Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's shot put
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The Men's Shot Put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 15 August at the Beijing Olympic Stadium.

The qualifying standards were 20.30 m (66.6 ft) (A standard) and 19.80 m (64.96 ft) (B standard).

Medalists




Schedule

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    Qualification Round
    Group A Group B
    15.08.2008 – 09:05h 15.08.2008 – 10:35h
    Final Round
    15.08.2008 – 21:00h



Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.

Qualifying round

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 20.40 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Group A

Rank Athlete Nationality 1 2 3 Result Notes
1 Tomasz Majewski
Tomasz Majewski
Tomasz Majewski is a Polish Olympic gold medalist shot putter. He is 204 cm tall and weighs 140 kg ....

 
21.04 21.04 Q, PB
2 Christian Cantwell
Christian Cantwell
Christian Cantwell is a World Champion American shot putter. As of 2008 he is 6' 5" tall and weighs 300 or 335 lbs ....

 
20.11 20.48 20.48 Q
3 Dylan Armstrong
Dylan Armstrong
Dylan Armstrong is a Canadian shot putter born and raised in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.-Career:Armstrong achieved a personal best, and Canadian record at that time, of 21.04 meters at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he finished fourth, missing out on a medal by a single...

 
20.43 20.43 Q
4 Reese Hoffa
Reese Hoffa
Reese Hoffa is an American shot putter. Reese won the shot put in the 2006 World Indoor Track and Field Championships in Moscow, Russia. As of 2007, his personal bests stand at 22.11 m indoor and 22.43 m outdoor. His outdoor performance ranks him 11th on the world all-time lists...

 
20.41 20.41 Q
5 Pavel Sofin
Pavel Sofin
Pavel Sofin is a Russian shot putter.His personal best is 20.63 metres, achieved in June 2006 in Sochi. He has 20.68 metres on the indoor track, achieved in March 2006 in Moscow.-Achievements:-References:...

 
20.29 20.29 q
6 Yury Bialou
Yury Bialou
Yury Bialou is a male shot putter from Belarus. His personal best throw is 21.14 metres, achieved in May 2003 in Minsk.-Achievements:-References:...

 
20.12 19.87 20.12 q
7 Andriy Semenov
Andriy Semenov
Andriy Semenov is a Ukrainian shot putter.Semenov was born in Moldavian SSR. He finished fourth at the 2001 World Youth Championships...

 
18.95 19.59 20.01 20.01
8 Hamza Alic
Hamza Alic
Hamza Alić is a Bosnian shot putter.He competed at the World Championships in 2005 and 2007, the European Championships in 2002 and 2006, the World Indoor Championships in 2006 and 2008 as well as the 2008 Olympic Games, but without reaching the final.His personal best throw is 21.07 metres,...

 
19.33 19.48 19.87 19.87
9 Anton Lyuboslavskiy  19.14 19.87 19.87
10 Scott Martin
Scott Martin
Scott Martin is an Australian shot putter and discus throw competitor. He rose to prominence in a National Australia Bank advertisement promoting the 2006 Commonwealth Games; in the ad, Martin was shown taking part in a ballet class to improve his discus technique...

 
19.75 19.75
11 Joachim Olsen  19.62 19.69 19.74 19.74 SB
12 Carlos Véliz
Carlos Véliz
Carlos Véliz is a male shot putter from Cuba. His personal best throw is 21.40 metres, achieved in June 2011 in Brazzaville.-Career:* 2006...

 
19.58 19.25 19.16 19.58
13 Māris Urtāns
Maris Urtans
Māris Urtāns is a male shot putter from Latvia. His personal best throw is 21.63 metres, achieved in 19 June 2010 in Belgrad....

 
18.78 19.57 19.34 19.57
14 Milan Haborak
Milan Haborák
Milan Haborák is a Slovak shot putter.Haborák's personal best throw is 20.87 metres, achieved in May 2004 in Turnov. He first broke the 20-metre barrier in 2000. Haborák received a two-year ban in 2004 for using hormones...

 
19.32 19.32
15 Germán Lauro
Germán Lauro
Germán Luján Lauro is an Argentine shot putter.He finished eleventh at the 2001 World Youth Championships and became South American champion in 2006...

 
19.07 18.96 19.07
16 Asmir Kolasinac
Asmir Kolašinac
Asmir Kolašinac is a Serbian shot putter. He competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games He has a personal best throw of 20.50m, thrown in Novi Sad on the 4th June 2011, becoming the first Serbian track and field athlete to achieve the "A" Standard for the 2012 London Olympic Games.-Throwing...

 
18.32 19.01 19.01
17 Lajos Imre Kurthy  18.38 18.74 18.74
18 Mihail Stamatoyiannis
Mihail Stamatoyiannis
Michalis Stamatogiannis is a Greek shot putter.He finished tenth at the 1999 World Youth Championships and ninth at the 2000 World Junior Championships. He also competed at the 2008 Olympic Games without reaching the final....

