2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
place	Beijing National Stadium
Attendees	44 athletes from 35 countries
Competition phase	August 15, 2008
Medalist
gold	Tomasz Majewski ( POL )
silver	Christian Cantwell ( USA )
bronze	Dylan Armstrong ( CAN )

The shot put at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing was held on 15 August, 2008. 44 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Tomasz Majewski from Poland . American Christian Cantwell won the silver medal . Bronze went to Dylan Armstrong from Canada.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 2004	Adam Nelson ( USA )	21.16 m	Athens 2004
World Champion 2007	Reese Hoffa ( USA )	22.04 m	Osaka 2007
European champion 2006	Ralf Bartels ( Germany )	21.13 m	Gothenburg 2006
Pan American Champion 2007	Dylan Armstrong ( Canada )	20.10 m	Rio de Janeiro 2007
Central America and Caribbean champions 2008	Alexis Paumier ( Cuba )	19.60 m	Cali 2008
South America Champion 2007	Germán Lauro ( Argentina )	19.65 m	São Paulo 2007
Asian champion 2007	Navpreet Singh ( India )	10.70 m	Amman 2007
Africa Champion 2008	Abdu Moaty Moustafa ( Egypt )	18.06 m	Addis Ababa 2008
Oceania Champion 2008	Daniel Kilama ( New Caledonia )	16.76 m	Saipan 2008

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

doping

The shot put was particularly hard hit by doped athletes, whose cheating turned out to be in follow-up examinations carried out years later.

• Belarusian Andrej Michnewitsch was initially third. He was stripped of the bronze medal on August 20, 2014 for violating the doping regulations.
• His compatriot Pawel Lyschyn was originally fifth. The athlete was convicted of doping abuse in 2016 and his result was canceled.
• The third fraudster was the Russian Ivan Juschkow, who was initially listed as eleventh. The athlete was convicted of doping abuse in August 2016 and his result was canceled.

So all bumpers initially placed after the disqualified placed pushers moved up one or more places. The Canadian Dylan Armstrong was subsequently awarded bronze. In the description of the final sequence, the impulses of the doping fraudsters are not taken into account, which is correct in retrospect, but the process is falsified. Especially for the subsequent medalist Armstrong, the disappointment was initially felt, which cannot be made up for by a medal awarded eight years after the competition. In addition, the fraud naturally also affects the three athletes who were denied the right to participate in the finals. These were the German Peter Sack, the Ukrainian Andriy Semenov and the Jamaican Dorian Scott.

qualification

August 15, 2008, 9:05 am

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 20.40 m. Since only six athletes reached this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). In order to participate, at least 20.02 m had to be pushed.

However, the number of finalists was reduced to nine athletes because of the doping problem.

Group A

19.74 m is not enough for the Dane Joachim Olsens to advance

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Tomasz Majewski	Poland	21.04 m	-	-	21.04 m	PB
2	Christian Cantwell	United States	20.11 m	20.48 m	-	20.48 m
3	Dylan Armstrong	Canada	20.43 m	-	-	20.43 m
4th	Reese Hoffa	United States	20.41 m	-	-	20.41 m
5	Pavel Sofjin	Russia	20.29 m	x	x	20.29 m
6th	Jury Bjalou	Belarus	x	20.12 m	19.87 m	20.12 m
7th	Andriy Semenov	Ukraine	18.95 m	19.59 m	20.01 m	20.01 m	actually qualified for the final
8th	Hamza Alić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	19.22 m	19.48 m	19.87 m	19.87 m
9	Anton Lyuboslawski	Russia	19.14 m	x	19.87 m	19.87 m
10	Scott Martin	Australia	19.75 m	x	x	19.75 m
11	Joachim Olsen	Denmark	19.62 m	19.69 m	19.74 m	19.74 m
12	Carlos Veliz	Cuba	19.58 m	19.25 m	19.16 m	19.58 m
13	Māris Urtāns	Latvia	18.78 m	19.57 m	19.34 m	19.57 m
14th	Milan Haborák	Slovakia	x	19.32 m	x	19.32 m
15th	German Lauro	Argentina	19.07 m	x	18.96 m	19.07 m
16	Asmir Kolašinac	Serbia	18.32 m	x	19.01 m	19.01 m
17th	Lajos Kürthy	Hungary	18.38 m	x	18.74 m	18.74 m
18th	Mikhail Stamatogiannis	Greece	x	18.45 m	18.30 m	18.45 m
19th	Marco Antonio Verni	Chile	x	17.96 m	x	17.96 m
ogV	Robert Häggblom	Sweden	x	x	x
	Georgi Ivanov	Bulgaria	x	x	x
DNS	Ralf Bartels	Germany

