Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put

Men's shot put at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	3 August
Competitors	1 million from 34 nations
Winning distance	21.89
Medalists
Seb from ParkHouse  Poland David Storl  Germany Reese Hoffa  United States

Official Video Highlights

The men's shot put competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom was held at the Olympic Stadium on 3 August. Each athlete receives three throws in the qualifying round. All who achieve the qualifying distance progress to the final. If less than twelve athletes achieve this mark, then the twelve furthest throwing athletes reach the final. Each finalist is allowed three throws in last round, with the top eight athletes after that point being given three further attempts.

In the qualification rounds, the first athletics event of the Olympics, the athletes with the best credentials coming in; (2007 World Champion) Reese Hoffa, (2011 World Champion) David Storl and (defending champion) Tomasz Majewski placed themselves in the favorite role, by tossing an automatic qualifier on their first attempt. Ryan Whiting and German Lauro had to take all three attempts to make their automatic qualifier, Lauro's becoming the new National Record for Argentina. It took 20.25 to make it to the finals, held in the evening.

The results of the first preliminary round foretold the final results. Those three athletes led from the first round, with Storl literally flexing his muscles in the ring as he took the early lead, then improving his position slightly in the second round. Lauro added an additional 7 cm to the national record he had set in the morning in the second round and another 2 cm in the third, but in the end that was only good enough for sixth place. Majewski edged into the lead with his third attempt, while Hoffa made his best attempt in the fourth round. (2009 World Champion) Christian Cantwell came within 4 cm of grabbing the bronze medal from his American teammate in the final round, then Majewski put a cap on his victory with the best throw in the competition 21.89 on the final throw. Majewski is the first to repeat as champion since Parry O'Brien in 1956, with Ralph Rose from 1908 the only other, and the first non-American to do that.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Date	Time	Round
Friday, 3 August 2012	10:00 20:30	Qualifications Finals

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	USA}}	111111123.12 m	Los Angeles, United States	20 May 1990
Olympic record	Ulf Timmermann (GDR)	22.47 m	Seoul, South Korea	23 September 1988
2012 World leading	Christian Cantwell (USA)	22.31 m	Champaign, United States	7 July 2012

Results

Qualifying round

• Entrants as of 27 July 2012.

Qual. rule: qualification standard 20.65m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	B	Reese Hoffa	United States	21.36	-	-	21.36	Q
2	A	David Storl	Germany	21.15	-	-	21.15	Q
3	A	Tomasz Majewski	Poland	21.03	-	-	21.03	Q
4	B	Ryan Whiting	United States	20.29	20.25	20.78	20.78	Q
5	A	Germán Lauro	Argentina	20.10	x	20.75	20.75	Q, NR
6	A	Pavel Lyzhyn	Belarus	19.85	20.10	20.57	20.57	q
7	B	Dylan Armstrong	Canada	19.99	x	20.49	20.49	q
8	B	Asmir Kolašinac	Serbia	20.44			20.44	q
9	A	Christian Cantwell	United States	20.41	20.30	19.88	20.41	q
10	B	Maksim Sidorov	Russia	x	19.59	20.40	20.40	q
11	A	Dorian Scott	Jamaica	20.18	20.30	20.31	20.31	q
12	B	Chang Ming-Huang	Chinese Taipei	19.14	x	20.25	20.25	q
13	A	Soslan Tsirikhov	Russia	19.25	19.78	20.17	20.17
14	A	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	20.08	x	19.55	20.08
15	A	Marco Fortes	Portugal	19.59	20.06	19.50	20.06
16	B	Ralf Bartels	Germany	x	20.00	19.89	20.00
17	B	Andrei Mikhnevich	Belarus	19.81	19.55	19.89	19.89
18	B	Nedžad Mulabegović	Croatia	19.18	19.86	19.72	19.86
19	B	Om Prakash Singh	India	19.40	19.86	x	19.86
20	B	Hüseyin Atıcı	Turkey	19.47	19.49	19.74	19.74
21	A	Lajos Kürthy	Hungary	19.65	x	x	19.65
22	A	Georgi Ivanov	Bulgaria	19.42	19.40	19.63	19.63
23	B	Antonín Žalský	Czech Republic	x	19.62	19.49	19.62
24	A	Kemal Mešić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	19.49	x	19.60	19.60
25	A	Mihail Stamatoyiannis	Greece	18.67	x	19.24	19.24
26	A	Dale Stevenson	Australia	18.38	19.17	19.01	19.17
27	A	Māris Urtāns	Latvia	18.92	19.13	x	19.13
28	B	Kim Christensen	Denmark	18.40	x	19.13	19.13
29	B	Carl Myerscough	Great Britain	18.75	18.95	x	18.95
30	B	Raigo Toompuu	Estonia	18.87	18.91	x	18.91
31	A	Borja Vivas	Spain	18.46	x	18.88	18.88
32	A	Stephen Saenz	Mexico	x	18.65	x	18.65
33	B	Amin Nikfar	Iran	18.62	x	x	18.62
34	B	Carlos Véliz	Cuba	18.26	x	18.57	18.57
35	B	Emanuele Fuamatu	Samoa	17.78	x	x	17.78
36	A	Odinn Bjorn Thorsteinsson	Iceland	x	17.04	17.62	17.62
37	A	Adriatik Hoxha	Albania	17.58	x	17.13	17.58
-	A	Justin Rodhe	Canada	x	x	x	NM
-	B	Zhang Jun	China	x	x	x	NM
-	B	Andriy Semenov	Ukraine	x	x	x	NM

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Tomasz Majewski	Poland	21.19	21.72	21.87	x	21.72	21.89	21.89
	David Storl	Germany	21.84	21.86	21.41	x	x	x	21.86	PB
	Reese Hoffa	United States	20.98	20.95	21.23	21.11	19.53	x	21.23
4	Christian Cantwell	United States	20.21	20.95	x	x	20.65	21.19	21.19
5	Dylan Armstrong	Canada	20.16	20.93	20.74	x	x	20.34	20.93
6	Germán Lauro	Argentina	19.40	20.82	20.84	20.34	20.65	x	20.84	NR
7	Asmir Kolašinac	Serbia	20.18	20.71	x	20.54	20.46	x	20.71
8	Pavel Lyzhyn	Belarus	20.69	x	x	19.93	20.04	x	20.69
9	Ryan Whiting	United States	20.21	20.21	20.64				20.64
10	Dorian Scott	Jamaica	19.51	20.61	x				20.61
11	Maksim Sidorov	Russia	x	20.41	x				20.41
12	Chang Ming-Huang	Chinese Taipei	19.99	x	19.64				19.99