2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

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 celebrating the announcement of his winning put at Daegu

Official Video

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.

Medalists

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

Records

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

A standard	B standard
20.50	20.00

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
September 1, 2011	10:00	Qualification
September 2, 2011	19:00	Final

Results

Qualification

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

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

External links

• Shot put results at IAAF website