1991 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

Events at the 1991 World Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
10 km walk				women
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

These are the official results of the Men's Shot Put event at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. There were a total number of 23 participating athletes, with the final held on Saturday August 31, 1991. Werner Günthör of Switzerland won the competition with a throw of 21.67 metres.

The original silver medallist, Georg Andersen of Norway, was disqualified and stripped of his medal after testing positive for anabolic steroids.^[1] The original bronze medallist (Lars Arvid Nilsen) was elevated to the silver while the fourth-placed Soviet thrower Aleksandr Klimenko received the bronze instead.

Medalists

Gold	Werner Günthör Switzerland (SUI)
Silver	Lars Arvid Nilsen Norway (NOR)
Bronze	Aleksandr Klimenko Soviet Union (URS)

Schedule

• All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Records

Standing records prior to the 1991 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Randy Barnes (USA)	23.12 m	May 20, 1990	Westwood, United States
Event Record	Werner Günthör (SUI)	22.23 m	August 29, 1987	Rome, Italy

Qualification

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Werner Günthör (SUI)	20.97 m
2.	Sergey Nikolayev (URS)	20.16 m
3.	Lars Arvid Nilsen (NOR)	19.79 m
4.	Gert Weil (CHI)	19.51 m
5.	Oliver-Sven Buder (GER)	19.44 m
6.	Paul Edwards (GBR)	19.28 m
7.	Dragan Perić (YUG)	19.21 m
8.	Gheorghe Guşet (ROM)	18.55 m
9.	Luc Viudes (FRA)	18.43 m
10.	C.J. Hunter (USA)	17.97 m
—	Søren Tallhem (SWE)	NM

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Georg Andersen (NOR)	20.41 m
2.	Aleksandr Klimenko (URS)	19.79 m
3.	Kent Larsson (SWE)	19.20 m
4.	Ron Backes (USA)	19.05 m
5.	Alessandro Andrei (ITA)	19.00 m
6.	Jan Sagedal (NOR)	18.90 m
7.	Pétur Guðmundsson (ISL)	18.51 m
8.	Karel Sula (TCH)	18.30 m
9.	Kalman Konya (GER)	18.26 m
10.	Khaled Al-Khalidi (KSA)	16.38 m
11.	Lim Chee-Wee (BRU)	13.49 m
—	Dimitrios Koutsoukis (GRE)	NM

Final

RANK	FINAL	DISTANCE
	Werner Günthör (SUI)	21.67 m
	Lars Arvid Nilsen (NOR)	20.75 m
	Aleksandr Klimenko (URS)	20.34 m
4.	Oliver-Sven Buder (GER)	20.10 m
5.	Sergey Nikolayev (URS)	19.98 m
6.	Kent Larsson (SWE)	19.92 m
7.	Dragan Perić (YUG)	19.83 m
8.	Ron Backes (USA)	19.34 m
9.	Gert Weil (CHI)	19.30 m
10.	Paul Edwards (GBR)	18.91 m
11.	Alessandro Andrei (ITA)	18.73 m
—	Georg Andersen (NOR)	DSQ

See also

• 1990 Men's European Championships Shot Put (Split)
• 1991 Shot Put Year Ranking
• 1992 Men's Olympic Shot Put (Barcelona)

References

• Results