European Athletics Championships 2018 / Women's Shot Put

discipline	Women's shot put
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Participants	23 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	August 7, 2018 (qualification) August 8, 2018 (final)
Medalists
gold	Paulina Guba ( POL )
silver	Christina Schwanitz ( GER )
bronze	Aljona Dubitskaja ( BLR )

Berlin Olympic Stadium

The shot put women at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place on 7 and 8 August in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin instead.

European champion was Paulina Guba from Poland . The German Christina Schwanitz won the silver medal. Bronze went to Aljona Dubitskaja from Belarus .

Records

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

qualification

The Dutchwoman Melissa Boekelman was eliminated with 16.90 m in the qualification

16.04 m was not enough for the Finn Senja Mäkitörmä to reach the final

August 7, 2018, 10:10 a.m. CEST

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance required for direct entry into the final was 17.20 m. Since only eleven athletes exceeded this value - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the subsequent best shot putters from both groups to a total of twelve participants - highlighted in light green. So finally 17.17 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
1	Alyona Dubitskaya	Belarus	18.67	-	-	18.67
2	Paulina Guba	Poland	18.66	-	-	18.66
3	Radoslava Mawrodiewa	Bulgaria	x	17.87	-	17.87
4th	Fanny Roos	Sweden	17.71	-	-	17.71
5	Alina Kenzel	Germany	17.13	17.46	-	17.46
6th	Sara Gambetta	Germany	17.23	-	-	17.23
7th	Melissa Boekelman	Netherlands	16.90	x	16.78	16.90
8th	Olha Holodna	Ukraine	x	16.69	x	16.69
9	Markéta Červenková	Czech Republic	15.71	16.19	16.62	16.62
10	Divine Oladipo	Great Britain	15.28	15.78	15.35	15.78
11	Eliana Bandeira	Portugal	15.09	x	15.18	15.18
12	Ieva Zarankaitė	Lithuania	15.13	x	14.81	15.13

Group B

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
1	Christina Schwanitz	Germany	18.83	-	-	18.83
2	Klaudia Kardasz	Poland	17.15	18.00	-	18.00
3	Wiktoryja Kolb	Belarus	17.36	-	-	17.36
4th	Amelia Strickler	Great Britain	16.15	17.31	-	17.31 PB
5	Sophie McKinna	Great Britain	17.24	-	-	17.24
6th	Alena Abramtschuk	Belarus	16.86	17.17	17.12	17.17
7th	Úrsula Ruiz	Spain	17.06	x	16.77	17.06 SB
8th	Dimitriana Surdu	Moldova	16.17	16.66	16.87	16.87
9	Viktoria Klotschko	Ukraine	May 15	15.96	16.27	16.27
10	Frida Åkerström	Sweden	16.17	x	16.20	16.20
11	Senja Mäkitörmä	Finland	16.04	15.50	x	16.04

final

August 8, 2018, 8:09 p.m. CEST

There was only a small group of favorites in this competition. The Hungarian Anita Márton, who has always ranked high internationally in the past, was not among the participants. So it was mainly the German world champion in 2015 and European champion of 2014 / 2016 Christina Schwanitz, which was touted as the favorite. However, after the birth of her twins, she was not yet back to the level of performance of 2015. One competitor was the Belarusian Aljona Dubizkaya, who had repeatedly achieved placements between six and eight at the major international championships in recent years. Third best athlete in the qualification was Paulina Guba from Poland.

The competition did not reach the level of previous years. The time of the overpowering female shot putters from the so-called Eastern Bloc countries was over. Athletes from Russia did not start, perhaps improved doping controls also contributed to the development. In any case, this trend was not new.

With 19.19 m in the first round, Schwanitz was the only athlete who managed a push over nineteen meters. Second was Guba with 18.77 m ahead of Dubizkaja with 18.59 m. Otherwise only the Bulgarian Radoslawa Mawrodiewa surpassed the 18-meter mark with her stroke of 18.03 m. On lap two, Guba exactly repeated her distance from the first round. Again, Schwanitz was the only participant with a width of 19.08 m and more than nineteen meters. Dubitskaja rose to 18.75 m and was only two centimeters behind Guba. The German Sara Gambetta improved to 18.09 m and took fourth place. Round three only brought a change to the lower ranks.

In the fifth run there were some improvements again. Guba exceeded the 10-meter mark with 19.02 m as the second shot put in this competition. Dubitskaya rose to 18.81 m. The two athletes initially stayed in their positions as before. The Polish Klaudia Kardasz now achieved 18.38 m and displaced Gambetta to fifth place. The decision was made in the last round. First, Sara Gambetta rose to 18.13 m and Klaudia Kardasz to 18.48 m, consolidating their positions five and four respectively. Then Paulina Guba reached 19.33 m and she surprisingly became European champion, because Schwanitz could no longer counter. Christina Schwanitz won silver. Aljona Dubitskaja finally stayed on the bronze rank. Radoslawa Mawrodiewa was sixth.

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)
	Paulina Guba	Poland	18.77	18.77	x	18.49	19.02	19.33	19.33
	Christina Schwanitz	Germany	19.19	19.08	x	18.86	x	18.98	19.19
	Alyona Dubitskaya	Belarus	18.59	18.75	18.57	x	18.81	x	18.81
4th	Klaudia Kardasz	Poland	16.82	17.96	x	x	18.38	18.48	18.48 NU23R
5	Sara Gambetta	Germany	16.44	18.09	17.53	17.74	17.39	18.13	18.13 SB
6th	Radoslava Mawrodiewa	Bulgaria	18.03	x	x	17.86	x	x	18.03
7th	Sophie McKinna	Great Britain	17.58	17.29	17.03	17.65	17.29	17.69	17.69
8th	Wiktoryja Kolb	Belarus	16.93	17.50	17.30	x	17.04	17.27	17.50
9	Alina Kenzel	Germany	17.26	x	x	not in the final of the eight best athletes			17.26
10	Amelia Strickler	Great Britain	16.43	16.13	17.15				17.15
11	Fanny Roos	Sweden	17.03	17.09	16.90				17.09
12	Alena Abramtschuk	Belarus	16.90	x	x				16.90

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  Vice European Champion Christina Schwanitz, Germany

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  The German Sara Gambetta came in fifth

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  Alina Kenzel, third German in this final, came in ninth place

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  Tenth place for the Swede Fanny Roos

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 25, 2019
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 25, 2019
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 25, 2019

Video

• Paulina Guba Gold Medal, Final shot put, 24th European Athletics Championships, Berlin 2018 on youtube.com, published on August 8, 2018, accessed on January 25, 2019