European Athletics Championships 2010 / Men's Shot Put

20th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	27 athletes from 21 countries
venue	Barcelona
Competition location	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Competition phase	July 30th (qualification) ; July 31st (final)
	Medalist
	Tomasz Majewski ( POL )
	Ralf Bartels ( GER )
	Māris Urtāns ( LAT )

The Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona in 2007

The shot put men at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was on 30 and 31 July 2010 at Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys the city of Barcelona held.

European champion was the Polish Olympic champion from 2008 and Vi world champion from 2009 Tomasz Majewski . He won before the German defending champion, World Cup -third of 2005 / 2009 and EM -third of 2002 Ralf Bartels . Bronze went to the Latvian Māris Urtāns .

Existing records

World record	23.12 m	United States Randy Barnes	Los Angeles , USA	May 20, 1990
European record	23.06 m	Germany Democratic Republic 1949 Ulf Timmermann	Chania - Crete , Greece	May 22, 1988
EM record	22.22 m	Switzerland Werner Günthör	EM Stuttgart , Germany	August 28, 1986

The since 1986 existing EM -record remained unmatched even at these European Championships.

doping

In this competition, three athletes were subsequently disqualified for violating the doping regulations:

The Belarusian Andrej Michnewitsch , who originally took first place, was stripped of his results from 2007 to 2011 in 2013. As a multiple offender he was banned for life.
Pawel Lyschyn , also Belarus, originally seventh, was convicted of doping abuse in post-tests in 2016. Among other things, his placement at these European championships was canceled.
The Czech Remigius Machura jun. , eliminated from the qualification, tested positive for doping with hormones in September 2010 and was banned for two years. His 2010 European Championship result was canceled.

The victims of the doping fraud were mainly five athletes:

The Pole Tomasz Majewski was declared European champion three years late.
The Latvian Māris Urtāns received his bronze medal only three years after the competition.
The Estonian Taavi Peetre was deprived of the final.

The Portuguese Marco Fortes could also have participated in the final.

The Spaniard Borja Vivas should have made three more hits in the final.

Also the Briton Carl Myerscough would have allowed three more attempts in the final.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

July 30, 2010, 11:30 a.m.

27 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 20.00 m. Originally seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), including the two doped Belarusians Michnewitsch and Lyschyn. The final field was filled with the five next-placed athletes to twelve athletes (highlighted in light green). So finally 19.51 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	comment
1	Ralf Bartels	Germany Germany	20.37	20.37	-	-
2	Tomasz Majewski	Poland Poland	20.36	20.36	-	-
3	Nedžad Mulabegović	Croatia Croatia	20.01	20.01	-	-
4th	Antonín Žalský	Czech Republic Czech Republic	19.93	19.93	19.78	19.74
5	Carl Myerscough	United Kingdom Great Britain	19.81	19.34	x	19.81
6th	Taavi Peetre	Estonia Estonia	19.42	19.42	x	x	actually qualified for the final
7th	Andriy Semenov	Ukraine Ukraine	19.31	19.31	x	x
8th	Lajos Kürthy	Hungary Hungary	19.15	x	19.15	x
9	Niklas Arrhenius	Sweden Sweden	18.93	18.93	x	x
10	Milan Jotanović	Serbia Serbia	18.81	18.81	18.38	18.42
11	Miran Vodovnik	Slovenia Slovenia	18.42	x	18.42	x
12	Manuel Martínez	Spain Spain	18.08	18.08	x	17.73
DOP	Andrei Michnewitsch	Belarus Belarus					admitted to the finals

With 19.15 m, Lajos Kürthy did not reach the final
Niklas Arrhenius scored 18.93 m and was eliminated
Manuel Martínez got stuck with 18.08 m in the qualification

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	comment
1	David Storl	Germany Germany	20.24	19.74	x	20.24
2	Māris Urtāns	Latvia Latvia	20.19	18.55	19.17	20.19
3	Asmir Kolašinac	Serbia Serbia	19.83	x	19.75	19.83
4th	Jakub Giża	Poland Poland	19.69	19.44	18.90	19.69
5	Borja Vivas	Spain Spain	19.51	19.14	19.21	19.51
6th	Marco Fortes	Portugal Portugal	19.48	19.24	19.48	18.70	actually qualified for the final
7th	Mihaíl Stamatóyiannis	Greece Greece	18.58	18.15	18.28	18.58
8th	Georgi Ivanov	Bulgaria Bulgaria	18.28	18.18	18.28	x
9	Georgios Aresti	Cyprus Republic Cyprus	18.23	x	18.23	17.76
10	Kim Christensen	Denmark Denmark	18.20	17.36	18.20	x
NM	Ódinn Björn Thorsteinsson	Iceland Iceland	ogV	x	x	x
NM	Yves Niaré	France France	ogV	x	x	x
DOP	Pavel Lyschyn	Belarus Belarus					admitted to the finals
DOP	Remigius Machura jun.	Czech Republic Czech Republic

Marco Fortes was not in the final after 19.48 m, but had actually qualified for it, as it turned out after the later disqualification of the doping offender
Ódinn Björn Thorsteinsson remained in the qualification without a valid shot
Yves Niaré failed to make a valid attempt in qualifying

final

July 31, 2010, 6:30 p.m.

The reigning European champion Ralf Bartels came as four years ago-only with his last attempt in the medal ranks. This time gold went to Olympic champion Tomasz Majewski, silver to Bartels.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Tomasz Majewski	Poland Poland	21.00	20.66	20.83	20.78	21.00	20.96	20.59
2	Ralf Bartels	Germany Germany	20.93	20.23	20.22	20.40	20.22	20.65	20.93
3	Māris Urtāns	Latvia Latvia	20.72	19.81	20.12	x	20.56	20.72	20.64
4th	David Storl	Germany Germany	20.57	20.24	20.24	x	20.28	x	20.57
5	Nedžad Mulabegović	Croatia Croatia	20.56	20.56	x	20.33	19.90	20.50	20.33
6th	Antonín Žalský	Czech Republic Czech Republic	20.01	20.01	x	19.58	x	x	x
7th	Asmir Kolašinac	Serbia Serbia	19.77	19.61	x	19.77	not in the final of the best eight athletes, but actually entitled to 3 more hits
8th	Jakub Giża	Poland Poland	19.73	18.63	19.04	19.73
9	Borja Vivas	Spain Spain	19.12	19.04	18.94	19.12	not in the final of the eight best athletes
10	Carl Myerscough	United Kingdom Great Britain	18.19	x	x	18.19	not in the final of the eight best athletes
DOP	Andrei Michnewitsch	Belarus Belarus
DOP	Pavel Lyschyn	Belarus Belarus

With Tomasz Majewski, one of the strongest shot putters of these years was European champion
Ralf Bartels, multiple medalist at world and European championships, won the silver medal
Bronze medalist Māris Urtāns
David Storl, later three times European champion and twice world champion, came fourth
Asmir Kolašinac finished seventh
Carl Myerscough - here as a discus thrower, came tenth in this final
Andrej Michnewitsch, one of three doping offenders in this competition - his result was annulled and he was banned for life as a multiple offender
Pavel Lyschyn - disqualified for doping fraud