title: 1996 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's shot put
text: # 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.
  
  ## 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 | FR 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 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 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 |
  