World Athletics Championships 1993 / Women's Shot Put

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	27 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 14th (qualification) August 15th (final)
Medalists Huang Zhihong ( CHN )   Svetlana Kriweljowa ( RUS )   Kathrin Neimke ( GER )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The shot put women at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics was on 14 and 15 August 1993 in Stuttgart Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion discharged.

The Chinese defending champion, Olympic runner-up in 1992 and winner of the 1986 Asian Games, Huang Zhihong, became world champion . She won ahead of the Russian Olympic champion in 1992 and third in the 1991 World Cup, Svetlana Kriweljowa . Bronze went to the German Olympic runner-up in 1988 , Olympic third from 1992, Vice World Champion from 1987 and European Championship third from 1990 Kathrin Neimke .

Existing records

World record	22.63 m	Natalia Lisovskaya	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	June 7, 1987
World Cup 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 14, 1993, 6:00 p.m.

27 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 19.00 m. Nine athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the three next-placed athletes to twelve shot putters (highlighted in light green). So finally 18.54 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Huang Zhihong	People's Republic of China	19.36
2	Svetla Mitkova	Bulgaria	19.16
3	Kathrin Neimke	Germany	19.11
4th	Belsy Laza	Cuba	19.02
5	Larissa Peleschenko	Russia	18.84
6th	Anna Romanova	Russia	18.12
7th	Connie Price-Smith	United States	18.09
8th	Wita Pavlysch	Ukraine	18.00
9	Jana Ciobanu	Romania	17.77
10	Danijela Čurović	IWP	16.91
11	Marika Tuliniemi	Finland	16.80
12	Elisângela Adriano	Brazil	16.41
13	Natasha Erjavec	Slovenia	15.71

Group B

Krystyna Danilczyk (Photo: 2007) , later Krystyna Zabawska, failed with her 17.62 m qualification

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Svetlana Kriweljowa	Russia	19.96
2	Astrid Kumbernuss	Germany	19.92
3	Sui Xinmei	People's Republic of China	19.67
4th	Stephanie Storp	Germany	19.38
5	Valentyna Fedyushyna	Ukraine	19.04
6th	Cong Yuzhen	People's Republic of China	18.97
7th	Ramona Pagel	United States	18.54
8th	Krystyna Danilczyk	Poland	17.62
9	Lisette Martínez	Cuba	17.44
10	Agnese Maffeis	Italy	16.61
11	Myrtle Augee	Great Britain	16.06
12	Christy Barrett	United States	14.58
13	Aye Aye Nwe	Myanmar	13.88
14th	Tea Ai Seng	Brunei	12.23

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
x	invalid

final

August 15, 1993, 7:20 pm

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	20.57	19.75	20.31	20.19	20.57	x	20.46
2	Svetlana Kriweljowa	Russia	19.97	19.97	19.57	x	x	19.56	x
3	Kathrin Neimke	Germany	19.71	19.71	19.36	x	x	19.25	19.19
4th	Sui Xinmei	People's Republic of China	19.61	19.46	19.61	19.49	19.46	x	19.51
5	Cong Yuzhen	People's Republic of China	19.58	18.64	18.83	19.26	19.23	19.50	19.58
6th	Astrid Kumbernuss	Germany	19.42	19.42	18.99	19.02	19.32	19.33	19.15
7th	Valentyna Fedyushyna	Ukraine	19.27	18.71	19.18	19.27	x	x	18.69
8th	Belsy Laza	Cuba	19.27	18.09	18.98	19.27	18.79	x	-
9	Larissa Peleschenko	Russia	19.22	Expiration not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Svetla Mitkova	Bulgaria	18.91
11	Stephanie Storp	Germany	18.83
12	Ramona Pagel	United States	17.77

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 21, 2020
• Women Shot Put Athletics IV World Championship 1993 Stuttgart (GER) on todor66.com (English), accessed on May 21, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Shot Put, Stuttgart 1993, p. 332 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on May 21, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 21, 2020
2. ↑ Yugoslavia was during the Yugoslav wars according to the UN administrative penalties ( RESOLUTIONS AND DECISIONS OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL 1993 on www.un.org (PDF, 10.2 MB), accessed on May 7, 2020) by the IAAF by the WM suspended -participation . Individual athletes from this area were allowed to start with a special permit.