Dylan Armstrong

Dylan Armstrong ( born January 15, 1981 in Kamloops ) is a Canadian shot putter.

Originally, the focus of his sporting activities was the hammer throw. At the Pan American Games Junior 1999 he won the gold medal, one year later, the silver medal at the World Junior Championships in Santiago de Chile. Between 2000 and 2002, he was three times Canadian champion in a row. At the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, he left in qualifying. He holds the North American record university and junior record. His best performance he achieved on 19 April 2003 in Walnut with 71.51 m.

In 2004 he moved to the shot put. A year later, he was Canadian champion in this discipline. In 2007 he won at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, the gold medal and he reached at the World Championships in Osaka in the final. There he was with a width of 20.23 m ninth.

On 29 May 2008 he improved in Belgrade, the four -year-old Canadian national record by Brad Snyder at six inches to 20.92 m. In the final of the 2008 Summer Olympics, he improved that mark to 21.04 meters and ended up with this performance in fourth place, just an inch behind the bronze medalist Andrei Mikhnevich ( Belarus ). 28 years after the former Canadian Bruno Pauletto 1982 won the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, succeeded Armstrong to repeat at the Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi with a width of 21.02 m this achievement.

At the World Championships 2011 Armstrong won the silver medal. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012, he was fifth with 20.93 m.

At the World Championships 2013 in Moscow he won the bronze medal with a season best of 21.34 m.

He is 1.93 m tall and weighs 113 kg. Currently, Armstrong trained in his hometown at the former Ukrainian hammer thrower Anatoly Bondarchuk.