1995 World Athletics Championships / Women's Shot Put

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 5th (qualification / final)
Medalists Astrid Kumbernuss ( GER )   Huang Zhihong ( CHN )   Svetla Mitkowa ( BUL )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The shot put women at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics was on August 5, 1995 in Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium discharged.

World champion Astrid Kumbernuss became the German European Champion from 1990 and Vice European Champion from 1994 . She won before the two-time world champion ( 1991 / 1993 ) and Olympic second of 1992 Huang Zhihong from the People's Republic of China , which is also at the Asian Games was very successful ( 1986 : Gold / 1990 : silver). Bronze went to Swetla Mitkowa, third in the Bulgarian European Championship in 1994 .

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. However, the German world champion Astrid Kumbernuss missed the mark by just two centimeters with her victory distance of 21.22 m.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

August 5, 1995, 9:40 a.m.

25 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 18.80 m. Three athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the nine next-placed athletes to twelve shot putters (highlighted in light green). So finally 18.05 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Astrid Kumbernuss	Germany	19.83	19.83	-	-
2	Zhang Liuhong	People's Republic of China	18.60	18.24	18.60	18.25
3	Irina Korschanenko	Russia	18.40	18.32	18.40	x
4th	Stephanie Storp	Germany	18.36	17.88	18.36	18.23
5	Wita Pavlysch	Ukraine	18.15	17.79	17.21	18.15
6th	Connie Price-Smith	United States	18.05	17.48	17.90	18.05
7th	Judy Oakes	Great Britain	17.87	17.67	17.87	x
8th	Mara Rosolen	Italy	16.90	16.90	x	x
9	Danguole Urbikiene	Lithuania	16.33	15.84	x	16.33
10	Eileen Vanisi	United States	16.11	16.11	15.82	15.32
11	Lisa Misipeka	American Samoa	13.98	13.98	13.66	13.71
12	Mary Curry	Western Samoa	8.85	8.85	-	-
DNS	Oumou Traoré	Mali

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Kathrin Neimke	Germany	19.07	19.07	-	-
2	Huang Zhihong	People's Republic of China	19.01	19.01	-	-
3	Sui Xinmei	People's Republic of China	18.75	18.28	18.15	18.75
4th	Ramona Pagel	United States	18.57	x	18.57	18.32
5	Svetla Mitkowa	Bulgaria	18.48	17.91	18.30	18.48
6th	Valentyna Fedyushyna	Ukraine	18.40	17.14	18.40	x
7th	Corrie de Bruin	Netherlands	17.01	16.77	16.56	17.01
8th	Nataša Erjavec	Slovenia	16.91	16.91	16.53	16.58
9	Danijela Čurović	Yugoslavia	16.30	16.13	16.30	15.59
10	Yumileidi Cumbá	Cuba	15.80	x	15.80	x
11	Hanane Ahmed Khaled	Egypt	14.56	14.56	x	14.50
12	Tea Ai Seng	Brunei	12.46	x	12.34	12.46
13	Nabeela Mabrouk	Palestine	5.71	x	5.71	x

final

Connie Price-Smith, winner of the 1995 Pan American Games , came in ninth

August 5, 1995, 5:25 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Astrid Kumbernuss	Germany	21.22	20.52	20.59	21.22	20.09	x	20.23
2	Huang Zhihong	People's Republic of China	20.04	19.92	20.04	x	x	x	x
3	Svetla Mitkowa	Bulgaria	19.56	18.70	18.32	19.04	18.93	18.99	19.56
4th	Kathrin Neimke	Germany	19.30	18.37	19.30	18.72	19.11	19.15	x
5	Sui Xinmei	People's Republic of China	19.09	18.90	x	x	18.42	18.60	19.09
6th	Zhang Liuhong	People's Republic of China	19.07	17.97	18.47	19.03	18.23	18.60	18.47
7th	Ramona Pagel	United States	18.81	x	18.39	18.81	18.11	x	17.78
8th	Stephanie Storp	Germany	18.81	18.22	18.01	18.81	x	x	-
9	Connie Price-Smith	United States	18.72	18.72	18.66	x	not in the finals of the best eight female shot putters
10	Valentyna Fedyushyna	Ukraine	18.03	18.03	x	x
11	Wita Pavlysch	Ukraine	17.97	17.97	x	x
12	Irina Korschanenko	Russia	17.88	x	x	17.88

Video links

• 5599 World Track and Field 1995 Shot Put Women Astrid Kumbernuss on youtube.com, accessed June 11, 2020
• 5598 World Track & Field 1995 Shot Put Women Huang Zhihong on youtube.com, accessed June 11, 2020
• 5614 World Track and Field 1995 Shot Put Women Svetla Mitkova on youtube.com, accessed June 11, 2020
• 5612 World Track and Field 1995 Shot Put Women Kathrin Neimke on youtube.com, accessed on June 11, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on June 11, 2020
• Women Shot Put Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com (English), accessed June 11, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Shot Put, Gothenborg 1995, p. 332f (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on June 11, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 11, 2020