The final of the men's discus throw event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain was held on August 5, 1992.

[1] The event was won by Romas Ubartas of Lithuania, a victory for the nation in its debut appearance in the men's discus throw.

Ubartas and Schult became the 11th and 12th men to win multiple discus throw medals; they had both represented different nations (the Soviet Union and East Germany, respectively, in 1988 and had finished one-two then as well, though in the opposite order.

The returning finalists from the 1988 Games were gold medalist Jürgen Schult of East Germany (now united Germany), silver medalist Romas Ubartas of the Soviet Union (now representing Lithuania), tenth-place finisher Mike Buncic of the United States, and twelfth-place finisher Imrich Bugár of Czechoslovakia.

The competition used the two-round format introduced in 1936, with the qualifying round completely separate from the divided final.