European Athletics Championships 2016 / Men's Shot Put

23rd European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	29 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Amsterdam
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase	July 9th (qualification) July 10th (final)
Medalist David Storl ( GER )   Michał Haratyk ( POL )   Tsanko Arnaudov ( POR )

The Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam

The shot put men at the 2016 European Athletics Championships was on 9 and 10 July 2016 in the Olympic Stadium of the Dutch capital Amsterdam discharged.

The German David Storl won his third European Championship title in a row . He had previously Olympic silver in 2012 won, was twice world champion ( 2011 / 2013 ) and in 2015 became vice world champion. The second rank occupied the poles MichaĹ Haratyk . Bronze went to the Portuguese Tsanko Arnaudov .

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

Even at these European Championships since been 1,986 existing EM -record not endangered.

doping

In this competition there was a doping case that resulted in subsequent disqualification.

The doping test of the Romanian Andrei Toader , who initially placed sixth, on May 10, 2016, published in June 2016, contained the prohibited substance testosterone and was therefore positive. The athlete has been stripped of the results he has achieved since then, including his result from these European championships. Due to the four-year ban from May 10, 2016 to May 9, 2020, he had to give up his originally planned participation in the 2016 Olympic Games .

Two shot putters in particular were the victims of doping fraud:

• Hamza Alić from Bosnia and Herzegovina would have qualified for the final in twelfth place.
• The Croatia Stipe Žunić would have enjoyed as Achtplatziertem in the final three attempts.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

July 9, 2016, 1:05 pm

29 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 20.30 m. Five athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the next seven athletes, including the doping fraudster from Romania, to twelve shot putters (highlighted in light green). So finally 19.72 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)	annotation
1	David Storl	Germany	20.84	20.84	-	-
2	Konrad Bukowiecki	Poland	20.65	19.80	20.65	-
3	Borja Vivas	Spain	20.12	20.10	19.98	20.12
4th	Nikolaos Skarvelis	Greece	20.11	19.80	19.96	20.11
5	Hamza Alić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	19.61	x	x	19.61	actually qualified for the final
6th	Ladislav Prášil	Czech Republic	19.56	18.93	19.22	19.56
7th	Nedžad Mulabegović	Croatia	19.55	19.11	19.38	19.55
8th	Bob Bertemes	Luxembourg	19.39	x	19.39	19.13
9	Aliaksei Nichypar	Belarus	19.34	18.06	19.34	x
10	Leif Arrhenius	Sweden	18.64	18.64	x	x
	Marco Fortes	Portugal	18.64	x	18.64	x
NM	Georgi Ivanov	Bulgaria	ogV	x	x	x
	Kemal Mešić	Bosnia and Herzegovina		x	x	x
DOP	Andrei Toader	Romania					admitted to the finals

Shot putters eliminated from group A in qualification:

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  Hamza Alic - his 19.61 m would have been eligible for the final if it hadn't been for a doping fraudster

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  Ladislav Prášil - sixth place with 19.56 m

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  Bob Bertemes - eighth with 19.39 m

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  Marco Fortes - shared tenth place with 18.64 m

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  Georgi Ivanov remained without a valid attempt

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  Kemal Mešić failed to make a valid push

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Michał Haratyk	Poland	20.45	19.27	19.54	20.45
2	Tsanko Arnaudov	Portugal	20.42	20.06	20.42	-
3	Tobias Dahm	Germany	20.42	20.42	-	-
4th	Stipe Žunić	Croatia	20.24	19.71	19.67	20.24
5	Carlos Tobalina	Spain	20.16	20.16	19.68	-
6th	Asmir Kolašinac	Serbia	20.14	20.12	20.14	x
7th	Mesud Pezer	Bosnia and Herzegovina	19.72	19.15	19.72	19.67
8th	Andrei gag	Romania	19.48	19.48	19.38	x
9	Mikhail Abramchuk	Belarus	19.02	18.02	19.02	x
10	Arttu Kangas	Finland	18.91	x	18.66	18.91
11	Kristo Galeta	Estonia	18.76	18.76	18.50	18.23
12	Filip Mihaljevic	Croatia	18.72	18.72	x	18.53
13	Sebastiano Bianchetti	Italy	18.56	18.38	18.56	x
14th	Ivan Emilianov	Moldova	18.38	18.38	17.99	18.09
15th	Martin Stašek	Czech Republic	18.32	x	18.32	x

Shot putters eliminated from group B in qualification:

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  Andrei Gag - eighth with 19.48 m

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  Arttu Kangas - tenth place with 18.91 m

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  Martin Stašek - 15th place with 18.32 m

final

July 10, 2016, 5:30 p.m.

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	21.31 tbsp	x	21.03	20.84	x	21.31	x
2	Michał Haratyk	Poland	21.19	20.77	19.92	20.22	21.19	x	20.53
3	Tsanko Arnaudov	Portugal	20.59	20.59	x	x	19.28	19.87	x
4th	Konrad Bukowiecki	Poland	20.58	20.52	20.58	20.55	20.48	19.81	x
5	Asmir Kolašinac	Serbia	20.43	20.01	20.05	x	x	x	20.43
6th	Tobias Dahm	Germany	20.25	20.03	20.25	19.76	19.78	20.17	20.13
7th	Borja Vivas	Spain	20.16	19.58	20.15	20.03	x	20.16	x
8th	Stipe Žunić	Croatia	19.95	19.95	x	x	actually entitled to 3 more hits
9	Carlos Tobalina	Spain	19.85	19.15	x	19.85	not in the final of the eight best athletes
10	Nikolaos Skarvelis	Greece	19.55	19.34	19.55	19.12
11	Mesud Pezer	Bosnia and Herzegovina	19.49	x	x	19.49
DOP	Andrei Toader	Romania

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  Third title in a row for the two-time world champion ( 2011 / 2013 ), Olympic II of 2012 and Vice World Champion 2015 David Storl

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  Vice European Champion Michał Haratyk - then European Champion in 2018

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  Konrad Bukowiecki took fourth place - two years later he became vice European champion

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  Asmir Kolašinac finished fifth

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  Tobias Dahm reached sixth place

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  Stipe Žunić came in eighth - in the final he was cheated out of three attempts by doping offender Andrei Toader

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  The ninth placed Carlos Tobalina

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  Eleventh place for Mesud Pezer

Video

• Shot Put Men - Amsterdam 2016 on youtube.com, accessed February 29, 2020

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Amsterdam 2016 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 29, 2020
• European Championship 2016 Amsterdam, Men Shot Put on todor66.com, accessed February 29, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2016 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on February 29, 2020
• 23rd European Athletics Championships 2016 in Amsterdam, Netherlands from ifosta.de, accessed on February 29, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put men , accessed February 29, 2020
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Shot Put Men , p. 28 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on February 29, 2020
3. ^ Andrei Toader (M) on dopingsanctions.com (English), accessed on February 29, 2020
4. ↑ Bydgoszcz shot put silver medal Andrei Toader tested positive to testosterone on trackarena.com July 24, 2016 (English), accessed on February 29, 2020