Orazio Cremona

South African shot putter (born 1989)

Orazio Cremona

Personal information

Born

(1989-07-01) 1 July 1989 (age 35)
Johannesburg, South Africa

Education

Monash South Africa^[1]

Height

1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)^[2]

Weight

148 kg (326 lb) (2014)^[2]

Sport

Athletics

Event

Shot put

Coached by

Dup de Preeze

Medal record

Men's athletics

Representing South Africa
African Championships
	2014 Marrakech	Shot put
	2012 Porto Novo	Shot put
	2010 Nairobi	Shot put
African Junior Championships
	2007 Ouagadougou	Shot put

Orazio Cremona (born 1 July 1989) is a South African athlete specialising in the shot put.^[3] He finished seventh at the 2014 World Indoor Championships.

His personal bests in the event are 21.12 metres outdoors (Potchefstroom 2017) and 20.49 metres indoors (Sopot 2014).

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing South Africa
2007	African Junior Championships	Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso	2nd	Shot put (6 kg)	17.66 m
2008	World Junior Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	19th (q)	Shot put (6 kg)	18.28 m
2010	African Championships	Nairobi, Kenya	3rd	Shot put	18.27 m
2012	African Championships	Porto Novo, Benin	2nd	Shot put	19.19 m
2013	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	15th (q)	Shot put	19.42 m
2014	World Indoor Championships	Sopot, Poland	7th	Shot put	20.49 m
	Commonwealth Games	Glasgow, United Kingdom	4th	Shot put	20.13 m
	African Championships	Marrakech, Morocco	1st	Shot put	19.84 m
2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	27th (q)	Shot put	18.63 m
2016	African Championships	Durban, South Africa	5th	Shot put	19.15 m
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	23rd (q)	Shot put	19.81 m
2018	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	6th	Shot put	20.51 m
2019	African Games	Rabat, Morocco	5th	Shot put	20.06 m
2019	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	24th (q)	Shot put	19.98 m