1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	34 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Centennial Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 26, 1996
Medalist Randy Barnes ( USA )   John Godina ( USA )   Oleksandr Bahatsch ( UKR )

The shot put men at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta was on 26 July 1996 in Centennial Olympic Stadium held. 34 athletes took part.

The American Randy Barnes became Olympic champion . He won before his compatriot John Godina and the Ukrainian Oleksandr Bahatsch .

Oliver-Sven Buder , Michael Mertens and Dirk Urban started for Germany . Mertens and Urban were eliminated from the qualification. Buder reached the final and finished fifth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1992	Mike Stulce ( USA )	21.70 m	Barcelona 1992
World Champion 1995	John Godina ( USA )	21.47 m	Gothenburg 1995
European Champion 1994	Oleksandr Klymenko ( Ukraine )	20.78 m	Helsinki 1994
Pan American champion 1995	Cottrell J. Hunter ( USA )	20.52 m	Mar del Plata 1995
Central America and Caribbean champions 1995	Yojer Medina ( Venezuela )	18.46 m	Guatemala City 1995
South American Champion 1995	Gert Weil ( Chile )	19.02 m	Manaus 1995
Asian champion 1995	Bilal Saad Mubarak ( Qatar )	18.87 m	Jakarta 1995
African champion 1996	Henk Booysen ( South Africa )	17.34 m	Yaoundé 1996
Oceania Champion 1994	Patrick Hellier ( New Zealand )	16.10 m	Auckland 1994

Existing records

World record	23.12 m	Randy Barnes ( USA )	Los Angeles , USA	May 20, 1990
Olympic record	22.47 m	Ulf Timmermann ( GDR )	Final from Seoul , South Korea	September 23, 1988

Remarks:

• All times are local Atlanta time ( UTC − 5 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

July 26, 1996, from 10:05 a.m.

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 19.80 m. Since only seven athletes achieved this performance (highlighted in light blue), the final field with the next best athletes from both groups was filled by five athletes to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). A width of 19.39 m was necessary to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	19.76	20.43	-	20.43
2	Randy Barnes	United States	x	19.70	20.42	20.42
3	Roman Wirastyuk	Ukraine	19.81	-	-	19.81
4th	Dragan Peric	Yugoslavia	19.61	x	19.61	19.61
5	Dzmitryi Hancharuk	Belarus	19.57	x	19.17	19.57
6th	Corrado Fantini	Italy	18.63	19.40	19.00	19.40
7th	Manuel Martínez	Spain	19.12	18.93	18.90	19.12
8th	Michael Mertens	Germany	18.57	18.90	19.07	19.07
9	Kent Larsson	Sweden	18.60	18.86	19.05	19.05
10	Arsi Harju	Finland	18.56	19.01	x	19.01
11	Giorgio Venturi	Italy	18.60	18.98	18.52	18.98
12	Iliad Louka	Cyprus	18.48	17.98	x	18.48
13	Chima Ugwu	Nigeria	18.39	18.35	18.33	18.39
14th	Alexei Schidlowski	Russia	17.84	18.34	18.37	18.37
15th	Saulius Kleiza	Lithuania	18.08	18.21	18.18	18.21
16	Anthony Leiato	American Samoa	12.28	x	13.02	13.02
ogV	Jenő Kóczián	Hungary	x	x	x		without space
	Sergei Rubtsov	Kazakhstan	x	x	x

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	19.43	20.58	-	20.58
2	John Godina	United States	20.54	-	-	20.54
3	Oleksandr Bahach	Ukraine	20.23	-	-	20.23
4th	Cottrell J. Hunter	United States	19.95	-	-	19.95
5	Oleksandr Klymenko	Ukraine	19.11	19.45	x	19.45
6th	Bilal Saad Mubarak	Qatar	19.39	19.23	19.28	19.39
7th	Dirk Urban	Germany	19.39	18.82	19.23	19.39
8th	Mika Halvari	Finland	19.37	x	18.78	19.37
9	Yevgeny Palchikov	Russia	18.75	18.83	18.96	18.96
10	Miroslav Menc	Czech Republic	18.69	18.13	18.42	18.69
11	Gert Weil	Chile	18.64	18.67	18.58	18.67
12	Yojer Medina	Venezuela	x	18.49	18.53	18.53
13	Shaun Pickering	Great Britain	18.29	18.23	17.45	18.29
14th	Michalis Louka	Cyprus	18.23	18.03	18.12	18.23
15th	Khaled Al-Khalidi	Saudi Arabia	18.22	x	17.83	18.22
16	Bradley Snyder	Canada	17.98	x	x	17.98
17th	Wiktar Bulat	Belarus	16.70	16.67	17.29	17.29
18th	Sergey feces	Uzbekistan	16.51	x	16.05	16.51

