1995 World Athletics Championships / Men's Shot Put

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	31 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 8 (qualification) August 9 (final)
Medalist John Godina ( USA )   Mika Halvari ( FIN )   Randy Barnes ( USA )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The shot put men at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics was born on August 8 and 9, 1995 in Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium discharged.

The shot putters from the United States won two gold and bronze medals in this competition. John Godina won his first of three World Cup titles . He won ahead of Mika Halvari from Finland . Bronze went to third place in the World Cup in 1993 , Olympic third in 1988 and world record holder Randy Barnes .

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.

qualification

August 8, 1995, 3:45 p.m.

31 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 19.80 m. Seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the five next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 19.00 m had to be achieved for participation in the finals.

Group A

Georg Andersen failed to qualify with his 18.84 m

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Mika Halvari	Finland	20.40
2	Brent Noon	United States	19.84
3	Roman Wirastyuk	Ukraine	19.74
4th	Aljaksandr Klimenka	Ukraine	19.22
5	Saulius Kleiza	Lithuania	18.99
6th	Georg Andersen	Norway	18.84
7th	Arsi Harju	Finland	18.79
8th	Alessandro Andrei	Italy	18.74
9	Kent Larsson	Sweden	18.77
10	Yojer Medina	Venezuela	18.58
11	Thorsten Herbrand	Germany	18.30
12	Mark Proctor	Great Britain	18.08
13	Corrado Fantini	Italy	17.89
14th	Miroslav Menc	Czech Republic	17.54
15th	Oakland Salavea	American Samoa	12.80
DNS	Pétur Guðmundsson	Iceland

Group B

Manuel Martínez did not reach the final at 18.50 m

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Randy Barnes	United States	21.30
2	Oleksandr Bahach	Ukraine	20.62
3	John Godina	United States	19.99
4th	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	19.91
5	Markus Koistinen	Finland	19.88
6th	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	19.47
7th	Bilal Saad Mubarak	Qatar	19.01
8th	Dzmitryi Hancharuk	Belarus	19.00
9	Jonny Reinhardt	Germany	18.89
10	Sergey Rubtsov	Kazakhstan	18.81
11	Manuel Martínez	Spain	18.50
12	Henrik Wennberg	Sweden	18.38
13	Christian Nebl	Austria	18.33
14th	Sergey feces	Uzbekistan	17.03
15th	Aufata Faleata	Western Samoa	11.04
NM	Konstantinos Kollias	Greece	ogV

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

final

August 9, 1995, 6:30 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	John Godina	United States	21.47	21.47	20.54	19.82	19.26	19.97	-
2	Mika Halvari	Finland	20.93	20.22	x	20.19	20.33	20.93	20.35
3	Randy Barnes	United States	20.41	19.47	20.22	20.41	x	x	x
4th	Oleksandr Bahach	Ukraine	20.38	20.38	20.23	20.27	20.28	x	20.16
5	Brent Noon	United States	20.13	20.13	19.19	x	19.59	x	20.01
6th	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	20.11	20.11	x	20.04	x	19.45	x
7th	Roman Wirastyuk	Ukraine	19.66	19.66	18.94	19.13	x	x	x
8th	Dzmitryi Hancharuk	Belarus	19.38	19.38	19.21	19.30	19.22	x	x
9	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	19.38	Expiration not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best shot putters
10	Markus Koistinen	Finland	19.34
11	Bilal Saad Mubarak	Qatar	18.56
12	Aljaksandr Klimenka	Ukraine	18.26

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  Vice world champion Mika Halvari

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  Bronze medalist Randy Barnes, he was third in the World Cup in 1993, third in the Olympic Games in 1988 and holder of the world record - in 1996 he became Olympic Champion

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  Brent Noon finished fifth

Video

• Men's Shot Put Final - 1995 IAAF World Athletics Championships on youtube.com, accessed June 2, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed June 2, 2020
• Men Shot Put Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com, accessed June 2, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Shot Put, Gothenborg 1995, p. 184f (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on June 2, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 2, 2020