Dylan Armstrong (born January 15, 1981) is a Canadian athletics coach and retired competitive shot putter. He is the 2008 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time World Athletics Championships medalist, a two-time Pan American Games champion, and the 2010 Commonwealth Games champion in that discipline. He was awarded his Olympic bronze medal in 2015, seven years after the event, following the doping disqualification of competitor Andrei Mikhnevich.

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Dylan Armstrong

Armstrong in 2011 at the Triton Invitational where he threw 21.72m (71.3 ft)
Personal information
Nationality	Canadian
Born	(1981-01-15) January 15, 1981 (age 43) Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)[1]
Weight	306 lb (139 kg; 21.9 st)[1]
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	Shot put, hammer throw
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	SP – 22.21 m NR, Calgary, 2011[2]
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

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Armstrong holds the Canadian national record for the shot put, and is a former holder of the Pan American Games and Commonwealth games records. 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.^[2] 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 ft, 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.^[3][4]

Armstrong lives in Kamloops, British Columbia and trained there during his career at the nearby National Throws Centre with coach Anatoliy Bondarchuk. In September 2015 Armstrong married the Russian shot putter Yevgeniya Kolodko whom he dated since 2012.^[18] In a reversal of situations, his wife Kolodko was stripped of all her medals from 2012-2016 following positive doping results in 2016 and tests of B samples.^[19] Armstrong responded to the issue saying: "News of athlete doping is very disheartening for competitive athletes who are committed to competing clean. I have never condoned doping in sport … I have been consistently outspoken about my position on doping, which is zero tolerance. Today's news is especially difficult as it affects both the Olympic athletic community I am part of – and someone I love deeply: Evgeniia."^[20]

• Canadian records in track and field
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