1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	17 athletes from 12 countries
Competition location	Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	October 20, 1964
Medalists Tamara Press ( URS )   Renate Culmberger ( GER )   Galina Sybina ( URS )

The shot put women at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo was on 20 October 1964 at the National Olympic Stadium held. Seventeen athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Soviet defending champion Tamara Press . She won ahead of the Germans Renate Culmberger and Galina Sybina from the Soviet Union.

While athletes from Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part, in addition to the medalist, two other Germans competed, both of whom also reached the final. Margitta Helmbold came in fifth. Johanna Hübner , who won the silver medal under her maiden name Lüttge in 1960, came in ninth.

Existing records

World record	18.55 m	Tamara Press ( Soviet Union )	Leipzig , GDR (now Germany )	June 10, 1962
			Belgrade , Yugoslavia (now Serbia )	September 12, 1962
Olympic record	17.32 m		Final of Rome , Italy	2nd September 1960

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a qualifying round on October 20. Each participant had three attempts. The top twelve and all starters who reached 15.00 m or more qualified for the final on the afternoon of the same day. There, each participant initially had three attempts. The six best athletes were then allowed three more attempts.

Time schedule

October 20, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification

October 20, 2 p.m .: finals

Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)

Best widths are printed in bold.

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: October 20, 1964, 10:00 a.m.

Weather conditions: rainy, approx. 13 ° C, 86–90% humidity

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	16.57 m	-	-	16.57 m
2	Valerie Young	New Zealand	16.40 m	-	-	16.40 m
3	Renate Culmberger	Germany	16.32 m	-	-	16.32 m
4th	Irina Press	Soviet Union	15.67 m	-	-	15.67 m
5	Margitta Helmbold	Germany	15.61 m	-	-	15.61 m
6th	Judit Bognár	Hungary	14.44 m	15.52 m	-	15.52 m
7th	Earlene Brown	United States	13.84 m	14.67 m	15.44 m	15.44 m
8th	Johanna Huebner	Germany	15.38 m	-	-	15.38 m
9	Ana Sălăgean	Romania	15.31 m	-	-	15.31 m
10	Ivanka Christowa	Bulgaria	15.24 m	-	-	15.24 m
11	Galina Sybina	Soviet Union	15.17 m	-	-	15.17 m
12	Nancy McCredie	Canada	15.10 m	-	-	15.10 m
13	Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek	Hungary	14.48 m	14.39 m	14.52 m	14.52 m
14th	Mary Peters	Great Britain	13.44 m	x	14.46 m	14.46 m
15th	Seiko Obonai	Japan	13.70 m	13.47 m	12.70 m	13.70 m
16	Juliette Geverkof	Iran	x	8.79 m	9.17 m	9.17 m

final

Date: October 20, 1964, 2 p.m.

Weather conditions: cloudy, approx. 16 ° C, 80% humidity

The favorites were Tamara Press, Olympic champion from 1960 , world record holder and European champion from 1962 , also Olympic champion at these games in the discus throw , and her compatriot Galina Sybina, Olympic champion from 1952 , who competed here at her fourth Olympic Games. At 33, Sybina was by far the oldest participant in the field of shot putters .

After the first attempt, the medal ranks were in the same order as at the end of the competition. Tamara Press was ahead of the Germans Renate Culmberger and Galina Sybina. Sybina was able to advance to second place in the third round, but Culmberger restored the old order in the next lap. Tamara Press improved the Olympic record a total of three times, her best shot being achieved in the last attempt with 18.14 m. So she was half a meter ahead of the silver medalist Renate Culmberger. Tamara's sister Irina Press, the 1960 Olympic champion in the 80 meter hurdles , had won gold in the women's pentathlon three days earlier . In that competition she hit the ball 17.16 m, which would have been enough for fifth place here. With her 16.14 m in this competition she was sixth. Galina Sybina won the bronze medal with 17.45 m and in fourth place, like four years ago, was the New Zealander Valerie Young. The German Margitta Helmbold came in fifth. She was to become an Olympic champion four years later under her new family name, Gummel.

Tamara Press secured the fourth consecutive Soviet Olympic victory in the women's shot put.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	17.51 ​​m OR	17.72 m OR	17.18 m	16.49 m	x	18.14 m OR	18.14 m	OR
2	Renate Culmberger	Germany	17.41 m	17.10 m	16.38 m	17.61 m	17.00 m	17.01 m	17.61 m
3	Galina Sybina	Soviet Union	17.38 m	17.25 m	17.45 m	17.42 m	16.65 m	17.36 m	17.45 m
4th	Valerie Young	New Zealand	17.08 m	15.84 m	16.81 m	17.26 m	17.24 m	17.23 m	17.26 m
5	Margitta Helmbold	Germany	16.67 m	15.87 m	x	16.60 m	16.91 m	16.34 m	16.91 m
6th	Irina Press	Soviet Union	x	16.50 m	x	15.81 m	15.78 m	16.71 m	16.71 m
7th	Nancy McCredie	Canada	15.89 m	15.13 m	15.27 m	not in the finals of the best six athletes			15.89 m
8th	Ana Sălăgean	Romania	15.79 m	15.83 m	15.70 m				15.83 m
9	Johanna Huebner	Germany	15.77 m	x	x				15.77 m
10	Ivanka Christowa	Bulgaria	15.69 m	x	15.35 m				15.69 m
11	Judit Bognár	Hungary	15.65 m	x	x				15.65 m
12	Earlene Brown	United States	14.25 m	13.43 m	14.80 m				14.80 m

Picture gallery

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  Silver for Renate Culmberger, all-German team

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  Both press sisters were in the final of the shot put: Tamara (l.) And Irina (r.)

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  Margitta Helmbold came in fifth

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  Johanna Hübner, still a silver medalist in 1960 as Johanna Lüttge , came in ninth

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 305f

Video

• The Tokyo 1964 Olympics Part 2 | Olympic History , range 17:42 min - 21:00 min, published October 10, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed October 31, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put ,
• Official report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 101 engl. (PDF), accessed on October 31, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women , accessed October 31, 2017
2. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 17 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 31, 2017 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report of the Olympic Games 1964 ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 101 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 31, 2017 
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 31, 2017