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 GodinaUnited States (USA)Silver Oliver-Sven BuderGermany (GER)Bronze C.J. HunterUnited 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 A John Godina 21.10 21.10 Q B Oliver-Sven Buder 20.53 20.53 Q B Yuriy Belonog 19.75 20.31 20.31 Q B Roman Virastyuk 20.13 20.13 Q A Mika Halvari 20.10 20.10 Q B C.J. Hunter 19.48 19.68 20.05 20.05 Q B Kevin Toth 19.99 19.99 Q B Paolo Dal Soglio 18.83 19.93 19.93 Q A Burger Lambrechts 19.36 19.91 19.91 Q, PB 10 A Michael Mertens 19.88 19.88 Q 11 B Saulius Kleiza 19.71 18.99 19.71 12 B Manuel Martínez 19.61 19.23 19.61 13 A Randy Barnes 19.23 19.51 19.51 14 A Arsi Harju 19.43 19.43 15 A Corrado Fantini 19.30 18.74 19.43 16 A Miroslav Menc 19.07 19.23 19.23 17 B Bilal Saad Mubarak 18.09 18.90 19.08 19.08 18 B Dragan Perić 18.86 19.05 18.93 19.05 19 B Stevimir Ercegovac 19.00 19.00 20 A Bradley Snyder 17.76 18.52 18.94 18.94 21 B Yoger Medina 18.36 18.31 18.92 18.92 22 A Viktor Bulat 17.97 18.61 18.61 23 B Dmitriy Goncharuk 18.33 18.60 18.60 24 A Kjell Ove Hauge 18.12 18.37 18.37 25 A Sergey Rubtsov 18.16 18.16 26 B Shaun Pickering 18.10 17.84 17.42 18.10 27 B Vyacheslav Lykho 17.77 17.67 18.04 18.04 28 A Chima Ugwu 17.25 17.84 18.00 18.00 29 A Mark Proctor 17.99 17.99 30 A Milan Haborák 17.85 17.85 31 A Alexios Leonidis 17.77 17.77 32 B Faaea Talalemotu 13.96 13.11 12.92 13.96 A Oleksandr Bagach B Tarek Al Najjar

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

References Results IAAF