World Athletics Championships 1991 / Women's Shot Put
3rd World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | Shot put | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 24 athletes from 16 countries | ||||||||
venue | Tokyo | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 24th (qualification / final) | ||||||||
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The shot put women at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics was on 24 August 1991 at the Olympic Stadium of the Japanese capital Tokyo discharged.
With silver and bronze, the female shot putters from the Soviet Union won two medals in this competition. World champion was the Chinese Huang Zhihong , who won the shot put at the Asian Games in 1986 and came second in 1990 . She won ahead of the defending champion, Olympic champion from 1988 , vice European champion from 1990 and world record holder Natalja Lissowskaja . Bronze went to Svetlana Kriweljowa .
Existing records
World record | 22.63 m | Natalia Lisovskaya | Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia ) | June 7, 1987 |
World championship record | 21.24 m | World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy | 5th September 1987 |
The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.
qualification
August 24, 1991, 9:30 a.m.
24 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 18.50 m. Nine athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the three next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 18.09 m had to be achieved for the final.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) |
1 | Natalia Lisovskaya | Soviet Union | 19.72 |
2 | Zhou Tianhua | People's Republic of China | 19.38 |
3 | Claudia Losch | Germany | 18.83 |
4th | Kathrin Neimke | Germany | 18.59 |
5 | Svetla Mitkova | Bulgaria | 18.54 |
6th | Krystyna Danilczyk | Poland | 18.15 |
7th | Connie Price-Smith | United States | 18.09 |
8th | Judy Oakes | Great Britain | 17.81 |
9 | Asta Ovaska | Finland | 17.15 |
10 | Margarita Ramos | Spain | 15.89 |
11 | Hanan Ahmed Khaled | Egypt | 14.76 |
12 | Iammo Launa | Papua New Guinea | 12.56 |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) |
1 | Stephanie Storp | Germany | 19.52 |
2 | Huang Zhihong | People's Republic of China | 19.14 |
3 | Marina Antonyuk | Soviet Union | 18.80 |
4th | Svetlana Kriweljowa | Soviet Union | 18.66 |
5 | Belsy Laza | Cuba | 18.32 |
6th | Ramona Pagel | United States | 17.99 |
7th | Myrtle Augee | Great Britain | 17.80 |
8th | Pam Dukes | United States | 17.17 |
9 | Agnese Maffeis | Italy | 16.99 |
10 | Mihaela Oana | Romania | 16.73 |
11 | Elisângela Adriano | Brazil | 15.93 |
12 | Tea Ai Seng | Brunei | 11.49 |
final
August 24, 1991, 5:40 pm
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 | Huang Zhihong | People's Republic of China | 20.83 | 20.64 | 20.83 | 20.51 | x | x | 20.43 |
2 | Natalia Lisovskaya | Soviet Union | 20.29 | 20.15 | x | 19.95 | x | 20.29 | x |
3 | Svetlana Kriweljowa | Soviet Union | 20.16 | 19.88 | 19.77 | 20.16 | 19.31 | 19.91 | 19.74 |
4th | Claudia Losch | Germany | 19.74 | 18.97 | 19.74 | x | 18.41 | 19.32 | 19.44 |
5 | Zhou Tianhua | People's Republic of China | 19.64 | 19.32 | 19.64 | x | 19.05 | x | x |
6th | Stephanie Storp | Germany | 19.50 | 19.50 | x | 17.85 | 18.88 | 18.76 | x |
7th | Marina Antonyuk | Soviet Union | 19.12 | 19.12 | x | x | x | x | x |
8th | Kathrin Neimke | Germany | 18.83 | 18.81 | 18.52 | 18.39 | 18.63 | 18.83 | 18.63 |
9 | Belsy Laza | Cuba | 18.49 | Individual attempts are not listed in the sources |
not in the finals of the best eight female shot putters |
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10 | Svetla Mitkova | Bulgaria | 18.34 | ||||||
11 | Connie Price-Smith | United States | 18.12 | ||||||
12 | Krystyna Danilczyk | Poland | 17.59 |
Video
- 3265 World Track & Field 1991 Shot Put Women Natalya Lisovskaya on youtube.com, accessed May 4, 2020
Web links
- World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed May 4, 2020
- Women Shot Put Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) 1991 at todor66.com, accessed May 4, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Shot Put, Tokyo 1991, p. 332 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on May 4, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 4, 2020