Mason Finley

Mason Finley
nation	United States
birthday	7th October 1990 (age 29)
place of birth	Kansas City , Missouri ,  United States
Career
discipline	Discus throw , shot put
Best performance	68.03 m (August 5, 2017 in London ) 20.71 m (January 14, 2011 in Lawrence , Kansas )
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × Universiade medals 0 × 0 × 1 × National medals 2 × 0 × 0 × Pan American Junior Medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships bronze London 2017 Discus throw (68.03 m)  Universiade bronze Shenzhen 2011 Shot put (18.92 m) American championships gold 2016 Discus throw gold 2017 Discus throw Pan American Junior Athletics Championships gold Port of Spain 2009 Shot put (20.36 m) gold Port of Spain 2009 Discus throw (65.34 m)
last change: August 11, 2017

Mason Finley (born October 7, 1990 in Kansas City , Missouri ) is an American discus thrower and shot putter .

Life

Mason Finley was born in Kansas City , Missouri . He went to high school in Buena Vista , Colorado and then attended the University of Kansas before moving to the University of Wyoming . In late 2009, Finley was named High School Track & Field Team of the Decade by ESPN magazine Rise and was named High School Athlete of the Year by track & field news magazine .

At the Pan American Junior Athletics Championships 2009 in Port of Spain , Trinidad and Tobago , Finley won the gold medal in both the shot put with a personal best of 20.36 m ahead of Jordan Clarke and Tim Nedow and in the discus throw with a personal best of 65.34 m ahead of Quincy Wilson and Traves Smikle the gold medal. Two years later, Finley won the bronze medal behind O'Dayne Richards and Soslan Tsirikhov at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China, in the shot put with a distance of 19.72 m .

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Finley finished eleventh in the discus throw after finishing sixth in the qualification in the final with a width of only 62.05 m.

At the 2017 World Championships in London , Finley surprisingly won the bronze medal in the discus final with a personal best of 68.03 m behind Andrius Gudžius and Daniel Ståhl . As a result, he improved from 17th to fourth in the world's annual best list.

In 2016 and 2017 Finley also became the American discus thrower.

Personal best

• Discus throw: 68.03 m, August 5, 2017, London
• Shot put:
  • Open air: 19.89 m, April 20, 2012, Lawrence , Kansas
  • Hall: 20.71 meters, Jan. 14, 2011, Lawrence, Kansas

Web links

• Mason Finley in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Mason Finley on olympic.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mason Finley, Buena Vista . In: The Denver Post , May 2, 2009. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
2. ↑ Finley Transfers to Wyoming ( August 12, 2017 memento on the Internet Archive ), on gowyo.com, August 22, 2012. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
3. ^ Boys track All-Decade All-Americans , on ESPN's website , December 23, 2010. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
4. ↑ T&FN HIGH SCHOOL BOYS ATHLETES OF THE YEAR ( Memento from August 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), on the Track & Field News website . Retrieved August 11, 2017.
5. ↑ Ian Chadband: Gudzius earns stunning discus triumph for Lithuania , on eurosport.com, August 5, 2017. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
6. ↑ Sandra Arm, Jan-Henner Reitze: Andrius Gudzius surprisingly wins discus title - Harting sixth , on Leichtathletik.de, August 5, 2017. Accessed August 10, 2017.