2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' discus throw

Boys' discus throw at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics
Venue	Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
Dates	17–18 July
Competitors	27 from 22 nations
Winning distance	64.24
Medalists
Werner Visser    South Africa   Wang Yuhan    China   George Evans    Great Britain

2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	boys	girls
200 m	boys	girls
400 m	boys	girls
800 m	boys	girls
1500 m	boys	girls
3000 m	boys	girls
100 m hurdles		girls
110 m hurdles	boys
400 m hurdles	boys	girls
2000 m steeplechase	boys	girls
5000 m walk		girls
10,000 m walk	boys
Field events
Long jump	boys	girls
Triple jump	boys	girls
High jump	boys	girls
Pole vault	boys	girls
Shot put	boys	girls
Discus throw		girls
Javelin throw	boys	girls
Hammer throw	boys	girls
Combined events
Heptathlon		girls
Decathlon	boys

The boys' discus throw at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero in Cali, Colombia from 17 to 18 July 2015.^[1]

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.

World Youth Best	Mykyta Nesterenko (UKR)	77.50	Kyiv, Ukraine	19 May 2008
Championship Record	Mykyta Nesterenko (UKR)	70.67	Ostrava, Czech Republic	13 July 2007
World Youth Leading	Werner Visser (RSA)	65.30	Roodepoort, South Africa	17 January 2015

With qualifying standard of 58.50 (Q) or at least the 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.^[2]

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	Mark	Notes
1	A	Wictor Petersson	Sweden	53.78	64.83		64.83	Q, PB
2	B	Werner Visser	South Africa	61.93			61.93	Q
3	A	Patrick Duvenage	South Africa	56.22	59.63		59.63	Q
4	B	Henrik Janssen	Germany	55.34	x	59.10	59.10	Q, PB
5	A	Adrian Piperi	United States	57.14	55.60	58.62	58.62	Q
6	B	Gabriel Oladipo	United States	56.86	55.99	58.59	58.59	Q, PB
7	B	George Evans	Great Britain	56.46	58.53		58.53	Q
8	B	Hleb Zhuk	Belarus	58.09	x	57.09	58.09	q
9	A	Wang Yuhan	China	56.88	56.31	56.44	56.88	q
10	A	Richárd Szebegyinszki	Hungary	53.88	56.31	54.53	56.31	q
11	B	Miguel de la Caridad	Cuba	56.15	53.91	53.25	56.15	q
12	B	Mihaíl Kartsíni	Greece	53.32	53.43	55.10	55.10	q
13	A	Oskar Stachnik	Poland	54.00	53.63	55.06	55.06
14	A	Christoforos Genethli	Cyprus	53.58	52.99	54.66	54.66
15	A	Temuri Abulashvili	Georgia	x	54.27	x	54.27
16	B	Georgios Koniarakis	Cyprus	54.22	51.60	x	54.22
17	A	Alejandro Castillo	Mexico	53.86	52.04	51.51	53.86
18	B	Szymon Mazur	Poland	53.37	x	53.60	53.60
19	B	Giacomo Marinai	Italy	x	52.18	51.80	52.18
20	A	Nilson Rivas	Colombia	51.48	x	x	51.48
21	A	Ashwani Lamba	India	x	51.35	x	51.35
22	B	Saymon Hoffmann	Brazil	x	50.81	41.97	50.81
23	A	Victor Negara	Moldova	50.79	x	50.50	50.79
24	A	Félix Valle	Cuba	x	x	50.27	50.27
25	B	Ma Hau-wei	Chinese Taipei	46.94	x	x	46.94
26	A	Denzelle To'o	Cook Islands	45.04	45.44	x	45.44
–	B	Shehab Mohamed Abdalaziz	Egypt	x	x	x	NM

^[3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Mark	Notes
	Werner Visser	South Africa	59.03	x	64.24	x	x	x	64.24
	Wang Yuhan	China	60.33	x	x	x	58.61	58.84	60.33	PB
	George Evans	Great Britain	x	60.22	x	x	x	x	60.22
4	Hleb Zhuk	Belarus	46.61	58.39	54.74	x	60.18	x	60.18	PB
5	Richárd Szebegyinszki	Hungary	x	50.75	59.23	x	x	x	59.23
6	Adrian Piperi	United States	x	58.81	x	x	x	x	58.81	PB
7	Patrick Duvenage	South Africa	56.29	57.41	58.71	58.58	x	x	58.71
8	Miguel de la Caridad	Cuba	55.24	56.45	x	55.26	55.22	x	56.45
9	Gabriel Oladipo	United States	55.98	x	x				55.98
10	Henrik Janssen	Germany	x	x	55.76				55.76
11	Wictor Petersson	Sweden	x	53.02	x				53.02
12	Mihaíl Kartsíni	Greece	x	51.24	x				51.24