ATHLETICS MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

Men Shot Put Olympic Games and World Championships History

Olympic Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
olim 2004 Athletics Men Shot Put	Yuriy Bilonog	UKR	Adam Nelson	USA	Joachim Olsen	DEN
olim 2000 Athletics Men Shot Put	Arsi Harju	FIN	Adam Nelson	USA	John Godina	USA
olim 1996 Athletics Men Shot Put	Randy Barnes	USA	John Godina	USA	Oleksandr Bagach	UKR
olim 1992 Athletics Men Shot Put	Mike Stulce	USA	Jim Doehring	USA	Vyacheslav Lykho	EUN
olim 1988 Athletics Men Shot Put	Ulf Timmermann	GDR	Randy Barnes	USA	Werner Guenthoer	SUI
olim 1984 Athletics Men Shot Put	Alessandro Andrei	ITA	Mike Carter	USA	Dave Laut	USA
olim 1980 Athletics Men Shot Put	Vladimir Kiselev	URS	Aleksandr Baryshnikov	URS	Udo Beyer	GDR
olim 1976 Athletics Men Shot Put	Udo Beyer	GDR	Evgeni Mironov	URS	Alexander Barisnikov	URS
olim 1972 Athletics Men Shot Put	Wladyslaw Komar	POL	George Woods	USA	Hartmut Briesenick	GDR
olim 1968 Athletics Men Shot Put	Randy Matson	USA	George Woods	USA	Eduard Gushchin	URS
olim 1964 Athletics Men Shot Put	Dallas Long	USA	Randy Matson	USA	Vilmos Varju	HUN
olim 1960 Athletics Men Shot Put	William Nieder	USA	Parry O'Brien	USA	Dallas Long	USA
olim 1956 Athletics Men Shot Put	Parry O'Brien	USA	William Nieder	USA	Jiri Skobla	TCH
olim 1952 Athletics Men Shot Put	Parry O'Brien	USA	Darrow Hooper	USA	James Fuchs	USA
olim 1948 Athletics Men Shot Put	Wilbur Thompson	USA	James Delaney	USA	James Fuchs	USA
olim 1936 Athletics Men Shot Put	Hans Wollke	GER	Sulo Barlund	FIN	Gerhard Stock	GER
olim 1932 Athletics Men Shot Put	Leo Sexton	USA	Harlow Rothert	USA	Frantisek Douda	CZE
olim 1928 Athletics Men Shot Put	John Kuck	USA	Herman Brix	USA	Emil Hirschfeld	GER
olim 1924 Athletics Men Shot Put	Clarence Houser	USA	Glenn Hartranft	USA	Ralph Hills	USA
olim 1920 Athletics Men Shot Put	Ville Porhola	FIN	Elmer Niklander	FIN	Harry Liversedge	USA
olim 1912 Athletics Men Shot Put	Patrick McDonald	USA	Ralph Rose	USA	Lawrence Whitney	USA
olim 1908 Athletics Men Shot Put	Ralph Rose	USA	Denis Horgan	GBR	John Garrells	USA
olim 1904 Athletics Men Shot Put	Ralph Rose	USA	William Coe	USA	Leon Feuerbach	USA
olim 1900 Athletics Men Shot Put	Richard Sheldon	USA	Josiah McCracken	USA	Robert Garrett	USA
olim 1896 Athletics Men Shot Put	Robert Garrett	USA	Miltiades Gouskos	GRE	Georgios Papasideris	GRE

World Championships	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2005 Men Shot Put	Adam Nelson	USA	Rutger Smith	NED	Ralf Bartels	GER
2003 Men Shot Put	Andrei Mikhnevich	BLR	Adam Nelson	USA	Yuriy Bilonog	UKR
2001 Men Shot Put	John Godina	USA	Adam Nelson	USA	Arsi Harju	FIN
1999 Men Shot Put	C.J. Hunter	USA	Oliver-Sven Buder	GER	Aleksandr Bagach	UKR
1997 Men Shot Put	John Godina	USA	Oliver-Sven Buder	GER	C.J. Hunter	USA
1995 Men Shot Put	John Godina	USA	Mika Halvari	FIN	Randy Barnes	USA
1993 Men Shot Put	Werner Gunthor	SUI	Randy Barnes	USA	Aleksandr Bagach	UKR
1991 Men Shot Put	Werner Gunthor	SUI	Lars Arvid Nilsen	NOR	Aleksandr Klimenko	URS
1987 Men Shot Put	Werner Gunthor	SUI	Alessandro Andrei	ITA	John Brenner	USA
1983 Men Shot Put	Edward Sarul	POL	Ulf Timmermann	GDR	Remigius Machura	TCH


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Medals	G	S	B	All
1. United States	21	22	14	57
2. Switzerland	3		1	4
3. Finland	2	3	1	6
4. East Germany	2	1	2	5
5. Poland	2			2
6. Soviet Union	1	2	4	7
7. Germany	1	2	3	6
8. Italy	1	1		2
9. Ukraine	1		4	5
10.Belarus	1			1
11.Greece		1	1	2
12.Norway		1		1
12.Netherlands		1		1
12.Great Britain		1		1
15.Czechoslovakia			2	2
16.Czechia			1	1
16.Hungary			1	1
16.Denmark			1	1

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Last updated: 2 May 2006