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 | ||||||||
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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 |
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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
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 678 , accessed on March 4, 2018
- ↑ 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