# 1998 European Athletics Championships – Men's shot put

The men's shot put at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held at the Népstadion on 18 August.

## Medalists

| Gold | Oleksandr Bagach Ukraine |
| Silver | Oliver-Sven Buder Germany |
| Bronze | Yuriy Bilonoh Ukraine |

## Results

| KEY: | q | Better non-qualifiers | Q | Qualified | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |

### Qualification

Qualification: Qualification Performance 20.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final.
| Rank | Group | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | Result | Notes |
| 1 | B | Oleksandr Bagach | Ukraine | 20.47 | | | 20.47 | Q |
| 2 | B | Dragan Perić | Yugoslavia | | | | 20.44 | Q |
| 3 | A | Oliver-Sven Buder | Germany | 19.64 | 20.33 | | 20.33 | Q |
| 4 | A | Yuriy Bilonoh | Ukraine | | | | 19.76 | q |
| 4 | A | Arsi Harju | Finland | | | | 19.76 | q |
| 4 | B | Mika Halvari | Finland | | | | 19.76 | q |
| 7 | A | Paolo Dal Soglio | Italy | | | | 19.75 | q |
| 8 | B | Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez | Spain | 19.54 | x | x | 19.54 | q |
| 9 | A | Gheorghe Guşet | Romania | | | | 19.32 | q |
| 10 | A | Timo Aaltonen | Finland | | | | 19.28 | q |
| 10 | B | Michael Mertens | Germany | | | | 19.28 | q |
| 12 | A | Fernando Alves | Portugal | | | | 19.20 | q, NR |
| 13 | B | Vasyl Virastyuk | Ukraine | | | | 19.15 | |
| 14 | A | Oliver Duck | Germany | | | | 19.12 | |
| 15 | A | Pavel Pankuch | Slovakia | | | | 18.95 | |
| 16 | B | Attila Pintér | Hungary | | | | 18.94 | |
| 17 | B | Andrei Mikhnevich | Belarus | | | | 18.88 | |
| 18 | B | Corrado Fantini | Italy | | | | 18.64 | |
| 19 | B | Mikuláš Konopka | Slovakia | | | | 18.63 | |
| 20 | B | Saulius Kleiza | Lithuania | | | | 18.57 | |
| 21 | A | Henrik Wennberg | Sweden | | | | 18.48 | |
| 22 | B | Milan Haborák | Slovakia | | | | 18.10 | |
| 23 | A | Pétur Guðmundsson | Iceland | | | | 17.89 | |
| 24 | B | Shaun Pickering | Great Britain | x | x | 17.80 | 17.80 | |
| | A | Stéphane Vial | France | | | | NM | |
| | A | Viktor Bulat | Belarus | | | | NM | |
| | A | Mark Proctor | Great Britain | x | x | x | NM | |
| | B | Sören Tallhem | Sweden | | | | NM | |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
| | Oleksandr Bagach | Ukraine | 20.02 | 20.26 | 20.99 | 20.98 | 21.10 | 21.17 | 21.17 | SB |
| | Oliver-Sven Buder | Germany | 20.47 | 20.59 | 20.55 | 20.44 | 20.98 | 20.82 | 20.98 | SB |
| | Yuriy Bilonoh | Ukraine | 20.05 | 20.35 | 20.41 | x | 20.45 | 20.92 | 20.92 | PB |
| 4 | Dragan Perić | Yugoslavia | 20.28 | 20.46 | x | 20.37 | x | 20.65 | 20.65 | |
| 5 | Paolo Dal Soglio | Italy | 19.91 | 20.50 | x | x | 19.55 | x | 20.50 | |
| 6 | Mika Halvari | Finland | 19.61 | 20.29 | 20.33 | 19.64 | 20.14 | 19.94 | 20.33 | |
| 7 | Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez | Spain | 20.02 | 19.21 | 19.35 | 18.50 | 19.23 | x | 20.02 | SB |
| 8 | Michael Mertens | Germany | 19.45 | 19.25 | 19.67 | 19.21 | 19.37 | 19.38 | 19.67 | |
| 9 | Arsi Harju | Finland | 19.54 | 19.53 | x | | | | 19.54 | |
| 10 | Gheorghe Guşet | Romania | 18.68 | 18.87 | 18.73 | | | | 18.87 | |
| 11 | Fernando Alves | Portugal | 18.84 | x | 18.54 | | | | 18.84 | |
| 12 | Timo Aaltonen | Finland | 18.03 | 18.27 | 18.59 | | | | 18.59 | |