World Athletics Championships 1991 / Men's Shot Put

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	30 athletes from 11 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 30th (qualification) August 31st (final)
Medalist Werner Günthör ( SUI )   Lars Arvid Nilsen ( NOR )   Oleksandr Klymenko ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The shot put men at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics was on 30 and 31 August 1991 at the Olympic Stadium of the Japanese capital Tokyo discharged.

The defending champion was world champion, Olympic runner-up in 1988 and European champion in 1986 Werner Günthör from Switzerland . Second place went to the Norwegian Lars Arvid Nilsen . Bronze went to Oleksandr Klymenko from the Soviet Union .

Existing records

World record	23.12 m	Randy Barnes	Los Angeles , USA	May 20, 1990
World championship record	22.23 m	Werner Günthör	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	August 29, 1987

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

doping

There was one doping case in this competition:
The Norwegian Georg Andersen , who originally came second with 20.81 m, was disqualified in July 1991 after missing a doping test.
Primarily three athletes were disadvantaged:

• Oleksandr Klymenko from the Soviet Union received his bronze medal late. He was unable to attend the award ceremony on site.
• The Norwegian Jan Sagedal would have been eligible to take part in the final as the twelfth best shot putter of the qualification.
• The American Ron Backes would have allowed three more attempts in the final as eighth.

Andersen's compatriot Lars Arvid Nilsen , who was now officially second and stayed, had also been disqualified once for doping abuse and received a lifelong ban after another doping violation in 1992.

qualification

August 30, 1991, 10:30 a.m.

23 shot putters entered the qualifying round in two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 19.60 m. Five athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), including Georg Andersen , who was subsequently disqualified for doping offenses . The final field was filled with the next seven athletes to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 19.00 m was enough for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Werner Günthör	Switzerland	20.97
2	Sergei Nikolaev	Soviet Union	20.16
3	Lars Arvid Nilsen	Norway	19.79
4th	Gert Weil	Chile	19.51
5	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	19.44
6th	Paul Edwards	Great Britain	19.28
7th	Dragan Peric	Yugoslavia	19.21
8th	Gheorghe Guşet	Romania	18.55
9	Luc Viudès	France	18.43
10	Cottrell J. Hunter	United States	17.97
NM	Soeren Tallhem	Sweden	ogV

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Oleksandr Klymenko	Soviet Union	19.79
2	Kent Larsson	Sweden	19.20
3	Ron Backes	United States	19.05
4th	Alessandro Andrei	Italy	19.00
5	Jan Sagedal	Norway	18.90 actually qualified for the final
6th	Pétur Guðmundsson	Iceland	18.51
7th	Karel Sula	Czechoslovakia	18.30
8th	Kalman Konya	Germany	18.26
9	Khaled Sulim Al Khalidi	Saudi Arabia	16.38
10	Lim Chee Wee	Brunei	13.49
NM	Dimitris Koutsoukis	Greece	ogV
DOP	Georg Andersen	Norway	admitted to the finals

final

August 31, 1991, 6:30 p.m.

Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Werner Günthör	Switzerland	21.67	21.51	x	20.56	21.01	21.47	21.67
2	Lars Arvid Nilsen	Norway	20.75	20.34	20.19	20.04	20.64	20.75	20.45
3	Oleksandr Klymenko	Soviet Union	20.34	20.00	20.23	20.34	20.03	20.14	x
4th	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	20.10	19.76	20.00	19.76	19.88	20.10	19.80
5	Sergei Nikolaev	Soviet Union	19.98	19.58	x	19.98	x	x	19.93
6th	Kent Larsson	Sweden	19.92	19.84	19.92	19.64	19.48	19.84	x
7th	Dragan Peric	Yugoslavia	19.83	19.69	19.83	x	x	x	19.57
8th	Ron Backes	United States	19.34	19.34	x	19.22	actually entitled to 3 more hits
9	Gert Weil	Chile	19.30	Expiration not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best athletes
10	Paul Edwards	Great Britain	18.91
11	Alessandro Andrei	Italy	18.73
DOP	Georg Andersen	Norway

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  After Georg Andersen's doping-related disqualification, Lars Arvid Nilsen moved up to the silver rank - however, Nilsen himself had only just returned from a doping ban and was banned for life in 1992 after another doping offense

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  Georg Andersen was disqualified for doping reasons

Video

• Werner Günthör - Tokyo 1991 on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 25, 2020
• Men Shot Put Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) 1991 at todor66.com, accessed April 25, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Shot Put, Tokyo 1991, p. 184 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on April 25, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 25, 2020
2. ↑ Men Shot Put Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) on todor66.com, accessed April 25, 2020
3. ↑ ^{a b} Historikk: Store norske dopingsaker , Dagbladet July 30, 1988, Norwegian, accessed February 12, 2018