1996 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's shot put

The men's shot put event at the 1996 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held in Stockholm Globe Arena on 8 March.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Paolo Dal Soglio  Italy	Dirk Urban  Germany	Oliver-Sven Buder  Germany

Results

Qualification

Qualification performance: 19.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	Oleksandr Bagach	Ukraine	18.88	19.83		19.83	Q
2	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	19.71			19.71	Q
3	Manuel Martínez	Spain	18.63	19.62		19.62	Q
4	Dirk Urban	Germany	19.43			19.43	Q
5	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	19.33			19.33	Q
6	Markus Koistinen	Finland	19.25			19.25	Q
7	Corrado Fantini	Italy	19.24			19.24	Q
8	Mark Proctor	Great Britain	19.12			19.12	Q
9	Andriy Nimchaninov	Ukraine	19.02			19.02	Q
10	Michael Mertens	Germany	18.06	18.12	18.94	18.94	q
11	Ants Kiisa	Estonia	18.54	18.43	18.88	18.88	q
12	Vyacheslav Lykho	Russia	18.79	x	17.89	18.79	q
13	Yuriy Bilonoh	Ukraine	18.51	18.73	x	18.73
14	Giorgio Venturi	Italy	x	18.64	18.54	18.64
15	Alexios Leonidis	Greece	18.60	x	17.78	18.60
16	Konstantinos Kollias	Greece	17.54	18.03	x	18.03
17	Martin Bílek	Czech Republic	17.97	17.36	17.02	17.97
18	Jean-Louis Lebon	France	17.82	17.69	17.42	17.82
19	Shaun Pickering	Great Britain	17.29	17.57	x	17.57
20	Andrei Mikhnevich	Belarus	17.57	x	x	17.57
21	Marc Sandmeier	Switzerland	17.26	x	16.74	17.26
22	Vladimir Vićentijević	Yugoslavia	16.56	x	16.76	16.76
23	Zlatan Saračević	Bosnia and Herzegovina	x	15.29	15.76	15.76

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	19.27	20.15	20.01	x	20.50	x	20.50
	Dirk Urban	Germany	19.78	19.74	20.04	19.48	19.55	19.92	20.04
	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	19.69	19.91	19.85	19.16	19.90	19.89	19.91
4	Corrado Fantini	Italy	19.70	19.79	x	x	19.76	x	19.79
5	Markus Koistinen	Finland	19.32	19.72	19.66	19.13	19.65	x	19.72
6	Oleksandr Bagach	Ukraine	19.65	19.28	19.45	19.50	19.52	19.50	19.65
7	Manuel Martínez	Spain	19.49	19.50	19.16	x	x	x	19.50
8	Andriy Nimchaninov	Ukraine	19.26	18.54	19.01	18.73	18.50	x	19.26
9	Ants Kiisa	Estonia	18.74	19.00	18.77				19.00
10	Vyacheslav Lykho	Russia	x	18.80	18.75				18.80
11	Michael Mertens	Germany	18.17	18.69	18.63				18.69
12	Mark Proctor	Great Britain	x	18.53	x				18.53