2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

Events at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men
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
10,000 m walk		men		women
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's shot put event at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Kingston, Jamaica, at National Stadium on 16 July.^[1][2] A 6kg (junior implement) shot was used.

Medalists

Gold	Edis Elkasević  Croatia
Silver	Sean Shields  United States
Bronze	Mika Vasara  Finland

Results

Final

16 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts						Result	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Edis Elkasević	Croatia	x	20.59	x	x	20.75	21.47	21.47
	Sean Shields	United States	x	19.73	x	19.46	20.54	19.89	20.54
	Mika Vasara	Finland	18.98	x	20.21	19.78	x	20.50	20.50
4	Michał Hodun	Poland	20.41	20.42	x	19.91	x	x	20.42
5	Bertrand Vili	France	19.37	19.61	20.09	20.12	x	x	20.12
6	Dmitriy Sivakov	Belarus	18.84	19.29	18.88	19.51	19.96	19.97	19.97
7	Yasser Ibrahim	Egypt	18.67	18.97	19.25	19.17	19.49	x	19.49
8	Vikas Gowda	India	19.30	x	18.64	18.55	18.88	18.88	19.30
9	Taavi Peetre	Estonia	18.72	x	18.02				18.72
10	Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi	Qatar	x	18.66	x				18.66
11	Chris Meisner	Canada	17.87	18.54	x				18.54
12	Jeremy Silverman	United States	18.38	18.29	18.38				18.38

Qualifications

16 Jul

Group A

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts			Result	Notes
			1	2	3
1	Bertrand Vili	France	19.54	-	-	19.54	Q
2	Michał Hodun	Poland	19.24	-	-	19.24	Q
3	Vikas Gowda	India	17.85	18.02	19.05	19.05	Q
4	Jeremy Silverman	United States	18.42	x	18.77	18.77	q
5	Yasser Ibrahim	Egypt	18.19	18.70	18.05	18.70	q
6	Magnus Lohse	Sweden	17.60	17.85	17.07	17.85
7	Anton Lyuboslavskiy	Russia	x	17.76	17.77	17.77
8	John Meszaros	Australia	x	x	17.73	17.73
9	Jonathan Doucette	Canada	17.30	17.31	x	17.31
10	Gustavo de Mendonça	Brazil	x	x	17.15	17.15
11	Georgi Ivanov	Bulgaria	x	x	17.12	17.12
12	Vasil Najdov	Macedonia	16.40	x	15.84	16.40
13	Zurab Gigaia	Georgia	16.15	15.22	16.06	16.15
14	Kimani Kirton	Jamaica	15.87	x	x	15.87

Group B

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts			Result	Notes
			1	2	3
1	Mika Vasara	Finland	20.43	-	-	20.43	Q
2	Sean Shields	United States	20.35	-	-	20.35	Q
3	Edis Elkasević	Croatia	20.20	-	-	20.20	Q
4	Dmitriy Sivakov	Belarus	18.89	18.89	18.63	18.89	q
5	Taavi Peetre	Estonia	18.76	18.53	x	18.76	q
6	Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi	Qatar	18.51	x	x	18.51	q
7	Chris Meisner	Canada	18.38	x	18.48	18.48	q
8	Ranvijay Singh	India	x	18.29	17.99	18.29
9	Philipp Barth	Germany	17.89	17.87	x	17.89
10	Paul Peulich	Australia	17.17	17.88	x	17.88
11	Berne van den Bergh	South Africa	16.64	17.76	16.98	17.76
12	Hwang In-Sung	South Korea	17.22	17.64	17.20	17.64
13	Milan Jotanovic	Yugoslavia	17.38	17.45	x	17.45
14	Sultan Al-Hebsi	Saudi Arabia	16.99	x	16.45	16.99

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 24 countries participated in the event.

•  Australia (2)
•  Belarus (1)
•  Brazil (1)
•  Bulgaria (1)
•  Canada (2)
•  Croatia (1)
•  Egypt (1)
•  Estonia (1)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (1)
•  Georgia (1)
•  Germany (1)
•  India (2)
•  Jamaica (1)
•  Macedonia (1)
•  Poland (1)
•  Qatar (1)
•  Russia (1)
•  Saudi Arabia (1)
•  South Africa (1)
•  South Korea (1)
•  Sweden (1)
•  United States (2)
•  Yugoslavia (1)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2002 Kingston JAM Jul 16-21, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 24 Feb 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015