Group B

The Spaniard Manuel Martínez is eliminated with 19.81 m

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Adam Nelson	United States	20.56 m	-	-	20.56 m
2	Pavel Lyschin	Belarus	20.36 m	x	x	20.36 m
3	Jurij Bilonoh	Ukraine	19.93 m	20.16 m	19.57 m	20.16 m
4th	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	20.13 m	x	19.97 m	20.13 m
5	Peter Sack	Germany	19.76 m	x	20.01 m	20.01 m	actually qualified for the final
6th	Dorian Scott	New Zealand	19.54 m	19.94 m	19.71 m	19.94 m	actually qualified for the final
7th	Justin Anlezark	Australia	19.91 m	19.75 m	x	19.91 m
8th	Manuel Martínez	Spain	19.62 m	19.45 m	19.81 m	19.81 m
9	Miroslav Vodovnik	Slovenia	18.72 m	19.81 m	19.81 m	19.81 m
10	Yves Niaré	France	x	x	19.73 m	19.73 m
11	Taavi Peetre	Estonia	x	x	19.57 m	19.57 m
12	Sultan Abdulmajeed Alhabashi	Saudi Arabia	x	18.67 m	19.51 m	19.51 m
13	Petr Stehlik	Czech Republic	x	19.41 m	x	19.41 m
14th	Nedžad Mulabegović	Croatia	19.11 m	19.35 m	18.88 m	19.35 m
15th	Reinaldo Proenza	Cuba	19.15 m	19.06 m	19.20 m	19.20 m
16	Ivan Emilianov	Moldova	18.64 m	18.27 m	x	18.64 m
17th	Yasser Farag	Egypt	18.37 m	x	18.42 m	18.42 m
18th	Marco Fortes	Portugal	x	x	18.05 m	18.05 m
19th	Chang Ming-huang	Chinese Taipei	16.13 m	16.98 m	17.43 m	17.43 m
ogV	Amin Nikfar	Iran	x	x	x		without space
	Alexis Paumier	Cuba	x	x	x
DOP	Andrei Michnewitsch	Belarus	20.38 m	20.48 m	-	20.48 m	in the final, later disqualified
	Pavel Lyschin	Belarus	20.36 m	x	x	20.36 m
	Ivan Yushkov	Russia	20.02 m	19.83 m	20.00 m	20.02 m

final

August 15, 2008, 9:00 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, six of them by qualifying distance and another six by their placements. However, as described above in the section on the doping problem, the number of finalists was ultimately reduced to nine athletes. In the following, the description of the original involvement of the doping offenders will not be discussed further. All three US-Americans who started and one participant each from Canada, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus were represented in this final battle.

The favorites for this competition came primarily from the United States. Reese Hoffa had become the superior world champion in the pre-Olympic season . Adam Nelson, second in this competition, had won the world title two years earlier . Christian Cantwell, the third participating US-American, was also one of the favorites due to his size in the Olympic year. Other medal candidates were the Dutch World Cup third in 2007, vice world champion in 2005 and third in the European Championship in 2006, Rutger Smith and, after his strong qualification, also the Pole Tomasz Majewski, fourth in the 2007 World Cup . Ralf Bartels from Germany, reigning European champion and third in the World Cup from 2005 had to forego a start due to injury.

