European Athletics Championships 2012 / Men's Shot Put

21st European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	24 athletes from 20 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	June 27th (qualification) June 29th (final)
Medalist David Storl ( GER )   Rutger Smith ( NED )   Asmir Kolašinac ( SRB )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The shot putter on the podium

The shot put men at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was on 27 and 29 June 2012 at the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki held.

European champion was the German world champion from 2011 David Storl . He won ahead of the Dutch vice world champion from 2005 Rutger Smith , who also won the bronze medal in the discus throw the following day . Third was the Serb Asmir Kolašinac .

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

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

June 27, 2012, 9:45 a.m.

24 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 20.30 m. Two athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the ten next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 19.48 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)
1	David Storl	Germany	20.30	20.30	-	-
2	Antonín Žalský	Czech Republic	19.94	19.94	19.88	-
3	Kim Christensen	Denmark	19.69	18.77	18.83	19.69
4th	Borja Vivas	Spain	19.67	19.67	x	x
5	Asmir Kolašinac	Serbia	19.62	19.42	19.62	x
6th	Dmytro Savytskyy	Ukraine	19.52	19.23	19.52	19.51
7th	Leif Arrhenius	Sweden	19.33	x	18.64	19.33
8th	Carl Myerscough	Great Britain	19.30	18.61	19.30	x
9	Māris Urtāns	Latvia	19.25	19.08	19.25	x
10	Marin Premeru	Croatia	18.71	18.71	x	18.56
11	Ódinn Björn Thorsteinsson	Iceland	18.19	x	18.19	x
12	Georgios Aresti	Cyprus	18.16	18.16	18.13	18.15
DNS	Anton Lyuboslawski	Russia

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  Carl Myerscough (here at the discus throw) reached 19.30 m, which was not quite enough for the final

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  Māris Urtāns retired with 19.25 m in the qualification

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  Ódinn Björn Thorsteinsson failed clearly with his 18.19 m

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	20.55	20.55	-	-
2	Marco Schmidt	Germany	19.85	19.18	19.85	x
3	Nedžad Mulabegović	Croatia	19.79	19.47	19.49	19.79
4th	Marco Fortes	Portugal	19.66	19.15	18.84	19.66
5	Hüseyin Atıcı	Turkey	19.64	17.96	x	19.64
6th	Lajos Kürthy	Hungary	19.48	x	19.11	19.48
7th	Georgi Ivanov	Bulgaria	19.14	19.14	19.02	x
8th	Hamza Alić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	19.03	18.66	18.84	19.03
9	Mihaíl Stamatóyiannis	Greece	18.95	18.68	18.94	18.95
10	Ladislav Prášil	Czech Republic	18.87	18.87	x	x
11	Božidar Antunović	Serbia	18.69	18.69	x	18.56
12	Adriatic Hoxha	Albania	17.00	16.40	x	17.00
DNS	Damian Kusiak	Poland

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  Georgi Ivanov did not reach the final with his 19.14 m

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  For Mihaíl Stamatóyiannis 18.95 m were not enough to make it into the final

final

June 29, 2012, 9:20 pm

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	David Storl	Germany	21.58	21.19	x	21.58	x	x	-
2	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	20.55	20.25	x	20.55	x	20.15	x
3	Asmir Kolašinac	Serbia	20.36	20.22	20.36	x	19.88	20.33	x
4th	Hüseyin Atıcı	Turkey	20.24	18.70	20.24	20.02	20.08	19.89	x
5	Marco Fortes	Portugal	20.24	19.47	19.29	20.24	19.38	19.84	18.54
6th	Antonín Žalský	Czech Republic	19.94	19.94	x	19.63	x	x	x
7th	Borja Vivas	Spain	19.81	19.54	19.59	19.81	19.37	19.35	19.37
8th	Marco Schmidt	Germany	19.65	19.42	19.65	x	x	x	18.97
9	Lajos Kürthy	Hungary	19.55	19.23	19.55	x	not in the final of the eight best athletes
10	Dmytro Savytskyy	Ukraine	19.30	19.30	x	19.30
11	Nedžad Mulabegović	Croatia	19.26	19.26	x	19.09
12	Kim Christensen	Denmark	19.00	18.72	19.00	18.91

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  The reigning world champion David Storl became European champion

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  Rutger Smith, 2005 vice world champion, became vice European champion and won bronze in the discus throw the following day

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  Bronze medalist Asmir Kolašinac at the award ceremony

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  5th place for Marco Fortes

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  Marco Schmidt reached eighth place

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  Lajos Kürthy came in ninth place

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  Kim Christensen was twelfth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 2012 at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 17, 2020
• European Championship 2012 Helsinki, Men Shot Put on todor66.com, accessed January 17, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2012 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 17, 2020
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Shot Put European Championship 2012 Helsinki, p. 513 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 17, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2012, men's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on January 17, 2020
• 21st European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on January 17, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put men , accessed January 17, 2020
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Shot Put Men , p. 28 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on January 17, 2020