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