2001 World Athletics Championships / Men's Shot Put

8th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	30 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Edmonton
Competition location	Commonwealth Stadium
Competition phase	August 4th (qualification / final)
Medalist John Godina ( USA )   Adam Nelson ( USA )   Arsi Harju ( FIN )

The Commonwealth Stadium by Edmonton in 2005

The shot put men at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics was on August 4, 2001 at Commonwealth Stadium, the Canadian city of Edmonton held.

In this competition, the US shot putter achieved a double success. His third World Championship title after 1995 and 1997 was won by Olympic runner-up from 1996 and Olympic third from 2000, John Godina . The 2000 Olympic runner-up Adam Nelson came in second here too. The Finnish Olympic champion from 2000 Arsi Harju won the bronze medal.

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

One doping case was recorded in the shot put competition.

The Belarusian Andrej Michnewitsch , initially tenth, was a multiple offender who, among other things, tested positive for doping at these world championships. which led to the cancellation of his result and a two-year ban. Later he was stripped of further medals and victories because of later proven doping violations, and finally he was given a lifelong ban. He never admitted his violations.

One athlete was particularly disadvantaged here:
The Italian Paolo Dal Soglio could have taken part in the final with his width of 19.80 m, which he achieved in qualifying.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

August 4, 2001, 8:30 a.m.

Thirty participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 20.45 m. Six athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the six next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 20.13 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

With 18.71 m, Yves Niaré fell by the wayside in qualification (Group A)

His 19.52 m were not enough for Milan Haborák (Group B) to take part in the final

Ralf Bartels (Group B), who won several medals in the following years, was eliminated from the qualification with 19.41 m

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	John Godina	United States	20.52	18.28	20.06	20.52
2	Manuel Martínez	Spain	20.50	20.08	20.44	20.50
3	Bradley Snyder	Canada	20.47	20.47	-	-
4th	Ville Tiisanoja	Finland	20.14	20.07	20.14	-
5	Petr Stehlík	Czech Republic	19.68	19.68	x	x
6th	Pavel Chumachenko	Russia	19.35	x	19.35	19.27
7th	Dzmitryi Hancharuk	Belarus	19.27	19.27	x	x
8th	John Davis	United States	19.11	x	19.11	x
9	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	18.89	18.62	18.89	-
10	Mikuláš Konopka	Slovakia	18.89	18.60	x	18.89
11	Jimmy Nordin	Sweden	18.85	18.85	18.65	x
12	Marco Antonio Verni	Chile	18.85	18.85	x	18.03
13	Yves Niaré	France	18.71	x	x	18.71
14th	Ivan Emelianov	Moldova	18.06	x	17.87	18.06
15th	Mark Proctor	Great Britain	17.75	16.98	x	17.75

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Janus Robberts	South Africa	21.26	21.26	-	-
2	Conny Karlsson	Finland	20.72	20.72	-	-
3	Jurij Bilonoh	Ukraine	20.46	20.46	-	-
4th	Dragan Peric	Yugoslavia	20.43	20.43	-	-
5	Arsi Harju	Finland	20.39	19.70	x	20.39
6th	Joachim Olsen	Denmark	20.32	20.32	20.26	-
7th	Adam Nelson	United States	20.13	20.13	20.11	20.05
8th	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	19.80 actually qualified for the final	19.71	19.80	19.72
9	Gheorghe Guset	Romania	19.74	x	19.74	x
10	Milan Haborák	Slovakia	19.52	19.35	19.52	19.46
11	Ralf Bartels	Germany	19.41	19.41	19.24	x
12	Gjøran Sørli	Norway	18.89	18.89	x	x
13	Justin Anlezark	Australia	18.70	18.70	18.33	18.14
14th	Yojer Medina	Venezuela	17.76	x	17.75	17.76
DOP	Andrei Michnewitsch	Belarus	admitted to the finals

final

August 4, 2001, 4:00 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	21.87	21.87	21.80	x	x	x	x
2	Adam Nelson	United States	21.24	19.92	20.86	20.19	21.24	x	x
3	Arsi Harju	Finland	20.93	20.28	20.01	20.59	20.93	20.10	20.79
4th	Manuel Martínez	Spain	20.91	20.78	x	20.91	x	x	x
5	Dragan Peric	Yugoslavia	20.91	20.91	x	20.67	x	x	x
6th	Jurij Bilonoh	Ukraine	20.83	20.56	20.74	x	20.83	20.83	x
7th	Conny Karlsson	Finland	20.78	20.07	x	20.78	x	19.96	x
8th	Bradley Snyder	Canada	20.63	20.63	x	x	x	x	20.34
9	Ville Tiisanoja	Finland	20.45	20.37	19.95	20.45	not in the final of the eight best athletes
10	Joachim Olsen	Denmark	20.38	18.94	20.38	20.24
11	Janus Robberts	South Africa	20.18	20.12	x	20.18
DOP	Andrei Michnewitsch	Belarus

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  Vice World Champion Adam Nelson

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  Joachim Olsen came in tenth place

Video links

• 2001 IAAF World Championships Mens shot put Final on youtube.com, accessed August 14, 2020
• 2001 IAAF World Championships Mens shot put Final2 on youtube.com, accessed August 14, 2020

Web links

• 8th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 24, 2020
• Men Shot Put Athletics VIII World Championship 2001 Edmonton (CAN) on todor66.com, accessed August 14, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Shot Put, Edmonton 2001, p. 185f (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on August 14, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 14, 2020
2. ↑ Gold after the doping ban A suspected shot put on tagesspiegel.de, August 25, 2003, accessed on August 5, 2020
3. ↑ Belarusian shot putter Andrei Mikhnevich stripped of 4 medals at www.cbc.ca, August 2, 2013 (English), accessed on August 5, 2020