2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's shot put explained

The men's shot put event at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 5 March at 11:18 (qualification) and at 20:35 (final) local time.

Medalists

width=200 bgcolor=gold	Gold	width=200 bgcolor=silver	Silver	width=200 bgcolor=CC9966	Bronze
Tomáš Staněk	Michał Haratyk	Filip Mihaljević

Standing records prior to the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships
World record	22.66	Los Angeles, United States	20 January 1989
European record	22.55	Senftenberg, East Germany	11 February 1989
Championship record	22.19	Liévin, France	21 February 1987
World Leading	22.82	Fayetteville, United States	24 January 2021
European Leading	21.83	Łódź, Poland	12 February 2021

Qualification: Qualifying performance 21.00 (Q) or at least 8 best performers (q) advance to the Final.^[1]

Rank	1	2	3	Result	Note
1	18.62	20.17	21.04	21.04	Q,
2	20.64	21.02		21.02	Q
3	20.97	–	r	20.97	q
4	19.72	20.00	20.60	20.60	q
5	20.40	x	r	20.40	q
6	19.99	20.30	x	20.30	q
7	19.93	20.11	20.29	20.29	q
8	20.13	20.07	20.27	20.27	q
9	19.70	20.16	19.96	20.16
10	19.74	19.75	20.12	20.12
11	x	19.96	19.77	19.96
12	x	18.83	19.40	19.40
13	x	19.22	19.18	19.22

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result
	x	20.36	21.24	x	21.62	–	21.62
	20.89	x	21.33	21.14	21.47	21.21	21.47
	20.64	21.17	21.31	x	21.27	x	21.31
4	x	21.28	20.96	20.82	x	x	21.28
5	20.52	x	x	20.75	20.13	x	20.75
6	x	x	20.74	x	x	x	20.74
7	19.74	20.25	20.28	20.16	x	20.19	20.28
8	19.77	x	x	x	x	x	19.77

Web site: Qualification results . 2021-03-05 . 2021-03-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210305112036/https://liveresults.european-athletics.com/resEICH21-/pdf/EICH21-/ATH/EICH21-_ATH_C73R_ATHMSHOTPUT-----------QUAL--------.pdf . dead .
Web site: Final results . 2021-03-05 . 2021-03-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210306110659/https://liveresults.european-athletics.com/resEICH21-/pdf/EICH21-/ATH/EICH21-_ATH_C73S_ATHMSHOTPUT-----------FNL---------.pdf . dead .