| Events at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Track events | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 5000 m | men | women |
| 4×100 m relay | Universal relay | |
| Field events | ||
| Long jump | men | women |
| High jump | men | |
| Shot put | men | women |
| Discus throw | men | women |
| Javelin throw | men | women |
| Club throw | men | women |
The men's shot put events at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships were held at Charlety Stadium, Paris, France, from 10 to 17 July.
The event took place at 18:42 on 12 Jul 2023. [1]
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Mahdi Olad |  Iran | 13.79 | |
 | Alessandro da Silva |  Brazil | 13.43 | SB |
 | Alvaro del Amo Cano |  Spain | 12.81 | PB |
| 4 | Miljenko Vucic |  Croatia | 12.58 | SB |
| 5 | Maharram Gasimov |  Azerbaijan | 11.63 | PB |
| 6 | Monu Ghangas |  India | 11.57 | SB |
| 7 | Bil Marinkovic |  Austria | 11.47 | |
| 8 | Miroslaw Madzia |  Poland | 11.41 | |
| 9 | Milos Spaic |  Montenegro | 10.77 | |
| 10 | Roger Saavedra |  Panama | 10.22 | |
| 11 | Juan Carlos Caballero | Panama | 9.93 | |
| 12 | Petteri Peitso |  Finland | 9.78 | |
| 13 | Luc Yomby Kifie |  Cameroon | 8.99 | |
| 14 | Yuh Ndim Clement | Cameroon | 8.94 | |
| 15 | Evgheni Iagudin |  Moldova | 8.1 | SB |
| Rajab Chetty |  Kenya | DNS |
The event took place on 10 July. [2]
| Rank | Athlete | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
|  Roman Danyliuk (UKR) | 16.73 | CR |
| Volodymyr Ponomarenko (UKR) | 15.92 | PB |
|  Elbek Sultonov (UZB) | 15.42 | SB |
| 4 |  Stefan Dimitrijevic (SRB) | 13.88 | |
| 5 | Kim Lopez Gonzalez (ESP) | 13.58 | SB |
| 6 |  Devin Huhta (USA) | 13.42 | |
| 7 |  Emils Dzilna (LAT) | 13.40 | |
| 8 |  Petre Prundaru (ROU) | 12.46 | |
| 9 | Vladimir Butucea (MDA) | 10.36 | |
| — | Marek Wietecki (POL) | DNF |
The event took place at 18:34 on 13 Jul 2023. [3]
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maksym Koval | Ukraine | 17.57 | WR |
| Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli |  Malaysia | 17.21 | SB |
| Oleksandr Yarovyi | Ukraine | 16.99 | SB |
| 4 | Efstratios Nikolaidis |  Greece | 16.01 | SB |
| 5 | Soane Luka Meissonnier |  France | 15.68 | PB |
| 6 | Jordi Congo |  Ecuador | 15.54 | |
| 7 | Stalin Mosquera | Ecuador | 14.36 | |
| 8 | Leontios Stefanidis | Greece | 14.3 | SB |
| 9 | Istvan Szollosi |  Hungary | 13.6 | |
| 10 | Roger Saavedra | Panama | 10.22 |
The event took place at 18:30 on 13 Jul 2023. [4]
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liu Li |  China | 13.01 | WR |
| Qing Bo | China | 12.17 | PB |
| Athanasios Konstantinidis | Greece | 10.26 | |
| 4 | Lahouari Bahlaz |  Algeria | 10.07 | SB |
| 5 | Mohamed Amchi | Algeria | 9.42 | |
| 6 | Walid Ferhah | Algeria | 8.93 | |
| 7 | Dimitrios Zisidis | Greece | 8.9 | |
| 8 | Maciej Sochal | Poland | 8.51 | |
| 9 | Mohammed Al Mashaykhi |  Oman | 7.89 | SB |
| 10 | Genadij Zametaskin |  Lithuania | 6.06 |
The event took place at 17:30 on 17 Jul 2023. [5]
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zakariae Derhem |  Morocco | 11.91 | AR |
| Giuseppe Campoccio |  Italy | 11.42 | SB |
| Deni Cerni | Croatia | 11.08 | SB |
| 4 | Kamel Kardjena | Algeria | 10.55 | |
| 5 | Hani Alnakhli |  Saudi Arabia | 10.35 | |
| 6 | Michal Glab | Poland | 9.65 | |
