2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put
Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 20.60 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

Section Title: Qualification
Table Section Text: Qualification: Qualifying Performance 20.60 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes

1	A	David Storl	Germany (GER)	x	21.50	21.50	Q, PB

2	B	Dylan Armstrong	Canada (CAN)	20.52	21.05	21.05	Q

3	B	Reese Hoffa	United States (USA)	20.96	20.96	Q

4	A	Ryan Whiting	United States (USA)	20.40	20.77	20.77	Q

5	B	Christian Cantwell	United States (USA)	20.55	20.73	20.73	Q

6	A	Tomasz Majewski	Poland (POL)	20.73	20.73	Q

7	A	Ralf Bartels	Germany (GER)	20.45	x	20.04	20.45	q

8	B	Marco Fortes	Portugal (POR)	19.83	20.32	20.02	20.32	q

9	B	Carlos Véliz	Cuba (CUB)	20.24	19.79	x	20.24	q

10	A	Adam Nelson	United States (USA)	20.23	x	x	20.23	q

11	A	Asmir Kolašinac	Serbia (SRB)	19.58	20.08	20.14	20.14	q

12	B	Marco Schmidt	Germany (GER)	20.06	19.96	x	20.06

13	B	Lajos Kürthy	Hungary (HUN)	19.92	19.76	20.02	20.02

14	B	Maksim Sidorov	Russia (RUS)	18.56	19.95	x	19.95

15	B	Pavel Lyzhyn	Belarus (BLR)	19.91	x	x	19.91

16	A	Kim Christensen	Denmark (DEN)	19.02	19.40	19.74	19.74

17	B	Hamza Alić	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	19.70	x	x	19.70

18	B	Chang Ming-huang	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	19.60	x	18.98	19.60

19	A	Jan Marcell	Czech Republic (CZE)	19.51	x	19.46	19.51

20	A	Germán Lauro	Argentina (ARG)	19.50	19.45	x	19.50

21	A	Andriy Semenov	Ukraine (UKR)	x	x	19.45	19.45

22	A	Om Prakash Singh	India (IND)	19.29	19.06	x	19.29

23	B	Amin Nikfar	Iran (IRI)	18.69	18.95	19.18	19.18

24	B	Milan Jotanović	Serbia (SRB)	18.39	x	18.21	18.39

25	A	Borja Vivas	Spain (ESP)	18.37	x	18.22	18.37

26	A	Hwang In-Sung	South Korea (KOR)	17.75	17.62	x	17.75

A	Andrei Mikhnevich	Belarus (BLR)	20.79	20.79	DQ

Sentence(s)

David Storl achieved a best of 21.50.

final_sentence: David Storl achieved a best of 21.50.