Rutger Smith

Rutger Smith

Personal information
Full name	Rutger Smith
Born	9 July 1981 (1981-07-09) Groningen, Netherlands
Height	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)
Medal record Competitor for Netherlands Men's athletics World Championships Silver 2005 Helsinki Shot put Bronze 2007 Osaka Discus
Updated on 22 March 2008.

Rutger Smith (born July 9, 1981 in Groningen) is a Dutch track and field athlete competing in the shot put and discus throw. He was the first athlete to win medals at the World Championships in both events. He represented the Netherlands at the Summer Olympics in 2004 and 2008. His personal best of 21.62 m for the shot put is the Dutch national record.

In his first international competition, he won a shot put and discus double at the 1999 European Athletics Junior Championships. At the 2000 World Junior Championships he won medals in both events, and he also competed in both events at the 2004 Olympics. In 2005 he won silver medals in shot put at the European Indoor Championships and World Championships. Two years later he won the bronze medal in the discus at the 2007 World Championships and narrowly missed a shot put medal with a fourth place finish.

A series of back problems affected his throwing after he competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and he did not return to competition until April 2011.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
1999	European Junior Championships	Riga, Latvia	1st	Shot put
			1st	Discus throw
2000	World Junior Championships	Santiago, Chile	1st	Shot put
			3rd	Discus throw
2001	Universiade	Beijing, China	12th	Shot put
			11th	Discus throw
2002	European Indoor Championships	Vienna, Austria	10th (qualifying)	Shot put
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	8th	Shot put
2003	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	10th (qualifying)	Shot put
	European U23 Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	3rd	Shot put
			1st	Discus throw
	World Championships	Paris, France	11th (qualifying)	Shot put
			6th (qualifying)	Discus throw
2004	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	7th (qualifying)	Shot put
	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	7th (qualifying)	Shot put
			8th (qualifying)	Discus throw
2005	European Indoor Championships	Madrid, Spain	2nd	Shot put
	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	2nd	Shot put
2006	European Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	4th	Shot put
			7th	Discus throw
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	3rd	Shot put
2007	European Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	9th (qualifying)	Shot put
	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	4th	Shot put
			3rd	Discus throw
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	6th	Shot put
2008	World Indoor Championships	Valencia, Spain	5th	Shot put
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	9th	Shot put
			7th	Discus throw

Personal bests

• Shot put - 21.62 m (2006), national record
• Discus throw - 67.77 m (2011)

References

• IAAF profile for Rutger Smith