Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put

Men's shot put at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Pictogram for athletics
Venue	Lenin Central Stadium
Date	28 July 1980 (qualifications) 30 July 1980 (finals)
Competitors	16 from 11 nations
Winning distance	21.35 OR
Medalists
Vladimir Kiselyov  Soviet Union Aleksandr Baryshnikov  Soviet Union Udo Beyer  East Germany

Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
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
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The Men's Shot Put event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union had an entrylist of 16 competitors. The final was held on Wednesday 30 July 1980, with the qualifying round staged two days earlier in the Lenin Stadium. The top twelve and ties, and all those reaching 19.60 metres advanced to the final.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Vladimir Kiselyov  Soviet Union
Silver	Aleksandr Baryshnikov  Soviet Union
Bronze	Udo Beyer  East Germany

Abbreviations

Qualification

Rank	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
		1	2	3
1	Vladimir Kiselyov (URS)	20.72	—	—	20.72 m
2	Aleksandr Baryshnikov (URS)	20.58	—	—	20.58 m
3	Vladimir Milić (YUG)	20.56	—	—	20.56 m
4	Reijo Ståhlberg (FIN)	20.53	—	—	20.53 m
5	Anatoliy Yarosh (URS)	20.19	—	—	20.19 m
6	Udo Beyer (GDR)	19.94	—	—	19.94 m
7	Hans-Jürgen Jacobi (GDR)	19.15	19.57	19.92	19.92 m
8	Geoff Capes (GBR)	19.75	—	—	19.75 m
9	Hreinn Halldorsson (ISL)	19.29	19.74	—	19.74 m
10	Jaromír Vlk (TCH)	19.58	19.69	—	19.69 m
11	Óskar Jakobsson (ISL)	19.30	X	19.66	19.66 m
12	Jean-Pierre Egger (SUI)	19.61	—	—	19.61 m
13	Nikola Khristov (BUL)	17.82	18.94	19.01	19.01 m
14	Mohammad Al-Zinkawi (KUW)	17.15	X	17.03	17.15 m
15	Bahadur Singh Chauhan (IND)	17.05	16.91	16.72	17.05 m
—	Valcho Stoev (BUL)	X	X	X	NM

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Vladimir Kiselyov (URS)	21.10	20.86	21.35	21.03	21.00	X	21.35 m
	Aleksandr Baryshnikov (URS)	20.20	21.08	20.66	20.39	X	X	21.08 m
	Udo Beyer (GDR)	X	20.70	21.06	20.98	X	X	21.06 m
4	Reijo Ståhlberg (FIN)	19.83	X	20.20	19.63	20.82	20.58	20.82 m
5	Geoff Capes (GBR)	20.50	X	19.47	X	19.69	19.23	20.50 m
6	Hans-Jürgen Jacobi (GDR)	20.32	X	19.80	19.50	X	20.00	20.32 m
7	Jaromír Vlk (TCH)	20.24	X	19.77	19.62	19.84	20.01	20.24 m
8	Vladimir Milić (YUG)	20.07	X	19.69	X	20.06	X	20.07 m
9	Anatoli Yaroch (URS)	19.63	19.93	X				19.93 m
10	Hreinn Halldorsson (ISL)	19.55	18.99	19.16				19.55 m
11	Oskar Jakobsson (ISL)	19.07	X	X				19.07 m
12	Jean-Pierre Egger (SUI)	18.25	18.26	18.90				18.90 m

See also

• 1976 Men's Olympic Shot Put (Montreal)
• 1978 Men's European Championships Shot Put (Prague)
• 1982 Men's European Championships Shot Put (Athens)
• 1983 Men's World Championships Shot Put (Helsinki)
• 1984 Men's Olympic Shot Put (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Men's European Championships Shot Put (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Men's World Championships Shot Put (Rome)

References

External links

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