David Storl (born 27 July 1990) is a German track and field athlete who specialises in the shot put.

Storl is one of only eleven athletes (along with Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Armand Duplantis, Jacques Freitag, Yelena Isinbayeva, Kirani James, Faith Kipyegon, Jana Pittman, and Dani Samuels) to win World Championship titles at the youth, junior, and senior levels of an athletic event.

[citation needed] Storl first became involved in athletics as a child when his grandfather suggested he join the local club, VfL Rochlitzer Berg.

Initially a decathlon specialist, the death of his personal coach in 2006 led him to focus exclusively on the shot put and discus throwing events.

[1] In 2009, he began using the full senior weight (7.26 kg) in the indoor season and achieved a best of 19.48 m. Returning to the junior 6 kg shot in the outdoor season, he became the first ever junior athlete to throw beyond 22 metres in Mannheim, setting consecutive world junior records of 22.18 m and then 22.34 m.[3] A month later he increased this mark to 22.73 m in Osterode (putting some distance between himself and the Edis Elkasevic's former record of 21.96 m),[4] and went on to win the 2009 European Junior title with a championships record of 22.40 m.[5] Having placed third at the 2009 German Athletics Championships and achieved the senior international "A" standard with a personal best throw of 20.43 m, he was selected for the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin.