1999 World Athletics Championships / Men's Shot Put

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 21 (qualification / final)
Medalist Cottrell J. Hunter ( USA )   Oliver-Sven Buder ( GER )   Oleksandr Bahatsch ( UKR )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The shot put men at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics was on 21 August 1999 at the Olympic Stadium of the Spanish city of Seville discharged.

World champion was the US American World Cup third from 1997 Cottrell J. Hunter . Like two years before, the German Oliver-Sven Buder came second. He was Vice European Champion in 1990 - at that time still starting for the GDR . The Olympic third in 1996 , third in the World Cup in 1993 , European champion from 1998 and vice European champion from 1994 Oleksandr Bahatsch from Ukraine won the bronze medal. He was first honored as the winner of the shot put in 1997, but was then convicted of doping abuse with ephedrine and had to surrender his gold medal again. There was no suspension, so the following year he was able to start again at the European Championships and won.

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.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

August 21, 1999, 10:25 am

28 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 20.00 m. Nine athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the three next-placed athletes to twelve shot putters (highlighted in light green). So finally 19.83 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	20.69	19.85	19.87	20.69
2	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	20.50	20.50	-	-
3	Jurij Bilonoh	Ukraine	20.47	20.47	-	-
4th	Arsi Harju	Finland	20.16	20.16	-	-
5	Andy Bloom	United States	20.07	20.07	-	-
6th	Burger Lambrechts	South Africa	19.93	x	x	19.93
7th	Saulius Kleiza	Lithuania	19.83	19.12	19.83	x
8th	Roman Wirastyuk	Ukraine	19.73	19.71	19.56	19.73
9	Mark Proctor	Great Britain	19.63	19.63	19.08	x
10	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	19.48	x	19.48	x
11	Gunnar Pentecost	Germany	19.47	19.30	x	19.47
12	Pavol Pankúch	Slovakia	19.37	18.86	19.37	19.20
13	Shakti Singh	India	18.58	18.33	18.57	18.58
14th	Michalis Louca	Cyprus	18.54	18.54	x	18.20

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Kevin Toth	United States	20.52	20.52	-	-
2	Cottrell J. Hunter	United States	20.36	20.36	-	-
3	Dragan Peric	Yugoslavia	20.27	20.27	-	-
4th	Oleksandr Bahach	Ukraine	20.12	20.12	-	-
5	Ville Tiisanoja	Finland	19.87	19.60	19.57	19.87
6th	Mika Halvari	Finland	19.61	19.61	19.10	x
7th	Gheorghe Guşet	Romania	19.46	x	19.46	19.41
8th	Michael Mertens	Germany	19.37	19.37	x	19.35
9	Janus Robberts	South Africa	19.37	19.37	19.29	x
10	Joachim Olsen	Denmark	19.13	19.13	18.64	19.10
11	Fernando Alves	Portugal	18.98	18.82	18.98	18.40
12	Andrei Michnewitsch	Belarus	18.93	18.77	18.93	x
13	Váios Tíggas	Greece	18.50	18.03	18.35	18.50
14th	Milan Haborák	Slovakia	18.37	x	17.38	18.37

Shot putters eliminated from group B in qualification:

• 

  Mika Halvari - 19.61 m

• 

  Joachim Olsen - 19.13 m

• 

  Andrej Michnewitsch - 18.93 m

• 

  Milan Haborák - 18.37 m

final

Burger Lambrechts finished ninth with 19.29 m

August 21, 1999, 7:50 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	Cottrell J. Hunter	United States	21.79	20.62	x	20.65	x	21.09	21.79
2	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	21.42	20.60	21.03	20.88	21.42	x	20.47
3	Oleksandr Bahach	Ukraine	21.26	20.60	21.00	x	x	x	21.26
4th	Andy Bloom	United States	20.95	20.05	20.61	20.95	x	x	20.35
5	Jurij Bilonoh	Ukraine	20.60	20.60	x	x	20.37	x	x
6th	Dragan Peric	Yugoslavia	20.35	x	20.35	x	x	20.01	x
7th	John Godina	United States	20.35	x	20.35	x	x	x	x
8th	Ville Tiisanoja	Finland	19.93	19.93	19.60	19.46	19.87	x	x
9	Burger Lambrechts	South Africa	19.29	x	19.29	x	not in the final of the eight best shot putters
10	Saulius Kleiza	Lithuania	19.01	18.51	19.01	x
NM	Kevin Toth	United States	ogV	x	x	x
	Arsi Harju	Finland		x	x	x

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 4, 2020
• Men Shot Put Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 19, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Shot Put, Seville 1999, p. 185 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on July 19, 2020

References and comments

1. ^ First doping case of the World Cup , Rhein Zeitung August 10, 1997, accessed on July 18, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 18, 2020