Dylan Armstrong
- January 11, 2024
- Athletics Competitor
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Dylan Armstrong Biography
| Birthday | Jan 15 |
| Birth Year | 1981 |
Dylan Armstrong is one of the most popular and richest Athletics Competitor who was born on January 15, 1981 in Kamloops, Kamloops, Canada. Dylan Armstrong (born January 15, 1981) is a Canadian shot putter. He is a two-time Pan American Games champion, a former Commonwealth Games champion and has also won world championship silver and bronze medals. He was awarded the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics seven years after the event in 2015, following a doping disqualification by competitor Andrei Mikhnevich. Armstrong holds the Canadian national record and the Pan American Games record for shot put, and is a former holder of the Commonwealth games record. With his world championship medal, Armstrong was the first Canadian to reach the podium in a throwing event in a major global competition.
As one of Canada’s leading medal favorites and only medal favorite in athletics, Armstrong had set a season’s best of 21.50 heading into the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. There he finished 5th, falling short of a medal.
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.
Armstrong lives in Kamloops, British Columbia and trains there 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.
His first true world success came at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics when he won the silver at the outdoor event for shot put. He threw a 21.64 before David Storl of Germany beat him with a 21.78 on his last throw. Armstrong next attended the 2011 Pan American Games, there he went on to win gold and broke the Pan American Games record with a 21.30. Armstrong finished off the year by winning the Diamond League title in shot put.
Dylan Armstrong Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Athletics Competitor |
| House | Living in own house. |
Dylan Armstrong is one of the richest Athletics Competitor from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dylan Armstrong 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
28 years after former Canadian national champion Bruno Pauletto won gold at the 1982 Commonwealth Games Armstrong succeeded in reiterating that performance at the 2010 edition of the Games, placing first with a Commonwealth record of 21.02 m. At the 2010 World Indoor Championship, in Doha, Qatar, Dylan placed fourth with a Canadian indoor record of 21.39 m. He improved his outdoor national record to 21.58 m at the Askina Meeting in Baunatal, Germany, beating Ralf Bartels to the victory. When in 2014 Andrei Mikhnevich was stripped of the event’s silver medal for doping violations, Armstrong moved up to the bronze medal position.
Prior to focusing on the shot put in 2004, Armstrong competed in the hammer throw. 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 meters, achieved in April 2003 in Walnut.
Prior to the beginning of the 2013 World Athletics Championships, Armstrong was awarded the bronze medal from the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships after Andrei Mikhnevich’s positive drug test and subsequent forfeiture of his silver medal. At the time the IAAF and IOC had yet to rule on whether Armstrong would as well receive the bronze medal from the 2008 Olympics where he just missed the podium behind Mikhnevich. In an interview regarding the possible return of the medal Armstrong stated that “I worked hard for it, and I want it back…It’s my country’s medal too, we deserve it.”
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Weight | 306 lbs |
Dylan Armstrong height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) Dylan weight 306 lbs & body measurements will update soon.
Who is Dylan Armstrong Dating?
According to our records, Dylan Armstrong married to Evgeniia Kolodko (m. 2015). As of December 1, 2023, Dylan Armstrong’s is not dating anyone.
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Facts & Trivia
Dylan Ranked on the list of most popular Athletics Competitor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Dylan Armstrong celebrates birthday on January 15 of every year.