1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	16 athletes from 11 countries
Competition location	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 28, 1980 (qualifying) July 30, 1980 (final)
Medalist Vladimir Kisselev ( URS )   Alexander Baryshnikov ( URS )   Udo Beyer ( GDR )

The men's shot put at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on July 28 and 30, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. 16 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Vladimir Kisselev from the Soviet Union. He won ahead of his compatriot Alexander Baryschnikow and Udo Beyer from the GDR.

In addition to the medalist Beyer, Hans-Jürgen Jacobi competed for the GDR . He also reached the final and finished sixth there.
Jean-Pierre Egger from Switzerland also made it to the final. He finished twelfth.
Shot putters from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Existing records

World record	22.15 m	Udo Beyer ( GDR )	Gothenburg , Sweden	July 6, 1978
Olympic record	21.32 m	Alexander Baryshnikov ( Soviet Union )	Montreal , Canada Qualifying	July 23, 1976

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a qualifying round on July 28th. Since there were only sixteen participants, this elimination was carried out together in one group. The qualifying distance for directly reaching the final on July 30th was 19.60 m. Since exactly twelve athletes reached this distance, the final field was not filled any further.

Time schedule

Udo Beyer, GDR, winner of the bronze medal

July 28, 10:30 a.m .: Qualification
July 30, 6:35 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local time Moscow ( UTC + 3 )

The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: July 28, 1980, 10:30 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Vladimir Kisselev	Soviet Union	20.72 m	-	-	20.72 m
2	Alexander Baryshnikov	Soviet Union	20.58 m	-	-	20.58 m
3	Vladimir Milic	Yugoslavia	20.56 m	-	-	20.56 m
4th	Reijo Ståhlberg	Finland	20.53 m	-	-	20.53 m
5	Anatoly Yarosh	Soviet Union	20.19 m	-	-	20.19 m
6th	Udo Beyer	GDR	19.94 m	-	-	19.94 m
7th	Hans-Jürgen Jacobi	GDR	19.15 m	19.57 m	19.92 m	19.92 m
8th	Geoff Capes	Great Britain	19.75 m	-	-	19.75 m
9	Hreinn Halldórsson	Iceland	19.29 m	19.74 m	-	19.74 m
10	Jaromír Vlk	Czechoslovakia	19.58 m	19.69 m	-	19.69 m
11	Óskar Jakobsson	Iceland	19.30 m	x	19.66 m	19.66 m
12	Jean-Pierre Egger	Switzerland	19.61 m	-	-	19.61 m
13	Nikola Hristow	Bulgaria	17.82 m	18.94 m	19.01 m	19.01 m
14th	Mohamed Al-Zinkawi	Kuwait	17.15 m	x	17.03 m	17.15 m
15th	Bahadur Singh Chouhan	India	17.05 m	16.91 m	16.72 m	17.05 m
ogV	Waltscho Stoyev	Bulgaria	x	x	x		without space

final

Date: July 30, 1980, 6:35 p.m.

The favorite was the 1976 Olympic champion , Udo Beyer, who was also the world record holder and 1978 European champion . The strongest competitor was the silver medalist from Montreal , Alexander Baryschnikow. The American elite was lacking, but their athletes were not strong enough in those years to be among the narrowest circle of medal contenders.

The Soviet athlete Vladimir Kisseljow, who had already reached the greatest distance in qualifying, took the lead in the first lap with 21.10 m. Behind him lay the Briton Geoff Capes, followed by Hans-Jürgen Jacobi from the GDR. Baryschnikow moved up to second place with 21.08 m in the second attempt, Beyer followed in third place. In the third attempt, Beyer came within two centimeters of Baryschnikow, while Kisseljow hit the ball on the new Olympic record of 21.35 m. In the fourth round nothing changed, in the fifth the Finn Reijo Ståhlberg moved past Capes to fourth place. Nothing changed in the last series of tests either. With that, Vladimir Kisseljow was surprisingly Olympic champion ahead of the actual favorites Alexander Baryschnikow - silver - and Udo Beyer - bronze.

Vladimir Kisselev became the first Soviet Olympic champion in the shot put .

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Vladimir Kisselev	Soviet Union	21.10 m	20.86 m	21.35 m OR	21.03 m	21.00 m	x	21.35 m	OR
2	Alexander Baryshnikov	Soviet Union	20.20 m	21.08 m	20.66 m	20.39 m	x	x	21.08 m
3	Udo Beyer	GDR	x	20.70 m	21.06 m	20.98 m	x	x	21.06 m
4th	Reijo Ståhlberg	Finland	19.83 m	x	20.20 m	19.63 m	20.82 m	20.58 m	20.82 m
5	Geoff Capes	Great Britain	20.50 m	x	19.47 m	x	19.69 m	19.23 m	20.50 m
6th	Hans-Jürgen Jacobi	GDR	20.32 m	x	19.80 m	19.50 m	x	20.00 m	20.32 m
7th	Jaromír Vlk	Czechoslovakia	20.24 m	x	19.77 m	19.62 m	19.84 m	20.01 m	20.24 m
8th	Vladimir Milic	Yugoslavia	20.07 m	x	19.69 m	x	20.06 m	x	20.07 m
9	Anatoly Yarosh	Soviet Union	19.63 m	19.93 m	x	not in the final of the eight best athletes			19.93 m
10	Hreinn Halldórsson	Iceland	19.55 m	18.99 m	19.16 m				19.55 m
11	Óskar Jakobsson	Iceland	19.07 m	x	x				19.07 m
12	Jean-Pierre Egger	Switzerland	18.25 m	18.26 m	18.90 m				18.90 m

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed December 31, 2017
• Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , pp. 60f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 557 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 31 December 2017
2. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 61, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 31, 2017