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Beijing Olympics 2008 Shot put Men Field Events Athletics

Beijing Olympics

Gold	Tomasz Majewski Poland (POL)
Silver	Christian Cantwell United States (USA)
Bronze	Andrei Mikhnevich Belarus (BLR)

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

Group	Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
A	1	Tomasz Majewski	Poland	21,04	Q, PB
B	2	Adam Nelson	United States	20,56	Q
B	3	Andrei Mikhnevich	Belarus	20,48	Q
A	4	Christian Cantwell	United States	20,48	Q
A	5	Dylan Armstrong	Canada	20,43	Q
A	6	Reese Hoffa	United States	20,41	Q
B	7	Yury Bialou	Ukraine	20,36	q
B	8	Pavel Lyzhyn	Belarus	20,36	q
A	9	Pavel Sofin	Russia	20,29	q
B	10	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	20,13	q
A	11	Yury Bialou	Belarus	20,12	q
B	12	Ivan Yushkov	Russia	20,02	q
B	13	Peter Sack	Germany	20,01
A	14	Andriy Semenov	Ukraine	20,01
B	15	Dorian Scott	Jamaica	19,94
B	16	Justin Anlezark	Australia	19,91
A	17	Hamza Alic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	19,87
A	18	Anton Lyuboslavskiy	Russia	19,87
B	19	Manuel Martínez	Spain	19,81
B	20	Miran Vodovnik	Slovenia	19,81
A	21	Scott Martin	Australia	19,75
A	22	Joachim B. Olsen	Denmark	19,74	SB
B	23	Yves Niare	France	19,73
A	24	Carlos Véliz	Cuba	19,58
B	25	Taavi Peetre	Estonia	19,57
A	26	Māris Urtāns	Latvia	19,57
B	27	Sultan Abdulmajeed Alhebshi	Saudi Arabia	19,51
B	28	Petr Stehlik	Czech Republic	19,41
B	29	Nedzad Mulabegovic	roatia	19,35
A	30	Milan Haborak	Slovakia	19,32
B	31	Reinaldo Proenza	Cuba	19,20
A	32	Germán Lauro	Argentina	19,07
A	33	Asmir Kolasinic	Serbia	19,01
A	34	Lajos Imre Kurthy	Hungary	18,74
B	35	Ivan Emilianov	Moldova	18,64
A	36	Michail Stamatogiannis	Greece	18,45
B	37	Yasser Farag	Egypt	18,42
B	38	Marco Fortes	Portugal	18,05
A	39	Marco Antonio Verni	Chile	17,96
B	40	Chang Ming-Huang	Chinese Taipei	17,43
A	—	Ralf Bartels	Germany	DNS
A	—	Robert Haggblom	Finland	NM
A	—	Georgi Ivanov	Bulgaria	NM
B	—	Amin Nikfar	Iran	NM
B	—	Alexis Paumier	Cuba	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

August 15, 2008 - 21:00

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