1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

Events at the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
2000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
5000 m walk				women
10,000 m walk		men
Road events
20 km road run		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's shot put event at the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, at Olympic Stadium on 18 and 19 July. A 7257g (senior implement) shot was used.

Medalists

Gold	Aleksey Lukashenko Soviet Union
Silver	Vyacheslav Lykho Soviet Union
Bronze	Radoslav Despotov Bulgaria

Results

Final

19 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Aleksey Lukashenko	Soviet Union	18.90
	Vyacheslav Lykho	Soviet Union	18.71
	Radoslav Despotov	Bulgaria	18.17
4	Jeno Kóczián	Hungary	17.64
5	John Minns	Australia	17.27
6	Adewale Olukoju	Nigeria	17.19
7	Tino Bonk	East Germany	16.90
8	Jean-Philippe Revallier	France	16.84
9	Bentley Laidler	Australia	16.44
10	Darren Crawford	United States	16.14
11	Tony Sylvester	United States	16.09
12	Simon Williams	United Kingdom	15.87

Qualifications

18 Jul

Group A

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Radoslav Despotov	Bulgaria	17.90	Q
2	Vyacheslav Lykho	Soviet Union	16.93	Q
3	Jeno Kóczián	Hungary	16.51	Q
4	Simon Williams	United Kingdom	16.38	Q
5	Tino Bonk	East Germany	16.18	Q
6	Tony Sylvester	United States	16.16	Q
7	Bentley Laidler	Australia	16.15	Q
8	Khalid Al-Khalidi	Saudi Arabia	14.90
9	Bojan Paunovic	Canada	13.81
10	Troy Patterson	Barbados	13.40
11	James Wong Tuck Yim	Singapore	11.35

Group B

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Aleksey Lukashenko	Soviet Union	17.01	Q
2	John Minns	Australia	16.92	Q
3	Adewale Olukoju	Nigeria	16.25	Q
4	Jean-Philippe Revallier	France	16.00	Q
5	Darren Crawford	United States	15.52	q
6	Delore Lakusta	Canada	15.11
7	Mahmoud Mustapha Jalal	Kuwait	14.48
8	Ramón Jiménez Gaona	Paraguay	13.71
9	Jaime Comandari	El Salvador	12.78

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.

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