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Dylan Armstrong (born January 15, 1981) is a Canadians athletics coach and retired competitive . He 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. He was awarded his Olympic bronze medal in 2015, seven years after the event, following the doping disqualification of competitor Andrei Mikhnevich.
Armstrong holds the Canadian national record for the shot put, and is a former holder of the Pan American Games and Commonwealth games records. Armstrong was the first Canadian to reach the podium in a throwing event in a major global competition.
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. However, on August 20, 2014 the Canadian Olympic Committee announced that Armstrong would be awarded the 2008 Summer Olympic bronze medal by the International Olympic Committee. 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. Canada’s Dylan Armstrong finally gets 2008 Beijing Olympics bronze medal after doping DQ | Toronto Star. Thestar.com (August 20, 2014). Retrieved on 2016-06-02.
His first true world success came at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics when he won the silver at the outdoor event for shot put. He threw a 21.64 before David Storl of Germany beat him with a 21.78 on his last throw. 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. Armstrong finished off the year by winning the Diamond League title in shot put.
As one of Canada's leading medal favourites and only medal favourite in athletics, Armstrong had set a season's best of 21.50 heading into the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. There he finished fifth, falling short of a medal.James Mirtle (August 3, 2012) Canada’s Dylan Armstrong falls short of the podium in men’s Olympic shot put. The Globe and Mail
After the awarding of his indoor medal, Armstrong began competition at the 2013 World Championships. He qualified for the finals where he threw 21.04 m. In the finals he tossed a season's best 21.34 m. 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. He said that "I just feel amazing. My coach and I worked really hard, I made some really good choices this year. It's another medal for Canada, it shows that when you have the right coaches in place, the right support and the funding behind it that it's going to pay off. You have to invest in sport, results don't come for free." Armstrong received his medal at a ceremony in his hometown of Kamloops on February 15, 2015, around 700 people attended the event.
Following his competitive career, Armstrong started coaching amateur athletes at the Kamloops Track and Field Club in 2017. He notably guided student Ethan Katzberg to a World title in the men's hammer throw at the 2023 World Athletics Championships.
| 2000 | World Junior Championships | Santiago, Chile | 18th (q) | Discus | 49.53 m |
| 2nd | Hammer | 67.50 m | |||
| 2001 | Jeux de la Francophonie | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | 3rd | Shot put | 17.57 m |
| 7th | Hammer | 64.91 m | |||
| World Championships | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | 31st (q) | Hammer | 63.89 m | |
| 2007 | Pan American Games | Rio, Brazil | 1st | Shot | 20.10 m |
| World Championships | Osaka, Japan | 8th | Shot | 20.23 m | |
| 2008 | World Indoor Championships | Valencia, Spain | 14th (q) | Shot | 19.56 m |
| Olympic Games | Beijing, China | 3rd | Shot | 21.04 m | |
| 2009 | World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 16th (q) | Shot | 19.86 m |
| World Athletics Final | Thessaloniki, Greece | 7th | Shot | 19.61 m | |
| 2010 | World Indoor Championship | Doha, Qatar | 3rd | Shot | 21.39 m |
| Commonwealth Games | Delhi, India | 1st | Shot | 21.02 m | |
| 2011 | World Championship | Daegu, South Korea | 2nd | Shot | 21.64 m |
| Pan American Games | Guadalajara, Mexico | 1st | Shot | 21.30 m | |
| 2012 | World Indoor Championship | Istanbul, Turkey | 9th (q) | Shot | 19.84 m |
| Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 5th | Shot | 20.93 m | |
| 2013 | World Championship | Moscow, Russia | 3rd | Shot | 21.34 m |
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