GREATEST shot put competition EVER , ULF vs. BARNES.

Rare full american broadcast of the 1988 Olympic shot put ; the winning olympic record set in this meet still stands 20 years later. the greatest shot put competition ever held. Ulf Timmerman sets 3 olympic records and solidly leads the meet until , Randy Barnes comes thru on his final attempt to go from 4th place to first place to set another olympic record....Ulf Timmerman now in second place has just one last throw left...watch what happens.

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• shot
• put
• 1988
• olympic
• ulf
• timmerman
• randy
• barnes
• shotput
• athletics

[moneybody1]

Even though he's obviously not a small man, Ulf actually looks tiny compared to all the guys he beat! I know Gunthor is 6'7" Barnes and Beyer are around 6'4" each. Anyone know how tall Ulf is?

[70footer]

Barnes and Beyer are around 6'4'' 300.......Gunthor 6'5'' 285..ulf is only 6'3'' about 260

[Solubution]

I was waiting for something spectacular but nothing came.

[70footer]

nothing spectacular? the previous Oly record was just over 70 feet , then three guys blow past it up to over 73, and just when Ulf thought know one could beat him Barnes comes up for his last throw to improve by 4 feet to take the lead ....yeah you're right , pretty ordinary!

[TheFlST]

That must have been fucking exciting to watch live

[golfmwatson]

Yes

[rubixcubesolve]

is the ball 16 pounds

[68kenton]

@70footer my friend Tod Davis talks to him on facebook. And yes it really is him cause he puts videos of him throwing now just recent.

[ChrisSousa9]

@jackjolli oh haha i thought you were talking about his shot placement which is unusually low but i get your logic.

[jackjolli]

@ChrisSousa9 LOL i posted that 2 years ago and it just made me laugh. "his arm is corked" like hollowing out a baseball bat and putting a cork inside it.  you know like sammy sosa did.. it helps you swing faster, allowing you to hit the ball further

[ChrisSousa9]

@jackjolli what do you mean?

[LUVMAGNUMGUNS2]

wow what a competition.

[ChrisSousa9]

this proves that shotput and discus are more technique than strength. but in this case we viewed an incredible amount of both.

[thecrazy6611]

This is a good video, glide vs. spin. In this case Ulf with the glide won it, but Barnes ended up with the world record later that still hasn't been beat.

[chessboygw]

hmm this Ulf is quite fast thats probably why he dominated!! i love him! -no homo-