1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	13 athletes from 8 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	3rd August 1984
Medalists Claudia Losch ( FRG )   Mihaela Loghin ( ROM )   Gael Martin ( AUS )

The women's shot put at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 3, 1984 . Thirteen athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Claudia Losch from the Federal Republic of Germany. She won ahead of the Romanian Mihaela Loghin and the Australian Gael Martin .

Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion in 1980	Ilona Slupianek ( GDR )	22.41 m	Moscow 1980
World Champion 1983	Helena Fibingerová ( Czechoslovakia )	21.05 m	Helsinki 1983
European champion 1982	Ilona Slupianek ( GDR )	21.59 m	Athens 1982
Pan American Champion 1983	María Elena Sarría ( Cuba )	19.34 m	Caracas 1983
Central America and Caribbean champion 1983	Marcelina Rodríguez ( Cuba )	17.00 m	Havana 1983
South America Champion 1983	Maria Fernandes ( Brazil )	15.01 m	Santa Fe 1983
Asian champion 1983	Lu Cheng ( People's Republic of China )	17.38 m	Kuwait City 1983
African champion 1982	Odette Mistoul ( Gabon )	14.21 m	Cairo 1982

Existing records

World record	22.53 m	Natalja Lisovskaya ( Soviet Union )	Sochi , Soviet Union (now Russia )	May 27, 1984
Olympic record	22.41 min	Ilona Slupianek ( GDR )	Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia )	July 24, 1980

qualification

Since only thirteen athletes took part, a qualifying round was omitted. The athletes started straight away with the final.

final

Date: August 3, 1984

Thirteen athletes competed in the finals, including three US women, two Chinese women, two Romanians and two British women. There was also one athlete each from the Federal Republic of Germany, Canada, Australia and Gabon. After three rounds, the best eight participants were allowed three more attempts.

The Olympic boycott prevented the participation of the top athletes from the Eastern Bloc and the GDR. The 1980 Olympic champion Ilona Slupianek from the GDR, the Soviet world record holder Natalja Lissowskaja and the Czechoslovak world champion from 1983 Helena Fibingerová were not there. Numerous other top-class athletes from the boycott states were also missing. That reduced this competition quite considerably. A favorite was difficult to find in the remaining starting field.

The West German Claudia Losch took the lead in her first attempt with a very good 19.97 m, ahead of the Romanian Mihaela Loghin, who pushed 19.67 m. Both improved in the second attempt, 20.31 m for Losch and 19.73 m for Loghin. The Australian Gael Martin had worked her way up to third place with 19.19 m. In lap three Loghin improved again to 19.95 m, which did not change the order. With her fourth stroke, in which she scored 20.47 m, the Romanian pulled past Losch. But in the last round Losch countered again. She hit 20.48 m and so Claudia Losch won the gold medal with one centimeter ahead of Mihaela Loghin. Third was Gael Martin with her width of 19.19 m from the third attempt.

Due to the lack of the world's best female shot putters, the level was significantly weaker than in the major championships of recent years, but two athletes reached distances over the 20 meter mark several times and another athlete exceeded nineteen meters. In any case, the result was better than expected.

For all medal winners, it was the first medal in each of their country in the shot put of women.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Claudia Losch	BR Germany	19.97 m	20.31 m	19.33 m	20.06 m	19.96 m	20.48 m	20.48 m
2	Mihaela Loghin	Romania	19.67 m	19.73 m	19.95 m	20.47 m	20.25 m	20.09 m	20.47 m
3	Gael Martin	Australia	18.10 m	19.19 m	18.75 m	18.53 m	x	18.34 m	19.19 m
4th	Judy Oakes	Great Britain	18.14 m	17.76 m	18.01 m	18.08 m	x	17.81 m	18.14 m
5	Li Meisu	People's Republic of China	17.37 m	x	17.44 m	17.96 m	17.61 m	17.19 m	17.96 m
6th	Venissa Head	Great Britain	x	17.90 m	x	17.37 m	15.59 m	16.40 m	17.90 m
7th	Carol Cady	United States	17.22 m	17.23 m	17.10 m	16.83 m	16.32 m	17.19 m	17.23 m
8th	Florența Crăciunescu	Romania	16.62 m	17.23 m	17.10 m	16.45 m	x	17.05 m	17.23 m
9	Lorna Griffin	United States	15.87 m	16.08 m	17.00 m	not in the final of the eight best athletes			17.00 m
10	Yang Yanqin	People's Republic of China	16.76 m	16.97 m	16.46 m				16.97 m
11	Ramona Pagel	United States	16.06 m	15.69 m	15.90 m				16.06 m
12	Carmen Ionesco	Canada	14.92 m	15.25 m	14.96 m				15.25 m
13	Odette Mistoul	Gabon	14.39 m	x	14.59 m				14.59 m

literature

• Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 52f

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed January 15, 2018
• Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 267, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed January 15, 2018

Video

• Claudia Losch 20.48m LA Olympics 1984 , published July 25, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed January 15, 2018
• Mihaela Loghin Shot Put LA Olympics 1984 20.47m , posted August 19, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed January 15, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 800 , accessed on January 15, 2018
2. ↑ Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 267, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 15, 2018