2017 World Athletics Championships / Men's Shot Put

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's shot put
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Attendees	32 athletes from 21 countries
Competition phase	August 5, 2017 (qualification) August 6, 2017 (final)
Medalist
gold	Tomas Walsh ( NZL )
silver	Joe Kovacs ( USA )
bronze	Stipe Žunić ( HRV )

London Olympic Stadium

The shot put men at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics took place on 5 and 6 August 2017 in London , UK , instead.

The world title went to New Zealander Tomas Walsh . The American Joe Kovacs won the silver medal. The Croatian Stipe Žunić won bronze.

Records

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

qualification

Jakub Szyszkowski from Poland was eliminated from the qualification with a kick of 20.54 m

His 20.09 m was not enough for the Canadian Tim Nedow to take part in the final

The Brazilian Darlan Romani reached 20.21 m and was eliminated

Hamza Alić from Bosnia / Herzegovina could not qualify for the final with his 18.95 m

August 5, 2017, 10:00 a.m. local time (11:00 a.m. CEST )

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 20.75 m. Since only nine athletes exceeded this distance - highlighted in light blue, the field was filled with the following best throwers from both groups to a total of twelve shot putters - highlighted in light green. So finally 20.55 m had to be pushed to be in the final.

Group A

space	athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
1	Tomas Walsh	New Zealand	22.14	-	-	22.14 SB
2	Michał Haratyk	Poland	21.27	-	-	21.27
3	Darrell Hill	United States	x	x	21.11	21.11
4th	Joe Kovacs	United States	20.62	20.67	x	20.67
5	Andrei gag	Romania	20.31	x	20.61	20.61 SB
6th	Jakub Szyszkowski	Poland	19.13	19.50	20.54	20.54
7th	Filip Mihaljevic	Croatia	x	x	20.33	20.33
8th	Tim Nedow	Canada	19.66	20.09	20.03	20.09
9	Tsanko Arnaudov	Portugal	19.83	20.02	20.08	20.08
10	Ladislav Prášil	Czech Republic	20.04	19.76	19.92	20.04
11	O'Dayne Richards	Jamaica	x	19.84	19.95	19.95
12	Mesud Pezer	Bosnia and Herzegovina	x	19.51	19.88	19.88
13	Carlos Tobalina	Spain	19.38	19.87	x	19.87
14th	Orazio Cremona	South Africa	19.81	19.61	19.35	19.81
15th	Franck Elemba	Republic of the Congo	19.18	19.74	19.40	19.74
16	Alexander Lesnoi	Authorized Neutral Athletes	x	19.67	x	19.67

Group B

space	athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
1	David Storl	Germany	21.41	-	-	21.41
2	Jacko Gill	New Zealand	20.96	-	-	20.96
3	Ryan Crouser	United States	20.90	-	-	20.90
4th	Stipe Žunić	Croatia	20.86	-	-	20.86
5	Ryan Whiting	United States	20.84	-	-	20.84
6th	Tomáš Staněk	Czech Republic	20.76	-	-	20.76
7th	Konrad Bukowiecki	Poland	x	20.11	20.55	20.55
8th	Darlan Romani	Brazil	x	20.21	19.91	20.21
9	Damien Birkinhead	Australia	19.90	19.79	19.50	19.90
10	Chukwuebuka Enekwarti	Nigeria	19.27	19.70	19.72	19.72
11	Jaco Engelbrecht	South Africa	18.62	19.59	19.56	19.59
12	Alyaksey Nichypar	Belarus	19.39	19.54	19.41	19.54
13	Francisco Belo	Portugal	18.28	19.47	x	19.47
14th	Mostafa Amr Hassan	Egypt	19.23	x	19.15	19.23
15th	Bob Bertemes	Luxembourg	x	18.93	19.10	19.10
16	Hamza Alić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	x	18.95	x	18.95

final

August 6, 2017, 8:35 p.m. local time (9:35 p.m. CEST )

The favorites were primarily the two Americans Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs. Crouser had clearly won the 2016 Olympic Games with a distance of well over 22 meters. Kovacs had finished second in the Olympics and won the world title in 2015 . Her strongest competitor was Tomas Walsh from New Zealand, who was third in the 2016 Olympic Games and fourth in the 2015 World Championships . The German David Storl, who had been very successful in recent years, was also in the race. He was the world champion of 2011 / 2013 and European Champion of 2014 / 2016 , but had to fight recently with injury problems and came across this London not cope finals in tenth.

