European Athletics Championships 1990 / Men's Shot Put

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	19 athletes from 10 countries
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 28 (qualifying) August 29 (final)
Medalist Ulf Timmermann ( GDR )   Oliver-Sven Buder ( GDR )   Georg Andersen ( NOR )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The shot put men at the 1990 European Athletics Championships was on 28 and 29 August 1990 at the Poljud Stadium in Split discharged.

In this competition, the shot putter from the GDR achieved a double victory. The European champion was the Olympic champion from 1988 , vice European champion from 1986 and European record holder Ulf Timmermann . Silver went to Oliver-Sven Buder . The Norwegian Georg Andersen won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	23.12 m	Randy Barnes	Los Angeles , USA	May 20, 1990
European record	23.06 m	Ulf Timmermann	Chania - Crete , Greece	May 22, 1988
EM record	22.22 m	Werner Günthör	EM Stuttgart , Germany	August 28, 1986

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

doping

There was a doping case in this discipline. The Soviet shot putter Vyacheslav Lycho , who had initially won the bronze medal, was convicted of taking pseudoephedrine . The medal was revoked and he was banned for three months. As for the sporting part, this had a serious impact on three athletes:

• Pole Helmut Krieger would have been eligible to participate in the finals as twelfth overall of the two qualifying groups, but had to watch.
• The German Karsten Stolz would have had three more attempts as eighth placed shot putter in the final.
• The Norwegian Georg Andersen did not receive his well-deserved bronze medal at the subsequent award ceremony, but only after the European Championships were long over.

qualification

August 28, 1990

Nineteen participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 19.60 m. Nine athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the next placed athletes to at least twelve participants. In twelfth place were two shot putters, each 19.25 m, both of which were admitted to the final. Four athletes were added to the nine directly qualified shot putters (highlighted in light green), the final field on the following day consisted of thirteen athletes. However, one of them was subsequently disqualified for doping fraud.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Lars Arvid Nilsen	Norway	20.15
2	Oliver-Sven Buder	GDR	20.08
3	Sergei Smirnov	Soviet Union	19.86
4th	Sergei Nikolaev	Soviet Union	19.67
5	Dragan Peric	Yugoslavia	19.51
6th	Karsten pride	BR Germany	19.39
7th	Pétur Guðmundsson	Iceland	19.25
8th	Bernd Kneißler	BR Germany	19.07
9	Paul Edwards	Great Britain	18.66

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Ulf Timmermann	GDR	20.42
2	Georg Andersen	Norway	20.38
3	Udo Beyer	GDR	20.09
4th	Kalman Konya	BR Germany	19.64
5	Klaus Bodenmüller	Austria	19.25
6th	Helmut Krieger	Poland	19.20 actually qualified for the final
7th	Jovan Lazarevic	Yugoslavia	19.18
8th	Gheorghe Guşet	Romania	18.87
9	Jan Sagedal	Norway	18.73
DOP	Vyacheslav Lycho	Soviet Union	admitted to the finals

final

Ulf Timmermann, the 1988 Olympic champion , vice European champion from 1986 and holder of the European record, has now also become European champion

August 29, 1990

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Ulf Timmermann	GDR	21.31
2	Oliver-Sven Buder	GDR	21.01
3	Georg Andersen	Norway	20.71
4th	Sergei Smirnov	Soviet Union	20.45
5	Udo Beyer	GDR	20.21
6th	Lars Arvid Nilsen	Norway	20.13
7th	Sergei Nikolaev	Soviet Union	19.97
8th	Karsten pride	BR Germany	19.95 actually entitled to 3 more hits
9	Kalman Konya	BR Germany	19.71
10	Klaus Bodenmüller	Austria	19.62
11	Pétur Guðmundsson	Iceland	19.46
12	Dragan Peric	Yugoslavia	18.67
DOP	Vyacheslav Lycho	Soviet Union

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  The EC tenth in 1986 Georg Andersen won the bronze medal - in 1991 he was banned for four years for doping abuse

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  Udo Beyer, two-time European champion ( 1978 / 1982 ), Olympic champion ( 1976 ), Olympic third ( 1980 ) and EM -Dritter ( 1986 ), had to be this time with fifth satisfied

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  Lars Arvid Nilsen, fifth in the European Championship in 1986, came in sixth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• European Championship 1990 Split, Men Shot Put on todor66.com, accessed September 14, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1990 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 14, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Shot Put European Championship 1990 Split, p. 454f (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 14, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1990, men's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on September 14, 2019
• 15th European Athletics Championships 1990 in Split, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on September 14, 2019

Video

• 2948 European Track & Field 1990 Split Shot Put Men Ulf Timmermann , published on December 3, 2015 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 14, 2019
• Georg Andersen - Split 1990 , published on March 20, 2011 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 14, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put men , accessed September 14, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Shot Put Men , p. 28 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on September 14, 2019
3. ↑ List of doping cases in athletics on ipfs.io, accessed on September 14, 2019
4. ↑ ^{a b} OLYMPICS / Barcelona 1992: Athletics: A clean sweep for former drug takers on independent.co.uk, August 1, 1992, accessed on September 14, 2019
5. ↑ Athletics - doping at world championships on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on September 14, 2019