- Adam Nelson
Adam Nelson (born July 7, 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an elite American shotputter. A 1997 graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Nelson has competed in two Olympic Games. In 1996, Nelson worked at a concession stand during the 1996 Summer Olympics in his hometown of Atlanta.
- C. J. Hunter
Cottrell J. Hunter, III (born December 14, 1968, in Washington, D.C.) is a former American shot putter and coach. He was the 1999 World Champion, but is perhaps best known for his involvement in the BALCO scandal and as the onetime spouse of superstar sprinter Marion Jones. His personal best was 71' 9", thrown during a 2nd place finish in the 2000 U.S. Olympic trials. The 6'1", 330 lb Hunter was a three-time All-American at Penn State University, …
- Reese Hoffa
Reese Hoffa (born October 8, 1977 in Evans, Georgia) is an American shot putter. Reese won the shot put in the 2006 World Indoor Track and Field Championships in Moscow, Russia. As of 2006, his personal bests stand at 22.11 m (72' 6.25") indoor and 21.96 m (72' 0.75") outdoor.
- Christian Cantwell
Christian Cantwell is an American shot putter. Cantwell's personal best throw is 22.54 meters, or 73 ft 11½ in, set in Gresham on June 5, 2004. As of July 19, 2006, he has 4 out of the 5 longest throws this year. and is favored to break the world record soon. Cantwell's accomplishment is all the more remarkable due to the decreased use of performance enhancing drugs when compared to a decade ago.
- Carl Myerscough
Carl Myerscough (born 21 October 1979 in Hambleton) is an English athlete. He specialises in the Shot put event and is the British record holder as of 2006. In 1999, Myerscough's record was tarnished when he tested positive for "a cocktail of banned substances" and was subsequently banned from competing for two years, and banned for life from the Olympics. He has always denied knowingly taking drugs, however. In 2002 he broke the British indoor shot put record and in 2003, …
- John Godina
John Carl Godina (born May 31, 1972 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma) is an American shot putter, whose record includes three World Championship wins and two Olympic medals. He also competes in discus.
- Kevin Toth
Kevin Toth (born 29 December 1967 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a former American shot put athlete. His personal best throw is 22.67 meters, which places him 7th on the all-time performers list (see
- Valerie Vili
Valerie Vili, née Adams is a shot putter from New Zealand. In 2002 she became junior world champion and landed a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games. In 2004 she finished 8th at the Olympic Games. The next year she earned a place in the international elite, winning a surprise bronze medal at the World Championships with a personal best throw of 19.87m. In addition, she finished second at the World Athletics Final.
- Irina Korzhanenko
Irina Korzhanenko (born May 16, 1974 in Azov) is a former Russian shot putter. She gained international recognition when she won a bronze medal at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships. In the following years she became European Indoor champion, European champion and World Indoor champion. At the 2004 Summer Olympics she originally won the gold medal in shot put, but tested positive for stanozolol and was stripped of the title.
- Randy Barnes
Eric Randolph "Randy" Barnes (born June 16, 1966) is an American shot putter who holds outdoor and indoor distance records. He won silver at the 1988 Olympics and gold at the 1996 Olympics. Barnes was born in Charleston, West Virginia and began throwing the shot put in high school. In 1985, he threw an impressive 66 ' 9.5" (20.36 m) with the prep shot of 12 lb (5.44 kg). After graduating from St. Albans High School near Charleston in 1985, …
- Parry O'Brien
William Patrick "Parry" O'Brien was an American shot put champion. Born in Santa Monica, California, he competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics where he won two gold medals (1952, 1956) and one silver medal (1960). In his last Olympic competition (1964) he placed fourth. For this, he is inducted in the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. In the early 1950s, O'Brien developed a new method for throwing the 16-pound shotput.
- Geoff Capes
Geoff Capes (born 23 August 1949 in Spalding, Lincolnshire) is a former British shot put champion, and former two-time winner of the World's Strongest Man title. Capes stood 6'7" and weighed 23 stones (325 lbs) at his peak condition.
