The Men's Shot Put has been included in all Summer Olympic Games since the inaugural games in 1896. Since then, athletes from the United States have dominated the event, winning 18 gold medals and 49 overall medals (roughly sixty percent of the respective total medals ever won). The most successful athletes in this event are Ralph Rose and Parry O'Brien, both from the US, who each won two golds and one silver medal from 1904 to 1912, and 1952 to 1960 respectively. Two athletes were stripped of medals won in this event; these were the 2004 gold medallist Yuriy Bilonoh of Ukraine, and 2008 bronze medallist Andrei Mikhnevich of Belarus; both medals were redistributed accordingly.
Medal count by country in the Men's Shot Put at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2020
*No longer exists/competes at the Olympics.
**Includes medals won by the Unified Team of 1992 (which was made up of athletes from all former Soviet States, except the three Baltic states).
This data was collected using the official Olympic.org site, as well as a spreadsheet from the Guardian that includes data from 1896-2008 (available here), 2012 and 2016 data was compared with that from Encyclopaedia Britannica, and several news outlets were used to update the table when medals were reassigned (i.e. for doping offenses).
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olympic.org, & The Guardian. (August 6, 2021). Medal count by country in the Men's Shot Put at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2020 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 24, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117889/olympics-mens-shot-put-medal-table-since-1896/
olympic.org, und The Guardian. "Medal count by country in the Men's Shot Put at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2020." Chart. August 6, 2021. Statista. Accessed December 24, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117889/olympics-mens-shot-put-medal-table-since-1896/
olympic.org, The Guardian. (2021). Medal count by country in the Men's Shot Put at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2020. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 24, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117889/olympics-mens-shot-put-medal-table-since-1896/
olympic.org, and The Guardian. "Medal Count by Country in The Men's Shot Put at The Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2020." Statista, Statista Inc., 6 Aug 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117889/olympics-mens-shot-put-medal-table-since-1896/
olympic.org & The Guardian, Medal count by country in the Men's Shot Put at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2020 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117889/olympics-mens-shot-put-medal-table-since-1896/ (last visited December 24, 2024)
Medal count by country in the Men's Shot Put at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2020 [Graph], olympic.org, & The Guardian, August 6, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117889/olympics-mens-shot-put-medal-table-since-1896/
