1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	14 athletes from 8 countries
Competition location	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 24, 1980
Medalists Ilona Slupianek ( GDR )   Svetlana Krachevskaya ( URS )   Margitta Pufe ( GDR )

The women's shot put at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on July 24, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. Fourteen athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Ilona Slupianek from the GDR. She won ahead of Swetlana Kratschewskaja from the Soviet Union and Margitta Pufe from the GDR.

In addition to the medalists, Ines Reichenbach , who was eighth, also went for the GDR .
Shot putters from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Existing records

World record	22.45 m	Ilona Slupianek ( GDR )	Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	May 10, 1980
Olympic record	21.16 m	Iwanka Christowa ( Bulgaria )	Final of Montreal , Canada	July 31, 1976

Conducting the competition

Ines Reichenbach from the GDR reached eighth place

The athletes competed on July 24th at 6:35 p.m. Moscow time ( UTC + 3 ). Due to the low number of participants of only fourteen athletes, a qualifying round was not taken.

final

Date: July 24, 1980, 6:35 p.m.

The top favorite was the world record holder Ilona Slupianek - see photo on the left . Her predecessor as world record holder Helena Fibingerová , who had become vice European champion behind Slupianek in 1978 , was absent due to a back injury. Slupianek, who was also Olympic Fifth in 1976 under her name Ilona Schoknecht, was clearly ahead of all the other participants with the distances she had achieved before the games. Among the contenders for the medals were Slupianek's teammate Margitta Pufe, under the name Margitta Droese EM -third 1978, Swetlana Krachevskaya from the USSR, EM- 4th 1978, as well as other athletes from the USSR and Bulgaria.

Ilona Slupianek already scored 22.41 m in the first round. She improved the Olympic record by well over a meter and stayed just four centimeters below her own world record. In the following five attempts she could not improve, but each of her thrusts would have been enough for the gold medal. Her worst shot landed on the third attempt at 21.42 m. That was exactly the same distance that Krachevskaya also achieved as the best distance in the third round. So Svetlana Krachevskaya won the silver medal. She was 22 centimeters ahead of bronze medalist Margitta Pufe. Nunu Abaschydze from the USSR came fourth, who also exceeded the 21-meter mark with 21.15 m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Ilona Slupianek	GDR	22.41 m OR	21.81 m	21.42 m	21.60 m	22.00 m	21.85 m	22.41 m	OR
2	Svetlana Krachevskaya	Soviet Union	20.00 m	20.67 m	21.42 m	x	21.03 m	x	21.42 m
3	Margitta Pufe	GDR	21.20 m	21.07 m	20.42 m	20.72 m	20.05 m	20.36 m	21.20 m
4th	Nunu Abashydze	Soviet Union	20.74 m	x	x	x	20.02 m	21.15 m	21.15 m
5	Vershinia Veselinova	Bulgaria	20.72 m	19.75 m	20.55 m	20.37 m	x	x	20.72 m
6th	Elena Stoyanova	Bulgaria	20.22 m	19.80 m	19.56 m	19.83 m	20.00 m	20.18 m	20.22 m
7th	Natalia Achrimenko	Soviet Union	19.64 m	19.63 m	19.74 m	x	x	19.28 m	19.74 m
8th	Ines Reichenbach	GDR	19.19 m	19.66 m	19.49 m	19.03 m	19.65 m	19.63 m	19.66 m
9	María Elena Sarría	Cuba	19.20 m	19.37 m	18.91 m	not in the final of the eight best athletes			19.37 m
10	Zdeňka Bartoňová	Czechoslovakia	17.43 m	18.40 m	x				18.40 m
11	Ivanka Petrova	Bulgaria	18.34 m	x	18.28 m				18.34 m
12	Gael Mulhall	Australia	17.45 m	x	18.00 m				18.00 m
13	Angela Littlewood	Great Britain	16.14 m	16.35 m	17.53 m				17.53 m
14th	Cinzia Petrucci	Italy	17.17 m	17.00 m	17.28 m				17.28 m

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed January 4, 2018
• Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 90, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 4, 2018

Video

• 22m41cm (73 ft7)! in Women's Shot Put Event 1980 Moscow Olympics.mpg , published June 3, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed January 4, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 647 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 4, 2018
2. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 4, 2018
3. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 90, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 4, 2018
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed January 4, 2018