1988 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Shot put | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 21 athletes from 17 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Seoul Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 23, 1988 (qualification and final) | ||||||||
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The men's shot put at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was played in two rounds on September 23, 1988 at the Seoul Olympic Stadium. 21 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Ulf Timmermann from the GDR. He won ahead of the American Randy Barnes and the Swiss Werner Günthör .
In addition to the Olympic champion Timmermann, Udo Beyer , Olympic champion from 1976 , also competed for the GDR . Beyer reached the final and finished fourth.
The Austrian Klaus Bodenmüller failed in the qualification.
Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 1984 | Alessandro Andrei ( Italy ) | 21.26 m | Los Angeles 1984 |
World Champion 1987 | Werner Günthör ( Switzerland ) | 22.23 m | Rome 1987 |
European champion 1986 | 22.22 m | Stuttgart 1986 | |
Pan American champion 1987 | Gert Weil ( Chile ) | 20.21 m | Indianapolis 1987 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1987 | Marciso Boué ( Cuba ) | 18.15 m | Caracas 1987 |
South America Champion 1987 | Gert Weil ( Chile ) | 19.35 m | São Paulo 1987 |
Asian champion 1987 | Ma Yongfeng ( People's Republic of China ) | 18.32 m | Singapore 1987 |
African Champion 1988 | Ahmed Mohamed Ashoush ( Egypt ) | 19.40 m | Annaba 1988 |
Existing records
World record | 23.06 m | Ulf Timmermann ( GDR ) | Chania , Crete ( Greece ) | May 22, 1988 |
Olympic record | 21.35 m | Vladimir Kisselev ( Soviet Union ) | Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia ) | July 30, 1980 |
qualification
Date: September 23, 1988
For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 20.20 m. Since only five athletes exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve starters (highlighted in light green). So finally 19.71 m was enough for the final.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Ulf Timmermann | GDR | 21.27 m | - | - | 21.27 m | |
2 | Randy Barnes | United States | 20.16 m | 20.83 m | x | 20.83 m | |
3 | Alessandro Andrei | Italy | 19.72 m | 20.18 m | 19.93 m | 20.18 m | |
4th | Gert Weil | Chile | 20.18 m | 19.58 m | 19.59 m | 20.18 m | |
5 | Jim Doehring | United States | 16.89 m | 17.66 m | 19.73 m | 19.73 m | |
6th | Georgi Todorov | Bulgaria | 19.25 m | 19.02 m | 19.68 m | 19.68 m | |
7th | Klaus Bodenmüller | Austria | 18.89 m | 17.54 m | - | 18.89 m | |
8th | Ma Yongfeng | People's Republic of China | 17.48 m | 17.79 m | 18.27 m | 18.27 m | |
9 | Ahmed Camel Shatta | Egypt | 16.94 m | 17.61 m | 17.37 m | 17.61 m | |
10 | Paul Edwards | Great Britain | 17.13 m | 17.11 m | 17.28 m | 17.28 m | |
11 | Han Min-soo | South Korea | 15.67 m | 15.68 m | 15.64 m | 15.68 m |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Udo Beyer | GDR | x | 20.97 m | - | 20.97 m | |
2 | Werner Günthör | Switzerland | 20.70 m | - | - | 20.70 m | |
3 | Sergei Smirnov | Soviet Union | 20.13 m | 20.48 m | - | 20.48 m | |
4th | Remigius Machura | Czechoslovakia | 19.88 m | 20.16 m | x | 20.16 m | |
5 | Georg Andersen | Norway | x | 19.95 m | 20.05 m | 20.05 m | |
6th | Helmut Krieger | Poland | 19.42 m | x | 19.75 m | 19.75 m | |
7th | Gregg Tafralis | United States | 19.71 m | 19.44 m | x | 19.71 m | |
8th | Pétur Guðmundsson | Iceland | 19.21 m | x | x | 19.21 m | |
9 | Ahmed Mohamed Ashoush | Egypt | 18.19 m | 18.94 m | 18.50 m | 18.94 m | |
10 | Mohamed Al-Zinkawi | Kuwait | x | 15.34 m | 15.92 m | 15.92 m |
final
Date: September 23, 1988
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, five of them over the required qualification distance. All three US athletes were in the final and met two GDR athletes. There were also participants from Chile, Italy, Norway, Poland, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia.
