Men's shot put at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Medalists
Tomasz Majewski   Poland   Christian Cantwell   United States   Andrei Mikhnevich   Belarus
«2004	2012»

Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5,000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men		women
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The Men's shot put at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 15 August at the Beijing Olympic Stadium.^[1]

The qualifying standards were 20.30 m (66.6 ft) (A standard) and 19.80 m (64.96 ft) (B standard).^[2]

Contents 1 Records 2 Results 2.1 Qualifying round 2.1.1 Group A 2.1.2 Group B 2.2 Final 3 References

[edit] Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

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

No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.

[edit] Results

[edit] Qualifying round

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 20.40 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

[edit] Group A

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	Result	Notes
1	Tomasz Majewski	Poland	21.04			21.04	Q, PB
2	Christian Cantwell	United States	20.11	20.48		20.48	Q
3	Dylan Armstrong	Canada	20.43			20.43	Q
4	Reese Hoffa	United States	20.41			20.41	Q
5	Pavel Sofin	Russia	20.29	00.00 x	00.00 x	20.29	q
6	Yury Bialou	Belarus	00.00 x	20.12	19.87	20.12	q
7	Andriy Semenov	Ukraine	18.95	19.59	20.01	20.01
8	Hamza Alic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	19.33	19.48	19.87	19.87
9	Anton Lyuboslavskiy	Russia	19.14	00.00 x	19.87	19.87
10	Scott Martin	Australia	19.75	00.00 x	00.00 x	19.75
11	Joachim Olsen	Denmark	19.62	19.69	19.74	19.74	SB
12	Carlos Véliz	Cuba	19.58	19.25	19.16	19.58
13	Māris Urtāns	Latvia	18.78	19.57	19.34	19.57
14	Milan Haborak	Slovakia	00.00 x	19.32	00.00 x	19.32
15	Germán Lauro	Argentina	19.07	00.00 x	18.96	19.07
16	Asmir Kolasinac	Serbia	18.32	00.00 x	19.01	19.01
17	Lajos Imre Kurthy	Hungary	18.38	00.00 x	18.74	18.74
18	Michail Stamatogiannis	Greece	00.00 x	18.45	18.30	18.45
19	Marco Antonio Verni	Chile	00.00 x	17.96	00.00 x	17.96
99 	Robert Haggblom	Finland	00.00 x	00.00 x	00.00 x	00.00 NM
99 	Georgi Ivanov	Bulgaria	00.00 x	00.00 x	00.00 x	00.00 NM
99 	Ralf Bartels	Germany				00.00 DNS

[edit] Group B

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	Result	Notes
1	Adam Nelson	United States	20.56			20.56	Q
2	Andrei Mikhnevich	Belarus	20.38	20.48		20.48	Q
3	Pavel Lyzhyn	Belarus	20.36	00.00 x	00.00 x	20.36	q
4	Yuriy Bilonog	Ukraine	19.93	20.16	19.57	20.16	q
5	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	20.13	00.00 x	19.97	20.13	q
6	Ivan Yushkov	Russia	20.02	19.83	20.00	20.02	q
7	Peter Sack	Germany	19.76	00.00 x	20.01	20.01
8	Dorian Scott	Jamaica	19.54	19.94	19.71	19.94
9	Justin Anlezark	Australia	19.91	19.75	00.00 x	19.91
10	Manuel Martínez	Spain	19.62	19.45	19.81	19.81
11	Miran Vodovnik	Slovenia	18.72	00.00 x	19.81	19.81
12	Yves Niare	France	00.00 x	00.00 x	19.73	19.73
13	Taavi Peetre	Estonia	00.00 x	00.00 x	19.57	19.57
14	Sultan Abdulmajeed Al-Hebshi	Saudi Arabia	00.00 x	18.67	19.51	19.51
15	Petr Stehlik	Czech Republic	00.00 x	19.41	00.00 x	19.41
16	Nedzad Mulabegovic	Croatia	19.11	19.35	18.88	19.35
17	Reinaldo Proenza	Cuba	19.15	19.06	19.20	19.20
18	Ivan Emilianov	Moldova	18.64	18.27	00.00 x	18.64
19	Yasser Farag	Egypt	18.37	00.00 x	18.42	18.42
20	Marco Fortes	Portugal	00.00 x	00.00 x	18.05	18.05
21	Chang Ming-Huang	Chinese Taipei	16.13	16.98	17.43	17.43
99 	Amin Nikfar	Iran	00.00 x	00.00 x	00.00 x	00.00 NM
99 	Alexis Paumier	Cuba	00.00 x	00.00 x	00.00 x	00.00 NM

AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record

DNF = did not finish | DNS = did not start | DQ = disqualification | NM = no mark (i.e. no valid result) | Q = qualification by place in heat | q = qualification by overall place

[edit] Final

August 15, 2008 - 21:00

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
1 	Tomasz Majewski	Poland	20.80	20.47	21.21	21.51	00.00 x	20.44	21.51	PB
2 	Christian Cantwell	United States	20.39	20.98	20.88	20.86	20.69	21.09	21.09
3 	Andrei Mikhnevich	Belarus	20.73	21.05	00.00 x	20.78	20.57	20.93	21.05
4	Dylan Armstrong	Canada	20.62	21.04	00.00 x	00.00 x	20.47	00.00 x	21.04	NR
5	Pavel Lyzhyn	Belarus	20.33	20.15	20.98	20.98	20.40	00.00 x	20.98	PB
6	Yuriy Bilonog	Ukraine	20.63	00.00 x	20.53	20.46	20.31	00.00 x	20.63	SB
7	Reese Hoffa	United States	00.00 x	19.81	20.53	20.38	00.00 x	00.00 x	20.53
8	Pavel Sof'in	Russia	20.42	00.00 x	00.00 x	00.00 x	00.00 x	00.00 x	20.42
9	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	20.41	00.00 x	20.30				20.41
10	Yury Bialou	Belarus	20.06	00.00 x	00.00 x				20.06
11	Ivan Yushkov	Russia	19.67	19.55	00.00 x				19.67
99 	Adam Nelson	United States	00.00 x	00.00 x	00.00 x				00.00 NM

[edit] References