Rutger Smith

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Rutger Smith
Personal information
Full name Rutger Smith
Born (1981-07-09) 9 July 1981
Groningen, Netherlands
Height 1.97 metres (6 ft 6 in)
Weight 129 kg (284 lb; 20.3 st)
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) shot put – 21.62 (2006)
discus throw – 67.63 (2007)
hammer throw – 60.85 (2001)
Medal record
Competitor for  Netherlands
Men's athletics
World Championships
Silver 2005 Helsinki Shot put
Bronze 2007 Osaka Discus
European Championships
Silver 2012 Helsinki Shot put
Bronze 2012 Helsinki Discus
Updated on 22 March 2008.

Rutger Smith (born July 9, 1981 in Groningen) is a Dutch track and field athlete competing in the shot put and discus throw. He was the first athlete to win medals at the World Championships in both events. He represented the Netherlands at the Summer Olympics in 2004, 2008 and 2012. His personal best of 21.62 m for the shot put is the Dutch national record.

In his first international competition, he won a shot put and discus double at the 1999 European Athletics Junior Championships. At the 2000 World Junior Championships he won medals in both events, and he also competed in both events at the 2004 Olympics. In 2005 he won silver medals in shot put at the European Indoor Championships and World Championships. Two years later he won the bronze medal in the discus at the 2007 World Championships and narrowly missed a shot put medal with a fourth place finish.

A series of back problems affected his throwing after he competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and he did not return to competition until April 2011.[1]

Since then he has competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and won a silver medal at the shot put in the 2012 European Championships.[2] He also finished fourth in the men's discus at the same championships.[3] This result was later upgraded to bronze after the disqualification of Zoltán Kővágó.

Achievements

1999 European Junior Championships Riga, Latvia 1st Shot put
1st Discus throw
2000 World Junior Championships Santiago, Chile 1st Shot put
3rd Discus throw
2001 Universiade Beijing, China 12th Shot put
11th Discus throw
2002 European Indoor Championships Vienna, Austria 10th (qualifying) Shot put
European Championships Munich, Germany 8th Shot put
2003 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 10th (qualifying) Shot put
European U23 Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 3rd Shot put
1st Discus throw
World Championships Paris, France 11th (qualifying) Shot put
6th (qualifying) Discus throw
2004 World Indoor Championships Budapest, Hungary 7th (qualifying) Shot put
Olympic Games Athens, Greece 7th (qualifying) Shot put
8th (qualifying) Discus throw
2005 European Indoor Championships Madrid, Spain 2nd Shot put
World Championships Helsinki, Finland 2nd Shot put
2006 European Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 4th Shot put
7th Discus throw
World Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany 3rd Shot put
2007 European Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 9th (qualifying) Shot put
World Championships Osaka, Japan 4th Shot put
3rd Discus throw
World Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany 6th Shot put
2008 World Indoor Championships Valencia, Spain 5th Shot put
Olympic Games Beijing, China 9th Shot put
7th Discus throw
2012 European Championships Helsinki, Finland 2nd Shot put
3rd Discus throw
Olympic Games London, Great Britain 14th Shot put
16th Discus throw

Personal bests

References

  1. ↑ Dutch discus thrower Cadée hits 2011 world-lead, Smith returns. European Athletics (2011-04-30). Retrieved on 2011-04-30.
  2. ↑ http://www.european-athletics.org/event_files/helsinki2012/event_report.php?id=24&rand=91267
  3. ↑ http://www.european-athletics.org/event_files/helsinki2012/event_report.php?id=28&rand=49826


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