World and European champion Werner Günthör from Switzerland met the world record holder Ulf Timmermann from the GDR and his compatriot Udo Beyer, who had already won the gold medal in 1976 . The US athlete Randy Barnes was also rated highly. The 1984 Olympic champion Alessandro Andrei from Italy had also qualified for the final, but no longer had the form to keep up with the front runners.
Timmermann took the lead in the first lap with 22.02 m, a new Olympic record . Günthör followed in second place with 21.45 m. In the second attempt, Günthör improved to 21.59 m and thus consolidated his second place. Beyer moved up to third with 21.40 m. In the third round there were further improvements: Timmermann hit 22.16 m - again an Olympic record - and Günthör came to 21.70 m. In the fifth attempt Günthör achieved his best distance with 21.99 m, while Timmermann improved again to 22.29 m and thus achieved the Olympic record in this final for the third time. He achieved a fourth record increase with his last attempt when Ulf Timmermann hit the ball 22.47 m. That was also the Olympic victory. With 22.39 m, Randy Barnes, who was previously in fourth place, improved by more than a meter to second and won the silver medal with his 22.39 m. For Werner Günthör with his distance from the fifth round there was bronze. Udo Beyer was pushed to the ungrateful fourth place by Barne's increase. The Czechoslovak Remigius Machura was fifth, the Chilean Gert Weil came in six, two centimeters ahead of the Olympic champion of the previous games Alessandro Andrei.
Two athletes exceeded the 22-meter mark in this high-class competition, two more pushed further than 21 meters and the Olympic contestant reached a distance of more than twenty meters.
Werner Günthör was Switzerland's first medalist in the shot put .
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Ulf Timmermann | GDR | 22.02 m OR | 21.31 m | 22.16 m OR | 21.90 m | 22.29 m OR | 22.47 m OR | 22.47 m | OR |
2 | Randy Barnes | United States | 20.17 m | 20.72 m | x | 21.31 m | 21.01 m | 22.39 m | 22.39 m | |
3 | Werner Günthör | Switzerland | 21.45 m | 21.59 m | 21.70 m | 20.98 m | 21.99 m | 21.61 m | 21.99 m | |
4th | Udo Beyer | GDR | x | 21.40 m | 20.84 m | 20.82 m | 21.30 m | 21.31 m | 21.40 m | |
5 | Remigius Machura | Czechoslovakia | 20.57 m | 20.03 m | 20.16 m | 20.36 m | 20.12 m | 20.29 m | 20.57 m | |
6th | Gert Weil | Chile | 20.22 m | 20.09 m | x | 20.23 m | 20.21 m | 20.38 m | 20.38 m | |
7th | Alessandro Andrei | Italy | 19.71 m | 20.17 m | 20.06 m | 19.93 m | 20.36 m | 20.26 m | 20.36 m | |
8th | Sergei Smirnov | Soviet Union | 20.11 m | x | 20.36 m | x | x | x | 20.36 m | |
9 | Gregg Tafralis | United States | 20.16 m | x | x | not in the final of the eight best athletes |
20.16 m | |||
10 | Georg Andersen | Norway | x | x | 19.91 m | 19.91 m | ||||
11 | Jim Doehring | United States | 19.27 m | x | 19.89 m | 19.89 m | ||||
12 | Helmut Krieger | Poland | x | 19.51 m | x | 19.51 m |
Web links
- SportsReference Shot Put , accessed January 28, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , results in athletics: p. 244, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 28, 2018
Video
- 1988 Olympic Games Men's Shot , published June 5, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed January 28, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 678 , accessed on January 28, 2018
- ↑ a b Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , Athletics results: p. 244, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 28, 2018