1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put
These are the official results of the Men's Shot Put event at the 1997 IAAF World Championships in Athens, Greece. The original winner, Oleksandr Bagach, was later disqualified for doping.Medalists
Results
Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 19.80 or at least 12 best performers advance to the [|final].
Rank | Group | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | Result | Notes |
| A | John Godina | | 21.10 | | | 21.10 | Q |
| B | Oliver-Sven Buder | | 20.53 | | | 20.53 | Q |
| B | Yuriy Belonog | | 19.75 | 20.31 | | 20.31 | Q |
| B | Roman Virastyuk | | 20.13 | | | 20.13 | Q |
| A | Mika Halvari | | 20.10 | | | 20.10 | Q |
| B | C.J. Hunter | | 19.48 | 19.68 | 20.05 | 20.05 | Q |
| B | Kevin Toth | | | | 19.99 | 19.99 | Q |
| B | Paolo Dal Soglio | | 18.83 | 19.93 | | 19.93 | Q |
| A | Burger Lambrechts | | | 19.36 | 19.91 | 19.91 | Q, PB |
10 | A | Michael Mertens | | 19.88 | | | 19.88 | Q |
11 | B | Saulius Kleiza | | 19.71 | | 18.99 | 19.71 | |
12 | B | Manuel Martínez | | 19.61 | 19.23 | | 19.61 | |
13 | A | Randy Barnes | | 19.23 | 19.51 | | 19.51 | |
14 | A | Arsi Harju | | | | 19.43 | 19.43 | |
15 | A | Corrado Fantini | | 19.30 | 18.74 | | 19.43 | |
16 | A | Miroslav Menc | | 19.07 | 19.23 | | 19.23 | |
17 | B | Bilal Saad Mubarak | | 18.09 | 18.90 | 19.08 | 19.08 | |
18 | B | Dragan Perić | | 18.86 | 19.05 | 18.93 | 19.05 | |
19 | B | Stevimir Ercegovac | | 19.00 | | | 19.00 | |
20 | A | Bradley Snyder | | 17.76 | 18.52 | 18.94 | 18.94 | |
21 | B | Yoger Medina | | 18.36 | 18.31 | 18.92 | 18.92 | |
22 | A | Viktor Bulat | | 17.97 | 18.61 | | 18.61 | |
23 | B | Dmitriy Goncharuk | | 18.33 | 18.60 | | 18.60 | |
24 | A | Kjell Ove Hauge | | 18.12 | | 18.37 | 18.37 | |
25 | A | Sergey Rubtsov | | 18.16 | | | 18.16 | |
26 | B | Shaun Pickering | | 18.10 | 17.84 | 17.42 | 18.10 | |
27 | B | Vyacheslav Lykho | | 17.77 | 17.67 | 18.04 | 18.04 | |
28 | A | Chima Ugwu | | 17.25 | 17.84 | 18.00 | 18.00 | |
29 | A | Mark Proctor | | 17.99 | | | 17.99 | |
30 | A | Milan Haborák | | 17.85 | | | 17.85 | |
31 | A | Alexios Leonidis | | 17.77 | | | 17.77 | |
32 | B | Faaea Talalemotu | | 13.96 | 13.11 | 12.92 | 13.96 | |
| A | Oleksandr Bagach | | | | | ' | |
| B | Tarek Al Najjar | | | | | ' | |
Final