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1991 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

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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

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

Schedule

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Qualification Round
Group A Group B
30.08.1991 – 10:30h 30.08.1991 – 10:30h
Final Round
31.08.1991 – 18:30h

Abbreviations

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  • All results shown are in metres
Q automatic qualification
q qualification by rank
DNS did not start
NM no mark
WR world record
AR area record
NR national record
PB personal best
SB season best

Records

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

Qualification

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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
 Sören 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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ Track and Field. LA Times (1991-09-13). Retrieved on 2011-06-22.