Are you into athletics? As a spectator? Whether you are interested in the sprints or any other kind of running events, you may be like most of us sports fans and welcome the other events between races as well. Such as shot put.

Here you have a list of the most famous shot putters - some of them Olympic gold medalists or world champions, some with lesser medals. But all with the passion to push that very heavy spherical object - men’s weighs 7.260 kilograms (16.01 pounds), women’s 4 kgs (8.8 pounds) - as far as they possibly can!

Their best achievement in the Olympic Games (OG, OS, OB) or World Championships (WG, WS, WB) given after the name. This list is regularly updated.

MEN

1910-0415 Sulo Bärlund* OS - Kangasala, GD of Finland (1986/75)

1959-0103 Alessandro Andrei* OG + WS - Florence, Italy

1960-1029 Mike Carter* OS - Dallas, TX USA
1962-1101 Ulf Timmermann* OG + WS - East Berlin, East Germany
1966-0616 Randy Barnes* OG + WS - Charleston, WV USA

1970-0213 Mika Halvari* WS - Kemi, Finland
1974-0318 Arsi Harju* OG + WB - Kurikka, Finland
1975-0707 Adam Nelson* OG - WG - Atlanta, GA USA
1977-1008 Reese Hoffa* OB + WG - Augusta, GA USA

1980-0930 Christian Cantwell* OS + WG - Jefferson City, MO USA
1981-0115 Dylan Armstrong* OB + WS - Kamloops, BC Canada
1981-0830 Tomasz Majewski* OG + WS - Nasielsk, Poland
1989-0628 Joe Kovacs* OS+ WG - Nazareth, PA USA

1990-0727 David Storl* OS2 + WG - Rochlitz, Germany
1992-0301 Tom Walsh* OB + WG - Timaru, New Zealand
1992-1218 Ryan Crouser* OG + WS - Boring, OR US
1993-0817 Darrell Hill* - Darby, PA USA

WOMEN

1937-0510 Tamara Press* OG - Kharkiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union

1945-0929 Nadezhda Chizhova* OG - Usolye-Sibirskoye, Russia, Soviet Union
1949-0713 Helena Fibingerová* OB + WG - Vicemerice, Czechoslovakia

1956-0924 Ilona Slupianek* OG + WB - Demmin, East Germany

1962-0716 Natalya Lisovskaya* OG + WG - Alegazy, Russia, Soviet Union
1965-0507 Huang Zhihong* OS - Lanxi, Zhejiang, China

1975-1020 Nadine Kleinert* OS + WS - Magdeburg, Germany

1984-1006 Valerie Adams* OG + WG - Rotorua, New Zealand
1985-1012 Michelle Carter* OG + WB - San Jose, CA USA
1985-1224 Christina Schwanitz* WG – Dresden, East Germany
1989-0115 Anita Márton* OB + WS - Szeged, Hungary
1989-0124 Gong Lijiao* OG + WB - Luquan, China

1992-1111 Danniel Thomas-Dodd* WS – Westmoreland, Jamaica

Updated 31.8.2021