The first part of the present paper is devoted to a systematic construction of continuous-time finite-dimensional integrable systems arising from the rational su(2) Gaudin model through certain contraction procedures. In the second part, we derive an explicit integrable Poisson map discretizing a particular Hamiltonian flow of the rational su(2) Gaudin model. Then, the contraction procedures enable us to construct explicit integrable discretizations of the continuous systems derived in the first part of the paper. † petrera@ma.tum.de. ⋄ suris@ma.tum.de. 1 H (2) 1 = p, z 1 + = 1 2 z 1 , z 1 . The map (6) for N = 2 coincides with the integrable discretization of the Lagrange top found in [6]: z 0 = z 0 + ε[ p, z 1 ] , z 1 = (1 + ε z 0 ) z 1 (1 + ε z 0 ) −1 ,