Dylan Armstrong

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

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

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.

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.

[12] 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.

[15] Following his competitive career, Armstrong started coaching amateur athletes at the Kamloops Track and Field Club in 2017.

[17][18] Armstrong lives in Kamloops, British Columbia and trained there during his career at the nearby National Throws Centre with famed coach and Olympic gold medallist Anatoliy Bondarchuk.

[19] In a reversal of situations, his wife Kolodko was stripped of all her medals from 2012 to 2016 following positive doping results in 2016 and tests of B samples.