World Athletics Championships 1997 / Men's Shot Put

6th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	33 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Athens
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 2nd (qualification / final)
Medalist John Godina ( USA )   Heide Rosendahl ( GER )   Inge Exner ( USA )

The Athens Olympic Stadium in 2014

The shot put men at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics was on August 2, 1997 at the Olympic Stadium of the Greek capital Athens held.

The putter of the United States won two medals in this competition with gold and bronze. World champion was the defending champion and Olympic runner-up in 1996, John Godina . He won ahead of the German Oliver-Sven Buder . Bronze went to Cottrell J. Hunter .

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 a doping case in this competition.

The first Ukrainian Oleksandr Bahatsch was convicted of doping abuse with ephedrine and disqualified.

The following three athletes were primarily disadvantaged:

• John Godina , USA - It was a few days late to receive his gold medal.
• Cottrell J. Hunter , USA - He was absent from the awards ceremony and was late in receiving his bronze medal.
• Michael Mertens , Germany - In eighth place in the final, he would have been allowed three more attempts.
• Manuel Martínez , Spain - He should have taken part in the final as twelfth placed in the qualification over his distance.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid
r	Competition not continued (retired)

qualification

August 2, 1997, 8:50 a.m.

33 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 19.80 m. Eleven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the next placed athlete to twelve shot putters (highlighted in light green). So finally 19.71 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	John Godina	United States	21.10	21.10	-	-
2	Mika Halvari	Finland	20.10	20.10	-	-
3	Burger Lambrechts	South Africa	19.91	x	19.36	19.91
4th	Michael Mertens	Germany	19.88	19.88	-	-
5	Randy Barnes	United States	19.51	19.23	19.51	x
6th	Arsi Harju	Finland	19.43	x	x	19.43
7th	Corrado Fantini	Italy	19.30	19.30	18.74	x
8th	Miroslav Menc	Czech Republic	19.23	19.07	19.23	x
9	Bradley Snyder	Canada	18.94	17.76	18.52	18.94
10	Viktor Bulat	Belarus	18.61	17.97	18.61	x
11	Kjell Ove Hauge	Norway	18.37	18.12	x	18.37
12	Sergey Rubtsov	Kazakhstan	18.16	18.16	x	x
13	Chima Ugwu	Nigeria	18.00	17.25	17.84	18.00
14th	Mark Proctor	Great Britain	17.99	17.99	x	x
15th	Milan Haborák	Slovakia	17.85	17.85	x	x
16	Aléxios Leonídis	Greece	17.77	17.77	r	-
DOP	Oleksandr Bahach	Ukraine	admitted to the finals

Shot putters eliminated from group A in qualification:

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  World record holder Randy Barnes, 1996 Olympic champion, 1988 Olympic second, 1993 runner-up and 1995 World Cup third - 19.51 m

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  Kjell Ove Hauge - 18.37 m

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  Milan Haborák - 17.85 m

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	annotation
1	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	20.53	20.53	-	-
2	Jurij Bilonoh	Ukraine	20.31	19.75	20.31	-
3	Roman Wirastyuk	Ukraine	20.13	20.13	-	-
4th	Cottrell J. Hunter	United States	20.05	19.48	19.68	20.05
5	Kevin Toth	United States	19.99	x	x	19.99
6th	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	19.93	18.83	19.93	-
7th	Saulius Kleiza	Lithuania	19.71	19.71	x	18.99
8th	Manuel Martínez	Spain	19.61	19.61	19.23	x	actually qualified for the final
9	Bilal Saad Mubarak	Qatar	19.08	18.09	18.90	19.08
10	Dragan Peric	Yugoslavia	19.05	18.86	19.05	18.93
11	Stevimir Ercegovac	Croatia	19.00	19.00	r	-
12	Yojer Medina	Venezuela	18.92	18.36	18.31	18.92
13	Dzmitryi Hancharuk	Belarus	18.60	18.33	18.60	x
14th	Shaun Pickering	Great Britain	18.10	18.10	17.84	17.42
15th	Vyacheslav Lycho	Russia	18.04	17.77	17.67	18.04
16	Faae Talalemotu	Northern Mariana Islands	13.96	13.96	13.11	12.92
DNS	Tarek Al-Najjar	Jordan

final

August 2, 1997, 7:10 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	21.44	21.24	21.39	21.44	21.19	21.20	x
2	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	21.24	20.79	20.18	20.41	21.05	x	21.24
3	Cottrell J. Hunter	United States	20.33	20.22	20.30	x	x	x	20.33
4th	Jurij Bilonoh	Ukraine	20.26	x	20.22	x	20.26	x	x
5	Mika Halvari	Finland	20.13	x	20.13	x	x	x	x
6th	Roman Wirastyuk	Ukraine	20.12	20.00	20.01	20.12	x	x	x
7th	Kevin Toth	United States	20.02	19.50	20.02	x	x	x	x
8th	Michael Mertens	Germany	19.91	19.82	19.91	19.86	actually entitled to 3 more hits
9	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	19.77	19.77	x	x	not in the final of the eight best athletes
10	Burger Lambrechts	South Africa	19.39	x	19.39	x
11	Saulius Kleiza	Lithuania	18.25	18.25	x	x
DOP	Oleksandr Bahach	Ukraine

• 

  The fifth-placed Mika Halvari

• 

  Tenth place for Burger Lambrechts

Video

• 1997 IAAF World Championships Mens shot put Final on youtube.com, accessed June 13, 2020

Web links

• 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 9, 2020
• Men Shot Put Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed June 23, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Shot Put, Athens 1997, p. 185 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on June 23, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 23, 2020
2. ^ First doping case of the World Cup , Rhein Zeitung August 10, 1997, accessed on June 23, 2020