2025 World Athletics Championships – Men's shot put

Men's shot put
at the 2025 World Athletics Championships
VenueNational Stadium
LocationTokyo, Japan
Dates13 September
Competitors36 from 26 nations
Winning distance22.34 m
Medalists
gold medal Ryan Crouser   United States
silver medal Uziel Muñoz   Mexico
bronze medal Leonardo Fabbri   Italy
Events at the
2025 World Championships
Track events
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
5000 mmenwomen
10,000 mmenwomen
100 m hurdleswomen
110 m hurdlesmen
400 m hurdlesmenwomen
3000 m steeplechasemenwomen
4 × 100 m relaymenwomen
4 × 400 m relaymenwomen
mixed
Road events
Marathonmenwomen
20 km walkmenwomen
35 km walkmenwomen
Field events
High jumpmenwomen
Pole vaultmenwomen
Long jumpmenwomen
Triple jumpmenwomen
Shot putmenwomen
Discus throwmenwomen
Hammer throwmenwomen
Javelin throwmenwomen
Combined events
Heptathlonwomen
Decathlonmen
World Team event
World Team

The men's shot put at the 2025 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Stadium in Tokyo on 13 September 2025.[1]

Summary

Crouser had not made a throw in a legitimate competition since September 2024.[2] An injury to his right (throwing) elbow took a long time to heal.[3] As defending champion, he had a bye into the meet. In his absence, Leonardo Fabbri came in as the world leader.

In the qualifying round Crouser took his first throw in a year, 21.37 m beating the auto qualifying mark of 21.35 by 2 cm. Only two other athletes, Adrian Piperi and Tom Walsh, the 2017 Champion and current world Indoor Champion made an auto mark, Walsh needing two attempts. It took a tiebreaker at 20.38 m to make the final. While it takes the special circumstance of a bye for a fourth athlete from a country to get into the competition, seven were born in the USA.

In the final, Walsh took the early lead with 21.58 m, Crouser pulled into second place with a 21.41m, a season's best. Fabbri dropped a 21.83 m which held up as the leader until Crouser's third throw of the season landed on the tape 22 meter line, measured at 21.99 m. Those three remained in that order to the fifth round. Walsh tickled the 22 meter line with a 21.94m, which Crouser said later, "woke up the competition." Fabbri answered with a 21.94 m of his own. The 21.83 m meant he still held on to second place. Then Crouser let loose his only throw of the season to have a full extension of his elbow. It flew well past 22, for 22.34 m.[3] In the final round, Chukwuebuka Enekwechi threw 21.52 m to leapfrog from 8th to 4th. Then Uziel Muñoz hit the tape, then sprinted out of the ring in celebration. This one measured 21.97 m, a new Mexican record,[4] to go from 6th to 2nd. Nobody else could improve in the final round so Crouser had his third consecutive Gold Medal without needing to take his last throw.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:[5]

Record Athlete & Nat. Perf. Location Date
World Record  Ryan Crouser (USA) 23.56 m Los Angeles, California 27 May 2023
Championship Record  Ryan Crouser (USA) 23.51 m Budapest, Hungary 19 August 2023
World Leading  Leonardo Fabbri (ITA) 22.82 m Caorle, Italy 3 August 2025
African Record  Chukwuebuka Enekwechi (NGR) 22.10 m Eugene, United States 5 July 2025
Asian Record  Mohammed Tolo (KSA) 21.80 m Madrid, Spain 21 June 2024
European Record  Ulf Timmermann (GDR) 23.06 m Chania, Greece 22 May 1988
North, Central American and Caribbean Record  Ryan Crouser (USA) 23.56 m Los Angeles, California 27 May 2023
Oceanian Record  Tom Walsh (NZL) 22.90 m Doha, Qatar 5 October 2019
South American Record  Darlan Romani (BRA) 22.61 m Palo Alto, United States 30 June 2019

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 21.50 m.[6]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+9), was as follows:[1]

Date Time Round
13 September 10:55 Qualification
21:10 Final

Results

Qualification

All athletes over 21.35 m ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) advanced to the final.

