2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)
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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
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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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
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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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 | - | in the final, later disqualified | |||
Pavel Lyschin | Belarus | x | x |
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Ivan Yushkov | Russia |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | x |
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Andrei Michnewitsch | Belarus | x |
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Pavel Lyschyn | Belarus | x |
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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
- ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 12, 2018
- ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 12, 2018
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 12, 2018
- ↑ IAAF World Records, Men's Shot Put , accessed June 12, 2018
- ↑ thestar.com: Canada's Dylan Armstrong finally gets 2008 Beijing Olympics bronze medal after doping DQ (English) , accessed on May 28, 2018
- ↑ IOC SANCTIONS SEVEN ATHLETES FOR FAILING ANTI-DOPING TESTS AT BEIJING 2008 AND LONDON 2012 olympic.org November 25, 2016 , accessed May 28, 2018
- ↑ 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