# 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' shot put

The boys' shot put at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadium Lille Métropole on 7 July.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Jacko Gill New Zealand | Tyler Schultz United States | Braheme Days United States |

## Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.
| World Youth Best | Jacko Gill (NZL) | 23.86 | Hastings, New Zealand | 11 December 2010 |
| Championship Record | Ryan Crouser (USA) | 21.56 | Bressanone, Italy | 11 July 2009 |
| World Youth Leading | Jacko Gill (NZL) | 21.40 | Nouméa, New Caledonia | 7 May 2011 |

## Qualification

Qualification rule: qualification standard 19.20 m or at least best 12 qualified.

### Group A

| Rank | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | Result | Notes |
| 1 | Tyler Schultz | United States | 18.94 | 19.70 | | 19.70 | Q |
| 2 | Vladislav Chernikov | Ukraine | 18.25 | 18.14 | 19.32 | 19.32 | Q |
| 3 | Ruan Combrinck | South Africa | 17.85 | 19.18 | x | 19.18 | q |
| 4 | Andrzej Regin | Poland | 16.70 | 18.48 | 18.36 | 18.48 | q |
| 5 | Andrey Retunskiy | Uzbekistan | 17.43 | 18.28 | 18.27 | 18.28 | |
| 6 | Viktor Gardenkrans | Sweden | 17.75 | 18.22 | 17.80 | 18.22 | |
| 7 | Christoffer Mikkelsen | Denmark | x | 18.13 | x | 18.13 | PB |
| 8 | Navtejdeep Singh | India | 18.06 | 17.96 | x | 18.06 | |
| 9 | Tibor Rakovszky | Hungary | x | 17.85 | 17.53 | 17.85 | |
| 10 | Brandon Deslauriers | Canada | 16.61 | 17.28 | 17.82 | 17.82 | |
| 11 | Matti Sivonen | Finland | 17.37 | 17.23 | x | 17.37 | |
| 12 | Wong Kai Yuen | Singapore | 16.77 | 16.72 | x | 16.77 | |
| 13 | Alexandru Rohian | Romania | 16.70 | x | 16.37 | 16.70 | |
| 14 | Paulius Žabinskas | Lithuania | x | x | 16.66 | 16.66 | |
| 15 | Kristian Periš | Croatia | x | 16.55 | x | 16.55 | |
| | Fedrick Dacres | Jamaica | | | | DNS | |

### Group B

| Rank | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | Result | Notes |
| 1 | Jacko Gill | New Zealand | 20.75 | | | 20.75 | Q |
| 2 | Braheme Days | United States | 20.06 | | | 20.06 | Q, PB |
| 3 | Patryk Ocypa | Poland | x | 16.35 | 19.84 | 19.84 | Q, PB |
| 4 | Hezekiel Romeo | Trinidad and Tobago | 17.93 | 17.83 | 19.68 | 19.68 | Q, PB |
| 5 | Aleksey Chizhelikov | Russia | 19.42 | | | 19.42 | Q |
| 6 | Gregori Ott | Switzerland | 17.85 | 19.10 | 18.22 | 19.10 | q |
| 7 | Gian Ragonesi | Peru | 16.89 | 19.00 | 18.66 | 19.00 | q, PB |
| 8 | Mesud Pezer | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 18.73 | x | x | 18.73 | q |
| 9 | Lorenzo Del Gatto | Italy | 17.81 | x | 17.05 | 17.81 | |
| 10 | Dmytro Ostrovskiy | Ukraine | x | x | 17.25 | 17.25 | |
| 11 | Florentin Stoenescu | Romania | 17.19 | x | x | 17.19 | |
| 12 | Ahmed Hassan | Egypt | 16.86 | 17.14 | x | 17.14 | |
| 13 | Nelson Fernandes | Brazil | x | 14.09 | 17.05 | 17.05 | |
| 14 | Tomaš Đurović | Montenegro | x | 16.29 | 16.50 | 16.50 | |
| 15 | Willy Vicaut | France | x | 16.42 | x | 16.42 | |

## Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
| | Jacko Gill | New Zealand | 22.89 | 24.35 | 24.03 | 23.54 | 21.99 | 24.02 | 24.35 | WYB |
| | Tyler Schultz | United States | x | 19.46 | 20.35 | x | 20.18 | x | 20.35 | PB |
| | Braheme Days | United States | 18.78 | 19.48 | 19.80 | 19.27 | x | 20.14 | 20.14 | PB |
| 4 | Patryk Ocypa | Poland | 20.08 | x | 18.82 | x | x | 19.18 | 20.08 | PB |
| 5 | Andrzej Regin | Poland | 17.88 | x | 18.88 | 19.33 | 19.88 | 19.55 | 19.88 | PB |
| 6 | Mesud Pezer | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 19.79 | 19.62 | 19.54 | x | 19.66 | x | 19.79 | |
| 7 | Aleksey Chizhelikov | Russia | 19.12 | 18.86 | 19.61 | 19.13 | 19.20 | 19.57 | 19.61 | PB |
| 8 | Vladislav Chernikov | Ukraine | 19.60 | x | x | 19.24 | 19.59 | 19.08 | 19.60 | |
| 9 | Hezekiel Romeo | Trinidad and Tobago | 18.62 | 18.45 | 17.98 | | | | 18.62 | |
| 10 | Gregori Ott | Switzerland | 18.39 | x | 18.60 | | | | 18.60 | |
| 11 | Ruan Combrinck | South Africa | x | 18.11 | x | | | | 18.11 | |
| 12 | Gian Ragonesi | Peru | 17.70 | x | x | | | | 17.70 | |