The Men's shot put event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on September 1 and 2.

David Storl made a major improvement to achieve a new personal best of 21.50, leading the qualifying round by 45 cm (a foot and a half).

2007 Champion, Reese Hoffa, took the early lead and held it until Storl threw a new personal best of 21.60 in the second round. Andrei Mikhnevich put a 21.40 in the third round to get close to Storl. In the fourth round, world leader, Dylan Armstrong, took the lead with a 21.64, which held up as the leader until the final throw of the competition, when Storl threw a third personal best of 21.78 to win.

In 2013, it was revealed that Andrei Mikhnevich tested positive for a prohibited substance at the 2005 World Championships. Since this was his second offense, he was given a lifetime ban and all his results from August 2005 and on were annulled.

Medalists GoldSilverBronzeDavid StorlDylan ArmstrongChristian Cantwell

Records Prior to the competition, the established records were as follows. World record23.12Westwood, United States20 May 1990Championship record22.23Rome, Italy29 August 1987World Leading22.21Calgary, Canada25 June 2011African record21.97Eugene, United States2 June 2001Asian record21.13Doha, Qatar8 May 2009North, Central American and Caribbean record23.12Westwood, United States20 May 1990South American record21.14Santiago, Chile29 July 2004European record23.06Chania, Greece22 May 1988Oceanian record21.26Melbourne, Australia21 February 2008

Qualification standards A standardB standard 20.50 20.00

Schedule Date Time RoundSeptember 1, 2011 10:00 QualificationSeptember 2, 2011 19:00 Final

Results

Qualification Qualification: Qualifying Performance 20.60 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank Group Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes 1 A David Storl 21.50 21.50 Q, PB 2 B Dylan Armstrong 20.52 21.05 21.05 Q 3 B Reese Hoffa 20.96 20.96 Q 4 A Ryan Whiting 20.40 20.77 20.77 Q 5 B Christian Cantwell 20.55 20.73 20.73 Q 6 A Tomasz Majewski 20.73 20.73 Q 7 A Ralf Bartels 20.45 20.04 20.45 q 8 B Marco Fortes 19.83 20.32 20.02 20.32 q 9 B Carlos Véliz 20.24 19.79 20.24 q 10 A Adam Nelson 20.23 20.23 q 11 A Asmir Kolašinac 19.58 20.08 20.14 20.14 q 12 B Marco Schmidt 20.06 19.96 20.06 13 B Lajos Kürthy 19.92 19.76 20.02 20.02 14 B Maksim Sidorov 18.56 19.95 19.95 15 B Pavel Lyzhyn 19.91 19.91 16 A Kim Christensen 19.02 19.40 19.74 19.74 17 B Hamza Alić 19.70 19.70 18 B Chang Ming-huang 19.60 18.98 19.60 19 A Jan Marcell 19.51 19.46 19.51 20 A Germán Lauro 19.50 19.45 19.50 21 A Andriy Semenov 19.45 19.45 22 A Om Prakash Singh 19.29 19.06 19.29 23 B Amin Nikfar 18.69 18.95 19.18 19.18 24 B Milan Jotanović 18.39 18.21 18.39 25 A Borja Vivas 18.37 18.22 18.37 26 A Hwang In-Sung 17.75 17.62 17.75 A Andrei Mikhnevich 20.79 20.79 DQ

Final Rank Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes David Storl 21.60 20.82 21.78 21.78 PB Dylan Armstrong 20.79 20.58 20.82 21.64 21.40 21.64 Christian Cantwell 20.50 20.73 20.83 21.36 21.36 Reese Hoffa 20.90 20.99 20.97 20.84 20.99 Marco Fortes 20.59 19.36 20.83 20.25 20.04 20.83 Ryan Whiting 20.48 20.66 20.75 20.75 Adam Nelson 20.29 20.14 19.73 20.02 20.29 Tomasz Majewski 20.03 20.18 20.18 Ralf Bartels 20.03 20.14 20.12 20.14 10 Asmir Kolašinac 19.84 19.77 19.84 11 Carlos Véliz 19.70 19.70 Andrei Mikhnevich 20.45 20.49 21.40 20.72 20.64 21.37 21.40 DQ

References

External links Shot put results at IAAF website