1998 European Athletics Championships – Men's shot put

Events at the 1998 European
Athletics Championships
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 women
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 women
High jump men women
Pole vault men women
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men women
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men
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The men's shot put at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held at the Népstadion on 18 August.

Medalists

Gold Oleksandr Bagach
 Ukraine
Silver Oliver-Sven Buder
 Germany
Bronze Yuriy Bilonoh
 Ukraine

Results

KEY: qBetter non-qualifiers QQualified NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Qualification

Qualification: Qualification Performance 20.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final.

Rank Group Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes
1 B Oleksandr Bagach  Ukraine 20.47 Q
2 B Dragan Perić  Yugoslavia 20.44 Q
3 A Oliver-Sven Buder  Germany 20.33 Q
4 A Yuriy Bilonoh  Ukraine 19.76 q
4 A Arsi Harju  Finland 19.76 q
4 B Mika Halvari  Finland 19.76 q
7 A Paolo Dal Soglio  Italy 19.75 q
8 B Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez  Spain 19.54 xx 19.54 q
9 A Gheorghe Guşet  Romania 19.32 q
10 A Timo Aaltonen  Finland 19.28 q
10 B Michael Mertens  Germany 19.28 q
12 A Fernando Alves  Portugal 19.20 q, NR
13 B Vasyl Virastyuk  Ukraine 19.15
14 A Oliver Duck  Germany 19.12
15 A Pavel Pankuch  Slovakia 18.95
16 B Attila Pintér  Hungary 18.94
17 B Andrei Mikhnevich  Belarus 18.88
18 B Corrado Fantini  Italy 18.64
19 B Mikuláš Konopka  Slovakia 18.63
20 B Saulius Kleiza  Lithuania 18.57
21 A Henrik Wennberg  Sweden 18.48
22 B Milan Haborák  Slovakia 18.10
23 A Pétur Guðmundsson  Iceland 17.89
24 B Shaun Pickering  Great Britain 17.80
99 A Stéphane Vial  France NM
99 A Viktor Bulat  Belarus NM
99 A Mark Proctor  Great Britain NM
99 B Sören Tallhem  Sweden NM

Final

Rank Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes
1st Oleksandr Bagach  Ukraine 20.02 20.26 20.99 20.98 21.10 21.17 21.17 SB
2nd Oliver-Sven Buder  Germany 20.47 20.59 20.55 20.44 20.98 20.82 20.98 SB
3rd Yuriy Bilonoh  Ukraine 20.05 20.35 20.41 x 20.45 20.92 20.92 PB
4 Dragan Perić  Yugoslavia 20.28 20.46 x 20.37 x 20.65 20.65
5 Paolo Dal Soglio  Italy 19.91 20.50 x x 19.55 x 20.50
6 Mika Halvari  Finland 19.61 20.29 20.33 19.64 20.14 19.94 20.33
7 Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez  Spain 20.02 19.21 19.35 18.50 19.23 x 20.02 SB
8 Michael Mertens  Germany 19.45 19.25 19.67 19.21 19.37 19.38 19.67
9 Arsi Harju  Finland 19.54 19.53 x 19.54
10 Gheorghe Guşet  Romania 18.68 18.87 18.73 18.87
11 Fernando Alves  Portugal 18.84 x 18.54 18.84
12 Timo Aaltonen  Finland 18.03 18.27 18.59 18.59

References