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Atlanta 1996
| Opening date | 19.07.1996 | | Closing date | 04.08.1996 | | Candidate cities | Athens, Belgrade, Manchester, Melbourne, Toronto | | Participating countries | 197 - First time in Olympics (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Burundi, Cape Verde, Dominica, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Kazakhstan, Comoros, Macedonia, Moldova, Nauru, Palestine, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, São Tomé & Príncipe, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Belarus) | | Athletes | 10318 - (3512 women, 6806 men) | | Spectators | 8 610 984 | | Chairman of Olympic Management Committee | William Porter Payne | | The Patron of the Games | President Bill Clinton | | Official opening of the Games by | President Bill Clinton | | Lighting the Olympic Flame by | Muhammad Ali (boxing) | | Olympic Oath by | Teresa Edwards (basketball) | | Official Oath by | Hobie Billingsly (diving) | 
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Discus throw | Pos | Athlete |  | Nat | Mark | | | | | 1 | Lars | Riedel | GER | 69.40 | | | | | 2 | Vladimir | Dubrovshchik | BLR | 66.60 | | | | | 3 | Vasiliy | Kaptyukh | BLR | 65.80 | | | | | 4 | Tony | Washington | USA | 65.42 | | | | | 5 | Virgilijus | Alekna | LTU | 65.30 | | | | | 6 | Jürgen | Schult | GER | 64.62 | | | | | 7 | Vitaliy | Sidorov | UKR | 63.78 | | | | | 8 | Vaclavas | Kidykas | LTU | 62.78 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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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 8862 days old.
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