Robert Harting (66.62m), Piotr Malachowski (66.00m) and Gerd Kanter (65.54m) were the only discus throwers today in Moscow to reach the qualification mark of 65.00m.
12th position was 62.45m by Victor Hogan. Unfortunately the discus legend Virgilijus Alekna was not able to qualify reaching only 61.91m.
| POS | RANK | HEAT | BIB | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | RESULTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | A | 533 | Robert HARTING |  GER |
66.62 Q |
| 2 | 1 | B | 865 | Piotr MALACHOWSKI |  POL |
66.00 Q |
| 3 | 2 | A | 406 | Gerd KANTER |  EST |
65.54 Q |
| 4 | 2 | B | 317 | Jorge Y. FERNÁNDEZ |  CUB |
64.86 q |
| 5 | 3 | A | 883 | Robert URBANEK | POL |
64.21 q |
| 6 | 3 | B | 549 | Martin WIERIG | GER |
64.06 q |
| 7 | 4 | A | 583 | Vikas GOWDA |  IND |
63.64 q |
| 8 | 4 | B | 379 | Yennifer Frank CASAÑAS |  ESP |
63.17 q |
| 9 | 5 | B | 933 | Victor BUTENKO |  RUS |
63.07 q |
| 10 | 5 | A | 393 | Mario PESTANO | ESP |
62.80 q |
| 11 | 6 | B | 146 | Julian WRUCK |  AUS |
62.48 q |
| 12 | 6 | A | 914 | Victor HOGAN |  RSA |
62.45 q |
| 13 | 7 | A | 532 | Christoph HARTING | GER |
62.28 |
| 14 | 7 | B | 813 | Erik CADEE |  NED |
62.14 |
| 15 | 8 | B | 308 | Martin MARIC |  CRO |
61.98 |
| 16 | 9 | B | 764 | Virgilijus ALEKNA |  LTU |
61.91 |
| 17 | 8 | A | 1072 | Ercüment OLGUNDENIZ |  TUR |
60.81 |
| 18 | 10 | B | 147 | Gerhard MAYER |  AUT |
59.85 |
| 19 | 9 | A | 326 | Apostolos PARELLIS |  CYP |
59.84 |
| 20 | 10 | A | 137 | Benn HARRADINE | AUS |
59.68 |
| 21 | 11 | B | 657 | Musab Ibrahim AL-MOMANI |  JOR |
59.38 |
| 22 | 12 | B | 221 | Ronald JULIÃO |  BRA |
59.36 |
| 23 | 11 | A | 496 | Brett MORSE |  GBR |
59.23 |
| 24 | 12 | A | 1022 | Niklas ARRHENIUS |  SWE |
59.13 |
| 25 | 13 | A | 1113 | Lance BROOKS |  USA |
59.08 |
| 26 | 14 | A | 802 | Danijel FURTULA |  MNE |
58.28 |
| 27 | 15 | A | 593 | Mahmoud SAMIMI |  IRI |
57.77 |
| 28 | 13 | B | 610 | Giovanni FALOCI |  ITA |
57.54 |
| 29 | 14 | B | 981 | Alex ROSE |  SAM |
56.19 |
| 30 | 15 | B | 741 | Sultan Mubarak AL-DAWOODI |  KSA |
55.94 |
