1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

These are the official results of the Men's Shot Put event at the 1997 IAAF World Championships in Athens, Greece. The original winner, Oleksandr Bagach, was later disqualified for doping.

Medalists

Gold	John Godina United States (USA)
Silver	Oliver-Sven Buder Germany (GER)
Bronze	C.J. Hunter United States (USA)

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 19.80 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	A	John Godina	United States	21.10			21.10	Q
2	B	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	20.53			20.53	Q
3	B	Yuriy Belonog	Ukraine	19.75	20.31		20.31	Q
4	B	Roman Virastyuk	Ukraine	20.13			20.13	Q
5	A	Mika Halvari	Finland	20.10			20.10	Q
6	B	C.J. Hunter	United States	19.48	19.68	20.05	20.05	Q
7	B	Kevin Toth	United States	x	x	19.99	19.99	Q
8	B	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	18.83	19.93		19.93	Q
9	A	Burger Lambrechts	South Africa	x	19.36	19.91	19.91	Q, PB
10	A	Michael Mertens	Germany	19.88			19.88	Q
11	B	Saulius Kleiza	Lithuania	19.71	x	18.99	19.71
12	B	Manuel Martínez	Spain	19.61	19.23	x	19.61
13	A	Randy Barnes	United States	19.23	19.51	x	19.51
14	A	Arsi Harju	Finland	x	x	19.43	19.43
15	A	Corrado Fantini	Italy	19.30	18.74	x	19.43
16	A	Miroslav Menc	Czech Republic	19.07	19.23	x	19.23
17	B	Bilal Saad Mubarak	Qatar	18.09	18.90	19.08	19.08
18	B	Dragan Perić	Yugoslavia	18.86	19.05	18.93	19.05
19	B	Stevimir Ercegovac	Croatia	19.00			19.00
20	A	Bradley Snyder	Canada	17.76	18.52	18.94	18.94
21	B	Yoger Medina	Venezuela	18.36	18.31	18.92	18.92
22	A	Viktor Bulat	Belarus	17.97	18.61	x	18.61
23	B	Dmitriy Goncharuk	Belarus	18.33	18.60	x	18.60
24	A	Kjell Ove Hauge	Norway	18.12	x	18.37	18.37
25	A	Sergey Rubtsov	Kazakhstan	18.16	x	x	18.16
26	B	Shaun Pickering	Great Britain	18.10	17.84	17.42	18.10
27	B	Vyacheslav Lykho	Russia	17.77	17.67	18.04	18.04
28	A	Chima Ugwu	Nigeria	17.25	17.84	18.00	18.00
29	A	Mark Proctor	Great Britain	17.99	x	x	17.99
30	A	Milan Haborák	Slovakia	17.85	x	x	17.85
31	A	Alexios Leonidis	Greece	17.77			17.77
32	B	Faaea Talalemotu	Northern Mariana Islands	13.96	13.11	12.92	13.96
	A	Oleksandr Bagach	Ukraine				DQ
	B	Tarek Al Najjar	Jordan				DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	John Godina	United States	21.24	21.39	21.44	21.19	21.20	x	21.44
	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	20.79	20.18	20.41	21.05	x	21.24	21.24
	C.J. Hunter	United States	20.22	20.30	x	x	x	20.33	20.33
4	Yuriy Belonog	Ukraine	x	20.22	x	20.26	x	x	20.26
5	Mika Halvari	Finland	x	20.13	x	x	x	x	20.13
6	Roman Virastyuk	Ukraine	20.00	20.01	20.12	x	x	x	20.12
7	Kevin Toth	United States	19.50	20.02	x	x	x	x	20.02
8	Michael Mertens	Germany	19.82	19.91	19.86	x	x	x	19.91
9	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	19.77	x	x				19.77
10	Burger Lambrechts	South Africa	x	19.39	x				19.39
11	Saulius Kleiza	Lithuania	18.25	x	x				18.25
	Oleksandr Bagach	Ukraine							DQ

References

• Results
• IAAF