1960 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	18 athletes from 12 countries
Competition location	Stadio Olimpico
Competition phase	2nd September 1960
Medalists Tamara Press ( URS )   Johanna Lüttge ( GER )   Earlene Brown ( USA )

Olympian Tamara Press, USSR (to the left of her sister Irina Press)

The German Johanna Lüttge won the silver medal

Wilfriede Hoffmann from Germany was eighth in the final

The women's shot put at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome was played at the Stadio Olimpico on September 2, 1960 . Eighteen athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Tamara Press from the Soviet Union. She won ahead of the German Johanna Lüttge and the American Earlene Brown .

Athletes from Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part. In addition to Johanna Lüttge, two other Germans competed and both reached the final. Renate Boy took sixth place, Wilfriede Hoffmann came eighth.

Existing records

World record	17.78 m	Tamara Press ( Soviet Union )	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	August 13, 1960
Olympic record	16.59 m	Tamara Tyschkewitsch ( Soviet Union )	Melbourne finals , Australia	November 30, 1956

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a qualifying round on September 2nd. The required qualification distance was 14.50 meters. For all participants the final took place in the afternoon of the same day. Each participant was initially entitled to three attempts. The best six athletes were then able to complete three more attempts.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Time schedule

September 2, 9:00 a.m .: Qualification
September 2, 4:40 p.m .: Final

qualification

Date: September 2, 1960, 9:00 a.m. The best widths are printed in bold. With the same distance, the second best result decided on the placement.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Earlene Brown	United States	16.15 m	-	-	16.15 m
2	Valerie Sloper	New Zealand	16.07 m	-	-	16.07 m
3	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	13.23 m	16.00 m	-	16.00 m
4th	Wilfriede Hoffmann	Germany	15.84 m	-	-	15.84 m
5	Renate Boy	Germany	15.78 m	-	-	15.78 m
6th	Johanna Lüttge	Germany	15.51 m	-	-	15.51 m
7th	Sinaida Doinikova	Soviet Union	15.10 m	-	-	15.10 m
8th	Galina Sybina	Soviet Union	15.03 m	-	-	15.10 m
9	Jadwiga Klimaj	Poland	x	x	14.85 m	14.85 m
10	Milena Usenik	Yugoslavia	14.20 m	14.74 m	-	14.74 m
11	Věra Černa	Czechoslovakia	14.51 m	-	-	14.51 m
12	Eugenia Rusin	Poland	14.28 m	14.50 m	-	14.50 m
13	Lydia Sharamovich	Bulgaria	14.06 m	14.09 m	x	14.09 m
14th	Svetanka Krasteva	Bulgaria	13.66 m	13.99 m	x	13.99 m
15th	Yasuko Matsuda	Japan	13.51 m	12.56 m	12.99 m	13.51 m
16	Suzanne Allday	Great Britain	12.03 m	13.10 m	-	13.10 m
17th	Ayala Hetzroni	Israel	12.59 m	12.59 m	-	12.59 m
18th	Wu Jin-yun	Taiwan	11.53 m	11.42 m	11.76 m	11.76 m

final

Date: September 2, 1960, 4:40 p.m.

Twelve participants had made the qualification distance. The Soviet world record holder Tamara Press was the clear favorite .
In the final, Press hit the ball in the second attempt on 17.32 m and thus improved the existing Olympic record by more than seventy centimeters. This mark was enough for the never contested Olympic victory. Johanna Lüttge climbed from trial to trial over 16.21 m to 16.61 m and, 71 centimeters behind, won the silver medal ahead of the US American Earlene Brown, who reached 16.42 m. Just three centimeters behind, Valerie Sloper from New Zealand won the Olympics.

Tamara Press won the third gold medal in a row for the Soviet Union in the shot put of women.
Earlene Brown won the USA's first medal in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	16.08 m	17.32 m OR	16.40 m	16.19 m	16.20 m	16.14 m	17.32 m	OR
2	Johanna Lüttge	Germany	16.21 m	16.59 m	15.74 m	15.20 m	15.40 m	16.61 m	16.61 m
3	Earlene Brown	United States	15.73 m	16.34 m	16.07 m	15.80 m	15.95 m	16.42 m	16.42 m
4th	Valerie Sloper	New Zealand	16.11 m	16.26 m	15.72 m	16.39 m	16.21 m	16.07 m	16.39 m
5	Sinaida Doinikova	Soviet Union	x	15.72 m	15.40 m	15.65 m	16.13 m	15.52 m	16.13 m
6th	Renate Boy	Germany	15.61 m	15.94 m	15.40 m	15.07 m	15.20 m	15.60 m	15.94 m
7th	Galina Sybina	Soviet Union	13.82 m	15.56 m	15.27 m	not in the finals of the best six athletes			15.56 m
8th	Wilfriede Hoffmann	Germany	14.87 m	14.75 m	15.14 m				15.14 m
9	Věra Černa	Czechoslovakia	15.06 m	14.29 m	x				15.06 m
10	Jadwiga Klimaj	Poland	14.06 m	14.66 m	13.78 m				14.66 m
11	Eugenia Rusin	Poland	x	14.55 m	14.18 m				14.55 m
12	Milena Usenik	Yugoslavia	14.19 m	14.12 m	14.11 m				14.19 m

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 228f

Videos

• Soviet National Athletic Championships AKA Russian Athletics (1960) , range 0:55 min - 1:08 min published April 13, 2014 on youtube.com, accessed October 22, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed October 22, 2017
• Official report p. 209f, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 646 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 22 October 2017
2. ^ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 63 at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017
3. ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 206 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017
4. ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 208 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 22, 2017