As expected, the level was very high right from the start. Four athletes surpassed the 21-meter mark in the first round. Defending champion Kovacs led with 21.48 m. Walsh was ten centimeters behind him in second place, ahead of the Czech Tomáš Staněk - 21.04 m - and the Croatian Stipe Žunić - 21.01 m. In lap two, Crouser brought himself into the circle of 21-meter pushers in this competition with 21.09 m. He was fifth, because Staněk improved to 21.41 m - that was fourth, Žunić hit 21.46 m, which put him in third place. At the very front, Walsh took the lead with 21.64 m. Kovacs reached 21.66 m on lap three, but remained second because Walsh now scored 21.75 m.

The first round of the top eight brought no positional changes, but Walsh managed another very long shot with 21.70 m. In lap five, the Pole Michał Haratyk pushed the Olympic champion from fifth place. Haratyk kicked 21.41 m - just as far as Staněk, who, however, remained fourth due to the better second best attempt. The two were only five centimeters missing on bronze, 25 centimeters on silver and 34 centimeters on gold. In the last round, the American Ryan Whiting, a seventh athlete, advanced into the circle of 21-meter pushers. With 21.09 m he was seventh in the final classification. Otherwise there were no more changes to the order. The new world champion Tomas Walsh, however, crowned his appearance with a push to 22.03 m. Defending champion Joe Kovacs came second, bronze went to Stipe Žunić. Equal Tomáš Staněk and Michał Haratyk finished fourth and fifth ahead of Olympic champions Ryan Crouser and Ryan Whiting. Eighth was Konrad Bukowiecki from Poland, who hit 20.89 m.

space	athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)
	Tomas Walsh	New Zealand	21.38	21.64	21.75	21.70	21.63	22.03	22.03
	Joe Kovacs	United States	21.48	20.88	21.66	x	21.17	x	21.66
	Stipe Žunić	Croatia	21.01	21.46	21.04	21.08	x	x	21.46
4th	Tomáš Staněk	Czech Republic	21.04	21.41	x	x	x	20.99	21.41
5	Michał Haratyk	Poland	20.49	20.52	21.00	20.83	21.41	20.98	21.41
6th	Ryan Crouser	United States	21.07	21.09	x	x	21.20	21.14	21.20
7th	Ryan Whiting	United States	20.82	x	20.66	x	x	21.09	21.09
8th	Konrad Bukowiecki	Poland	x	20.65	20.89	x	x	x	20.89
9	Jacko Gill	New Zealand	20.36	19.82	20.82	not in the final of the eight best athletes			20.82
10	David Storl	Germany	x	x	20.80				20.80
11	Darrell Hill	United States	20.79	20.56	x				20.79
12	Andrei gag	Romania	19.96	x	x				19.96

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  World Champion Tomas Walsh, New Zealand

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  Vice World Champion Joe Kovacs, USA

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  Bronze medalist Stipe Žunić, Croatia

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  The Czech Tomáš Staněk finished fourth in the final

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  Michał Haratyk from Poland came in fifth

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  Sixth place for the American Ryan Crouser

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  Ryan Whiting, the third American in this final, came in seventh

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  Konrad Bukowiecki from Poland came in eighth

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  The New Zealander Jacko Gill finished ninth

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  The German world champion of 2011 and 2013 David Storl had to be content with tenth place here

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  Darrel Hill came in eleventh as the fourth American in the final

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  The Romanian Andrei Gag reached the final and was twelfth there

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, Men's Shot Put on the IAAF website , accessed on December 2, 2018
• Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships from Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 2, 2018
• Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 2, 2018

Video

• Shot put / World Championships 2017 / Final Round on youtube.com, published January 10, 2018, accessed December 2, 2018