2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	37 athletes from 27 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 22, 2000
Medalist Arsi Harju ( FIN )   Adam Nelson ( USA )   John Godina ( USA )

The shot put men at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney was on 22 September 2000 at Stadium Australia held. 37 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Finn Arsi Harju . He won ahead of the two Americans Adam Nelson and John Godina .

With Oliver-Sven Buder and Michael Mertens, two Germans took part in the competition. Mertens dropped out in the qualification. Buder reached the final and finished eighth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1996	Randy Barnes ( USA )	21.62 m	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999	Cottrell J. Hunter ( USA )	21.79 m	Seville 1999
European champion 1998	Oleksandr Bahatsch ( Ukraine )	21.17 m	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Brad Mears ( USA )	19.93 m	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champions 1999	David Stoute ( Trinidad and Tobago )	16.39 m	Bridgetown 1999
South American Champion 1999	Édson Miguel ( Brazil )	17.86 m	Bogotá 1999
Asian champion 2000	Shakti Singh ( India )	19.77 m	Jakarta 2000
African Champion 2000	Chima Ugwu ( Nigeria )	19.02 m	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	Hohepa Poihipi ( New Zealand )	14.03 m	Adelaide 2000

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 based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

September 22, 2000, 10:00 a.m.

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 20.10 m. Since only four participants exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best participants from both groups to twelve athletes (highlighted in light green). So 19.79 m were necessary for the final.

Group A

The South African Burger Lambrechts retired with 19.75 m in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	John Godina	United States	20.58	-	-	20.58
2	Adam Nelson	United States	20.12	-	-	20.12
3	Timo Aaltonen	Finland	20.04	x	19.82	20.04
4th	Andrei Michnewitsch	Belarus	x	x	19.97	19.97
5	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	19.96	x	19.80	19.96
6th	Manuel Martínez	Spain	19.94	18.95	19.86	19.94
7th	Bradley Snyder	Canada	19.77	x	19.59	19.77
8th	Burger Lambrechts	South Africa	x	19.74	19.75	19.75
9	Dragan Peric	Yugoslavia	19.04	19.46	19.49	19.49
10	Roman Wirastyuk	Ukraine	18.91	19.04	19.27	19.27
11	Chima Ugwu	Nigeria	19.11	19.07	19.11	x
12	Karel Potgieter	South Africa	19.02	x	19.00	19.02
13	Mikuláš Konopka	Slovakia	18.59	x	18.99	18.99
14th	Stevimir Ercegovac	Croatia	18.74	18.98	x	18.98
15th	Saulius Kleiza	Lithuania	18.57	x	18.59	18.59
16	Gheorghe Guşet	Romania	18.46	x	18.56	18.56
17th	Shakti Singh	India	18.40	17.96	18.13	18.40
18th	Alexis Paumier	Cuba	18.31	x	18.04	18.31
19th	Vaios Tingas	Greece	17.52	18.13	17.84	18.13

Group B

The Dane Joachim Olsen did not reach the final with his 19.41 m

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Arsi Harju	Finland	19.40	21.39	-	21.39
2	Jurij Bilonoh	Ukraine	20.53	-	-	20.53
3	Milan Haborák	Slovakia	20.00	x	x	20.00
4th	Miroslav Menc	Czech Republic	19.68	19.18	19.92	19.92
5	Andrew Bloom	United States	x	19.65	19.83	19.83
6th	Janus Robberts	South Africa	19.75	19.16	19.79	19.79
7th	Ville Tiisanoja	Finland	19.04	19.44	19.66	19.66
8th	Joachim Olsen	Denmark	19.32	x	19.41	19.41
9	Pavel Chumachenko	Russia	18.99	19.40	x	19.40
10	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	19.39	x	x	19.39
11	Szilárd Kiss	Hungary	18.60	18.61	18.95	18.95
12	Michael Mertens	Germany	18.64	18.48	18.72	18.72
13	Bahadur Singh	India	18.70	x	x	18.70
14th	Justin Anlezark	Australia	18.59	18.11	18.46	18.59
15th	Mark Proctor	Great Britain	x	18.49	x	18.49
16	Bilal Saad Mubarak	Qatar	18.30	x	x	18.30
17th	Ivan Emilianov	Moldova	x	17.38	17.63	17.63
18th	Sergei Rubtsov	Kazakhstan	15.49	15.90	x	15.90

final

September 22, 2000, 6:45 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, four by qualifying distance and another eight by their placements. There were three Americans, two Finns and one participant each from Germany, Slovakia, Spain, South Africa, the Czech Republic, Ukraine and Belarus.

