Missouri post-collegian Christian Cantwell at the 2004 IAAF Indoor Championships where he took the gold in the shot put event. (Getty Images)Missouri post-collegian Christian Cantwell at the 2004 IAAF Indoor Championships where he took the gold in the shot put event. (Getty Images)
Track & Field

Cantwell Readies For World Championship Spotlight

Aug. 2, 2005

COLUMBIA, Mo. - University of Missouri post-collegian Christian Cantwell will compete Saturday in the men's shot put at the IAAF World Championships of Athletics in Helsinki, Finland. Cantwell won the USA Track & Field shot title in late-June and currently is ranked sixth in the IAAF World Rankings, having the second-longest throw in the World in 2005. Cantwell won the IAAF World Indoor Championship in 2004.

Cantwell will throw in the qualification round at 10:15 a.m., local time (2:15 a.m., central), on Saturday. Those who advance will compete later that night at 8:55 p.m., local time (12:55 p.m., central), in the final.

Tape-delayed television coverage of the meet can be found in the United States on Saturday between 3-4 p.m., central, on the PAX Network. In Columbia, PAX can be found on Mediacom channel 46.

A live Webcast of the entire meet is offered by wcsn.com. For $4.95, subscribers can view the entire nine-day meet on their computers via the Internet. WCSN.com uses Major League Baseball's Webcasting technology to stream high-quality video to computer screens everywhere.

For more information on the IAAF World Championships, visit iaaf.org or usatf.org.