1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put
# 1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

These are the official results of the Men's Shot Put event at the 1993 IAAF World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. There were a total number of 32 participating athletes, with the final held on Saturday August 21, 1993. The qualification mark was set at 20.00 metres.

## Medalists

| Gold | Werner Günthör Switzerland (SUI) |
| - | - |
| Silver | Randy Barnes United States (USA) |
| Bronze | Oleksandr Bagach Ukraine (UKR) |

## Schedule

* All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round :

| Group A | Group B |
| - | - |
| 20.08.1993 – 11:45h | 20.08.1993 – 11:45h |
| Final Round ||
| 21.08.1993 – 18:15h ||

## Abbreviations

* All results shown are in metres

| Q | automatic qualification |
| - | - |
| q | qualification by rank |
| DNS | did not start |
| NM | no mark |
| WR | world record |
| AR | area record |
| NR | national record |
| PB | personal best |
| SB | season best |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 1993 World Athletics Championships :

| World Record | Randy Barnes (USA) | 23.12 m | May 20, 1990 | Westwood, United States |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Event Record | Werner Günthör (SUI) | 22.23 m | August 29, 1987 | Rome, Italy |

## Qualification

* Held on Friday 1993-08-20

| RANK | GROUP A | DISTANCE |
| - | - | - |
| 1. | Randy Barnes (USA) | 20.21 m |
| 2. | Yevgeniy Palchikov (RUS) | 19.91 m |
| 3. | Oliver-Sven Buder (GER) | 19.88 m |
| 4. | Kevin Toth (USA) | 19.63 m |
| 5. | Kent Larsson (SWE) | 19.56 m |
| 6. | Gert Weil (CHI) | 19.52 m |
| 7. | Aleksandr Klimenko (UKR) | 19.37 m |
| 8. | Markus Koistinen (FIN) | 19.29 m |
| 9. | Courtney Ireland (NZL) | 19.08 m |
| 10. | Gheorghe Guset (ROM) | 18.95 m |
| 11. | Sergey Rubtsov (KAZ) | 18.84 m |
| 12. | Jenő Kóczián (HUN) | 18.45 m |
| 13. | Chima Ugwu (NGR) | 18.19 m |
| 14. | Klaus Bodenmüller (AUT) | 18.07 m |
| 15. | Paul Quirke (IRL) | 17.05 m |
| 16. | Jaime Comandari (ESA) | 14.97 m |
| RANK | GROUP B | DISTANCE |
| 1. | Werner Günthör (SUI) | 20.56 m |
| 2. | Mike Stulce (USA) | 20.53 m |
| 3. | Oleksandr Bagach (UKR) | 19.89 m |
| 4. | Dragan Perić (IWP) | 19.77 m |
| 5. | Jonny Reinhardt (GER) | 19.76 m |
| 6. | Manuel Martínez (ESP) | 19.53 m |
| 7. | Antero Paljakka (FIN) | 19.31 m |
| 8. | Aleksandr Klimov (BLR) | 19.07 m |
| 9. | Paul Edwards (GBR) | 19.00 m |
| 10. | Paolo Dal Soglio (ITA) | 18.68 m |
| 11. | Andriy Nemchaninov (UKR) | 18.28 m |
| 12. | Sergey Kot (UZB) | 18.22 m |
| 13. | Mika Halvari (FIN) | 18.19 m |
| 14. | Merab Kurashvili (GEO) | 18.18 m |
| 15. | Pétur Guðmundsson (ISL) | 18.11 m |
| 16. | Dashdendev Makhashiri (MGL) | 14.87 m |

## Final

| RANK | FINAL | DISTANCE |
| - | - | - |
| | Werner Günthör (SUI) | 21.97 m |
| | Randy Barnes (USA) | 21.80 m |
| | Oleksandr Bagach (UKR) | 20.40 m |
| 4. | Yevgeniy Palchikov (RUS) | 20.05 m |
| 5. | Dragan Perić (IWP) | 19.95 m |
| 6. | Gert Weil (CHI) | 19.95 m |
| 7. | Oliver-Sven Buder (GER) | 19.74 m |
| 8. | Jonny Reinhardt (GER) | 19.53 m |
| 9. | Kevin Toth (USA) | 19.52 m |
| 10. | Kent Larsson (SWE) | 19.12 m |
| 11. | Manuel Martínez (ESP) | 19.03 m |
| — | Mike Stulce (USA) | DSQ |
