2019 World Athletics Championships – Men's shot put

The men's shot put at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha from 3 to 5 October 2019. The winning margin was 1 cm which as of 2024 is the only time the men's shot put has been won by under 5 cm at these championships.

Summary It took 20.90 to automatically qualify. Exactly 12 men made that distance, eight of them on their first attempt. There were no further place qualifiers to the final.

This capped a buildup of several outstanding athletes. Four members of the 74-foot club competed, with Darlan Romani joining in 2019 and Ryan Crouser improving his personal best to sixth all time. Four more athletes had surpassed 22 metres in the previous two seasons.

With 22 metres the standard, the first throw of the competition was 22.36m by Crouser. Three throws later, Romani moved into second with a 21.61m. As the last thrower throughout the competition, Tomas Walsh launched a new Oceana continental record . It was the longest throw in 29 years, making him the #4 thrower in history. On his second throw, Romani threw 22.53m, just short of 74 feet, which put him into second place. Crouser duplicated his first throw in the third. It took 21.18m just to get three more throws.

In the fourth round, Joe Kovacs threw 21.95m to move into fourth, then Crouser threw 22.71m to move into second place. In the fifth round, Walsh landed his second best throw, 22.56m.

In the final round, Kovacs stepped into the ring and tossed it , equalling Alessandro Andrei for the #3 thrower in history. More importantly, he took the lead. A couple of throws later, Crouser stepped in to throw his best to tie Walsh. Walsh fouled again. With his 22.71m second best throw, compared to 22.56m for Walsh, Crouser took second. In the space of 5 minutes, Walsh went from the #4 thrower in history, to third place in the competition. Romani's best throw of 22.53m would have been good enough to win the gold medal in every World and Olympic shot put competition prior to this championship, however it was not enough to secure even the bronze here as he finished in 4th place.

This has been called the greatest shot put competition in history.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

World record23.12 mWestwood, United States20 May 1990Championship record22.23 mRome, Italy29 August 1987World Leading22.74 mLong Beach, United States20 April 2019African Record21.97 mEugene, United States2 June 2001Asian Record21.13 mDoha, Qatar8 May 2009North, Central American and Caribbean record23.12 mWestwood, United States20 May 1990South American Record22.61 mPalo Alto, United States30 June 2019European Record23.06 mChania, Greece22 May 1988Oceanian record22.67 mAuckland, New Zealand25 March 2018

The following records were established during the competition: Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 5 October Final Joe Kovacs 22.91 5 October Final Tom Walsh 22.90

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 20.70 m.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), was as follows:

Date Time Round3 October 19:20 Qualification5 October 20:05 Final

Results Qualification Qualification: Qualifying Performance 20.90 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.

Rank Group Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 1 A Tomas Walsh 21.92 21.92 Q 2 A Darlan Romani 21.69 21.69 Q 3 B Ryan Crouser 21.67 21.67 Q 4 A Armin Sinančević 20.48 21.51 21.51 Q, 5 A Darrell Hill 21.25 21.25 Q 6 A Konrad Bukowiecki 21.16 21.16 Q 7 B Jacko Gill 21.12 21.12 Q 8 A Tomáš Staněk 20.43 20.73 21.02 21.02 Q 9 B Filip Mihaljević 21.00 21.00 Q 10 A Tim Nedow 20.51 20.53 20.94 20.94 Q 11 A Chukwuebuka Enekwechi 20.12 20.94 20.94 Q 12 B Joe Kovacs 20.92 20.92 Q 13 A Leonardo Fabbri 20.75 20.75 14 B Mostafa Amr Hassan 20.23 20.55 20.55 15 A Jakub Szyszkowski 20.55 19.85 20.55 16 B Michał Haratyk 20.44 20.52 20.11 20.52 17 B Andrei Gag 20.50 18.91 20.50 18 B Tejinder Pal Singh Toor 20.43 19.55 20.43 19 B Wictor Petersson 20.31 20.31 20 B Mesud Pezer 20.17 19.55 20.17 21 A Eldred Henry 19.31 20.13 20.13 22 A O'Dayne Richards 19.75 19.02 20.07 20.07 23 B Denzel Comenentia 20.03 19.64 20.03 24 B Orazio Cremona 19.98 19.98 25 A Mohamed Magdi Hamza 19.91 19.91 26 B Bob Bertemes 19.40 19.89 19.89 27 B Asmir Kolašinac 19.78 19.86 19.86 28 A Maksim Afonin 19.76 19.55 19.82 19.82 29 B Franck Elemba 19.43 19.76 19.59 19.76 30 A Ivan Ivanov 19.57 19.73 19.73 31 B Aleksandr Lesnoy 19.43 19.62 19.62 32 B Francisco Belo 18.99 19.52 19.52 33 A Kemal Mešić 19.49 19.19 19.44 19.49 34 B Uziel Muñoz 19.06 19.06 A Kristo Galeta

Final The final was started on 5 October at 20:05.

Rank Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 Joe Kovacs 20.90 21.63 21.24 21.95 21.94 22.91 22.91 Ryan Crouser 22.36 22.36 22.71 22.90 22.90 Tomas Walsh 22.90 22.56 22.90 4 Darlan Romani 21.61 22.53 22.03 22.13 22.53 5 Darrell Hill 20.58 21.38 21.65 21.23 21.65 6 Konrad Bukowiecki 20.73 21.46 20.36 21.46 7 Jacko Gill 21.41 21.27 20.74 21.01 21.45 21.45 8 Chukwuebuka Enekwechi 21.18 20.90 20.98 20.59 21.01 21.18 9 Tim Nedow 20.50 20.85 20.85 10 Tomáš Staněk 20.61 20.79 20.46 20.79 11 Filip Mihaljević 20.33 20.38 20.48 20.48 Armin Sinančević

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