Dylan Armstrong

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Dylan Armstrong athletics

2012-06-07 Bislett Games Armstrong02.jpg
Dylan Armstrong, 2012

nation CanadaCanada Canada
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discipline Shot put

Dylan Armstrong (born January 15, 1981 in Kamloops ) is a Canadian shot putter .

Originally the focus of his sporting activities was hammer throw . At the Pan American Junior Games in 1999 he won the gold medal, a year later the silver medal at the Junior World Championships in Santiago de Chile. Between 2000 and 2002 he was Canadian champion three times in a row. At the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, he was eliminated from the qualification. He holds the North American college record and junior record. He achieved his best performance on April 19, 2003 in Walnut with 71.51 m.

In 2004 he switched to the shot put. Just one year later, he was also Canadian champion in this discipline. In 2007 he won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro and reached the final at the World Championships in Osaka . There he was ninth with a width of 20.23 m.

On May 29, 2008 in Belgrade he improved Brad Snyder's four-year-old Canadian national record by six centimeters to 20.92 m. In the final of the 2008 Summer Olympics , he improved this mark to 21.04 m and, with this performance, ended up in third place, just one centimeter behind the bronze medalist Andrej Michnewitsch (Belarus), who was stripped of the bronze medal in 2014. 28 years after the former Canadian champion Bruno Pauletto won the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in 1982, Armstrong succeeded in repeating this achievement at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi with a width of 21.02 m.

At the 2011 World Championships Armstrong won the silver medal. At the Olympic Games in London 2012, he was fifth with 20.93 m.

At the 2013 World Championships in Moscow , he won the bronze medal with a season best of 21.34 m.

He is 1.93 m tall and weighs 113 kg. Armstrong is currently training in his hometown with the former Ukrainian hammer thrower Anatolij Bondarchuk .

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Footnotes

  1. ^ IAAF: Clarke and Oludamola take 100 m crowns, Armstrong dominates Shot Put in Delhi - Commonwealth Games Day Two . October 8, 2010
  2. ↑ Official results list of the International Athletics Federation - Men's Shot Put, Final 2013
personal data
SURNAME Armstrong, Dylan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian shot putter
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamloops