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 2000 Summer Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

 as part of the athletics program

Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, 46 events in athletics were contested, 24 for men and 22 for women. There were a total number of 2134 participating athletes from 193 countries.-Men's events:...

 was held at the Olympic Stadium on Friday, September 22.

The shot put has been ever present since the beginning of the modern Olympic Games

Olympic Games

The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

 in 1896

1896 Summer Olympics

The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, was a multi-sport event celebrated in Athens, Greece, from April 6 to April 15, 1896. It was the first international Olympic Games held in the Modern era...

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The qualifying athletes progressed through to the final where the qualifying distances are scrapped and they start afresh with up to six throws.

Medalists

Schedule

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  Qualification Round
  Group A	Group B
  22.09.2000 – 10:00h	22.09.2000 – 10:00h
  Final Round
  22.09.2000 – 18:45h

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in meters) prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics.

World Record	23.12 m	Randy Barnes Randy Barnes Eric Randolph Barnes is a former American shot putter who holds both the current outdoor and indoor World Records for the event. He won silver at the 1988 Olympics and gold at the 1996 Olympics....	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	Los Angeles Los Ángeles Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants... , California California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	20 May 1990
Olympic Record	22.47 m	Ulf Timmermann Ulf Timmermann Ulf Timmermann is a German shot putter who broke many world records during the 1980s and is the first and one of only two people to ever throw over 23 metres ....	German Democratic Republic German Democratic Republic The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...	Seoul Seoul Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world... , South Korea South Korea The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...	23 September 1988

Abbreviations

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
OR	olympic record
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Qualifying

Held on Friday, September 22, 2000.

The qualifying distance was 20.10 m. For all qualifiers who did not achieve the standard, the remaining spaces in the final were filled by the longest throws until a total of 12 qualifiers.

Group A

Place	Overall	Athlete	Nation	Mark	Qual	Record
1	2	John Godina John Godina John Carl Godina is an American shot putter, whose record includes three World Championship wins and two Olympic medals. He also competes in discus.-High School Years:...		20.58	Q
2	4	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...		20.12	Q
3	5	Timo Aaltonen Timo Aaltonen Timo Antero Aaltonen is a 189-cm tall Finnish shot putter who weighs 130 kg and competes for Turun Urheiluliitto, which is the same club that Paavo Nurmi ran for...		20.04	q
4	7	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....		19.97	q
5	8	Oliver-Sven Buder Oliver-Sven Buder Oliver-Sven Buder is a German track and field athlete, who in the 1990s belonged to the best shot-putters in the world. The high point of his career came at the World Championships in 1997 and 1999 where he won the silver medal...		19.96	q
6	9	Manuel Martinez		19.94	q
7	13	Brad Snyder		19.77
8	14	Burger Lambrechts Burger Lambrechts Burger Lambrechts is a South African shot putter.He attended Laerskool Nelspruit, where he was head-boy in 1986 and Hoërskool Waterkloof, where he was vice head-boy in 1991....		19.75
9	16	Dragan Peric Dragan Peric Dragan Perić is a retired Serbian shot putter who occasionally competed in the discus throw. He holds the Serbian records in both events...		19.49
10	20	Roman Virastyuk Roman Virastyuk Roman Virastyuk is a Ukrainian shot putter, best known for his bronze medal at the 1994 European Championships and the sixth place at the 1996 Olympic Games...		19.27
11	21	Chima Ugwu Chima Ugwu Chima Ugwu is a Nigerian shot putter. He also competes occasionally in discus throw.He competed at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics, and the World Championships in 1993, 1997 and 2003 without reaching the finals....		19.11
12	22	Karel Potgieter		19.02
13	23	Mikulas Konopka Mikuláš Konopka Mikuláš Konopka is a retired Slovak shot putter.Konopka originally won the bronze medal at the 2002 European Indoor Championships with a personal best throw of 20.87 metres, but tested positive for stanozolol and lost the medal...		18.99
14	24	Stevimir Ercegovac Stevimir Ercegovac Stevimir Ercegovac is a former Croatian shot putter, who represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia...		18.98
15	28	Saulius Kleiza Saulius Kleiza Saulius Kleiza is a retired shot putter and discus thrower from Lithuania, who competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. His personal best in the shot put event is 20.91 metres, thrown on 13 May 1987 in Leselidze.-Achievements:-References:**...		18.59
16	30	Gheorghe Guset Gheorghe Guset Gheorghe Guşet is a Romanian shot putter.As of September 2006 he is ranked 13th by the IAAF . Guset is noted for being competitive at such an advanced age , since most shot putters peak in their late 20s or early 30s....		18.56
17	32	Shakti Singh Shakti Singh Shakti Singh is an Indian discus thrower and shot putter.His personal best shot put is 20.60 metres, achieved in July 2000 in Bangalore. His personal best discus throw is 61.72 metres, achieved in June 1994 in Bangalore.-Achievements:...		18.40
18	33	Alexis Paumier 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...		18.31
19	35	Vaios Tigkas		18.13