The real favorite before the games started was US World Champion Cottrell J. Hunter . However, Hunter was tested positive in July 2000 and convicted of doping. He was suspended from the US team, for him John Godina was nominated, who had finished fourth behind Adam Nelson, Hunter and Andrew Bloom in the US eliminations for the Olympic Games. Godina, Bloom and Nelson were among the closest favorites. Other medal candidates were the German Vice World and Vice European Champion Oliver-Sven Buder as well as the World Cup fifth and European third Jurij Bilonoh from Ukraine. Bilonoh was supposed to become Olympic champion at the next Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 , but had to return his gold medal for doping fraud.

The Finn Arsi Harju succeeded in the first round of the final with a further push with 21.20 m, which gave him the lead. However, this was not that surprising, because the Finn had already shown the best performance in qualifying with 21.39 m. In the second attempt he improved to 21.29 m. Nelson hit 21.20 m in this second round and finished second. Bloom, who had achieved 20.87 m in the beginning, was third. In the third attempt, Nelson rose to 21.21 m. This brought him closer to Harju, but stayed in second place. In the fifth round, Godina hit the ball to 21.20 m and displaced Bloom from the bronze rank. The last round brought no more changes to the final result. Arsi Harju was Olympic champion eight centimeters ahead of Adam Nelson, who was one centimeter ahead of John Godina, a very close result overall. Andrew Bloom came fourth ahead of Jurij Bilonoh and the Spaniard Manuel Martínez. The ranks seven and eight went to South Africans Janus Robberts and Oliver-Sven Buder.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Arsi Harju	Finland	21.20	21.29	20.77	x	20.37	x	21.29
2	Adam Nelson	United States	20.53	21.20	21.21	x	20.97	x	21.21
3	John Godina	United States	x	20.40	20.25	20.71	21.20	x	21.20
4th	Andrew Bloom	United States	20.87	x	20.11	x	19.92	20.16	20.87
5	Jurij Bilonoh	Ukraine	20.47	20.84	x	20.43	20.22	x	20.84
6th	Manuel Martínez	Spain	19.89	19.45	x	19.50	20.55 NO	19.70	20.55	NO
7th	Janus Robberts	South Africa	18.81	19.72	x	18.87	19.06	20.32	20.32
8th	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	19.89	20.18	x	19.64	x	x	20.18
9	Andrei Michnewitsch	Belarus	19.48	x	x	not in the final of the eight best athletes			19.48
10	Miroslav Menc	Czech Republic	19.02	19.16	19.39				19.39
11	Milan Haborák	Slovakia	x	x	19.06				19.06
12	Timo Aaltonen	Finland	x	18.64	x				18.64

• 

  Silver medalist Adam Nelson from the USA

• 

  The Spaniard Manuel Martínez was sixth in the Olympics.

• 

  The Belarusian Andrej Michnewitsch finished ninth in the final.

literature

• Rudi Cerne (Ed.), Sydney 2000, The Games of the XXVII. Olympiad with contributions by Rudi Cerne, Birgit Fischer , Willi Phillip Knecht , Willi Leissl and Jan Ullrich , MOHN Media Mohndruck GmbH, Gütersloh, p. 66f

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed April 2, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 2, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 2, 2018

Video

• Olympic Champions (Shot Put, Discus, Hammer) , shot put area: 1:01 min - 3:46 min, published on July 12, 2009 on youtube.com, accessed on April 2, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 678 , accessed on April 2, 2018
2. ↑ The Cottrell J. Hunter Case: When Husbands Dope , Der Tagesspiegel September 25, 2000, accessed April 2, 2018
3. ↑ Four athletes have to return Athens medals , Spiegel Online December 5, 2012, accessed on April 2, 2018