The men's shot put at the 2025 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Stadium in Tokyo on 13 September 2025.
Summary Crouser had not made a throw in a legitimate competition since September 2024. An injury to his right (throwing) elbow took a long time to heal. As defending champion, he had a bye into the meet. In his absence, Leonardo Fabbri came in as the world leader.
In the qualifying round Crouser took his first throw in a year, 21.37 m beating the auto qualifying mark of 21.35 by 2 cm. Only two other athletes, Adrian Piperi and Tom Walsh, the 2017 Champion and current world Indoor Champion made an auto mark, Walsh needing two attempts. It took a tiebreaker at 20.38 m to make the final. While it takes the special circumstance of a bye for a fourth athlete from a country to get into the competition, seven were born in the USA.
In the final, Walsh took the early lead with 21.58 m, Crouser pulled into second place with a 21.41m, a season's best. Fabbri dropped a 21.83 m which held up as the leader until Crouser's third throw of the season landed on the tape 22 meter line, measured at 21.99 m. Those three remained in that order to the fifth round. Walsh tickled the 22 meter line with a 21.94m, which Crouser said later, "woke up the competition." Fabbri answered with a 21.94 m of his own. The 21.83 m meant he still held on to second place. Then Crouser let loose his only throw of the season to have a full extension of his elbow. It flew well past 22, for 22.34 m. In the final round, Chukwuebuka Enekwechi threw 21.52 m to leapfrog from 8th to 4th. Then Uziel Muñoz hit the tape, then sprinted out of the ring in celebration. This one measured 21.97 m, a new Mexican record, to go from 6th to 2nd. Nobody else could improve in the final round so Crouser had his third consecutive Gold Medal without needing to take his last throw.
Records Before the competition records were as follows:
RecordAthlete & LocationDate World Record 23.56 m Los Angeles, California 27 May 2023 Championship Record 23.51 m Budapest, Hungary 19 August 2023 World Leading 22.82 m Caorle, Italy 3 August 2025 African Record 22.10 m Eugene, United States 5 July 2025 Asian Record 21.80 m Madrid, Spain 21 June 2024 European Record 23.06 m Chania, Greece 22 May 1988 North, Central American and Caribbean Record 23.56 m Los Angeles, California 27 May 2023 Oceanian Record 22.90 m Doha, Qatar 5 October 2019 South American Record 22.61 m Palo Alto, United States 30 June 2019
Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 21.50 m.
Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+9), was as follows:
Date Time Round 13 September 10:55 Qualification 21:10 Final
Results Qualification All athletes over 21.35 m ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) advanced to the final.
Group A PlaceAthlete Nation Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 1 Adrian Piperi 21.47 21.47 m 2 Ryan Crouser 21.37 21.37 m, 3 Wictor Petersson 21.02 21.14 x 21.14 m 4 Leonardo Fabbri 20.95 20.53 x 20.95 m 5 Chukwuebuka Enekwechi 20.83 20.71 20.83 20.83 m 6 Tomáš Staněk 20.67 20.53 x 20.67 m 7 Andrei Toader 20.38 19.69 19.67 20.38 m 8 Nick Ponzio x 20.20 20.34 20.34 m 9 Nick Palmer 20.18 19.55 19.37 20.18 m 10 Armin Sinančević x x 20.18 20.18 m 11 Xing Jialiang 19.81 19.94 x 19.94 m 12 18.02 18.48 19.85 19.85 m 13 Willian Dourado 19.73 x 19.78 19.78 m 14 Mohamed Magdi Hamza x 19.49 x 19.49 m 15 Giorgi Mujaridze 19.10 19.34 x 19.34 m 16 Aiden Smith 19.32 19.32 19.28 19.32 m 17 Eric Favors 19.17 19.19 x 19.19 m 18 Ali Peker 18.36 17.86 x 18.36 m
Group B Place Athlete Nation Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 1 Tom Walsh 21.13 21.74 21.74 m 2 Scott Lincoln 20.80 20.57 21.00 21.00 m 3 Josh Awotunde 20.78 20.47 x 20.78 m 4 Uziel Muñoz 20.48 20.56 20.77 20.77 m 5 Marcus Thomsen 20.48 x x 20.48 m 6 Konrad Bukowiecki x 20.38 20.28 20.38 m 7 19.73 19.79 19.94 19.94 m 8 Zane Weir x 19.89 x 19.89 m 9 Payton Otterdahl 19.78 x x 19.78 m 10 Tsanko Arnaudov 19.59 18.89 19.34 19.59 m 11 Juan Carley Vázquez 19.21 x 18.56 19.21 m 12 Jesper Arbinge 19.03 x r 19.03 m 13 Chris van Niekerk 18.81 x x 18.81 m 14 Mohammed Tolo 17.63 17.66 18.08 18.08 m — Mesud Pezer x x x x x x x x xWelington Morais
Final PlaceAthleteNationRoundMarkNotes #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Ryan Crouser 21.41 21.99 21.79 x 22.34 – 22.34 m Uziel Muñoz 20.58 21.29 x 21.50 21.47 21.97 21.97 m Leonardo Fabbri 21.26 21.83 x 21.59 21.94 21.03 21.94 m 4 Tom Walsh 21.58 x 20.72 21.19 21.94 21.08 21.94 m 5 Chukwuebuka Enekwechi 20.90 x 20.59 21.34 x 21.52 21.52 m 6 Adrian Piperi 21.05 21.20 21.50 20.99 x x 21.50 m 7 Josh Awotunde 19.79 21.14 x 19.09 21.11 21.14 m 8 Scott Lincoln 20.48 21.00 x 20.67 20.24 21.00 m 9 Konrad Bukowiecki 20.20 20.42 20.64 20.66 20.66 m 10 Marcus Thomsen x x 20.41 20.53 20.53 m 11 Wictor Petersson 19.99 20.35 20.32 20.35 m 12 Tomáš Staněk x 19.63 19.91 19.91 m
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