Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put

These are the official results of the Men's Shot Put event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There were a total number of 36 competitors, with twelve athletes reaching the final. The event took place on July 26, 1996.

In 1998, gold medalist Randy Barnes was tested positive for androstenedione (an over-the-counter supplement famously used by Mark McGwire), and was subsequently suspended from competition in the Olympic Games for life. On August 7 1990 Barnes was banned from competing for 27 months(including 1992 Olympics) after testing positive for the anabolic steroid methyltestosterone at a competition in Malmö, Sweden. Despite this, his result from the Atlanta is officially accepted, because there is no known positive result from this games, and according to "innocent until caught at that moment" rule he can keep his medal.

Medalists

Gold	Randy Barnes  United States
Silver	John Godina  United States
Bronze	Oleksandr Bagach  Ukraine

Abbreviations

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
OR	olympic record
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics
World Record	Randy Barnes (USA)	23.12 m	May 20, 1990	Los Angeles, United States
Olympic Record	Ulf Timmermann (GDR)	22.47 m	September 23, 1988	Seoul, South Korea

Qualification

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
			1	2	3
1	3	Oliver-Sven Buder (GER)	19.76	20.43	—	20.43 m
2	4	Randy Barnes (USA)	X	19.70	20.42	20.42 m
3	7	Roman Virastyuk (UKR)	19.81	—	—	19.81 m
4	8	Dragan Perić (SCG)	19.61	X	19.61	19.61 m
5	9	Dzimitry Hancharuk (BLR)	19.57	X	19.17	19.57 m
6	11	Corrado Fantini (ITA)	18.63	19.40	19.00	19.40 m
7	15	Manuel Martínez (ESP)	19.12	18.93	18.90	19.12 m
8	16	Michael Mertens (GER)	18.57	18.90	19.07	19.07 m
9	17	Kent Larsson (SWE)	18.60	18.86	19.05	19.05 m
10	18	Arsi Harju (FIN)	18.56	19.01	X	19.01 m
11	19	Giorgio Venturi (ITA)	18.60	18.98	18.52	18.98 m
12	24	Ilias Louka (CYP)	18.48	17.98	X	18.48 m
13	25	Chima Ugwu (NGR)	18.39	18.35	18.33	18.39 m
14	26	Aleksey Shidlovskiy (RUS)	17.84	18.34	18.37	18.37 m
15	30	Saulius Kleiza (LTU)	18.08	18.21	18.18	18.21 m
16	34	Anthony Leiato (ASA)	12.28	X	13.02	13.02 m
—	—	Jenő Kóczián (HUN)	X	X	X	NM
—	—	Sergey Rubtsov (KAZ)	X	—	—	NM

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
			1	2	3
1	1	Paolo Dal Soglio (ITA)	19.43	20.58	—	20.58 m
2	2	John Godina (USA)	20.54	—	—	20.54 m
3	5	Oleksandr Bagach (UKR)	20.23	—	—	20.23 m
4	6	C. J. Hunter (USA)	19.95	—	—	19.95 m
5	10	Oleksandr Klymenko (UKR)	19.11	19.45	X	19.45 m
6	12	Bilal Saad Mubarak (QAT)	19.39	19.23	19.28	19.39 m
7	13	Dirk Urban (GER)	19.39	18.82	19.23	19.39 m
8	14	Mika Halvari (FIN)	19.37	X	18.78	19.37 m
9	20	Yevgeniy Palchikov (RUS)	18.75	18.83	18.96	18.96 m
10	21	Miroslav Menc (CZE)	18.69	18.13	18.42	18.69 m
11	22	Gert Weil (CHI)	18.64	18.67	18.58	18.67 m
12	23	Yojer Medina (VEN)	X	18.49	18.53	18.53 m
13	27	Shaun Pickering (GBR)	18.29	18.23	17.45	18.29 m
14	28	Mikhalis Louka (CYP)	18.23	18.03	18.12	18.23 m
15	29	Khalid Al-Khalidi (KSA)	18.22	X	17.83	18.22 m
16	31	Bradley Snyder (CAN)	17.98	X	X	17.98 m
17	32	Viktor Bulat (BLR)	16.70	16.67	17.29	17.29 m
18	33	Sergey Kot (UZB)	16.51	X	16.05	16.51 m

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Randy Barnes (USA)	19.46	20.44	X	20.26	20.32	21.62	21.62 m
	John Godina (USA)	X	19.91	19.98	20.64	20.79	X	20.79 m
	Oleksandr Bagach (UKR)	20.41	20.50	20.29	X	X	20.75	20.75 m
4	Paolo Dal Soglio (ITA)	20.12	20.65	19.92	20.74	20.60	X	20.74 m
5	Oliver-Sven Buder (GER)	20.16	19.92	20.37	20.13	20.51	19.71	20.51 m
6	Roman Virastyuk (UKR)	19.46	19.86	20.32	20.21	20.45	X	20.45 m
7	C. J. Hunter (USA)	19.99	20.09	20.39	X	20.25	20.35	20.39 m
8	Dragan Perić (YUG)	19.66	19.75	19.98	X	X	20.07	20.07 m
9	Dzimitry Hancharuk (BLR)	X	19.79	X				19.79 m
10	Bilal Saad Mubarak (QAT)	19.11	19.33	X				19.33 m
11	Corrado Fantini (ITA)	19.30	X	X				19.30 m
—	Oleksandr Klymenko (UKR)	X	X	X				NM

See also

• 1995 World Championships in Athletics - Men's Shot Put
• 1996 Shot Put Year Ranking
• 1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

References

• Official Report
• Results