Great Britain
347 Truxtun Hare USA
348 Ramon Jimenez-Gaona Paraguay
349 Brad Cooper Bahamas
350 Hernan Haddad Chile
351 Adnan Houri Syria
352 Alin Firfirica Romania
353 Andrew Evans USA
354 Arthur Delaender Belgium
355 Clement Duhour France
356 Danilo Zerjal Yugoslavia
357 Dirk Wippermann West Germany
358 Josef Waitzer Germany
359 Julian Morrinson Cuba
360 Kalman Egri Hungary
361 Manfred Grieser Germany
362 Michael Robertson USA
363 Per Stavem Norway
364 Werner Nuesch Switzerland
365 Cees Koch Netherlands
366 Adewale Olukoju Nigeria
367 Camillo Zemi Italy
368 Denis Segui Kragbe Cote d'Ivoire
369 Henry Smith Samoa
370 Martin Maric Croatia
371 Robert Urbanek Poland
372 Hans Granfelt Sweden
373 Jean Maissant France
374 Manuel Consiglieri Peru
375 Najim Al-Enazy Kuwait
376 Randy Heisler USA
377 Tadeusz Rut Poland
378 Yu Wenge China
379 Gerhard Mayer Austria
380 Pierre Alard France
381 Alex Rose Samoa
382 Antonios Kounadis Greece
383 Dominique Bechard Mauritius
384 Emilio Malchiodi Argentina
385 Frits Potgieter South Africa
386 Jason Young USA
387 Jiri Zemba Czechoslovakia
388 Jozef Baran-Bilewski Poland
389 Lech Gajdzinski Poland
390 Olli Partanen Finland
391 Oskar Jakobsson Iceland
392 Patrick Journoud France
393 Pedro Elsa Argentina
394 Stanislaw Wolodko Poland
395 Zdravko Pecar Yugoslavia
396 Warwick Selvey Australia
397 Bill Tancred Great Britain
398 Albino Pighi Italy
399 Mohamed Hamed Naguib Egypt
400 James Nesbitt Great Britain
401 Jens Reimers West Germany
402 Jozsef Ficsor Hungary
403 Karoly Kobulszky Hungary
404 Muhammad Ayub Pakistan
405 Reggie Jagers USA
406 Scott Martin Australia
407 Wu Tao China
408 Zdenek Nemec Czechoslovakia
409 Ercument Olgundeniz Turkey
410 Mykyta Nesterenko Ukraine
411 Traves Smikle Jamaica
412 Ernst Soudek Austria
413 Jalal Kashmiri Iran
414 Jose Galimberti Brazil
415 Larry Whitney USA
416 Marek Bilek Czech Republic
417 Paul Mardle Great Britain
418 Todor Artarski Bulgaria
419 Ves Balodis Australia
420 Vic Frank USA
421 Ray Lazdins Canada
422 Ain Roost Canada
423 Guoni Valur Guonason Iceland
424 Ian Reed Australia
425 Jack Brewer Great Britain
426 Lance Brooks USA
427 Lolassonn Djouhan France
428 Magnus Aron Hallgrimsson Iceland
429 Nikolay Vikhor Soviet Union
430 Teodors Sukatnieks Latvia
431 Ian Waltz USA
432 Heimo Reinitzer Austria
433 Arvids Kibilds Latvia
434 Avery Brundage USA
435 Cummin Clancy Ireland
436 David Wrobel Germany
437 Fridrik Gudmundsson Iceland
438 Georgios Tsakanikas Greece
439 Jo Van Daele Belgium
440 Nikolay Kolev Bulgaria
441 Przemyslaw Czajkowski Poland
442 Wulf Brunner West Germany
443 Omar El Ghazaly Egypt
444 Dashdendeviin Makhashiri Mongolia
445 Eric Coy Canada
446 Erlendur Valdimarsson Iceland
447 Gunnar Nilsson Sweden
448 Modesto Mederos Cuba
449 Octavio Zani Brazil
450 Oskar Hafliger Switzerland
451 Savvas Panavoglou Greece
452 Shohei Kaneko Japan
453 Mickael Conjungo Central African Republic
454 Danijel Furtula Montenegro
455 Igor Primc Slovenia
456 Oleksiy Semenov Ukraine
457 Aleksandr Malashevich Belarus
458 Borys Chambul Canada
459 Gerrit Eijsker Netherlands
460 John Watts Great Britain
461 Osten Edlund Sweden
462 Roger Verhaes Belgium
463 Slawosz Szydlowski Poland
464 Torsteinn Love Iceland