| 7 | Ahmed Alhosani |  United Arab Emirates | 9.31 | |
| 8 | Lazaros Stefanidis | Greece | 9.27 | |
| 9 | Gertrudis Ortega Campos | Panama | 8.74 | AR |
| 10 | Ambrus Nagy | Hungary | 7.22 | |
| 11 | Devershee Sachan | India | 6.69 | SB |
The event took place at 9:04 on 17 Jul 2023. [6]
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Hindi |  Jordan | 11.69 | SB |
| Mauricio Valencia |  Colombia | 11.68 | AR |
| Hadi Kaeidi | Iran | 11.35 | |
| 4 | Azeddine Nouiri | Morocco | 10.94 | SB |
| 5 | Diego Meneses | Colombia | 10.66 | |
| 6 | Saeid Afrooz | Iran | 10.65 | SB |
| 7 | Abdulrahman Fiqi |  Qatar | 10.44 | SB |
| 8 | Tomasz Paulinski | Poland | 10.22 | SB |
| 9 | Muhsin Kaedi |  Turkey | 10.18 | |
| 10 | Mohammed Hendi |  Iraq | 10.02 | PB |
| 11 | Oleksandr Aliekseienko |  Israel | 9.88 | |
| 12 | Louis Gervais Baha | Cameroon | 8.95 | |
| 13 | Yair Mordechai Nizar | Israel | 8.64 |
The event took place at 19:12 on 15 Jul 2023. [7]
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Khusniddin Norbekov | Uzbekistan | 16.78 | SB |
| Emanuel Urra Hernan |  Argentina | 15.55 | SB |
| Xinhan Fu | China | 15.33 | |
| 4 | Aliasghar Javanmardi Seyed | Iran | 15.09 | |
| 5 | Edgars Bergs | Latvia | 14.09 | SB |
| 6 | Arvind | India | 13.43 | |
| 7 | Naser Faraj |  Kuwait | 10.08 | PB |
| 8 | Andrei Valentir | Moldova | 7.89 | SB |
The event took place at 9:42 on 13 Jul 2023. [8]
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yassine Guenichi |  Tunisia | 16.86 | WR |
| Jose Roman Ruiz |  Mexico | 15.82 | AR |
| Dastan Mukashbekov |  Kazakhstan | 15.74 | AR |
| 4 | Sebastian Dietz |  Germany | 14.44 | |
| 5 | Rufat Rafiyev | Azerbaijan | 14.12 | PB |
| 6 | Mykola Dibrova | Ukraine | 14.03 | SB |
| 7 | Mohammed Al Kaabi | United Arab Emirates | 12.61 | |
| 8 | Shakhboz Rajabov | Uzbekistan | 12.33 | PB |
| 9 | Simonas Strelkauskis | Lithuania | 11.47 | PB |
The event took place on 10 July. [9]
| Rank | Athlete | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmed Ben Moslah (TUN) | 15.59 | AR |
| Kudratillokhon Marufkhujaev (UZB) | 14.69 | PB |
| Tolibboy Yuldashev (UZB) | 14.62 | PB |
| 4 | Jakub Miroslaw (POL) | 14.19 | |
| 5 | Bryan Leonel Enriquez (MEX) | 14.10 | |
| 6 | Mykola Zhabnyak (UKR) | 13.88 | |
| 7 | Donatas Dundzys (LTU) | 13.63 | SB |
| 8 | Emanoel Souza (BRA) | 13.45 | |
| 9 | Tomasz Sciubak (POL) | 13.17 | SB |
| 10 | Joao Teixeira (BRA) | 12.55 | |
| 11 | Dmitrijs Silovs (LAT) | 11.33 | SB |
| 12 |  David Bambrick (CAN) | 10.32 |
The event took place at 19:30 on 16 Jul 2023. [10]
| Rank | Athlete | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| José Lemos (COL) | 18.26 | WR |
|  Michael Jenkins (GBR) | 17.14 | AR |
| Faisal Sorour (KUW) | 17.01 | AR |
| 4 |  Cameron Crombie (AUS) | 15.89 | SB |
| 5 | Oleksandr Doroshenko (UKR) | 15.27 | =PB |
| 6 | Vladyslav Bilyi (UKR) | 14.99 | PB |
| 7 | Marty Jackson (AUS) | 14.74 | SB |
The event took place at 9:30 on 11 Jul 2023. [11]
| Rank | Athlete | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yannis Fischer (GER) | 11.43 | CR |
| Garrah Tnaiash (IRQ) | 11.28 | AR |
|  Miguel Monteiro (POR) | 11.14 | |
| 4 | Matija Sloup (CRO) | 10.25 | |
| 5 | Ravi Rongali (IND) | 8.9 | PB |
| 6 |  Muhammad Diroy Noordin (SGP) | 8.84 | |
| 7 | Redouane Thabit (MAR) | 8.72 | |
| 8 | Andres Pinillo Pinto (ARG) | 7.73 | |
| 9 | Mert Kilic (TUR) | 7.69 | |
