2025 World Athletics Championships – Men's shot put

Crouser had not made a throw in a legitimate competition since September 2024.^[2] An injury to his right (throwing) elbow took a long time to heal.^[3] As defending champion, he had a bye into the meet. In his absence, Leonardo Fabbri came in as the world leader.

In the qualifying round Crouser took his first throw in a year, 21.37 m beating the auto qualifying mark of 21.35 by 2 cm. Only two other athletes, Adrian Piperi and Tom Walsh, the 2017 Champion and current world Indoor Champion made an auto mark, Walsh needing two attempts. It took a tiebreaker at 20.38 m to make the final. While it takes the special circumstance of a bye for a fourth athlete from a country to get into the competition, seven were born in the USA.

In the final, Walsh took the early lead with 21.58 m, Crouser pulled into second place with a 21.41m, a season's best. Fabbri dropped a 21.83 m which held up as the leader until Crouser's third throw of the season landed on the tape 22 meter line, measured at 21.99 m. Those three remained in that order to the fifth round. Walsh tickled the 22 meter line with a 21.94m, which Crouser said later, "woke up the competition." Fabbri answered with a 21.94 m of his own. The 21.83 m meant he still held on to second place. Then Crouser let loose his only throw of the season to have a full extension of his elbow. It flew well past 22, for 22.34 m.^[3] In the final round, Chukwuebuka Enekwechi threw 21.52 m to leapfrog from 8th to 4th. Then Uziel Muñoz hit the tape, then sprinted out of the ring in celebration. This one measured 21.97 m, a new Mexican record,^[4] to go from 6th to 2nd. Nobody else could improve in the final round so Crouser had his third consecutive Gold Medal without needing to take his last throw.

Before the competition records were as follows:^[5]

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Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World Record	Ryan Crouser (USA)	23.56 m	Los Angeles, California	27 May 2023
Championship Record	Ryan Crouser (USA)	23.51 m	Budapest, Hungary	19 August 2023
World Leading	Leonardo Fabbri (ITA)	22.82 m	Caorle, Italy	3 August 2025
African Record	Chukwuebuka Enekwechi (NGR)	22.10 m	Eugene, United States	5 July 2025
Asian Record	Mohammed Tolo (KSA)	21.80 m	Madrid, Spain	21 June 2024
European Record	Ulf Timmermann (GDR)	23.06 m	Chania, Greece	22 May 1988
North, Central American and Caribbean Record	Ryan Crouser (USA)	23.56 m	Los Angeles, California	27 May 2023
Oceanian Record	Tom Walsh (NZL)	22.90 m	Doha, Qatar	5 October 2019
South American Record	Darlan Romani (BRA)	22.61 m	Palo Alto, United States	30 June 2019

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The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 21.50 m.^[6]

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+9), was as follows:^[1]