 
18.45 18.30 18.45
19 Marco Antonio Verni
Marco Antonio Verni
Marco Antonio Verni is a Chilean shot putter. His personal best throw is 21.14 metres, achieved in July 2004 in Santiago de Chile....

 
17.96 17.96
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Robert Häggblom
Robert Markus Häggblom is a Finnish shot putter.He won the gold medal at the 1999 World Youth Championships and finished fourth at the 2007 European Indoor Championships...

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Georgi Ivanov (athlete)
Georgi Stoyanov Ivanov is an Bulgarian shot putter. His personal best throw is 20.02 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Sofia.He won the gold medals at the 2001 World Youth Championships and the 2004 World Junior Championships, and the bronze medal at the 2003 European Junior Championships...

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Ralf Bartels
Ralf Bartels is a German shot putter. He became European Champion at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, Sweden after beating Belarusian Andrei Mikhnevich with a final put of 21.13 metres, two centimetres ahead of the Belarusian.Bartels also won bronze at the 2005...

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Group B

Rank Athlete Nationality 1 2 3 Result Notes
1 Adam Nelson
Adam Nelson
Adam Nelson is an elite American shotputter. A 1997 graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Nelson has competed in two Olympic Games...

 
20.56 20.56 Q
2 Andrei Mikhnevich
Andrei Mikhnevich
Andrei Anatolyevich Mikhnevich is a Belarusian shot putter with a personal best of 22.00 metres, set in 2008. He holds the Belarusian record indoors with a throw of 21.81 m at the national indoor championships....

 
20.38 20.48 20.48 Q
3 Pavel Lyzhyn
Pavel Lyzhyn
Pavel Lyzhyn is a Belarusian shot putter.His personal best throw is 20.98 metres, achieved at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing which translated into a fifth place, just 7cm short of the bronze medal winner and 11cm short of the silver.-Achievements:...

 
20.36 20.36 q
4 Yuriy Bilonog  19.93 20.16 19.57 20.16 q
5 Rutger Smith
Rutger Smith
Rutger Smith is a Dutch track and field athlete competing in the shot put and discus throw. He was the first athlete to win medals at the World Championships in both events. He represented the Netherlands at the Summer Olympics in 2004 and 2008...

 
20.13 19.97 20.13 q
6 Ivan Yushkov
Ivan Yushkov
Ivan Yushkov is a Russian shot putter.His personal best throw is 21.01 metres, achieved in May 2008 in Sochi.-Achievements:-References:...

 
20.02 19.83 20.00 20.02 q
7 Peter Sack
Peter Sack
Peter Sack is a German shot putter.He finished fourth at the 1998 World Junior Championships and won the bronze medal at the 1999 European Junior Championships behind Ralf Bartels and Mikuláš Konopka. He also competed at the 2004 Olympic Games and the 2006 World Indoor Championships without...

 
19.76 20.01 20.01
8 Dorian Scott
Dorian Scott
Dorian Armand Scott is a Jamaican shot putter. His personal best is 21.45 meters, achieved in March 2008 in Tallahassee, Florida...

 
19.54 19.94 19.71 19.94
9 Justin Anlezark
Justin Anlezark
Justin Anlezark is a male shot putter from Australia. His personal best throw is 20.96 metres, achieved in April 2003 in Brisbane....

 
19.91 19.75 19.91
10 Manuel Martínez  19.62 19.45 19.81 19.81
11 Miran Vodovnik
Miran Vodovnik
Miran Vodovnik is a Slovenian shot putter. His personal best throw and Slovene record is 20.76 metres, achieved in June 2006 in Thessaloniki....

 
18.72 19.81 19.81
12 Yves Niare
Yves Niaré
Yves Niaré is a male shot putter from France. His personal best throw is 20.72 metres, achieved in May 2008 in Versailles....

 
19.73 19.73
13 Taavi Peetre
Taavi Peetre
Taavi Peetre was an Estonian shot putter and discus thrower. He represented his country at two Olympic Games and also took part in the World Championships in Athletics on two occasions. His personal best shot put mark of 20.33 m is the second best by an Estonian thrower after Heino Sild...

 
19.57 19.57
14 Sultan Abdulmajeed Al-Hebshi
Sultan Abdulmajeed Al-Hebshi
Sultan Abdulmajeed Al-Hebshi is a Saudi Arabian shot putter.His personal best was set at the 2009 Doha meeting, throwing a new area record of 21.13 m and finishing in third, only behind Olympic champion Tomasz Majewski and World Champion Reese...

 
18.67 19.51 19.51
15 Petr Stehlik
Petr Stehlík
Petr Stehlík is a Czech shot putter. His personal best throw is 20.96 metres, achieved in May 2004 in Turnov. The Czech record is currently held by Remigius Machura with 21.93 metres....

