- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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, …
- 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
- 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.
- Ramona Pagel
Ramona Pagel (born 10 November 1961 in Los Angeles) is a retired American shot putter. Her personal best put was 20.18 metres, achieved in June 1988 in San Diego.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jason Tunks
Jason Tunks (born May 7, 1975 in London, Ontario, Canada) is an international level discus thrower representing Canada. World Ranking: 36th Quick Notes: * Jason is married to Netherlands shot putter Lieja Tunks * Holder of National Record at 67.88m * Graduated from Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School in London * Attended Southern Methodist University in Texas on a track scholarship * 6'6, 270lbs.
- Connie Price-Smith
Connie Price-Smith (born 3 June 1962 in St. Charles) is an American shot putter and discus thrower. Her personal best put is 19.60 metres, achieved in June 1994 in Knoxville. Her personal best discus throw is 64.82 metres, achieved in June 1987 in San Jose.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Meg Ritchie
Meg Ritchie (born 6 July 1952 in Kirkcaldy) is a retired Scottish discus thrower. Her personal best throw was 67.48 metres, achieved in April 1981 in Walnut. This is the current British record. In the shot put her personal best was 18.99 metres, achieved in May 1983 in Tucson. This is the Scottish record, and places her third on the British outdoor list, behind Judy Oakes and Myrtle Augee.
- Nadzeya Ostapchuk
Nadzeya Ostapchuk (born October 12, 1980) is a Belarusian shot putter. She rose to top international level in the early 2000's, winning several medals, and finishing fourth at her first Summer Olympics in 2004. She became world champion in 2005. Her personal best is 21.09 metres, achieved in Minsk in July 2005
- Nate Englin
Nate Englin is an American shot putter from Shoreview, Minnesota, among the top junior throwers in the United States and currently throws for the Missouri Tigers.
- 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.
- Tomasz Majewski
Tomasz Majewski (born 30 August 1981) is a Polish shot putter. His personal best is 20.66 metres, achieved in September 2006 in Shanghai.
- Andrei Mikhnevich
Andrei Mikhnevich (born July 12, 1976 in Babrujsk) is a Belarusian shot putter. He received a two-year suspension for a doping offense on August 7, 2001. Only 17 days after his suspension ended he became world champion in Paris with a personal best throw of 21.69 metres. He also won the Universiade the same year. His best performance the following two years was a fifth place at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
- 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.
- Vivian Chukwuemeka
Vivian Chukwuemeka (born May 4, 1975) is a Nigerian shot putter. She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the World Championships in 2003 and 2005 without reaching the finals. Her personal best throw is 18.43 metres, achieved in April 2003 in Walnut. This is the African record.
- 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.
- Randy Matson
James Randel "Randy" Matson (born March 5, 1945 in Kilgore, Texas) is a former United States Olympic shot put thrower.
- Gabriele Reinsch
Gabriele Reinsch is a German track and field athlete. She represented East Germany in the Olympic games in the discus throw. On July 9, 1988 at the East Germany - Italy tournament in Neubrandenburg she set a new world record with a throw of 76.80 meters. This was 2.24 meters further then the previous record, set by the Czechoslovakian Zdenka Šilhavá.
- Naide Gomes
Enezaide do Rosário da Vera Cruz Gomes, <small>OIH</small>, (born November 20 1979) is a Portuguese heptathlete, born in São Tomé and Príncipe. She is also a top-class competitor in the long jump, and she competed in 100 metres hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Naide Gomes started competing under the flag of her birth-country São Tomé and Príncipe and represented it at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, though she has lived in Portugal since she was 11 eleven years-old.
- Martin Sheridan
Martin J. Sheridan (born March 28, 1881 in Treenduff, County Mayo, Ireland - died March 27, 1918) is a former athlete from the United States, who moved as a sixteen year old to the U.S.A four time Olympic gold medalist, he won the discus throw event at the 1904, 1906, and 1908 Summer Olympics as well as the shot put at the 1906 Olympics. Sheridan also competed at the 1906 Summer Olympics and was the flag-bearer for the American team in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
- Udo Beyer
Udo Beyer is a former East German track and field athlete who competed in the shot put.
- Petra Lammert
Petra Lammert (born 3 March 1984 in Freudenstadt) is a German shot putter. Her personal best throw is 19.81 metres, achieved in June 2005 in Schapbach. She won the bronze medal at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg.
- Peter Sack
Peter Sack is a German shot putter. He finished fourth at the 1998 World Junior Championships and won the bronze medal at the 1999 European Junior Championships behind Ralf Bartels and Mikuláš Konopka. He also competed at the 2004 Olympic Games and the 2006 World Indoor Championships without reaching the finals. His personal best throw is 20.92 metres, achieved in June 2007 in Reichenbach.
- 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.