1952 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	20 athletes from 13 countries
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 26, 1952
Medalists Galina Sybina ( URS )   Marianne Werner ( GER )   Klawdija Tochonova ( URS )

The shot put women at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki was held on July 26, the 1,952th 20 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Galina Sybina from the Soviet Union, who set a new world record. She won ahead of the Germans Marianne Werner and Klawdija Totschonowa , also from the USSR.

Existing records

World record	Anna Andrejewa ( Soviet Union )	15.02 m	Ploieşti	November 9, 1950
Olympic record	Micheline Ostermeyer ( France )	13.75 m	Final of London	4th August 1948

Conducting the competition

The participants started a qualifying round on July 26th. The required qualification distance was 12.30 meters. All athletes who achieved this distance were qualified for the final on the same day. The results achieved in this qualification were not counted for the final.
In the final, all participants initially had three attempts. The six best athletes could then make three more attempts.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Time schedule

July 26, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification
July 26, 3:10 p.m .: Final

qualification

Date: July 26, 1952, 10:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	result	annotation
01	Klavdiya Tochonova	Soviet Union	13.88 m	-	-	13.88 m	OR
02	Gertrud Kille	BR Germany	13.71 m	-	-	13.71 m
03	Galina Sybina	Soviet Union	13.66 m	-	-	13.66 m
04th	Marianne Werner	BR Germany	13.62 m	-	-	13.62 m
05	Marija Radosavljević	Yugoslavia	13.15 m	-	-	13.15 m
06th	Magdalena Breguła	Poland	13.05 m	-	-	13.05 m
07th	Paulette Veste	France	11.81 m	11.94 m	12.91 m	12.91 m
08th	Tamara Tyschkewitsch	Soviet Union	12.76 m	-	-	12.76 m
09	Eivor Olson	Sweden	11.89 m	11.89 m	12.70 m	12.70 m
10	Yvette Williams	New Zealand	11.26 m	12.64 m	-	11.26 m
11	Dorothea Kreß	BR Germany	12.06 m	12.57 m	-	12.64 m
12	Jaroslava Křítková	Czechoslovakia	12.57 m	-	-	12.57 m
13	Meeri Saari	Finland	12.57 m	-	-	12.57 m
14th	Nada Kotlušek	Yugoslavia	12.35 m	x	14.62 m	12.35 m
15th	Ingeborg Pfüller	Argentina	11.42 m	11.85 m	11.30 m	11.85 m
16	Elżbieta Krysińska	Poland	10.76 m	10.71 m	11.50 m	11.50 m
17th	Gretel Bolliger	Switzerland	11.29 m	10.84 m	11.48 m	11.48 m
18th	Janet Dicks	United States	10.82 m	x	11.44 m	11.44 m
19th	Ingeborg Mello	Argentina	10.82 m	9.97 m	10.33 m	10.82 m
20th	Choi Myeong-suk	South Korea	10.54 m	10.32 m	10.76 m	10.76 m

Final and final result

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Galina Sybina	Soviet Union	15.00 m	14.58 m	14.04 m	14.55 m	14.33 m	15.28 m	15.28 m	WR
2	Marianne Werner	BR Germany	13.89 m	13.91 m	x	x	14.04 m	14.57 m	14.57 m
3	Klavdiya Tochonova	Soviet Union	14.42 m	x	14.50 m	14.11 m	14.06 m	14.35 m	14.50 m
4th	Tamara Tyschkewitsch	Soviet Union	14.42 m	14.13 m	13.57 m	14.00 m	13.45 m	13.88 m	14.42 m
5	Gertrud Kille	BR Germany	x	12.49 m	13.48 m	13.77 m	13.74 m	13.84 m	13.84 m
6th	Yvette Williams	New Zealand	12.27 m	11.54 m	13.35 m	12.68 m	12.28 m	11.73 m	13.35 m
7th	Marija Radosavljević	Yugoslavia	13.23 m	x	13.20 m	not in the finals of the best six athletes			13.20 m
8th	Meeri Saari	Finland	12.05 m	12.61 m	13.02 m				13.02 m
9	Paulette Veste	France	12.96 m	12.52 m	12.61 m				12.96 m
10	Magdalena Breguła	Poland	x	12.39 m	12.93 m				12.93 m
11	Dorothea Kreß	BR Germany	12.91 m	12.52 m	12.61 m				12.91 m
12	Jaroslava Křítková	Czechoslovakia	12.18 m	12.59 m	12.73 m				12.73 m
13	Eivor Olson	Sweden	12.46 m	11.28 m	12.05 m				12.46 m
14th	Nada Kotlušek	Yugoslavia	11.98 m	x	11.76 m				11.98 m

Date: July 26, 1952, 3:10 p.m.

The real favorite, Tamara Tyschkewitsch, could not build on her previous performance. Her compatriot Galina Sybina, on the other hand, hit the ball in the final with a world record of 15.28 m. The first two attempts (15.00 m and 14.58 m) would have been enough for the gold medal. Sybina was the only participant to surpass the 15-mark mark. The German Marianne Werner won the silver medal well behind. Bronze went to the Soviet Russian athlete Klawdija Totschonowa.
Galina Sybina was the first Soviet female Olympic champion in the women's shot put.
Marianne Werner won the first German medal in this discipline.

Note: The best size is printed in bold.

literature

• Ekkehard to Megede , The history of the Olympic athletics, Volume 2: 1948-1968, published by Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p 107f

Web links

• SportsReference shot put
• Official report p. 343, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 29, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 646 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Official report p. 266, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)