465 Armando Poggioli Italy
466 Brian Blutreich USA
467 Carol Lindroos Finland
468 Edy Hubacher Switzerland
469 Emeka Udechuku Great Britain
470 Hans Hoffmeister Germany
471 Ignacio Reinosa Puerto Rico
472 Kaj Andersen Denmark
473 Lucien Guillier France
474 Peter Tancred Great Britain
475 Samu Foti Hungary
476 Abbas Samimi Iran
477 Ahmed Zahur Khan Pakistan
478 Gideon Ariel Israel
479 Gunnar Bolander Sweden
480 Hector Benapres Chile
481 Jos Schroeder Belgium
482 Kristian Johansen Norway
483 Min Se-Hun South Korea
484 Nazar Muhammad Khan Malik Pakistan
485 Otto Garnus Switzerland
486 Praveen Kumar India
487 Rolando Mendoza Nicaragua
488 Tavis Bailey USA
489 Volodymyr Zinchenko Unified Team
490 Dragan Mustapic Croatia
491 Lois Maikel Martinez Spain
492 Carl Johan Lind Sweden
493 Christian Erb Switzerland
494 Eggert Bogason Iceland
495 Ibrahim Mohamed Al-Ouiran Saudi Arabia
496 Ibrahima Gueye Senegal
497 Ichiro Furuyama Japan
498 Mauricio Jubis El Salvador
499 Sayed Mirza Molimadail Iran
500 Sepp Hipp Germany
501 Yauheni Bahutski Belarus
502 Leonid Cherevko Belarus
503 An Yeong-Han South Korea
504 Andriy Kokhanovsky Ukraine
505 Gabino Lizarza Spain
506 Ion David Romania
507 Jan Marcell Czech Republic
508 Juan Caicedo Ecuador
509 Julian Wruck Australia
510 Kim Byeong-Gi South Korea
511 Said Farouk Al-Turki Saudi Arabia
512 Salman Hessam Iran
513 Simon Williams Great Britain
514 Marcelo Pugliese Argentina
515 Abdul Buhari Great Britain
516 Franco Grossi Italy
517 Giovanni Faloci Italy
518 Josef Schaffer Austria
519 Lars Haglund Sweden
520 Mahmoud Al-Zabramawi Saudi Arabia
521 Olgierd Stanski Poland
522 Raoul Paoli France
523 Bishop Dolegiewicz Canada
524 Georgios Zakharopoulos Greece
525 Jorge Balliengo Argentina
526 Khaled Al-Khalidi Saudi Arabia
527 Mahmoud Samimi Iran
528 Markus Munch Germany
529 Raymond Kintziger Belgium
530 Shakti Singh India
531 Yoshio Okita Japan
532 Antonio Martins Portugal
533 Gerrit Postma Netherlands
534 Gudni Valur Gudnason Iceland
535 Herbert Rodriguez El Salvador
536 Ian Winchester New Zealand
537 Marcel Pelletier Luxembourg
538 Mike Lindsay Great Britain
539 Nuri Turan Turkey
540 Yevgeniy Labutov Kazakhstan
541 Dimitrios Karabatis Greece
542 Fred Zinner Belgium
543 Kyrylo Chuprynin Ukraine
544 Niklas Arrhenius Sweden
545 Uri Gallin Israel
546 Sultan Mubarak Al-Dawoodi Saudi Arabia
547 Vadim Hranovschi Moldova
548 Haider Khan Pakistan
549 Hannes Kirchler Italy
550 Jesus Aguirre Mexico
551 Fedrick Dacres Jamaica
552 Migir Migiryan Turkey
553 Nayef Mohamed Hameed Iraq
554 Brett Morse Great Britain
555 Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo Spain
556 Nikolay Neklepayev Russia
557 Glen Smith Great Britain
558 Jaroslav Zitnansky Slovakia
559 Haidar Nasser Iraq
560 Roland Varga Croatia
561 Roman Poltoratsky Uzbekistan
562 Eric Matthias British Virgin Islands
563 German Lauro Argentina
564 Henning Moller Sweden
565 Shaka Sola Samoa
566 Anil Kumar Sangwan India
567 Chris Sua'mene Samoa
568 Jason Morgan Jamaica
569 Eriks Vanags Russia
570 John Menton Ireland
571 Yunio Lastre Cuba
572 Paul Willfuhr Germany
573 Ronald Juliao Brazil
574 Chary Mamedov Turkmenistan
575 Jason Gervais Canada

 


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