OLYMPIC CHAMPION 2008 GERD KANTER

 

Priit TäanavaPriit Tänava is an athletics statistician, who has helped our team over the years. Priit just finished a 2,5 year-long project, where he collected all over 60m discus throw results - over 26 000 performances in the history of discus throw. It is the most thorough stats database in the world for sure.

Happy birthday Priit and thank you for a great contribution to this sports!

Few interesting stats:
- There are 898 discus throwers in history, who have thrown over 60m
- Oldest over 60m thrower Al Oerter (49 years 10 months)
- Youngest over 60m thrower Mykyta Nesterenko (16 years 1 month)
- USA has most over 60m athletes - 229 different over 60m throwers
- There are 3 athletes, who have thrown discus over 60m in 23 different seasons - Svein Inge Valvik, Jürgen Schult and Virgilijus Alekna.
- Most competition over 60m - Rickard Bruch 456 results

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