[1] Ethan Katzberg arrived at these championships with a respectable personal best of 78.73m set earlier in the season.

Five time defending champion Paweł Fajdek started off the finals with an exact 80 metre throw.

In the second round, Olympic Champion Wojciech Nowicki knocked his teammate Fajdek off the podium with an 80.70m.

He improved that to 80.83m in the fourth round to knock Halász off the top by a single cm.

Through two days of competition, Katzberg landed 6 legal throws, all of them more than a metre longer than he had ever thrown before.