In the final, the really big distances were initially missing. After the first round Majewski was leading with 20.80 m ahead of the Ukrainian Jurij Bilonoh - 20.63 m - and the Canadian Dylan Armstrong - 20.62 m. The Russian Pawel Sofjin was eight inches better than Smith in fifth place. In the second round there was a first push over the 21-meter mark. Armstrong took the lead with 21.04 m. Cantwell reached 20.98 m, which he was second. Otherwise not much happened. In the third round, Majewski hit 21.21 m, which put him back in front. Before the top eight finale, Armstrong was second with 21.04 m, Cantwell third with 20.98 m and Bilonoh fourth - 20.63 m. Hoffa improved to 20.53 m and finished fifth ahead of Sofjin and Smith with their widths from lap one.

In the fourth round Majewski scored 21.51 m and thus extended his lead. Otherwise, as in the penultimate test series, there were no changes. With his last push of 21.09 m, Cantwell finally surpassed the 21-meter mark. With that he displaced Armstrong by two inches from second place, the shot put was decided. Olympic champion was Tomasz Majewski ahead of Christian Cantwell. Dylan Armstrong surprisingly won the bronze medal. Jurij Bilonoh was fourth ahead of Reese Hoffa, who hit more than one and a half meters shorter than last year at the World Championships. Pawel Sofjin took sixth place ahead of Rutger Smith and Belarusian Yury Bialou. Adam Nelson had only produced three invalid attempts.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Tomasz Majewski	Poland	20.80 m	20.47 m	21.21 m	21.51 m	x	20.44 m	21.51 m	PB
2	Christian Cantwell	United States	20.39 m	20.98 m	20.88 m	20.86 m	20.69 m	21.09 m	21.09 m
3	Dylan Armstrong	Canada	20.62 m	21.04 m	x	x	20.47 m	x	21.04 m	NO
4th	Jurij Bilonoh	Ukraine	20.63 m	x	20.53 m	20.46 m	20.31 m	x	20.63 m
5	Reese Hoffa	United States	x	19.81 m	20.53 m	20.38 m	x	x	20.53 m
6th	Pavel Sofjin	Russia	20.42 m	x	x	x	x	x	20.42 m
7th	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	20.41 m	x	20.30 m	not in the final of the eight best athletes			20.41 m
8th	Yury Bialou	Belarus	20.06 m	x	x				20.06 m
ogV	Adam Nelson	United States	x	x	x					without space
DOP	Ivan Yushkov	Russia	19.67 m	19.55 m	x				19.67 m
	Andrei Michnewitsch	Belarus	20.73 m	21.05 m	x	20.78 m	20.57 m	20.93 m	21.05 m
	Pavel Lyschyn	Belarus	20.73 m	20.33 m	20.98 m	20.98 m	20.40 m	x	20.98 m

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  Gold medalist Tomasz Majewski from Poland

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  Silver medalist Christian Cantwell, USA

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  Canadian bronze medalist Dylan Armstrong

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  The Olympic fifth Reese Hoffa, USA

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  The Dutchman Rutger Smith is Olympic 7th

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  The American Adam Nelson remains in the final without a valid attempt

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed June 12, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website, accessed June 12, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on June 12, 2018

Video

• Athletics - Men's Shot Put Final - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games , published August 15, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed June 12, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 12, 2018
2. ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 12, 2018
3. ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed June 12, 2018 
4. ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 12, 2018
5. ↑ IAAF World Records, Men's Shot Put , accessed June 12, 2018
6. ↑ thestar.com: Canada's Dylan Armstrong finally gets 2008 Beijing Olympics bronze medal after doping DQ (English) , accessed on May 28, 2018
7. ↑ IOC SANCTIONS SEVEN ATHLETES FOR FAILING ANTI-DOPING TESTS AT BEIJING 2008 AND LONDON 2012 olympic.org November 25, 2016 , accessed May 28, 2018
8. ↑ Because of doping at the 2012 Olympics: IOC disqualifies Russian silver winner ( memento of the original from August 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . handelsblatt.de, August 20, 2016; Retrieved August 25, 2016