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

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:	q	Better non-qualifiers	Q	Qualified	NR	National record	PB	Personal best	SB	Seasonal 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	x	x	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
	Oleksandr Bagach	Ukraine	20.02	20.26	20.99	20.98	21.10	21.17	21.17	SB
	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	20.47	20.59	20.55	20.44	20.98	20.82	20.98	SB
	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

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