European Athletics Championships 2002 / Men's Shot Put

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	27 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 6 (qualification / final)
Medalist Jurij Bilonoh ( UKR )   Joachim Olsen ( DEN )   Ralf Bartels ( GER )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The shot put men at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was on August 6, 2002 at the Munich Olympic Stadium held.

The European champion was the Ukrainian European Championship third from 1998 Jurij Bilonoh . The Dane Joachim Olsen came in second. Bronze went to the German Ralf Bartels .

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.

qualification

August 6, 2002

27 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 20.20 m. Five athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the seven next-placed athletes to twelve shot-putters (highlighted in light green). So finally 19.76 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Joachim Olsen	Denmark	20.45
2	Jurij Bilonoh	Ukraine	20.22
3	Ralf Bartels	Germany	20.22
4th	Ville Tiisanoja	Finland	20.16
5	Gheorghe Guşet	Romania	19.98
6th	Szilard Kiss	Hungary	19.66
7th	Conny Karlsson	Finland	19.66
8th	Jury Bjalou	Belarus	19.43
9	Zlatan Žmirak	Croatia	18.87
10	Ivan Emilianov	Moldova	18.08
11	Giovanni Tubini	Italy	18.05
12	Pavol Pankúch	Slovakia	17.93
13	Michal Oertelt	Czech Republic	16.66

Group B

Pavel Lyschyn remained in the qualification without a valid attempt

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Arsi Harju	Finland	20.40
2	Manuel Martínez	Spain	20.38
3	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	20.17
4th	Milan Haborák	Slovakia	20.15
5	Roman Wirastyuk	Ukraine	19.90
6th	Petr Stehlík	Czech Republic	19.76
7th	Jimmy Nordin	Sweden	19.76
8th	Zsolt Bíber	Hungary	18.83
9	Andy Dittmar	Germany	18.77
10	Detlef Bock	Germany	18.08
11	Marco Dodoni	Italy	17.82
12	Hamza Alić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	17.29
13	Antonín Žalský	Czech Republic	17.17
NM	Pavel Lyschyn	Belarus	ogV

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
x	invalid

final

August 6, 2002

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Jurij Bilonoh	Ukraine	21.37	20.98	21.37	20.97	20.82	21.04	-
2	Joachim Olsen	Denmark	21.16	20.15	20.71	21.16	21.00	20.53	20.56
3	Ralf Bartels	Germany	20.58	20.10	19.95	19.48	19.19	20.58	20.42
4th	Arsi Harju	Finland	20.47	19.66	x	x	20.08	19.74	20.47
5	Manuel Martínez	Spain	20.45	20.45	19.88	x	x	19.90	20.16
6th	Ville Tiisanoja	Finland	20.20	19.93	19.76	20.17	20.09	19.98	20.20
7th	Gheorghe Guşet	Romania	20.05	19.12	19.46	20.05	x	19.47	x
8th	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	19.73	19.37	19.60	19.73	x	-	-
9	Roman Wirastyuk	Ukraine	19.52	19.52	x	x	not in the final of the eight best athletes
10	Milan Haborák	Slovakia	19.40	x	19.40	19.20
11	Jimmy Nordin	Sweden	19.12	19.12	x	x
NM	Petr Stehlík	Czech Republic	ogV	x	x	x

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  Silver medalist Joachim Olsen

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  Ralf Bartels won his first major international medal with bronze - two World Championships bronze, one European Championship silver and the 2008 European Championship title to follow

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  Rutger Smith reached eighth place - in 2005 he was third in the World Cup and vice European champion in 2012 , and was also successful in the discus throw

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  Jimmy Nordin failed to make a valid attempt in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 18, 2019
• European Championship 2002 Munich, Men Shot Put on todor66.com, accessed October 30, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed October 30, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Shot Put European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 483 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 30, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, men's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on October 30, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on October 30, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put, men , accessed October 30, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Shot Put Men , p. 28 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on October 30, 2019