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2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

Events at the 2011 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 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
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The Men's shot put event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on September 1 and 2.

David Storl made a major improvement to achieve a new personal best of 21.50, leading the qualifying round by 45 cm (a foot and a half).

2007 Champion, Reese Hoffa, took the early lead and held it until Storl threw a new personal best of 21.60 in the second round. Andrei Mikhnevich put a 21.40 in the third round to get close to Storl. In the fourth round, world leader, Dylan Armstrong, took the lead with a 21.64, which held up as the leader until the final throw of the competition, when Storl threw a third personal best of 21.78 to win.

In 2013, it was revealed that Andrei Mikhnevich tested positive for a prohibited substance at the 2005 World Championships. Since this was his second offense, he was given a lifetime ban and all his results from August 2005 and on were annulled.^[1]

Medalists[edit]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
David Storl  Germany (GER)	Dylan Armstrong  Canada (CAN)	Christian Cantwell  United States (USA)

Records[edit]

Prior to the competition, the established records were as follows.

World record	Randy Barnes (USA)	23.12	Westwood, United States	20 May 1990
Championship record	Werner Günthör (SUI)	22.23	Rome, Italy	29 August 1987
World Leading	Dylan Armstrong (CAN)	22.21	Calgary, Canada	25 June 2011
African record	Janus Robberts (RSA)	21.97	Eugene, United States	2 June 2001
Asian record	Sultan Al-Hebshi (KSA)	21.13	Doha, Qatar	8 May 2009
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Randy Barnes (USA)	23.12	Westwood, United States	20 May 1990
South American record	Marco Antonio Verni (CHI)	21.14	Santiago, Chile	29 July 2004
European record	Ulf Timmermann (GDR)	23.06	Chania, Greece	22 May 1988
Oceanian record	Scott Martin (AUS)	21.26	Melbourne, Australia	21 February 2008

Qualification standards[edit]

Schedule[edit]

Results[edit]

Qualification[edit]

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 20.60 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	A	David Storl	Germany (GER)	x	21.50		21.50	Q, PB
2	B	Dylan Armstrong	Canada (CAN)	20.52	21.05		21.05	Q
3	B	Reese Hoffa	United States (USA)	20.96			20.96	Q
4	A	Ryan Whiting	United States (USA)	20.40	20.77		20.77	Q
5	B	Christian Cantwell	United States (USA)	20.55	20.73		20.73	Q
6	A	Tomasz Majewski	Poland (POL)	20.73			20.73	Q
7	A	Ralf Bartels	Germany (GER)	20.45	x	20.04	20.45	q
8	B	Marco Fortes	Portugal (POR)	19.83	20.32	20.02	20.32	q
9	B	Carlos Véliz	Cuba (CUB)	20.24	19.79	x	20.24	q
10	A	Adam Nelson	United States (USA)	20.23	x	x	20.23	q
11	A	Asmir Kolašinac	Serbia (SRB)	19.58	20.08	20.14	20.14	q
12	B	Marco Schmidt	Germany (GER)	20.06	19.96	x	20.06
13	B	Lajos Kürthy	Hungary (HUN)	19.92	19.76	20.02	20.02
14	B	Maksim Sidorov	Russia (RUS)	18.56	19.95	x	19.95
15	B	Pavel Lyzhyn	Belarus (BLR)	19.91	x	x	19.91
16	A	Kim Christensen	Denmark (DEN)	19.02	19.40	19.74	19.74
17	B	Hamza Alić	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	19.70	x	x	19.70
18	B	Chang Ming-huang	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	19.60	x	18.98	19.60
19	A	Jan Marcell	Czech Republic (CZE)	19.51	x	19.46	19.51
20	A	Germán Lauro	Argentina (ARG)	19.50	19.45	x	19.50
21	A	Andriy Semenov	Ukraine (UKR)	x	x	19.45	19.45
22	A	Om Prakash Singh	India (IND)	19.29	19.06	x	19.29
23	B	Amin Nikfar	Iran (IRI)	18.69	18.95	19.18	19.18
24	B	Milan Jotanović	Serbia (SRB)	18.39	x	18.21	18.39
25	A	Borja Vivas	Spain (ESP)	18.37	x	18.22	18.37
26	A	Hwang In-Sung	South Korea (KOR)	17.75	17.62	x	17.75
	A	Andrei Mikhnevich	Belarus (BLR)	20.79			20.79	DQ

Final[edit]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	David Storl	Germany (GER)	x	21.60	20.82	x	x	21.78	21.78	PB
	Dylan Armstrong	Canada (CAN)	20.79	20.58	20.82	21.64	21.40	x	21.64
	Christian Cantwell	United States (USA)	20.50	20.73	20.83	x	21.36	x	21.36
4	Reese Hoffa	United States (USA)	20.90	20.99	20.97	20.84	x	x	20.99
5	Marco Fortes	Portugal (POR)	20.59	x	19.36	20.83	20.25	20.04	20.83
6	Ryan Whiting	United States (USA)	x	20.48	20.66	20.75	x	x	20.75
7	Adam Nelson	United States (USA)	20.29	20.14	19.73	x	20.02	x	20.29
8	Tomasz Majewski	Poland (POL)	x	20.03	20.18				20.18
9	Ralf Bartels	Germany (GER)	20.03	20.14	20.12				20.14
10	Asmir Kolašinac	Serbia (SRB)	19.84	x	19.77				19.84
11	Carlos Véliz	Cuba (CUB)	19.70	x	x				19.70
	Andrei Mikhnevich	Belarus (BLR)	20.45	20.49	21.40	20.72	20.64	21.37	21.40	DQ

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Shot put results at IAAF website