Gerd Kanter-inglise keeles
indoor record set the previous year. Still, he started strongly outdoors, having a long early-
season throw of 71.45 m in California – the eleventh best throw ever at that point. He finished
just outside the medals at the 2010 European Athletics Championships, coming fourth, but
managed to win the silver medal at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics behind Robert
Harting. He ended that year with a season's best throw of 67.99 m at the Kamila Skolimowska
Memorial.
He won the 2012 and the 2013 IAAF Diamond League in discus throw.
On September 4, 2006, in Helsingborg, Sweden, Kanter threw more than 70 metres in four
different rounds (69.46 – 72.30 – 70.43 – 73.38 – 70.51 – 65.88). The best mark of 73.38 m
was an Estonian record and the third best in history – only Jürgen Schult (74.08 m, 1986) and
Virgilijus Alekna (73.88 m, 2000) have thrown further.
Gerd record in development