When making the decision about the final, it was very close between Bilal Saad Mubarak from Qatar and the German Dirk Urban. Both had achieved the same best distance with 19.39 m. So the second best shot had to decide here. This was 19.28 m for Mubarak and 19.23 m for Urban. So Mubarak reached the final and Urban was eliminated.

final

Olympic champion Randy Barnes from the USA

July 26, 1996, 8:00 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the finals, seven over the required qualification distance and another five through their placements. Three Americans, three Ukrainians and two Italians met one participant each from Germany, Yugoslavia, Qatar and Belarus.

There were three shot putters in particular who were considered favorites for Olympic medals. These were the American world record holder Randy Barnes, who had to be satisfied with bronze at the last world championships , his compatriot John Godina as the reigning world champion and the Ukrainian Oleksandr Bahatsch as the world championship fourth and vice European champion. In addition, the Finnish vice world champion Mika Halvari and the Ukrainian European champion Oleksandr Klymenko came into question as serious competitors. But Halvari was eliminated in the qualification and Klymenko obviously no longer had the strong form from the European Championship year 1994.

Bahatsch took the lead in the first round with 20.41 m, ahead of German Oliver-Sven Buder - 20.16 m - and Italian Paolo Dal Soglio - 20.12 m. In the second round Bahatsch improved to 20.50 m, but fell back to second place as Dal Soglio reached 20.65 m. Barnes came third with 20.44 m ahead of Buder, who reached 20.37 m in the next attempt.

In the fourth lap, Dal Soglio extended his top position with 20.74 m. Godina hit 20.64 m and took second place in front of Bahatsch, Barnes and Buder. Buder reached 20.51 m in the fifth attempt and moved past Bahatsch to third place. But the competition wasn't over and there were other crucial postponements. First Godina took the lead with 20.79 m. The last round brought big changes in the classification. Bahatsch scored 20.75 m and was in second place ahead of Dal Soglio and Buder behind Godina, who had a failed attempt. Randy Barnes finally hit the ball to 21.62 m and secured the Olympic victory with a clear lead over John Godina and Oleksandr Bahatsch. Paolo Dal Soglio was fourth ahead of Oliver-Sven Buder and the Ukrainian Roman Wirastjuk

In the 23rd Olympic shot put final , Randy Barnes won the 16th gold medal for the USA. It was also the 14th double success of US athletes in this discipline.

Oleksandr Bahach was the first Ukrainian medalist in the shot put.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Randy Barnes	United States	19.46	20.44	x	20.26	20.32	21.62	21.62
2	John Godina	United States	x	19.91	19.98	20.64	20.79	x	20.79
3	Oleksandr Bahach	Ukraine	20.41	20.50	20.29	x	x	20.75	20.75
4th	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	20.12	20.65	19.92	20.74	20.60	x	20.74
5	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	20.16	19.92	20.37	20.13	20.51	19.71	20.51
6th	Roman Wirastyuk	Ukraine	19.46	19.86	20.32	20.21	20.45	x	20.45
7th	Cottrell J. Hunter	United States	19.99	20.09	20.39	x	20.25	20.35	20.39
8th	Dragan Peric	Yugoslavia	19.66	19.75	19.98	x	x	20.07	20.07
9	Dzmitryi Hancharuk	Belarus	x	19.79	x	not in the final of the eight best athletes			19.79
10	Bilal Saad Mubarak	Qatar	19.11	19.33	x				19.33
11	Corrado Fantini	Italy	19.30	x	x				19.30
ogV	Oleksandr Klymenko	Ukraine	x	x	x					without space

literature

• Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 38f

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed March 4, 2018
• Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 93, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 4, 2018

Video

• 1996 Atlanta Olympics Games Mens Shot put , published May 22, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed March 4, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 678 , accessed on March 4, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 93, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 4, 2018