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Germany's Christoph Harting took the silver medal when you look at the guys's discus place during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, beating favourite Piotr Malachowski of Poland with his last place.

Malachowski took the lead along with his fist place and seemed to be on his way to an easy win, as he eliminated 67 metres on three events whilst remaining area couldn't do so also when.

But Harting, the younger bro associated with defending champion Robert Harting, saved the best for last, clearing 68 metres to take the silver. Malachowski completed 2nd, while Estonia's Martin Kupper won the bronze.

Here is a review of the 3 medalists, and their finest punches:

BBC Recreation

Recap

Malachowski ended up being the obvious favourite going into the last, whilst the Polish star had the 2 most useful throws of the year under his belt as well as took top honours in qualifying. Previous Olympian Katharine Merry believed he would complete the work:

Can Malachowski take Gold.? me personally believes therefore. #discus #Rio

Defending winner Robert Harting would not qualify for the last, but his more youthful bro Christoph finished qualifying with the third-best mark, and he ended up being seen as certainly one of Malachowski's top competitors.

Daniel Jasinski took the first lead with a place of 65.77 metres, before Malachowski blew his mark off the the surface of the leaderboard with a 67.32 bomb. Athletics Weekly thought he had been satisfied with that:

Christoph Harting's very first attempt dropped nearly a meter lacking Malachowski's mark, and from very begin, nothing associated with professional athletes on the go appeared effective at coming also close to 67-metres level. Jasinski settled into 3rd place following the very first circular, beating Gerd Kanter by 67 centimetres.

Jasinski's second effort went foul, before Malachowski crossed the 67-metres mark once again and Christoph Harting failed to even clear 63 metres.

Inside background, Mason Finley, the only real contender maybe not from European countries, discovered himself stuck in last destination after two rounds, while Zoltan Kovago stayed in assertion for a medal but had to connect a gap greater than a metre.

Jasinski eliminated 66 metres together with his 3rd attempt, while Malachowski enhanced their score, hitting 67.55 metres to make the lead. Finley passed Andrius Gudzius with a throw of 62.05 metres, but he nevertheless needed to bridge 4.03 metres to log in to the podium.

The fourth round didn't see any action towards the top of the standings, and neither Christoph Harting nor Jasinski managed to come close to Malachowski inside fifth. Kupper did inject some excitement to the competitors by beating Jasinski's place, tracking a best length of 66.34 metres that put him in third destination.