Dylan Armstrong

Dylan Armstrong

Armstrong in 2010
Personal information
Nationality	Canadian
Born	(1981-01-15) January 15, 1981 (age 36) Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight	306 lb (139 kg; 21.9 st)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	Shot put, hammer throw
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	SP – 22.21 m NR, Calgary, 2011
Medal record Men’s Athletics Representing  Canada Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Shot put World Championships 2011 Daegu Shot put 2013 Moscow Shot put World Indoor Championships 2010 Doha Shot put Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi Shot put Pan American Games 2007 Rio de Janeiro Shot put 2011 Guadalajara Shot put World Junior Championships 2000 Santiago Hammer throw

Dylan Armstrong (born January 15, 1981) is a Canadian shot putter. He is a two-time Pan American Games champion, a former Commonwealth Games champion and has also won world championship silver and bronze medals. He was awarded the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics seven years after the event in 2015, following a doping disqualification by competitor Andrei Mikhnevich. Armstrong holds the Canadian national record and the Pan American Games record for shotput, and is a former holder of the Commonwealth games record. With his world championship medal, Armstrong was the first Canadian to reach the podium in a throwing event in a major global competition.

Prior to focusing on the shot put in 2004, Armstrong competed in the hammer throw. As a junior, he won a gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Junior Games and a silver medal at the 2000 World Junior Championships. He continues to hold the North American high school and junior records in the hammer throw. His personal best is 71.51 meters, achieved in April 2003 in Walnut.

Armstrong achieved a personal best, and Canadian record at that time, of 21.04 meters at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he finished fourth, missing out on a medal by a single centimetre. However, on August 20, 2014 the Canadian Olympic Committee announced that Armstrong would be awarded the 2008 Summer Olympic bronze medal by the International Olympic Committee. This followed a retroactive lifetime ban for doping violations dating back to 2005 given to Belarusian shot putter Andrei Mikhnevich, who had won the medal initially.