European Athletics Championships 2002 / Women's Shot Put

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	15 athletes from 11 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 10 (qualifying)
Medalists Irina Korschanenko ( RUS )   Wita Pawlysch ( UKR )   Svetlana Kriweljowa ( RUS )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The shot put women at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was on 10 August 2002 at the Munich Olympic Stadium held.

In this competition, the Russian shot putters won two medals, gold and bronze. The European champion was the 1998 vice European champion Irina Korschanenko . She won ahead of the Ukrainian defending champion and third place in the 2001 World Cup, Wita Pavlysch . Bronze went to Svetlana Kriweljowa, who was third in the 1999 World Cup .

Existing records

World record	22.63 m	Natalia Lisovskaya	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	June 7, 1987
European record
EM record	21.69 m	Wita Pavlysch	EM in Budapest , Hungary	August 20, 1998

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

execution

With the small number of only fifteen participants from eleven countries, no qualification was required, and all athletes entered the final together.

final

Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid". August 10, 2002

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1. V. (m)	2. V. (m)	3. V. (m)	4. V. (m)	5. V. (m)	6. V. (m)
1	Irina Korschanenko	Russia	20.64	19.91	20.26	20.64	19.98	x	x
2	Wita Pavlysch	Ukraine	20.02	20.02	x	x	x	18.97	x
3	Svetlana Kriweljowa	Russia	19.56	17.63	18.97	19.08	19.56	x	x
4th	Astrid Kumbernuss	Germany	19.22	19.06	x	18.78	18.88	19.22	x
5	Nadsey Astaptchuk	Belarus	19.07	x	18.29	18.85	x	x 19.07	x
6th	Nadine Kleinert	Germany	18.68	18.39	18.14	x	18.68	x	18.53
7th	Krystyna Zabawska	Poland	18.63	17.32	18.07	18.63	18.06	18.43	18.17
8th	Assunta Legnante	Italy	18.23	17.85	18.23	x	18.00	x	18.00
9	Nadine Beckel	Germany	18.18	18.18	17.95	17.98	not in the final of the eight best athletes
10	Lieja Tunks-Koeman	Netherlands	17.54	17.44	17.51	17.54
11	Elena Hila	Romania	17.41	17.41	16.91	17.41
12	Kalliópi Ouzoúni	Greece	17.38	17.38	17.00	x
13	Valentina Fedyushina	Austria	17.11	Trial series not known
14th	Cristiana Checchi	Italy	15.81
15th	Sevda Kalkan	Turkey	14.63

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  Nadine Kleinert, sixth in the European Championship in 1998 came in fifth - she later became four times vice world champion, European champion 2012 and Olympic runner-up in 2004

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  Krystyna Zabawska improved from eleventh to seventh place in 1998

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  Assunta Legnante finished eighth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 6, 2019
• European Championship 2002 Munich, Women Shot Put on todor66.com, accessed on November 6, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 6, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Shot Put European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 487f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 6, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, women's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on November 6, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on November 6, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women , accessed October 21, 2019