1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	18 athletes from 11 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Munich
Competition phase	September 4, 1972 (qualification) September 7, 1972 (final)
Medalists Nadezhda Tschischowa ( URS )   Margitta Gummel ( GDR )   Iwanka Christowa ( BUL )

The women's shot put at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was played on September 4 and 7, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 18 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Nadezhda Tschischowa from the Soviet Union, who set a new world record. The silver medal went to Margitta Gummel from the GDR, bronze went to Bulgarian Iwanka Christowa .

In addition to the silver medalist, Marianne Adam and Marita Lange also competed for the GDR . Both reached the final. Adam finished fifth, Lange sixth.
Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	20.63 m	Nadeschda Tschischowa ( Soviet Union )	Sochi , Soviet Union (now Russia )	May 19, 1972
Olympic record	19.61 m	Margitta Gummel ( GDR )	Mexico City Final , Mexico	20th October 1968

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a qualifying round on September 4th. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final on September 7th was 16.20 m. Since more than twelve athletes reached this distance, the final field was not filled any further.
In the final, each athlete initially had three attempts. The best eight participants were then given three more attempts.

Time schedule

September 4, 10.30 a.m .: Qualification
September 7, 4.30 p.m .: Final

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: September 4, 1972, 10:30 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Ivanka Christowa	Bulgaria	19.20 m	-	-	19.20 m
2	Marianne Adam	GDR	19.11 m	-	-	19.11 m
3	Margitta Gummel	GDR	18.82 m	-	-	18.82 m
4th	Helena Fibingerová	Czechoslovakia	18.66 m	-	-	18.66 m
5	Nadezhda Tschischowa	Soviet Union	18.54 m	-	-	18.54 m
6th	Marita Lange	GDR	18.16 m	-	-	18.16 m
7th	Antonina Ivanova	Soviet Union	17.87 m	-	-	17.87 m
8th	Radostina Vasekowa	Bulgaria	17.78 m	-	-	17.78 m
9	Elena Stoyanova	Bulgaria	17.70 m	-	-	17.70 m
10	Ludwika Chewińska	Poland	17.40 m	-	-	17.40 m
11	Esfir Dolschenko	Soviet Union	17.18 m	-	-	17.18 m
12	Valentina Cioltan	Romania	16.85 m	17.15 m	16.69 m	16.85 m
13	Judit Bognár	Hungary	16.52 m	-	-	16.85 m
14th	Maren Seidler	United States	15.63 m	16.05 m	16.18 m	16.18 m
15th	Baeg ok-yes	South Korea	x	15.78 m	x	15.78 m
16	Jan Svendsen	United States	14.48 m	x	14.96 m	14.96 m
17th	Rosa Molina	Chile	14.59 m	14.61 m	14.41 m	14.61 m
18th	Nnenna Njoku	Nigeria	10.63 m	10.40 m	9.06 m	10.63 m

final

Date: September 7, 1972, 4:30 p.m.

The Soviet bronze medalist from 1968 , Nadezhda Tschischowa, was a top favorite for this competition. She had improved the world record to well over 20 meters and had become the superior European champion last year. The two GDR athletes Margitta Gummel, Olympic champion from 1968 and European Championship third in 1971, and Marita Lange, silver medalist from 1968 and vice European champion in 1971, were her greatest competitors. Other medal contenders were Bulgarian Iwanka Christowa, who had improved considerably in the Olympic season, Marianne Adam from the GDR and the two Soviet athletes Antonina Iwanowa and Esfir Dolschenko.

13 athletes had reached this final, all of them from Eastern European countries. The three athletes who started from the Soviet Union, the three participants from the GDR and also the three Bulgarians had fully qualified. There were also one Polish, one Czechoslovak, one Hungarian and one Romanian.

Tschischowa started the competition with a new world record. As the first woman ever, she exceeded the 21-meter mark. Behind her lay Bulgarian Iwanka Christowa and GDR athlete Marianne Adam. In the second attempt, Esfir Dolschenko from the USSR improved to third and Gummel to fourth. In the third round, Gummel took second and pushed Christowa into third place. In the fourth attempt, Gummel finally achieved her best performance of 20.22 m. This is how the medals were distributed: Nadezhda Tschischowa, who would have won this competition with her second and third best distance, was the undisputed Olympic champion. Margitta Gummel won the silver medal, bronze went to Iwanka Christowa.

The gaps in the front positions were enormous. Nadezhda Tschischowa was the only woman over 21 meters, Margitta Gummel next to Tschischowa as the only one over 20 meters. Iwanka Christowa was another three feet back. Behind it the gaps then became closer.

Ivanka Khristova won the first Bulgarian medal in the shot put of women.

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  Margitta Gummel, GDR, winner of the silver medal

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  Marianne Adam from the GDR

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  GDR athlete Maritta Lange

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Nadezhda Tschischowa	Soviet Union	21.03 m WR	20.36 m	20.58 m	19.97 m	x	x	21.03 m	WR
2	Margitta Gummel	GDR	18.46 m	18.83 m	19.55 m	20.22 m	19.53 m	x	20.22 m
3	Ivanka Christowa	Bulgaria	19.35 m	x	19.22 m	x	18.82 m	18.95 m	19.35 m
4th	Esfir Dolschenko	Soviet Union	18.43 m	19.24 m	x	18.74 m	x	x	19.24 m
5	Marianne Adam	GDR	18.75 m	x	18.58 m	18.94 m	18.91 m	18.71 m	18.94 m
6th	Marita Lange	GDR	x	18.46 m	18.29 m	18.85 m	18.38 m	18.71 m	18.85 m
7th	Helena Fibingerová	Czechoslovakia	18.62 m	x	x	18.59 m	18.81 m	x	18.81 m
8th	Elena Stoyanova	Bulgaria	18.24 m	17.75 m	18.34 m	x	17.55 m	x	18.34 m
9	Antonina Ivanova	Soviet Union	18.28 m	17.99 m	17.98 m	not in the final of the eight best athletes			18.28 m
10	Ludwika Chewińska	Poland	17.71 m	18.24 m	17.73 m				18.24 m
11	Judit Bognár	Hungary	17.93 m	17.97 m	18.23 m				18.23 m
12	Radostina Vasekowa	Bulgaria	17.86 m	17.48 m	17.52 m				17.86 m
13	Valentina Cioltan	Romania	16.37 m	16.62 m	x				16.62 m

literature

• Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , pp. 60f

Web links

• Athletics at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Women's Shot Put , SportsReference, accessed December 10, 2017
• Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 72, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 8, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 647 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 8, 2017
2. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 8, 2017 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 72, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 8, 2017 
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 8, 2017