Group A

Place Athlete Nation Round Mark Notes
1 2 3
1 Adrian Piperi  United States 21.47 21.47 m Q
2 Ryan Crouser  United States 21.37 21.37 m Q, SB
3 Wictor Petersson  Sweden 21.02 21.14 x 21.14 m q
4 Leonardo Fabbri  Italy 20.95 20.53 x 20.95 m q
5 Chukwuebuka Enekwechi  Nigeria 20.83 20.71 20.83 20.83 m q
6 Tomáš Staněk  Czech Republic 20.67 20.53 x 20.67 m q
7 Andrei Toader  Romania 20.38 19.69 19.67 20.38 m
8 Nick Ponzio  Italy x 20.20 20.34 20.34 m
9 Nick Palmer  New Zealand 20.18 19.55 19.37 20.18 m
10 Armin Sinančević  Serbia x x 20.18 20.18 m
11 Xing Jialiang  China 19.81 19.94 x 19.94 m
12 Mohammad Reza Tayebi  Iran 18.02 18.48 19.85 19.85 m
13 Willian Dourado  Brazil 19.73 x 19.78 19.78 m
14 Mohamed Magdi Hamza  Egypt x 19.49 x 19.49 m
15 Giorgi Mujaridze  Georgia 19.10 19.34 x 19.34 m
16 Aiden Smith  South Africa 19.32 19.32 19.28 19.32 m
17 Eric Favors  Ireland 19.17 19.19 x 19.19 m
18 Ali Peker  Turkey 18.36 17.86 x 18.36 m
[7]

Group B

Place Athlete Nation Round Mark Notes
1 2 3
1 Tom Walsh  New Zealand 21.13 21.74 21.74 m Q
2 Scott Lincoln  Great Britain & N.I. 20.80 20.57 21.00 21.00 m q
3 Josh Awotunde  United States 20.78 20.47 x 20.78 m q
4 Uziel Muñoz  Mexico 20.48 20.56 20.77 20.77 m q
5 Marcus Thomsen  Norway 20.48 x x 20.48 m q
6 Konrad Bukowiecki  Poland x 20.38 20.28 20.38 m q
7 Zhang Haochen  China 19.73 19.79 19.94 19.94 m
8 Zane Weir  Italy x 19.89 x 19.89 m
9 Payton Otterdahl  United States 19.78 x x 19.78 m
10 Tsanko Arnaudov  Portugal 19.59 18.89 19.34 19.59 m
11 Juan Carley Vázquez  Cuba 19.21 x 18.56 19.21 m
12 Jesper Arbinge  Sweden 19.03 x r 19.03 m
13 Chris van Niekerk  South Africa 18.81 x x 18.81 m
14 Mohammed Tolo  Saudi Arabia 17.63 17.66 18.08 18.08 m
— Mesud Pezer  Bosnia and Herzegovina x x x NM
Artem Levchenko  Ukraine x x x
Djimon Gumbs  British Virgin Islands x x x
Welington Morais  Brazil DNS
[7]

Final

Place Athlete Nation Round Mark Notes
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ryan Crouser  United States 21.41 21.99 21.79 x 22.34 – 22.34 m SB
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Uziel Muñoz  Mexico 20.58 21.29 x 21.50 21.47 21.97 21.97 m NR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Leonardo Fabbri  Italy 21.26 21.83 x 21.59 21.94 21.03 21.94 m
4 Tom Walsh  New Zealand 21.58 x 20.72 21.19 21.94 21.08 21.94 m SB
5 Chukwuebuka Enekwechi  Nigeria 20.90 x 20.59 21.34 x 21.52 21.52 m
6 Adrian Piperi  United States 21.05 21.20 21.50 20.99 x x 21.50 m
7 Josh Awotunde  United States 19.79 21.14 x 19.09 21.11 21.14 m
8 Scott Lincoln  Great Britain & N.I. 20.48 21.00 x 20.67 20.24 21.00 m
9 Konrad Bukowiecki  Poland 20.20 20.42 20.64 20.66 20.66 m
10 Marcus Thomsen  Norway x x 20.41 20.53 20.53 m
11 Wictor Petersson  Sweden 19.99 20.35 20.32 20.35 m
12 Tomáš Staněk  Czech Republic x 19.63 19.91 19.91 m
[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Timetable - Tokyo 25 - World Athletics Championship - Men shot put". World Athletics. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  2. ^ Casselberry, Ian (13 September 2025). "Ryan Crouser wins 3rd straight World Championship for U.S. in shot put, adding to his 3 Olympic gold medals". Yahoo Sports. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  3. ^ a b Mull, Cory (13 September 2025). "Reigning Olympic Shot Put Champion Ryan Crouser Wins Third-Straight World Title". Forbes. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  4. ^ "Uziel Muñoz gana plata y rompe récord mexicano en impulso de bala en Tokio 2025" [Uziel Muñoz wins silver and breaks Mexican record in shot put at Tokyo 2025]. SinEmbargo (in Mexican Spanish). 13 September 2025. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  5. ^ "Shot put Men − Records". World Athletics. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  6. ^ "World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 – Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). World Athletics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 September 2025. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  7. ^ a b "Men's shot put qualification results" (PDF). World Athletics. 13 September 2025. Retrieved 13 September 2025.
  8. ^ "Men's shot put Final results" (PDF). World Athletics. 13 September 2025. Retrieved 13 September 2025.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.