Randy Barnes
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Eric Randolph Barnes is an American former shot putter who held the outdoor world record for the event from 1990 to 2021. He won silver at the 1988 Olympics and gold at the 1996 Olympics. Only three t
Barnes (front) at the UTEP Sierra Medical invitational meet in 1994
Ulf Timmermann
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Ulf Béla Timmermann is a retired German shot putter who broke the world record several times during the 1980s, and is the first and one of only four people to ever throw over 23 metres.
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…coach Robert Parker. He went to the 1988 Seoul Olympics where he put 22.39 metres (73.5 ft) and earned a silver medal at only 22. He came second to Ulf Timmermann of East Germany, who put 22.47 metres (73.7 ft) at the height of East German doping dominance. On January 20, 1989, he set a new indoor world record…
Timmermann in 1989