Near the end of the round, Matthew Denny moved into second with a 66.39m.

In the third round, Fedrick Dacres moved into third with his 66.72m and the field was put into a new order.

As the next to last thrower, Čeh finally got into the 70's barely at 70.02m to retake the lead.

On the final throw of the competition, Ståhl launched the winner 71.46 m (234 ft 5 in), the #15 throw in history (Ståhl and Čeh already share #6, Alekna's father holds #2).

Before the competition records were as follows:[2] The following records were set at the competition: The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 67.00 m.[3] The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows: Athletes attaining a mark of at least 66.50 metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualify for the final.