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Los Angeles 1984
| Opening date | 28.07.1984 | | Closing date | 12.08.1984 | | Candidate cities | There were no candidate cities | | Participating countries | 140 - First time in Olympics (Bangladesh, Bhutan, British Virgin Islands, Djibouti, Gambia, Grenada, Equatorial Guinea, Yemen, Qatar, Mauritania, Oman, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Rwanda | | Athletes | 6829 - (1566 women, 5263 men) | | Spectators | 5 797 923 | | Chairman of Olympic Management Committee | Peter von Ueberroth | | The Patron of the Games | President Ronald Reagan | | Official opening of the Games by | President Ronald Reagan | | Lighting the Olympic Flame by | Rafer Johnson (decathlete) | | Olympic Oath by | Edwin Moses (athletics) | | Official Oath by | Sharon Weber (gymnastics) | 
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Discus throw | Pos | Athlete |  | Nat | Mark | | | | | 1 | Rolf | Danneberg | FRG | 66.60 | | | | | 2 | Mac | Wilkins | USA | 66.30 | | | | | 3 | John | Powell | USA | 65.46 | | | | | 4 | Knut | Hjeltnes | NOR | 65.28 | | | | | 5 | Art | Burns | USA | 64.98 | | | | | 6 | Alwin | Wagner | FRG | 64.72 | | | | | 7 | Luciano | Zerbini | ITA | 63.50 | | | | | 8 | Stefan | Fernholm | SWE | 63.22 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Top results 2010
| Athlete | Result | | Gerd Kanter | 71.45 | | Jason Young | 69.90 | | Piotr Malachowski | 69.83 | | Robert Harting | 69.69 | | Zoltán Kővágó | 69.69 | | Ehsan Hadadi | 68.45 | | Bogdan Pischalnikov | 67.23 | | Roland Varga | 67.20 | | Mario Pestano | 66.90 | | Jarred Rome | 66.71 |
Jürgen Schults discus world record 74.08 is 8861 days old.
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