1956 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	18 athletes from 9 countries
Competition location	Melbourne Cricket Ground
Competition phase	November 30, 1956
Medalists Tamara Tyschkewitsch ( URS )   Galina Sybina ( URS )   Marianne Werner ( GER )

The shot put women at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne was on 30 November 1956 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground discharged. Eighteen athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Tamara Tyschkewitsch from the Soviet Union. She won ahead of her compatriot Galina Sybina and the German Marianne Werner .

Two other Germans took part in the competition. Johanna Lüttge and Anne-Chatrine Lafrenz reached the final and reached positions eleven and twelve. The Austrian Regina Branner came in seventh in the final. Swiss athletes did not take part.

Existing records

World record	16.76 m	Galina Sybina ( Soviet Union )	Tashkent , Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan )	October 13, 1956
Olympic record	15.28 m		Helsinki Final , Finland	July 26, 1952

Conducting the competition

The participants started a qualifying round on November 30th. The required qualification width was 13.00 m. All qualified athletes took part in the final, which took place in the afternoon of the same day. The results achieved in the qualifying round were not included in the further course of the competition. In the final, each athlete was initially entitled to three attempts. The best six finalists could then make another three attempts.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The best results in the qualification and in the final are printed in bold.

Time schedule

November 30th, 10:00 am: Qualification
November 30th, 3:00 pm: Final

Note: All times are local Melbourne time (UTC + 10)

qualification

Date: November 30, 1956, 10:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Tamara Tyschkewitsch	Soviet Union	14.43 m	-	-	14.43 m
2	Marianne Werner	Germany	14.21 m	-	-	14.21 m
3	Galina Sybina	Soviet Union	14.08 m	-	-	14.08 m
4th	Johanna Lüttge	Germany	14.00 m	-	-	14.00 m
5	Milena Usenik	Yugoslavia	13.96 m	-	-	13.96 m
6th	Nada Kotlušek	Yugoslavia	13.92 m	-	-	13.92 m
7th	Regina Branner	Austria	13.87 m	-	-	13.87 m
8th	Lois Testa	United States	12.26 m	13.51 m	-	13.51 m
9	Sinaida Doinikova	Soviet Union	13.48 m	-	-	13.48 m
10	Val Lawrence	Australia	13.43 m	-	-	13.43 m
11	Suzanne Allday	Great Britain	12.81 m	13.42 m	-	13.42 m
12	Earlene Brown	United States	13.39 m	-	-	13.39 m
13	Jacqueline MacDonald	Canada	13.11 m	-	-	13.11 m
14th	Valeri Sloper	New Zealand	13.03 m	-	-	13.03 m
15th	Anne-Chatrine Lafrenz	Germany	13.00 m	-	-	13.00 m
16	Paula Deubel	United States	x	12.20 m	12.38 m	12.38 m
17th	Margaret Woodlock	Australia	11.52 m	10.94 m	11.70 m	11.70 m
18th	Mary Breen	Australia	11.28 m	9.56 m	10.98 m	11.28 m

final

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Tamara Tyschkewitsch	Soviet Union	16.13 m	14.80 m	16.32 m	15.92 m	15.45 m	16.59 m OR	16.59 m	OR
2	Galina Sybina	Soviet Union	16.35 m OR	16.32 m	15.82 m	16.28 m	16.48 m OR	16.53 m	16.53 m
3	Marianne Werner	Germany	15.61 m	15.56 m	15.46 m	x	15.01 m	15.53 m	15.61 m
4th	Sinaida Doinikova	Soviet Union	x	15.54 m	15.32 m	15.23 m	15.27 m	15.52 m	15.54 m
5	Valeri Sloper	New Zealand	15.16 m	14.57 m	15.34 m	13.68 m	14.42 m	14.95 m	15.34 m
6th	Earlene Brown	United States	14.41 m	14.75 m	14.56 m	14.50 m	14.89 m	15.12 m	15.12 m
7th	Regina Branner	Austria	14.04 m	14.60 m	x	not in the finals of the best six athletes			14.60 m
8th	Nada Kotlušek	Yugoslavia	14.52 m	14.56 m	14.27 m				14.56 m
9	Milena Usenik	Yugoslavia	12.97 m	14.35 m	14.49 m				14.49 m
10	Jacqueline MacDonald	Canada	14.31 m	x	12.72 m				14.31 m
11	Johanna Lüttge	Germany	13.57 m	13.47 m	13.88 m				13.88 m
12	Anne-Chatrine Lafrenz	Germany	13.72 m	x	13.44 m				13.72 m
13	Val Lawrence	Australia	10.86 m	12.39 m	13.12 m				13.12 m
14th	Lois Testa	United States	12.34 m	13.06 m	12.64 m				13.06 m
15th	Suzanne Allday	Great Britain	12.37 m	12.71 m	x				12.71 m

Date: November 30, 1956, 3 p.m.

15 of the 18 starters managed to qualify and made it to the final. Here there was a duel between the 1952 Olympic champion Galina Sybina, who had improved the world record twelve times between the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games , and Tamara Tyschkewitsch, third in the European championship in 1954 . In the first final round, Sybina immediately took the lead and continued to improve with her last two strokes. But in the sixth round Tamara Tyschkewitsch exceeded Sybina's best by six centimeters and snatched the gold medal away from her compatriot. Third went to the German Marianne Werner, who had won her silver medal four years earlier.

The now heavyweight Tamara Tyschkewitsch had started her athletic career as a sprinter. But after they had gained more and more weight in their maturity years, she moved to in 1949 shot put .

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 159f

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed October 10, 2017
• Official report p. 360f, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 10, 2017
• Melbourne 1956 Official Olympic Film - Part 4 | Olympic History , range 1:16 min - 1:49 min, published on July 15, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on October 10, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 647 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official report p. 284, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 10, 2017
3. ↑ Official report p. 361, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 10, 2017