Men Shot Put Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens, Greece - Saturday, 2nd August - Gold Medal: John Godina, United States

Men Shot Put Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens, Greece - Saturday, 2nd August - Gold Medal: John Godina, United States

Final 19:10		Distance	1	2.	3.	4.	5	6.
1. John Godina	United States	21.44m	21.24	21.39	21.44	21.19	21.20	X
2. Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	21.24m	20.79	20.18	20.41	21.05	X	21.24
3. C.J. Hunter	United States	20.33m	20.22	20.30	X	X	X	20.33
4. Yuriy Belonog	Ukraine	20.26m	X	20.22	X	20.26	X	X
5. Mika Halvari	Finland	20.13m	X	20.13	X	X	X	X
6. Roman Virastyuk	Ukraine	20.12m	20.00	20.01	20.12	X	X	X
7. Kevin Toth	United States	20.02m	19.50	20.02	X	X	X	X
8. Michael Mertens	Germany	19.91m	19.82	19.91	19.86
9. Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	19.77m	19.77	X	X
10.Burger Lambrechts	South Africa	19.39m	X	19.39	X
11.Saulius Kleiza	Lithuania	18.25m	18.25	X	X
-. Aleksandr Bagach	Ukraine	DQ

The original winner Oleksandr Bagach, Ukraine was disqualified for Doping!

Qualification - Saturday 02.08 8:50

Mark 19.80m - 11+1 Athletes

Group A		Distance	1.	2.	3.
1. John Godina	USA	21.10m	21.10
2. Aleksandr Bagach	UKR	20.56m	20.56
3. Mika Halvari	FIN	20.10m	20.10
4. Burger Lambrechts	RSA	19.91m	X	19.36	19.91
5. Michael Mertens	GER	19.88m	19.88
6. Randy Barnes	USA	19.51m	19.23	19.51	X
7. Arsi Harju	FIN	19.43m	X	X	19.43
8. Corrado Fantini	ITA	19.30m	19.30	18.74	X
9. Miroslav Menc	CZE	19.23m	19.07	19.23	X
10.Bradley Snyder	CAN	18.94m	17.76	18.52	18.94
11.Viktor Bulat	BLR	18.61m	17.97	18.61	X
12.Kjell Ove Hauge	NOR	18.37m	18.12	X	18.37
13.Sergey Rubtsov	KZK	18.16m	18.16	X	X
14.Chima Ugwu	NGR	18.00m	17.25	17.84	18.00
15.Mark Proctor	GBR	17.99m	17.99	X	X
16.Milan Haborak	SVK	17.85m	17.85	X	X
17.Alexios Leonidis	GRE	17.77m	17.77

Group B		Distance	1.	2.	3.
1. Oliver-Sven Buder	GER	20.53m	20.53
2. Yuriy Belonog	UKR	20.31m	19.75	20.31
3. Roman Virastyuk	UKR	20.13m	20.13
4. C.J. Hunter	USA	20.05m	19.48	19.68	20.05
5. Kevin Toth	USA	19.99m	X	X	19.99
6. Paolo Dal Soglio	ITA	19.93m	18.83	19.93
7. Saulius Kleiza	LTU	19.71m	19.71	X	18.99
8. Manuel Martinez	ESP	19.61m	19.61	19.23	X
9. Bilal Saad Mubarak	QAT	19.08m	18.09	18.90	19.08
10.Dragan Peric	YUG	19.05m	18.86	19.05	18.93
11.Stevimir Ercegovac	CRO	19.00m	19.00
12.Yoger Medina	VEN	18.92m	18.36	18.31	18.92
13.Dmitriy Goncharuk	BLR	18.60m	18.33	18.60	X
14.Shaun Pickering	GBR	18.10m	18.10	17.84	17.42
15.Vyacheslav Lykho	RUS	18.04m	17.77	17.67	18.04
16.Faae Talalemotu	NMA	13.96m	13.96	13.11	12.92
-. Tarek Al Najjar	JOR	DNS

index
Men 100m	Women 100m
Men 200m	Women 200m
Men 400m	Women 400m
Men 800m	Women 800m
Men 1500m	Women 1500m
Men 5000m	Women 5000m
Men 10000m	Women 10000m
Men Marathon	Women Marathon
Men 110m Hurdles	Women 100m Hurdles
Men 400m Hurdles	Women 400m Hurdles
Men 3000m Steeplechase
Men 4x100m Relay	Women 4x100m Relay
Men 4x400m Relay	Women 4x400m Relay
Men High Jump	Women High Jump
Men Pole Vault
Men Long Jump	Women Long Jump
Men Triple Jump	Women Triple Jump
Men Shot Put	Women Shot Put
Men Discus Throw	Women Discus Throw
Men Hammer Throw	Women Hammer Throw
Men Javelin Throw	Women Javelin Throw
Men Decathlon	Women Decathlon
Men 20km Walk	Women 10km Walk
Men 50km Walk
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