Group B

Place	Overall	Athlete	Nation	Mark	Qual	Record
1	1	Arsi Harju Arsi Harju Arsi Ilari Harju is a Finnish shot putter with the team Perhon kiri. He won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with a distance of 21.29 metres. His personal best is 21.39, which he put in the qualifiers for the same Olympics. Due to his success in the Olympics and elsewhere that year,...		21.39	Q	PB
2	3	Yuriy Bilonog		20.53	Q
3	6	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...		20.00	q
4	10	Miroslav Menc Miroslav Menc Miroslav Menc is a Czech shot putter, whose personal best put is 20.64 metres, achieved in September 2000 in Ostrava.He has an indoor personal best of 20.68 metres...		19.92	q
5	11	Andrew Bloom		19.83	q
6	12	Janus Robberts Janus Robberts Janus Robberts is a South African athlete who competes in the shot put, and occasionally discus throw. He is the current African record holder in shot put with 21.97 metres, and also a former junior world record holder...		19.79	q
7	15	Ville Tiisanoja Ville Tiisanoja Ville Johannes Tiisanoja is a 192-cm tall Finnish shot putter who weighs 119 kg and competes for Kenttäurheilijat-58 in Vantaa. His personal best in the men's shot put currently stands at 21.09 m, which he put on July 28, 2002 in the Elite Games in Kuortane, Finland. He is coached by...		19.66
8	17	Joachim Olsen		19.41
9	18	Pavel Chumachenko Pavel Chumachenko Pavel Chumachenko is a Russian shot putter.His personal best is 20.54 metres, achieved in June 2001 in Bremen. He has an indoor personal best of 20.91 metres.-Achievements:-References:...		19.40
10	19	Paolo Dal Soglio Paolo Dal Soglio Paolo Dal Soglio is an Italian shot putter, best known for his gold medal at the 1996 European Indoor Championships and the fourth place at the 1996 Olympic Games. His personal best was 21.23 metres, achieved in September 1996 in Grosseto.-Achievements:-References:...		19.39
11	25	Szilard Kiss		18.95
12	26	Michael Mertens Michael Mertens Michael Mertens is a retired German shot putter.He represented the sports clubs VfL Wolfsburg and LG Göttingen, and won silver medals at the German championships in 1997 and 2000....		18.72
13	27	Bahadur Singh		18.70
14	29	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....		18.59
15	31	Mark Proctor		18.49
16	34	Bilal Saad Mubarak Bilal Saad Mubarak Bilal Saad Mubarak is a Qatari shot putter. His best finishes include eleventh place at the 1995 World Championships and tenth place at the 1996 Olympic Games...		18.30
17	36	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...		17.63
18	37	Sergey Rubtsov		15.90

Final Ranking

Rank	Athlete	Group	Distance	Qualified	Note
1		B	21.39 m	Q	PB
2		A	20.58 m	Q
3		B	20.53 m	Q
4		A	20.12 m	Q
5		A	20.04 m	q
6		B	20.00 m	q
7		A	19.97 m	q
8		A	19.96 m	q
9		A	19.94 m	q
10		B	19.92 m	q
11		B	19.83 m	q
12		B	19.79 m	q
13		A	19.77 m
14		A	19.75 m
15		B	19.66 m
16		A	19.49 m
17		B	19.41 m
18		B	19.40 m
19		B	19.39 m
20		A	19.27 m
21		A	19.11 m
22		A	19.02 m
23		A	18.99 m
24		A	18.98 m
25		B	18.95 m
26		B	18.72 m
27		B	18.70 m
28		A	18.59 m
29		B	18.59 m
30		A	18.56 m
31		B	18.49 m
32		A	18.40 m
33		A	18.31 m
34		B	18.30 m
35		A	18.13 m
36		B	17.63 m
37		B	15.90 m

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
		21.20	21.29	20.77	X	20.37	X	21.29 m
		20.53	21.20	21.21	X	20.97	X	21.21 m
		X	20.40	20.25	20.71	21.20	X	21.20 m
4		20.87	X	20.11	X	19.92	20.16	20.87 m
5		20.57	20.84	X	20.43	20.22	X	20.84 m
6		19.89	19.45	X	19.50	20.55	19.70	20.55 m	NR Spanish records in athletics The following are the national records in athletics in Spain maintained by its national athletics federation: Real Federación Española de Atletismo .-Men:-Women:-Men:-Women:-External links:* * * *...
7		18.81	19.72	X	18.87	19.06	20.32	20.32 m
8		19.89	20.18	X	19.64	X	X	20.18 m
9		19.48	X	X				19.48 m
10		19.02	19.16	19.39				19.39 m
11		X	X	19.06				19.06 m
12		X	18.64	X				18.64 m