1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	13 athletes from 8 countries
Competition location	Montreal Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 31, 1976
Medalists Iwanka Christowa ( BUL )   Nadezhda Tschischowa ( URS )   Helena Fibingerová ( TCH )

The shot put women at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was on July 31, 1976 in Olympic Stadium Montreal discharged. 13 athletes took part.

The Bulgarian Iwanka Christowa became Olympic champion . She won ahead of Nadezhda Tschischowa from the Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Helena Fibingerová .

Marianne Adam , Margitta Droese and Ilona Slupianek competed for the GDR. Adam finished fourth, Slupianek fifth and Droese sixth.

The Federal Republic of Germany was represented by Eva Wilms , who reached seventh place.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	21.89 m	Iwanka Christowa ( Bulgaria )	Belmeken , Bulgaria	4th July 1976
Olympic record	21.03 m	Nadeschda Tschischowa ( Soviet Union )	Final of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	7th September 1972

Conducting the competition

The athletes went straight to the final on July 31st, as there were only 13 participants in the qualification round. Each athlete initially had three attempts. The best eight then had three more attempts. The competition began at 5:40 p.m. local time ( UTC − 5 ).

Final score

Date: July 31, 1976, 5:40 p.m.

The favorites were the Bulgarian world record holder Iwanka Christowa and the GDR athlete Marianne Adam, who, as Christowa's predecessor, had increased the world record to 21.67 m in May of the Olympic year. Christowa even managed 21.89 m in July. The 1972 Olympic champion , Nadezhda Tschischowa, was rated as not quite as strong anymore. But at least she was European champion in 1974 with 20.78 m.

In the Olympic competition, however, Tschischowa showed in the first attempt that she was still to be expected. With an excellent 20.84 m she took the lead, followed by Adam and Ilona Slupianek. In the second round, Tschischowa improved further to 20.96 m. Christowa moved up to second place and came dangerously close to the leading Soviet athlete with her 20.88 m. Nothing changed in rounds three and four. But in the fifth attempt, the first distance over the 21-meter mark was due: Christowa hit the ball to 21.16 m and thus took the lead. In addition, the Czechoslovak Helena Fibingerová with her 20.67 m pushed past the two shot putters from the GDR into third place. In the last lap nothing changed in this order. The world record holder Iwanka Christowa also became an Olympic champion. Nadezhda Tschischowa surprisingly won the silver medal and the bronze went to Helena Fibingerová. Marianne Adam and Ilona Slupianek, formerly Ilona Schoknecht, later Ilona Briesenick, took fourth and fifth place.

The level in this discipline had once again increased significantly compared to previous years. Iwanka Christowas victory distance meant a new Olympic record , at the same time five athletes exceeded the 20-meter mark. Four years earlier in Munich it had been two female shot putters who had succeeded. In Mexico City eight years earlier, only the winner had pushed more than 19 meters, which was a world record at the time.

Ivanka Khristova became the first Olympic champion of Bulgaria in the shot put of women.

Helena Fibingerová won the first Czechoslovak medal in this discipline.

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  The Olympic champion Marianne Adam, GDR

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  Ilona Slupianek from the GDR reached number five

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  Faina Melnik from the USSR - discus throwing Olympic champion 1972 and here in fourth place in her special discipline, the discus throwing - came in tenth place

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Ivanka Christowa	Bulgaria	19.96 m	20.88 m	20.67 m	20.47 m	21.16 m OR	20.19 m	21.16 m	OR
2	Nadezhda Tschischowa	Soviet Union	20.84 m	20.96 m	x	x	14.16 m	x	20.96 m
3	Helena Fibingerová	Czechoslovakia	x	19.68 m	20.15 m	x	20.67 m	x	20.67 m
4th	Marianne Adam	GDR	20.55 m	x	x	x	18.15 m	19.50 m	20.55 m
5	Ilona Slupianek	GDR	20.52 m	19.78 m	19.65 m	19.80 m	19.72 m	20.54 m	20.54 m
6th	Margitta Droese	GDR	x	17.53 m	19.15 m	x	19.64 m	19.79 m	19.79 m
7th	Eva Wilms	BR Germany	x	19.11 m	19.29 m	19.29 m	x	x	19.29 m
8th	Elena Stoyanova	Bulgaria	18.89 m	18.50 m	18.85 m	x	x	18.61 m	18.89 m
9	Svetlana Krachevskaya	Soviet Union	x	18.11 m	18.36 m	not in the final of the eight best athletes			18.36 m
10	Faina Melnik	Soviet Union	17.46 m	17.77 m	18.07 m				18.07 m
11	María Elena Sarría	Cuba	x	16.31 m	x				16.31 m
12	Maren Seidler	United States	14.63 m	15.60 m	x				15.60 m
13	Lucette Moreau	Canada	14.79 m	14.87 m	15.48 m				15.48 m

literature

• Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 246

Video

• 1976 Olympics Women's Shot Put Final.mp4 , posted June 30, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed December 21, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed December 21, 2017
• Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 46f, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 21, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 647 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 21 December 2017
2. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 21, 2017
3. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 47, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 21, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 21, 2017