| 10 | Sergiu Bors (MDA) | 5.21 | SB |
The event took place at 10:13 on 12 Jul 2023. [12]
| Rank | Athlete | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bobirjon Omonov (UZB) | 14.73 | CR |
| 2 | Niko Kappel (GER) | 14.49 | SB |
| 3 | Hagan Landry (USA) | 13.48 | |
| 4 | Bartosz Tyszkowski (POL) | 12.28 | |
| 5 | Pengxiang Sun (CHN) | 10.93 | PB |
| 6 |  Jisong Jung (KOR) | 9.93 | |
| 7 | Kamil Dobiecki (POL) | 9.8 | |
| 8 |  Iosefo Rakesa (FIJ) | 9.38 | SB |
| — | Gurkan Uncuoglu (TUR) | DNS |
The event took place at 9:08 on 14 Jul 2023. [13]
| Rank | Athlete | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sachin Sarjerao Khilari (IND) | 16.21 | AR |
| 2 | Joshua Cinnamo (USA) | 16 | SB |
| 3 |  Kerwin Noemdo (RSA) | 15.3 | |
| 4 | Luka Bakovic (CRO) | 15.2 | =PB |
| 5 | Mathias Uwe Schulze (GER) | 14.81 | |
| 6 | Raivo Maksims (LAT) | 13.47 | PB |
| 7 | Andrius Skuja (LTU) | 13.09 | SB |
| 8 | Abdullah Alsaleh (KUW) | 12.89 | |
| 9 | Rasim Yakhin (AZE) | 12.13 | PB |
The event took place on 11 July. [14]
| Rank | Athlete | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rashid Masjedi (IRN) | 8.49 | CR |
| Viktor Lehkodukh (UKR) | 8.36 | PB |
|  Aleš Kisý (CZE) | 8.27 | PB |
| 4 | Alireza Mokhtari (IRN) | 8.26 | |
| 5 | Bartosz Gorczak (POL) | 8.14 | |
| 6 | Abdelillah Gani (MAR) | 7.67 | AR |
| 7 | Marijan Presečan (CRO) | 6.92 | SB |
| 8 | Yaser Almosalem (KUW) | 6.37 | |
| Erick Ortiz Monroy (MEX) | NM |
The event took place on 9 July. [15]
| Rank | Athlete | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
|  Ruzhdi Ruzhdi (BUL) | 12.68 | WR |
| Lech Stoltman (POL) | 12.27 | PB |
| Wallace Santos (BRA) | 11.87 | |
| 4 | Olokhan Musayev (AZE) | 11.74 | SB |
| 5 | Nebojša Đurić (SRB) | 11.62 | SB |
| 6 | Damian Ligeza (POL) | 11.23 | SB |
| 7 | Hamed Amiri (IRI) | 10.96 | SB |
| 8 | Ramunas Verbavicius (LTU) | 10.82 | SB |
| 9 | Francisco Leonardo Cedeno Almengor (PAN) | 10.14 | |
| 10 | Ilias Nalmpantis (GRE) | 10.07 | |
| 11 |  Sargis Stepanyan (ARM) | 9.78 | SB |
| 12 | Neeraj Yadav (IND) | 9.29 |
The event took place at 18:30 on 16 Jul 2023. [16]
| Rank | Athlete | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yasin Khosravi (IRI) | 16.01 | WR |
| 2 | Thiago Paulino (BRA) | 15.09 | SB |
| 3 | Teijo Koopikka (FIN) | 14.8 | PB |
| 4 | Soman Rana (IND) | 14.76 | PB |
| 5 | Muhammet Khalvandi (TUR) | 14.27 | PB |
| 6 | Samir Nabiyev (AZE) | 13.59 | SB |
| 7 | Hotozhe Sema Hokato (IND) | 13.4 | |
| 8 | Vitolio Kavakava (FRA) | 13.32 | PB |
| 9 |  Talla Diop (SEN) | 13.06 | AR |
| 10 | Reinoso Pablo Gimenez (ARG) | 12.79 | |
| 11 | Christian Escobar (COL) | 12.79 | |
| 12 | David Fernandez (ESP) | 11.99 |
The event took place at 18:00 on 17 Jul 2023. [17]
| Rank | Athlete | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aled Davies (GBR) | 16.16 | |
| 2 | Sajad Mohammadian (IRI) | 14.38 | SB |
| 3 | Edenilson Roberto (BRA) | 14.06 | |
| 4 | Badr Touzi (FRA) | 12.99 | |
| 5 | Tyrone Pillay (RSA) | 12.76 | |
| 6 | Georg Schober (AUT) | 12.56 | PB |
| 7 | William Tchuisseu Tchapo (CMR) | 11.92 | SB |
| 8 | Fotios Ntimeris (GRE) | 11.87 |
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The women's shot put events at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships were held in Paris, France from 9 to 17 July 2023.
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