World Athletics Championships 1987 / Women's Shot Put

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	20 athletes from 12 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	September 4th (qualification) September 5th (final)
Medalists Natalja Lisovskaya ( URS )   Kathrin Neimke ( GDR )   Ines Müller ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

The shot put women at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics was on 4 and 5 September 1987 at the Olympic Stadium of the Italian capital Rome held.

With silver and bronze, the athletes from the GDR won two medals in this competition. World champion was the world record holder Natalja Lissowskaja from the Soviet Union . She won ahead of Kathrin Neimke . Bronze went to the Vice European Champion from 1986 Ines Müller , formerly Ines Reichenbach.

Records

Existing records

World record	22.63 m	Natalia Lisovskaya	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	June 7, 1987
World championship record	21.05 m	Helena Fibingerová	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 12, 1983

Record improvement

The existing World Championship record was improved twice at these World Championships in the final on September 5th:

• 21.21 m - Kathrin Neimke , GDR , 2nd attempt
• 21.24 m - Natalja Lissowskaja , Soviet Union , 5th attempt

qualification

4th September 1987

Twenty participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 19.00 m. Fourteen athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field did not have to be filled any further, the minimum number of twelve female shot putters was even exceeded, fourteen athletes contested the final on the following day.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Kathrin Neimke	GDR	20.26
2	Claudia Losch	BR Germany	19.73
3	Li Meisu	People's Republic of China	19.47
4th	Heike Hartwig	GDR	19.35
5	Natalia Lisovskaya	Soviet Union	19.22
6th	Sona Vasicková	Czechoslovakia	19.09
7th	Iris Plotzitzka	BR Germany	19.08
8th	Judy Oakes	Great Britain	18.43
9	Ramona Pagel	United States	18.12
10	Asta Hovi	Finland	17.89

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Helena Fibingerová	Czechoslovakia	20.40
2	Ines Müller	GDR	19.96
3	Stephanie Storp	BR Germany	19.64
4th	Mihaela Loghin	Romania	19.27
5	Natalia Achrimenko	Soviet Union	19.21
6th	Huang Zhihong	People's Republic of China	19.18
7th	Svetla Mitkova	Bulgaria	19.07
8th	Bonnie Dasse	United States	17.68
9	Deborah St. Phard	Haiti	16.54
10	Melody Torcolacci	Canada	15.98

final

5th September 1987

Note: The x character indicates an invalid attempt.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Natalia Lisovskaya	Soviet Union	21.24 CR	20.89	20.22	21.16	20.93	21.24 CR	20.80
2	Kathrin Neimke	GDR	21.21	20.32	21.21 CR	20.12	20.53	20.59	x
3	Ines Müller	GDR	20.76	20.76	20.11	20.05	x	19.96	20.20
4th	Claudia Losch	BR Germany	20.73	20.05	20.73	x	19.88	20.33	20.61
5	Natalia Achrimenko	Soviet Union	20.68	20.20	19.68	20.53	20.09	x	20.68
6th	Heike Hartwig	GDR	20.63	19.79	19.97	19.84	20.63	x	20.25
7th	Li Meisu	People's Republic of China	20.43	19.95	20.00	20.09	18.74	20.43	19.98
8th	Helena Fibingerová	Czechoslovakia	20.29	19.97	x	19.51	20.05	20.15	20.29
9	Svetla Mitkova	Bulgaria	19.37	Individual attempts are not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Stephanie Storp	BR Germany	19.36
11	Huang Zhihong	People's Republic of China	19.35
12	Iris Plotzitzka	BR Germany	19.19
13	Sona Vasicková	Czechoslovakia	18.71
DNS	Mihaela Loghin	Romania

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  Ines Müller, formerly Ines Reichenbach, won bronze

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  Heike Hartwig came in sixth place

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  The defending champion Helena Fibingerová (here in 2012) , 1976 Olympic bronze medalist, two-time European Vice Champion ( 1978 / 1982 ) and 1974 European Championship -Third, reached once again an eighth place

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  Mihaela Loghin had qualified for the finals, but could not start there

Video links

• 1987 World Athletics Championships Women's Shot Put on youtube.com, accessed April 6, 2020
• Natalia Lissovskaya (Russia) 1987 world champion SHOT PUT 21.24 meters from youtube.com, accessed on April 6, 2020
• Ines Müller (GDR) WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 1987 shot put 20.76 meters (bronze medal) on youtube.com, accessed on April 6, 2020

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 6, 2020
• Women Shot Put Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed April 6, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Shot Put, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 332), English, accessed on April 6, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 6, 2020