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The men's shot put event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 15 August at the Beijing Olympic Stadium. [1] Forty-four athletes from 34 nations competed. [2] The event was won by Tomasz Majewski of Poland, the nation's first victory (and first medal) in the men's shot put since 1972.
The women's shot put event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 16 August at the Beijing Olympic Stadium. [1] The qualifying standards were 18.35 m (60 ft 2 in) (A standard) and 17.20 m (56 ft 5 in) (B standard). [2] The event was won by Valerie Vili (née Adams) of New Zealand, with a best throw of 20.56 metres. [3]
A stone throw event, similar to the shot put, was also contested for the first and only time at an Olympic event. Athletes were allowed to throw rather than put the implement, which weighed 14 pounds (6.35 kg). Nikolaos Georgantas won the event for the host nation, while Sheridan (filling in for his absent team mate, Jim Mitchel) placed second.
The 2008 Summer Olympics were held in Beijing, People's Republic of China, from 8 August to 24 August 2008. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOC) participated. Overall, 302 events in 28 sports were held; 165 events were opened to men, 127 were opened to women and 10 were mixed events. [1]
Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics were held during the last ten days of the games, from August 15 to August 24, 2008, at the Beijing National Stadium.The Olympic sport of athletics is split into four distinct sets of events: track and field events, road running events, and racewalking events.
When the 31-year-old American steps into the Stade de France ring in Saturday’s Olympic shot put final, it will be the ultimate test of a season he never would have predicted, one that has ...
T eam USA shot putter Raven Saunders, 28, won a silver medal at the Tokyo Games and will compete in the shot put final on Aug. 9 at the Paris Summer Olympics. The athlete has gained much attention ...
Dylan Armstrong (born January 15, 1981) is a Canadian athletics coach and retired competitive shot putter.He is the 2008 Olympic bronze medallist, a two-time World Athletics Championships medallist, a two-time Pan American Games champion, and the 2010 Commonwealth Games champion in that discipline.