 
19.41 19.41
16 Nedzad Mulabegovic
Nedžad Mulabegovic
Nedžad Mulabegović is a Croatian shot putter. His personal best throw is 20.56 metres, achieved in July 2010 in Barcelona, Spain....

 
19.11 19.35 18.88 19.35
17 Reinaldo Proenza  19.15 19.06 19.20 19.20
18 Ivan Emilianov
Ivan Emilianov
Ivan Emilianov is a Moldovan shot putter.He competed at the Olympic Games in 2000, 2004 and 2008, the World Championships in 2001 and 2007, the World Indoor Championships in 2004 and 2008 and the European Championships in 2002 and 2006 without reaching the finals.He achieved his best throw of...

 
18.64 18.27 18.64
19 Yasser Farag  18.37 18.42 18.42
20 Marco Fortes
Marco Fortes
Marco Fortes is a male shot putter from Portugal. His personal best throw is 20.69 meters, achieved in June at the 2010 Ibero-American Championships in San Fernando, Spain...

 
18.05 18.05
21 Chang Ming-Huang
Chang Ming-Huang
Chang, Ming-Huang is a Taiwanese discus thrower and shot putter.He has been focusing on shot put only since 2006. He trained in National College of Physical Education during his university study in Taiwan. He also has trained in China for a period of time...

 
16.13 16.98 17.43 17.43
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Amin Nikfar
Amin Abraham Paul Nikfar is an Iranian shot putter. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004 where he was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity....

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Alexis Paumier
Alexis Paumier is a Cuban shot putter. His personal best throw is 20.78 metres, achieved in July 2000 in Havana.He won the silver medals at the 2001 and 2005 Central American and Caribbean Championships and the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games...

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Final

August 15, 2008 - 21:00
Rank Athlete Nationality123456 Result Notes
Tomasz Majewski
Tomasz Majewski
Tomasz Majewski is a Polish Olympic gold medalist shot putter. He is 204 cm tall and weighs 140 kg ....

 
20.80 20.47 21.21 21.51 20.44 21.51 PB
Christian Cantwell
Christian Cantwell
Christian Cantwell is a World Champion American shot putter. As of 2008 he is 6' 5" tall and weighs 300 or 335 lbs ....

 
20.39 20.98 20.88 20.86 20.69 21.09 21.09
Andrei Mikhnevich
Andrei Mikhnevich
Andrei Anatolyevich Mikhnevich is a Belarusian shot putter with a personal best of 22.00 metres, set in 2008. He holds the Belarusian record indoors with a throw of 21.81 m at the national indoor championships....

 
20.73 21.05 20.78 20.57 20.93 21.05
4 Dylan Armstrong
Dylan Armstrong
Dylan Armstrong is a Canadian shot putter born and raised in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.-Career:Armstrong achieved a personal best, and Canadian record at that time, of 21.04 meters at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he finished fourth, missing out on a medal by a single...

 
20.62 21.04 20.47 21.04 NR
5 Pavel Lyzhyn
Pavel Lyzhyn
Pavel Lyzhyn is a Belarusian shot putter.His personal best throw is 20.98 metres, achieved at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing which translated into a fifth place, just 7cm short of the bronze medal winner and 11cm short of the silver.-Achievements:...

 
20.33 20.15 20.98 20.98 20.40 20.98 PB
6 Yuriy Bilonog  20.63 20.53 20.46 20.31 20.63 SB
7 Reese Hoffa
Reese Hoffa
Reese Hoffa is an American shot putter. Reese won the shot put in the 2006 World Indoor Track and Field Championships in Moscow, Russia. As of 2007, his personal bests stand at 22.11 m indoor and 22.43 m outdoor. His outdoor performance ranks him 11th on the world all-time lists...

 
19.81 20.53 20.38 20.53
8 Pavel Sof'in
Pavel Sofin
Pavel Sofin is a Russian shot putter.His personal best is 20.63 metres, achieved in June 2006 in Sochi. He has 20.68 metres on the indoor track, achieved in March 2006 in Moscow.-Achievements:-References:...

 
20.42 20.42
9 Rutger Smith
Rutger Smith
Rutger Smith is a Dutch track and field athlete competing in the shot put and discus throw. He was the first athlete to win medals at the World Championships in both events. He represented the Netherlands at the Summer Olympics in 2004 and 2008...

 
20.41 20.30 20.41
10 Yury Bialou
Yury Bialou
Yury Bialou is a male shot putter from Belarus. His personal best throw is 21.14 metres, achieved in May 2003 in Minsk.-Achievements:-References:...

 
20.06 20.06
11 Ivan Yushkov
Ivan Yushkov
Ivan Yushkov is a Russian shot putter.His personal best throw is 21.01 metres, achieved in May 2008 in Sochi.-Achievements:-References:...

 
19.67 19.55 19.67
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Adam Nelson
Adam Nelson is an elite American shotputter. A 1997 graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Nelson has competed in two Olympic Games...

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