1995 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

These are the official results of the Men's Shot Put event at the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were a total of 32 participating athletes, with the final held on Wednesday August 9, 1995. The qualification mark was set at 19.80 metres.

Medalists

Gold	John Godina United States (USA)
Silver	Mika Halvari Finland (FIN)
Bronze	Randy Barnes United States (USA)

Schedule

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
08.08.1995 – 15:45h	08.08.1995 – 15:45h
Final Round
09.08.1995 – 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 1993 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Randy Barnes  (USA)	23.12 m	May 20, 1990	Westwood, United States
Event Record	Werner Günthör  (SUI)	22.23 m	August 29, 1987	Rome, Italy

Qualification

• Held on Tuesday 1995-08-08

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Mika Halvari  (FIN)	20.40 m
2.	Brent Noon  (USA)	19.84 m
3.	Roman Virastyuk  (UKR)	19.74 m
4.	Aleksandr Klimenko  (UKR)	19.22 m
5.	Saulius Kleiza  (LTU)	18.99 m
6.	Georg Andersen  (NOR)	18.84 m
7.	Arsi Harju  (FIN)	18.79 m
8.	Alessandro Andrei  (ITA)	18.74 m
9.	Kent Larsson  (SWE)	18.73 m
10.	Yojer Medina  (VEN)	18.58 m
11.	Thorsten Herbrand  (GER)	18.30 m
12.	Mark Proctor  (GBR)	18.08 m
13.	Corrado Fantini  (ITA)	17.89 m
14.	Miroslav Menc  (CZE)	17.54 m
15.	Oakland Salavea  (ASA)	12.80 m
—	Pétur Guðmundsson  (ISL)	DNS

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Randy Barnes  (USA)	21.30 m
2.	Oleksandr Bagach  (UKR)	20.60 m
3.	John Godina  (USA)	19.99 m
4.	Oliver-Sven Buder  (GER)	19.91 m
5.	Markus Koistinen  (FIN)	19.88 m
6.	Paolo Dal Soglio  (ITA)	19.47 m
7.	Bilal Saad Mubarak  (QAT)	19.01 m
8.	Dzimitry Hancharuk  (BLR)	19.00 m
9.	Jonny Reinhardt  (GER)	18.89 m
10.	Sergey Rubtsov  (KAZ)	18.81 m
11.	Manuel Martínez  (ESP)	18.50 m
12.	Henrik Wennberg  (SWE)	18.38 m
13.	Christian Nebl  (AUT)	18.33 m
14.	Sergey Kot  (UZB)	17.03 m
15.	Aufata Faleata  (SAM)	11.04 m
—	Konstantinos Kollias  (GRE)	NM

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Result	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	John Godina  (USA)	21.47	20.54	19.82	19.26	19.97	—	21.47 m
	Mika Halvari  (FIN)	20.22	X	20.19	20.33	20.93	20.35	20.93 m
	Randy Barnes  (USA)	19.47	20.22	20.41	X	X	X	20.41 m
4	Oleksandr Bagach  (UKR)	20.38	20.23	20.27	20.28	X	20.16	20.38 m
5	Brent Noon  (USA)	20.13	19.19	X	19.59	X	20.01	20.13 m
6	Oliver-Sven Buder  (GER)	20.11	X	20.04	X	19.45	X	20.11 m
7	Roman Virastyuk  (UKR)	19.66	18.94	19.13	X	X	X	19.66 m
8	Dzimitry Hancharuk  (BLR)	19.38	19.21	19.30	19.22	X	X	19.38 m
9	Paolo Dal Soglio  (ITA)	X	X	19.38	19.30	X	X	19.38 m
10	Markus Koistinen  (FIN)	19.34	X	18.83				19.34 m
11	Bilal Saad Mubarak  (QAT)	18.56	18.52	X				18.56 m
12	Aleksandr Klimenko  (UKR)	18.26	18.23	X				18.26 m

See also

• 1995 Shot Put Year Ranking

References

• Results
• IAAF