- Justin Anlezark
Justin Anlezark (born 14 August 1977 in Katherine) is an Australian shot putter. His personal best is 20.96 metres, achieved in April 2003 in Brisbane. This is also the Oceanian record.
- Bruce Bennett
Bruce Bennett (May 19 1906 - February 24 2007) was an American actor billed in his Tarzan films under his birth name of Herman Brix.
- Garrett Johnson
Garrett W. Johnson (born May 24, 1984 in Tampa, Florida) is an elite American shot putter. Johnson won the 2006 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Shot Put Championship. Johnson also was named a Rhodes Scholar in 2006 on behalf of the United States.
- Nadine Kleinert
Nadine Kleinert married name Schmitt (since 1999) (born October 20 1975 in Magdeburg). is a German athlete who competed mainly in the Shot. She competed for Germany in the 2004 Summer Olympics held in Athens, Greece in the Shot where she won the Silver medal.
- Jillian Camarena
Jillian Camarena (born 2 August 1982) is an American shot putter. Her personal best is 19.02 metres, achieved in July 2006 in Spokane. She is listed at 6 foot tall and 250lbs. She is noted at having the largest forearms in women's shotput at 17 inches.
- Brad Snyder
Brad Snyder (born 8 January 1976 in Windsor) is a retired Canadian shot putter, who's personal best throw is 20.87 metres, achieved in June 2004 in Atlanta. He retired after the 2004 season.
- Kristin Heaston
Kristin Heaston (born November 23 1975 in California) is a female American shot putter. In 2003 Kristin became the USA indoor and outdoor shot put champion. At the 2004 Olympic Games Kristin became the first woman ever to compete at the ancient site Olympia. In 2005 she became USA outdoor champion at shot put for the second time. She finished thirteenth at the 2001 Summer Universiade and seventh at the 2006 World Athletics Final.
- Andreas Krieger
Andreas Krieger (born Heidi Krieger on 20 July 1966 in Berlin) is a former German shot putter, who competed as a woman in the East German athletics team. Like many prominent East German sportspeople at the time, Krieger was systematically doped with anabolic steroids. At the 1986 European Championships in Athletics, Krieger won the gold medal in the shot put event. In 1997 he underwent sex reassignment surgery and changed his name to Andreas.
- Astrid Kumbernuss
Astrid Kumbernuss is a former German female shot putter and discus thrower. Her career started at the SC Neubrandenburg sports club. Her greatest successes were gold medals at the 1995, 1997 and 1999 World Championships in Athletics, and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. In 1997, she was awarded "Athlete of the Year". In 1998, she gave birth to her son Philip, and retired from her sports career in 2005.
- Rutger Smith
Rutger Smith (born July 9, 1981 in Groningen) is a Dutch athlete competing in shot put and occasionally discus throw. At the 2000 World Junior Championships he won medals in both events, and he competed in both events at the 2004 Olympics. In 2005 he won silver medals in shot put at the European Indoor Championships and World Championships.
- Svetlana Krivelyova
Svetlana Vladimirovna Krivelyova ("Russian": Светлана Владимировна Кривелёва; born: June 13, 1969 in Bryansk, Russia) is an athlete who specialises in the shot put. In a long and distinguished career Krivelyova's highlights were the Summer Olympics gold medal in 1992 whilst representing the Unified Team where she beat the reigning world champion Huang Zhihong of China and her World Championship victory in 2003.
- Scott Martin
Scott Martin (born October 12, 1982 in Melbourne) is an Australian shot putter and discus throw competitor. He rose to prominence in a National Australia Bank advertisement promoting the 2006 Commonwealth Games; in the ad, Martin was shown taking part in a ballet class to improve his discus technique. He won a bronze medal in the men's shot put at the Games, and won gold in the men's discus throw. In addition he is the 2006 Australian Shot Put champion, …
- Janus Robberts
Janus Robberts (born March 10, 1979 in Louis Trichardt) is a South African athlete who competes in the shot put, and occasionally discus throw. He is the current African record holder in shot put with 21.97 metres, and also a former junior world record holder. He also holds the African indoor record with 21.47 metres, achieved in December 2001 in Norman.
