USA Championships
Four-time USA Indoor champion - 2004 (21.26m/69-9); 2007 (21.72m/71-3.5); 2008 (21.77m/71-5.25); 2010 (21.13m/71-7.50)
2010 USA Outdoor champion (21.65m/71-0.50)
2008 Olympic Trials runner-up (21.71m/71-2.75)
Two-time USA Indoor runner-up - 2002 (20.86m/68-5.25); 2006 (21.10m/69-2.75);
2011 USA Outdoor runner-up (21.87m/71-9)
International Championships
2009 World Outdoor Championships gold medalist (22.03m/72-3.50)
Three-time World Indoor champion - 2004 (21.49m/70-6.25); 2008 (21.77m/71-5.25); 2010 (21.83m/71-7.50)
2008 Olympic silver medalist (21.09m/69-2.50)
2003 World Athletics Final champion (20.93m/68-8)
Collegiate Championships
Six-time NCAA Division I All-American
2000 Big 12 Freshman of the Year
Awards and Honors
2010 IAAF Diamond League champion
2010 Indoor Visa champion
About Christian
You need to go all the way back to 2003, when Christian Cantwell was a senior at Missouri, to find a time when he wasn't ranked in the top five in the world in the shot put for either indoor or outdoor competition. In that span he recorded the farthest throw in the world four different seasons both indoors and outdoors. For winning the 2010 Indoor Visa champion, Cantwell picked up a $30,000 bonus from Visa and picked up another $25,000 for winning the 2007 Visa championship. In 2010 alone Cantwell competed in 20 meets where he threw the shot more than 70 feet and won the inaugural IAAF Diamond League Championship in his event. In 2009 he ended the outdoor season with the three best throws in the world. In 2006, Cantwell posted the top-three outdoor throws in the world, and six of the top eight throws. In 2004 he posted the top four throws in the world that outdoor season. He held a 14-meet winning streak heading into the 2004 Olympic Trials. Cantwell was a hotel and restaurant management major at Missouri. He married Terri Steer in 2005 and the couple had their first child on May 27, 2008, a son named Jackson Daniel.
Other Results
2011: 1st at Switzerland (21.83m/71-7.5) and Stockholm (21.70m/71-2.5); 2nd at Monaco (21.23m/69-8); 3rd at the Prefontaine Classic (21.59m/70.10), Hengelo (21.15m/69-4.75), and Birmingham (20.86m/68-5.25); 6th at Doha (20.61m/67-7.5); 4th at Rome (21.09m/69-2.5)
2010: 1st at Pre Classic (21.78m/71-5.5); 1st at Doha (21.82m/71-7.25); 1st at Drake Relays (21.69m/71-2); 1st at Jamaica Invitational (21.50m/70-6.5); 1st at Osaka Grand Prix (21.34m/70-0.25); 1st at Stockholm (22.09m/72-5.75)
2009: 1st at Dakar (21.53m/70-7.75); 2nd at Drake Relays (21.00m/68-10.75); 4th at Nike Prefontaine Classic (20.99m/68-10.5); 1st at Zagreb (22.16m/72-8.50)
2008: 3rd at Reebok Grand Prix (20.83m/68-4.25); 1st at adidas Track Classic (21.39m/70-2.25); 1st at Modesto Relays (21.76m/71-4.75)
2007: 5th at AT&T USA Outdoor Championships (20.14m/66-1); 1st at Millrose Games (21.88m/71-9); 2nd at Reebok Boston Indoor Games (21.36m/70-1); 1st at adidas Track Classic (21.96m/72-0.75); Nike Prefontaine Classic champion (21.83m/71-7.5)
2006: 3rd at USA Outdoor (21.89m/ 71-10); 1st at Gateshead (22.45m/73-8); 10th in qualifying at World Indoor Champs (19.90m/65-3.5); 1st at Nike Prefontaine Classic (22.17m/72-9); 1st at Drake Relays (22.10m/72-6.25)
