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1991 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

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These are the official results of the Men's Shot Put event at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. There were a total number of 23 participating athletes, with the final held on Saturday August 31, 1991. Werner Günthör of Switzerland won the competition with a throw of 21.67 metres.

The original silver medallist, Georg Andersen of Norway, was disqualified and stripped of his medal after testing positive for anabolic steroids. The original bronze medallist (Lars Arvid Nilsen) was elevated to the silver while the fourth-placed Soviet thrower Aleksandr Klimenko received the bronze instead.

Medalists

Bronze	URS Aleksandr Klimenko
Soviet Union (URS)

Schedule

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Qualification Round	Group A	Group B	Final Round
30.08.1991 – 10:30h	30.08.1991 – 10:30h
31.08.1991 – 18:30h

Abbreviations

All results shown are in metres

SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1991 World Athletics Championships
World Record
Event Record

Qualification

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Werner Günthör	20.97 m
2.	Sergey Nikolayev	20.16 m
3.	Lars Arvid Nilsen	19.79 m
4.	Gert Weil	19.51 m
5.	Oliver-Sven Buder	19.44 m
6.	Paul Edwards	19.28 m
7.	Dragan Perić	19.21 m
8.	Gheorghe Guşet	18.55 m
9.	Luc Viudes	18.43 m
10.	C.J. Hunter	17.97 m
—	Sören Tallhem	NM

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Georg Andersen	20.41 m
2.	Aleksandr Klimenko	19.79 m
3.	Kent Larsson	19.20 m
4.	Ron Backes	19.05 m
5.	Alessandro Andrei	19.00 m
6.	Jan Sagedal	18.90 m
7.	Pétur Guðmundsson	18.51 m
8.	Karel Sula	18.30 m
9.	Kalman Konya	18.26 m
10.	Khaled Al-Khalidi	16.38 m
11.	Lim Chee-Wee	13.49 m
—	Dimitrios Koutsoukis	NM

Final

RANK	FINAL	DISTANCE
[[Image:Med 1.png]]	Werner Günthör	21.67 m
[[Image:Med 2.png]]	Lars Arvid Nilsen	20.75 m
[[Image:Med 3.png]]	Aleksandr Klimenko	20.34 m
4.	Oliver-Sven Buder	20.10 m
5.	Sergey Nikolayev	19.98 m
6.	Kent Larsson	19.92 m
7.	Dragan Perić	19.83 m
8.	Ron Backes	19.34 m
9.	Gert Weil	19.30 m
10.	Paul Edwards	18.91 m
11.	Alessandro Andrei	18.73 m
—	Georg Andersen	DSQ

References

Results

References

[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-13-sp-2150-story.html Track and Field]. ''LA Times'' (1991-09-13). Retrieved on 2011-06-22.

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