Yury Shayunou has a personal best of 80.72 meters with the 7.26 kg (or 16 lbs) implement, achieved on July 6, 2009 in Minsk at the Romuald Klim Trophy.

[1] He has an orthodox countering technique and relies on his controlled throwing, instead of overpowering the hammer with pure strength.

Yury Shayunou held a relatively low profile in his younger years, considering that the leader of the youth world rankings in 2004 threw almost 9½ meters farther.

[4] In 2009 Yury Shayunou won the Belarusian national championship, in the absence of Ivan Tikhon and Vadim Devyatovskiy, with 78.76 meters.

[11] Though, he only finished 12th in the qualifications with a performance of 71,37 followed by two fouls[12] which would not be good enough to grab a position among the 12 best in any of the qualifying groups.