2010 European Athletics Championships – Men's shot put

The men's shot put at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 30 and 31 July.

Medalists

Gold	Tomasz Majewski Poland (POL)
Silver	Ralf Bartels Germany (GER)
Bronze	Māris Urtāns Latvia (LAT)

Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 European Athletics Championships
World record	Randy Barnes (USA)	23.12	Westwood, United States	20 May 1990
European record	Ulf Timmermann (GDR)	23.06	Chania, Greece	22 May 1988
Championship record	Werner Günthör (SUI)	22.22	Stuttgart, West Germany	28 August 1986
World Leading	Christian Cantwell (USA)	22.41	Eugene, United States	3 July 2010
European Leading	Andrei Mikhnevich (BLR)	22.09	Minsk, Belarus	14 July 2010

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
30 July 2010	11:30	Qualification
31 July 2010	18:30	Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualification Performance 20.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
DQ	B	Pavel Lyzhyn	Belarus (BLR)	x	19.43	20.42	20.42	Q, Doping
1	A	Ralf Bartels	Germany (GER)	20.37			20.37	Q
2	A	Tomasz Majewski	Poland (POL)	20.36			20.36	Q
DQ	A	Andrei Mikhnevich	Belarus (BLR)	20.35			20.35	Q, Doping
3	B	David Storl	Germany (GER)	19.74	x	20.24	20.24	Q
4	B	Māris Urtāns	Latvia (LAT)	18.55	19.17	20.19	20.19	Q
5	A	Nedžad Mulabegović	Croatia (CRO)	20.01			20.01	Q
6	A	Antonín Žalský	Czech Republic (CZE)	19.93	19.78	19.74	19.93	q
7	B	Asmir Kolašinac	Serbia (SRB)	x	19.75	19.83	19.83	q
8	A	Carl Myerscough	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	19.34	x	19.81	19.81	q
9	B	Jakub Giża	Poland (POL)	19.44	18.90	19.69	19.69	q
10	B	Borja Vivas	Spain (ESP)	19.14	19.21	19.51	19.51	q
11	B	Marco Fortes	Portugal (POR)	19.24	19.48	18.70	19.48
12	A	Taavi Peetre	Estonia (EST)	19.42	x	x	19.42
13	A	Andriy Semenov	Ukraine (UKR)	19.31	x	x	19.31
14	A	Lajos Kürthy	Hungary (HUN)	x	19.15	x	19.15
15	A	Niklas Arrhenius	Sweden (SWE)	18.93	x	x	18.93
16	A	Milan Jotanović	Serbia (SRB)	18.81	18.38	18.42	18.81
DQ	B	Remigius Machura	Czech Republic (CZE)	18.71	18.55	x	18.71	Doping
17	B	Mihaíl Stamatóyiannis	Greece (GRE)	18.15	18.28	18.58	18.58
18	A	Miran Vodovnik	Slovenia (SLO)	x	18.42	x	18.42
19	B	Georgi Ivanov	Bulgaria (BUL)	18.18	18.28	x	18.28
20	B	Georgios Arestis	Cyprus (CYP)	x	18.23	17.76	18.23
21	B	Kim Christensen	Denmark (DEN)	17.36	18.20	x	18.20
22	A	Manuel Martínez	Spain (ESP)	18.08	x	17.73	18.08
	B	Ódinn Björn Thorsteinsson	Iceland (ISL)	x	x	x	NM
	B	Yves Niaré	France (FRA)	x	x	x	NM

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
DQ	Andrei Mikhnevich	Belarus (BLR)	20.49	21.01	20.87	20.77	20.58	20.94	21.01	Doping
	Tomasz Majewski	Poland (POL)	20.66	20.83	20.78	21.00	20.96	20.59	21.00
	Ralf Bartels	Germany (GER)	20.23	20.22	20.40	20.22	20.65	20.93	20.93
	Māris Urtāns	Latvia (LAT)	19.81	20.12	x	20.56	20.72	20.64	20.72
4	David Storl	Germany (GER)	20.24	20.24	x	20.28	x	20.57	20.57
5	Nedžad Mulabegović	Croatia (CRO)	20.56	x	20.33	19.90	20.50	20.37	20.56	PB
DQ	Pavel Lyzhyn	Belarus (BLR)	x	19.93	20.11	x	x	x	20.11	Doping
7	Antonín Žalský	Czech Republic (CZE)	20.01	x	x	19.58	x	x	20.01
8	Asmir Kolašinac	Serbia (SRB)	19.61	x	19.77				19.77
9	Jakub Giża	Poland (POL)	18.63	19.04	19.73				19.73
10	Borja Vivas	Spain (ESP)	19.04	18.94	19.12				19.12
11	Carl Myerscough	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	x	x	18.19				18.19

References

• Qualification Results
• Final Results
• Czech shot putter Machura gets 2-year doping ban
• Full results