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1991 World Championships in Athletics - Men's shot put

These are the official results of the Men's Shot Put event at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. There were a total number of 23 participating athletes, with the final held on Saturday August 31, 1991. Werner Günthör of Switzerland won the competition with a throw of 21.67 metres.

The original silver medallist, Georg Andersen of Norway, was disqualified and stripped of his medal after testing positive for anabolic steroids.[1] The original bronze medallist (Lars Arvid Nilsen) was elevated to the silver while the fourth-placed Soviet thrower Aleksandr Klimenko received the bronze instead.

Medalists

Gold Switzerland Werner Günthör
Switzerland (SUI)
Silver Norway Lars Arvid Nilsen
Norway (NOR)
Bronze Soviet Union Aleksandr Klimenko
Soviet Union (URS)

Schedule

Qualification Round
Group A Group B
30.08.1991 – 10:30h 30.08.1991 – 10:30h
Final Round
31.08.1991 – 18:30h

Abbreviations

  • All results shown are in metres
Q automatic qualification
q qualification by rank
DNS did not start
NM no mark
WR world record
AR area record
NR national record
PB personal best
SB season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1991 World Athletics Championships
World Record Randy Barnes (USA) 23.12 m May 20, 1990 United States Westwood, United States
Event Record Werner Günthör (SUI) 22.23 m August 29, 1987 Italy Rome, Italy

Qualification

RANK GROUP A DISTANCE
1. Werner Günthör (SUI) 20.97 m
2. Sergey Nikolayev (URS) 20.16 m
3. Lars Arvid Nilsen (NOR) 19.79 m
4. Gert Weil (CHI) 19.51 m
5. Oliver-Sven Buder (GER) 19.44 m
6. Paul Edwards (GBR) 19.28 m
7. Dragan Perić (YUG) 19.21 m
8. Gheorghe Guşet (ROM) 18.55 m
9. Luc Viudes (FRA) 18.43 m
10. C.J. Hunter (USA) 17.97 m
Sören Tallhem (SWE) NM


RANK GROUP B DISTANCE
1. Georg Andersen (NOR) 20.41 m
2. Aleksandr Klimenko (URS) 19.79 m
3. Kent Larsson (SWE) 19.20 m
4. Ron Backes (USA) 19.05 m
5. Alessandro Andrei (ITA) 19.00 m
6. Jan Sagedal (NOR) 18.90 m
7. Pétur Guðmundsson (ISL) 18.51 m
8. Karel Sula (TCH) 18.30 m
9. Kalman Konya (GER) 18.26 m
10. Khaled Al-Khalidi (KSA) 16.38 m
11. Lim Chee-Wee (BRU) 13.49 m
Dimitrios Koutsoukis (GRE) NM

Final

RANK FINAL DISTANCE
Med 1.png Werner Günthör (SUI) 21.67 m
Med 2.png Lars Arvid Nilsen (NOR) 20.75 m
Med 3.png Aleksandr Klimenko (URS) 20.34 m
4. Oliver-Sven Buder (GER) 20.10 m
5. Sergey Nikolayev (URS) 19.98 m
6. Kent Larsson (SWE) 19.92 m
7. Dragan Perić (YUG) 19.83 m
8. Ron Backes (USA) 19.34 m
9. Gert Weil (CHI) 19.30 m
10. Paul Edwards (GBR) 18.91 m
11. Alessandro Andrei (ITA) 18.73 m
Georg Andersen (NOR) DSQ

See also

References

  1. ^ Track and Field. LA Times (1991-09-13). Retrieved on 2011-06-22.
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