Men's shot put at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Stade de France, Paris, France | ||||||||||||
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Competitors | 24 from 31 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning distance | 22.90 m | ||||||||||||
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Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |||
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Qualification | |||
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 | |
10,000 m | men | women | |
100 m hurdles | women | ||
110 m hurdles | men | ||
400 m hurdles | men | women | |
3000 m steeplechase | men | women | |
4 × 100 m relay | men | women | |
4 × 400 m relay | men | mixed | women |
Road events | |||
Marathon | men | women | |
20 km walk | men | women | |
Marathon walk relay | mixed | ||
Field events | |||
High jump | men | women | |
Pole vault | men | women | |
Long jump | men | women | |
Triple jump | men | women | |
Shot put | men | women | |
Discus throw | men | women | |
Hammer throw | men | women | |
Javelin throw | men | women | |
Combined events | |||
Heptathlon | women | ||
Decathlon | men | ||
The men's shot put at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in Paris, France, on 2 and 3 August 2024. This was the 30th time that the event is contested at the Summer Olympics.
Since 2016, Ryan Crouser has virtually owned this event. Two successive Olympic Championships, two world records, two world championships and an indoor championship he added earlier in the season. Crouser was a world champion even back to the 2009 youth division. Crouser had been beaten before, most notably at the 2019 World Championships by Joe Kovacs by a single centimeter, in what might have been the greatest shot put competition ever. With Crouser nursing an injury the entire outdoor season, Kovacs beat him again at the U.S. Olympic Trials a month earlier. Kovacs had a history of finishing on the podium of every major championship since the 2015 World Championships, which he won. Crouser and Kovacs are the top two shot putters of all time. Earlier in the season, Leonardo Fabbri, threw 22.95m to become #5. Also in the competition were #7 Tom Walsh, #13 Payton Otterdahl and #25 Rajindra Campbell. [1]
In the qualifying round Tomáš Staněk, Otterdahl and Crouser were one and done, reaching the automatic qualifying mark of 21.35 on their first attempt. Jacko Gill and Walsh needed a second attempt to make it, while Fabbri took all three until he got off a 21.76m that led all qualifiers. Kovacs only managed 21.24m in three attempts, but that was enough to qualify seventh. Campbell had to rely on a first attempt 21.05m to squeak into the finals in tenth after two successive fouls. [2]
As the rain began to fall, Otterdahl got the first legal throw 21.39m. Kovacs got the next, 21.69m. Crouser threw almost a meter farther, 22.64m on his first attempt to put the three Americans in the top three positions after the first round. In the second round, Otterdahl improved to second position at 21.98m. After Crouser improved to 22.69m, Campbell tossed a 22.15m to move ahead of Otterdahl. In the third round, Otterdahl made a slight improvement to 22.01m but remained in third. Then Crouser made a bigger improvement to 22.90 m (75 ft 1+1⁄2 in). Bronze medalist at the last two Olympics, an injured (groin strain) Walsh fouled his third attempt in a row and did not move into the final rounds. In heavier rain, none of the competitors could stay in the ring. The trend continued through the fifth round and into the sixth. 24 successive attempts only had three inferior legal throws. In fourth place, in bad conditions, Kovacs used his final attempt to throw 22.15m to equal Campbell. And because Kovacs had a better second best throw, he had rocketed into second place. Now off the podium, Otterdahl got off his best throw 22.03m, but it wouldn't catch Campbell. Campbell still had one last chance to improve only enough to beat Kovacs' second best 21.71m, but Campbell fouled. Already the three time gold medalist, Crouser accepted congratulations and did not step into the ring again [3] The winning throw equaled the 24th best in history, but Crouser had 14 better throws on that list already. [1]
The men's shot put has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the inaugural edition in 1896.
Record | Athlete (Nation) | Distance (m) | Location | Date |
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World record | ![]() | 23.56 [4] | Los Angeles, United States | 27 May 2023 |
Olympic record | 23.30 | Tokyo, Japan | 5 August 2021 | |
World leading | ![]() | 23.13 [5] | Eugene, United States | 25 May 2024 |
Area Record | Athlete (Nation) | Distance (m) |
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Africa ( records ) | ![]() | 21.97 |
Asia ( records ) | ![]() | 21.80 |
Europe ( records ) | ![]() | 23.06 |
North, Central America and Caribbean ( records ) | ![]() | 23.56 WR |
Oceania ( records ) | ![]() | 22.90 |
South America ( records ) | ![]() | 22.61 |
For the men's shot put event, the qualification period was between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. 32 athletes were able to qualify for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per nation, by throwing the entry standard of 21.50 m or further or by their World Athletics Ranking for this event. [7] [8]
The qualification was held on 2 August, starting at 20:10 (UTC+2). 32 athletes qualified for the first round by qualification time or world ranking. [9] Qualification: 21.35 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final. [10]
The final was held on 3 August, starting at 19:35 (UTC+2) in the evening. [9]
Rank | Order | Athlete | Nation | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Distance | Notes |
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![]() | 6 | Ryan Crouser | ![]() | 22.64 | 22.69 | 22.90 | x | x | — | 22.90 | SB |
![]() | 4 | Joe Kovacs | ![]() | 21.69 | x | 21.71 | x | x | 22.15 | 22.15 | |
![]() | 8 | Rajindra Campbell | ![]() | 20.00 | 22.15 | x | x | x | x | 22.15 | |
4 | 2 | Payton Otterdahl | ![]() | 21.39 | 21.98 | 22.01 | x | x | 22.03 | 22.03 | |
5 | 11 | Leonardo Fabbri | ![]() | x | 20.96 | x | 21.70 | x | x | 21.70 | |
6 | 9 | Chukwuebuka Enekwechi | ![]() | 20.58 | 21.42 | 21.01 | x | x | x | 21.42 | |
7 | 3 | Jacko Gill | ![]() | x | 20.81 | 21.15 | x | 19.23 | 20.47 | 21.15 | |
8 | 10 | Uziel Muñoz | ![]() | 20.68 | 20.88 | 20.80 | x | 20.29 | x | 20.88 | |
9 | 1 | Marcus Thomsen | ![]() | x | 20.58 | 20.67 | Did not advance | 20.67 | |||
10 | 5 | Tomáš Staněk | ![]() | 20.31 | 20.37 | x | Did not advance | 20.37 | |||
11 | 7 | Zane Weir | ![]() | x | 20.24 | x | Did not advance | 20.24 | |||
12 | 12 | Tom Walsh | ![]() | x | x | x | Did not advance | NM | |||
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