- Tamara Press
Tamara Natanovna Press (May 10, 1937 in Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a former Soviet shot putter and discus thrower in the 1960's. She competed for VSS Trud. Together with her younger sister Irina Press who was also a track and field athlete, she was half of the "Press Sisters", who won almost everything that there was to win. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome Tamara won the gold medal in the shot put and the silver medal in the discus.
- Arsi Harju
Arsi Ilari Harju (born March 18, 1974 in Kurikka) is a Finnish shot putter with the team Perhon kiri. He won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with a distance of 21.29 metres. His personal best is 21.39, which he put in the qualifiers for the same Olympics. Due to his success in the Olympics and elsewhere that year, Harju was named Finnish Athlete of the Year in 2000.
- Ilona Slupianek
Ilona Slupianek, née Schoknecht is a retired German athlete who starts mainly in the shot put. She started for East Germany in Moscow (USSR) where she won the gold medal, at the 1980 Summer Olympics,
- Cleopatra Borel-Brown
Cleopatra Borel-Brown (born 10 March 1979) is a shot putter from Trinidad and Tobago. Her personal best throw is 19.48 metres, achieved in February 2004 in Blacksburg.
- Ralph Rose
Ralph Waldo Rose (born March 17, 1885 in Healdsburg, California, deceased October 16, 1913) was an American athlete. A giant of a man at 6' 5 1/2" and 250 pounds, Ralph Rose was the first shot putter to break 50 feet. His world record of 51' 0", set in 1909, lasted for 16 years. In 1904, while at the University of Michigan, he won both the shot put and discus at the Big Ten championships. He subsequently competed for the Olympic Club in San Francisco, California.
- Ulf Timmermann
Ulf Timmermann (born November 1, 1962 in East Berlin) is a German shot putter who broke many world records during the 1980s and is the first and one of only two people to ever throw over 23 metres (along with Randy Barnes). Timmermann was born in East Berlin to an athletic family and took up shot put at 13. He broke his first world record in 1985 with a throw of 22.62 meters.
- Irini Terzoglou
Irini Terzoglou (born 2 February 1979) is a Greek shot putter. Her personal best put is 19.10 metres, achieved in June 2003 in Trikala. This is the current Greek record.
- Dallas Long
Dallas Long was an American athlete who competed mainly in the shot put. He competed for the United States in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy in the shot put where he won the bronze medal behind fellow Americans Bill Nieder and Parry O'Brien. He returned four years later to Tokyo for the 1964 Summer Olympics where he finally won the gold medal in the men’s shot put.
- Bill Nieder
Bill Nieder (born 10 August, 1933) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the shot put. He competed for the United States in the 1956 Olympic Games and received a silver medal for his 18.18 m long throw. Nieder later received a Gold for his throw of 19.68 m in the 1960 summer Olympic games held in Rome, Italy. He is a hometown legend and friend of the lawrence, ks community.
- Alessandro Andrei
Alessandro Andrei (born 3 January, 1959 in Florence) is a former Italian shot putter. He won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, California. He is married to Agnese Maffeis. <br> <br>
- Galina Zybina
Galina Ivanovna Zybina (born January 22, 1931 in Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian shot-putter and javelin thrower who won three Olympic medals. She trained at VSS Zenit and later at VSS Trud. Her fame rests primarily on eight consecutive world records in the shot put (1952 - 1956).
- Judy Oakes
Judith "Judy" Oakes (born 14 February 1958) is a retired English shot putter. She was given an Order of the British Empire in 1999. Her personal best put was 19.36 metres, achieved in August 1988 in Gateshead. This is the British record.
- Andreas Anastasopoulos
Andreas Anastasopoulos (born April 2, 1976) is a Greek athlete in the shot put. From October 23 2001 to October 22 2003 he was suspended by the IAAF.
- Udo Beyer
Udo Beyer is a former East German track and field athlete who competed in the shot put.
- Ralf Bartels
Ralf Bartels (born February 21, 1978 in Stavenhagen, Germany, then GDR) is a German shot-putter. He became European Champion at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, Sweden after beating Belarusian Andrei Mikhnevich with a final put of 21.13 metres, two centimetres ahead of the Belarusian. Bartels also won bronze at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, …