Kanter takes gold in Olympic discus throw

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Kanter takes gold in Olympic discus throw

Aug 20, 2008
By Abdul Turay

FIRST GOLD: Estonian discus thower Gerd Kanter was the first athlete from the Baltics to win a gold in Beijing. The victory came on the eve of the Estonian independence day.

TALLINN - Estonia went wild when Gerd Kanter claimed the country’s first gold medal of the summer Olympic Games in the men’s discus throw. Kanter won in style, with a throw of 68.82, a full meter farther than his nearest rival, Piotr Malachowski of Poland. In a double whammy for the Baltics, Virgilijus Alekna of Lithuania won the bronze medal. This was a slight disappointment, however, as Alekna was considered Kanter’s nearest rival. Toomas Tonise, head of the Estonian Olympic Committee, told ...

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