13 Facts About Dylan Armstrong

Dylan Armstrong was born on January 15,1981 and is a Canadian athletics coach and retired competitive shot putter.

Dylan Armstrong is the 2008 Olympic bronze medallist, a two-time World Athletics Championships medallist, a two-time Pan American Games champion, and the 2010 Commonwealth Games champion in that discipline.

Dylan Armstrong was awarded his Olympic bronze medal in 2015, seven years after the event, following the doping disqualification of competitor Andrei Mikhnevich.

Dylan Armstrong was the first Canadian to reach the podium in a throwing event in a major global competition.

Dylan Armstrong continues to hold the North American high school and junior records in the hammer throw.

However, on August 20,2014 the Canadian Olympic Committee announced that Dylan Armstrong would be awarded the 2008 Summer Olympic bronze medal by the International Olympic Committee.

When in 2014 Andrei Mikhnevich was stripped of the event's silver medal for doping violations, Dylan Armstrong moved up to the bronze medal position.

Dylan Armstrong threw a 21.64 before David Storl of Germany beat him with a 21.78 on his last throw.

Dylan 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.

Dylan Armstrong finished off the year by winning the Diamond League title in shot put.

Dylan Armstrong acknowledge the importance of sport funding as a result of what was Canada's fourth medal at the World Championships, tying a record from the 1995 World Championships.

Dylan Armstrong notably guided student Ethan Katzberg to a World title in the men's hammer throw at the 2023 World Athletics Championships.

In September 2015 Dylan Armstrong married the Russian shot putter Yevgeniya Kolodko whom he dated since 2012.