2005: 5th at World Outdoor Champs (20.87m/68-5.75); 1st at Huelva (21.32m/69-11.25); 1st at Seville meet on (21.67m/71-1.25); 4th at USA Indoors (20.57m/67-6)
2004: 4th at Olympic Trials (20.56m/67-5.5); 1st at adidas Oregon Track Classic (22.54m/73-11.5); 1st at Nike Prefontaine Classic (21.74m/71-4); 1st at Home Depot (22.35m/73-4); 1st at Columbia (21.95m/72-0.25i); 1st at Manhattan (21.11m/69-3.25); 1st at Drake Relays (20.64m/67-8.75); 1st in SP at Verizon Millrose Games (21.28m/69-9.75)
2003: 5th at USA Outdoors (20.57m/67-6); 1st at Salamanca (21.62m/70-11.25); 2nd at NCAA Outdoors (21.56m/70-9); 3rd at NCAA Indoors (20.64m/67-8.75)
2002: 3rd at NCAA Indoors (20.43m/67-0.5); 3rd at NCAA Outdoors (19.39m/63-7.50); 1st at Univ. of Iowa (21.45m/70-4.5); 1st at Kansas Relays (21.37m/70-1.50); 1st at Drake Relays (21.06m/69-1.25)
2001: 5th at NCAA Outdoors SP (19.27m/63-2.75); 1st at Big 12 Indoors SP (19.37m/63-6.75); 14th at NCAA Outdoors HT; 3rd at Big 12 HT (57.18m/187-7)
2000: 7th at NCAA Indoor Championships (18.72m/61-5); no mark in qualifying at U.S. Olympic Trials; Big 12 Outdoor SP champ (19.67m/64-6.5)
USA/World Rankings and Personal Bests
2011: Indoor bests - Shot Put, 21.21m/69-7 (No. 2 in the USA, No. 2 in the world); Outdoor bests - Shot Put, 22.07m/72-5 (No. 3 in the USA, No. 5 in the world)
2010: Indoor bests - Shot Put, 21.95m/72-0.25 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world); Outdoor bests - Shot Put, 22.41m/73-6.25 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world)
2009: Indoor bests - Shot Put, 21.47m/70-5.50 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world); Outdoor bests - Shot Put, 22.16m/72-8.5 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world)
2008: Indoor bests - Shot Put, 22.18m/72-9.25 (No. 2 in the USA, No. 2 in the world); Outdoor bests - Shot Put, 21.76m/74-8.25 (No. 3 in the USA, No. 4 in the world)
2007: Indoor bests - Shot Put, 21.88m/71-9.50 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world); Outdoor bests - Shot Put, 21.96m/72-0.75 (No. 2 in the USA, No. 2 in the world)
2006: Indoor bests - Shot Put, 21.10m/69-2.75 (No. 2 in the USA, No. 5 in the world); Outdoor bests - Shot Put, 22.45m/70-4.50 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world)
2005: Indoor bests - Shot Put, 21.06m/69-1.25 (No. 4 in the USA, No. 5 in the world); Outdoor bests - Shot Put, 21.67m/71-1.25 (No. 3 in the USA, No. 3 in the world)
2004: Indoor bests - Shot Put, 21.95m/72-0.25 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world); Outdoor bests - Shot Put, 22.54m/73-11.50 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world)
2003: Indoor bests - Shot Put, 20.85m/68-5 (No. 4 in the USA, No. 8 in the world); Outdoor bests - Shot Put, 21.62m/70-11.25 (No. 2 in the USA, No. 4 in the world)
2002: Indoor bests - Shot Put, 20.86m/68-5.25 (No. 2 in the USA, No. 6 in the world); Outdoor bests - Shot Put, 21.45m/70-4.50 (No. 4 in the USA, No. 7 in the world)
2001: Indoor bests - Shot Put, 19.37m/63-6.75 (No. 10 in the USA, No. 37 in the world)