World Athletics Championships 1991 / Women's Shot Put

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	24 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 24th (qualification / final)
Medalists Huang Zhihong ( CHN )   Natalja Lisovskaya ( URS )   Svetlana Kriweljowa ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

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
10	Svetla Mitkova	Bulgaria	18.34
11	Connie Price-Smith	United States	18.12
12	Krystyna Danilczyk	Poland	17.59

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  Connie Price-Smith came in eleventh place

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  Twelfth place Krystyna Danilczyk (Photo: 2007)

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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 4, 2020