Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put


The Men's Shot Put event at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Olympic Stadium on Friday, 22 September. The shot put has been ever present since the beginning of the modern Olympic Games in 1896. The qualifying athletes progressed through to the final where the qualifying distances are scrapped and they start afresh with up to six throws.

Medalists

Schedule

These were the standing world and Olympic records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics.
World Record23.12 mRandy BarnesUnited StatesLos Angeles, California, United States20 May 1990
Olympic Record22.47 mUlf TimmermannGerman Democratic RepublicSeoul, South Korea23 September 1988

Abbreviations

Qualifying

Held on Friday, 22 September 2000.
The qualifying distance was 20.10 m. For all qualifiers who did not achieve the standard, the remaining spaces in the final were filled by the longest throws until a total of 12 qualifiers.

Group A

Group B

PlaceOverallAthleteNationMarkQualRecord
11Arsi Harju21.39QPB
23Yuriy Bilonog20.53Q
36Milan Haborak20.00q
410Miroslav Menc19.92q
511Andrew Bloom19.83q
612Janus Robberts19.79q
715Ville Tiisanoja19.66
817Joachim Olsen19.41
918Pavel Chumachenko19.40
1019Paolo Dal Soglio19.39
1125Szilárd Kiss18.95
1226Michael Mertens18.72
1327Bahadur Singh18.70
1429Justin Anlezark18.59
1531Mark Proctor18.49
1634Bilal Saad Mubarak18.30
1736Ivan Emilianov17.63
1837Sergey Rubtsov15.90

Final ranking

Final