2005 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

The Men's Shot Put event at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on August 6.

Medalists edit

Gold   Adam Nelson
United States (USA)
Silver   Rutger Smith
Netherlands (NED)
Bronze   Ralf Bartels
Germany (GER)

Schedule edit

Qualification Round
Group A Group B
06.08.2005 – 10:00h 06.08.2005 – 11:30h
Final Round
06.08.2005 – 21:00h

Abbreviations edit

  • All results shown are in metres
Q automatic qualification
q qualification by rank
DNS did not start
NM no mark
WR world record
AR area record
NR national record
PB personal best
SB season best

Records edit

Standing records prior to the 2005 World Athletics Championships
World Record   Randy Barnes (USA) 23.12 m May 20, 1990   Westwood, United States
Event Record   Werner Günthör (SUI) 22.23 m August 29, 1987   Rome, Italy

Results edit

Qualifying edit

Group A edit

  1. Christian Cantwell, United States 21.11 Q
  2. Joachim Olsen, Denmark 20.85 Q
  3. Adam Nelson, United States 20.35 Q
  4. Tepa Reinikainen, Finland 20.19 q
  5. Tomasz Majewski, Poland 20.19 q
  6. Carl Myerscough, Great Britain 20.07 q
  7. Gheorghe Guset, Romania 19.83
  8. Manuel Martínez, Spain 19.55
  9. Petr Stehlik, Czech Republic 19.48
  10. Miran Vodovnik, Slovenia 19.28
  11. Ivan Yushkov, Russia 18.98
  12. Marco Antonio Verni, Chile 18.60
  13. Dorian Scott, Jamaica 18.33

Group B edit

  1. Ralf Bartels, Germany 20.56 Q
  2. Mikulas Konopka, Slovakia 20.39 Q
  3. Rutger Smith, Netherlands 20.26 Q
  4. Ville Tiisanoja, Finland 20.18 q
  5. Khaled Habash Al-Suwaidi, Qatar 19.72
  6. Anton Lyuboslavskiy, Russia 19.56
  7. John Godina, United States 19.54
  8. Dragan Peric, Serbia and Montenegro 19.46
  9. Taavi Peetre, Estonia 19.20
  10. Yuriy Belov, Belarus 19.16
  11. Hamza Alic, Bosnia and Herzegovina 18.77
  12. Edis Elkasevic, Croatia 18.59

Final edit

  1. Adam Nelson, United States 21.73 (SB)
  2. Rutger Smith, Netherlands 21.29
  3. Ralf Bartels, Germany 20.99
  4. Christian Cantwell, United States 20.87
  5. Joachim Olsen, Denmark 20.73
  6. Ville Tiisanoja, Finland 20.57
  7. Tomasz Majewski, Poland 20.23
  8. Tepa Reinikainen, Finland 20.09
  9. Mikuláš Konopka, Slovakia 19.72
  10. Carl Myerscough, Great Britain 19.67
  • Yuriy Bilonoh, Ukraine 20.89 DQ
  • Andrey Mikhnevich, Belarus 20.74 DQ[1][2]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Belarusian shot-putter gets life ban for doping". Archived from the original on 2014-03-28. Retrieved 2014-03-27.
  2. ^ "Helsinki 2005 re-tests reveal six adverse findings | PRESS-RELEASE | World Athletics".

External links edit