1988 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Shot put | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 25 athletes from 14 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Seoul Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 30, 1988 (qualifying) October 1, 1988 (final) |
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The shot put women at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul was in two rounds in on 30 September and 1 October 1988 Olympic Stadium Seoul held. 25 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was Natalja Lissowskaja from the Soviet Union . She won ahead of Kathrin Neimke from the GDR and Li Meisu from China .
In addition to the medalist Neimke, Heike Hartwig and Ines Müller took part for the GDR and both reached the final. Müller was fourth, Hartwig sixth.
Claudia Losch and Iris Plotzitzka started for the Federal Republic of Germany. Losch reached the final and finished fifth. Plotzitzka failed in the qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion 1984 | Claudia Losch ( Federal Republic of Germany ) | 20.48 m | Los Angeles 1984 |
World Champion 1987 | Natalja Lisovskaya ( Soviet Union ) | 21.24 m | Rome 1987 |
European champion 1986 | Heidi Krieger ( GDR ) | 21.10 m | Stuttgart 1986 |
Pan American Champion 1987 | Ramona Pagel ( USA ) | 18.56 m | Indianapolis 1987 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1987 | Lissete Martínez ( Cuba ) | 17.22 m | Caracas 1987 |
South American Champion 1987 | Maria Fernandes ( Brazil ) | 14.49 m | São Paulo 1987 |
Asian champion 1987 | Cong Yuzhen ( People's Republic of China ) | 18.17 m | Singapore 1987 |
African champion in 1988 | Hanan Khaled ( Egypt ) | 15.02 m | Annaba 1988 |
Existing records
World record | 22.63 m | Natalja Lisovskaya ( Soviet Union ) | Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia ) | June 7, 1987 |
Olympic record | 22.41 m | Ilona Slupianek ( GDR ) | Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia ) | July 24, 1980 |
qualification
Date: September 30, 1988
For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 19.50 m. Since only ten participants exceeded the required distance, the final field was filled with the next best starters from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 19.40 m were necessary for the final.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Claudia Losch | BR Germany | 18.82 m | 20.39 m | - | 20.39 m | |
2 | Li Meisu | People's Republic of China | 20.30 m | - | - | 20.30 m | |
3 | Kathrin Neimke | GDR | 20.18 m | - | - | 20.18 m | |
4th | Heike Hartwig | GDR | 19.22 m | 20.06 m | - | 20.06 m | |
5 | Zdeňka Šilhavá | Czechoslovakia | 19.74 m | - | - | 19.74 m | |
6th | Cong Yuzhen | People's Republic of China | 19.55 m | - | - | 19.55 m | |
7th | Svetla Mitkova | Bulgaria | 18.80 m | 19.53 m | - | 19.53 m | |
8th | Bonnie Dasse | United States | 19.29 m | 19.45 m | 18.94 m | 19.45 m | |
9 | Valentina Fedyushina | Soviet Union | 16.93 m | 19.05 m | 19.06 m | 19.06 m | |
10 | Connie Price | United States | 15.61 m | x | 17.09 m | 17.09 m | |
11 | María Isabel Urrutia | Colombia | 15.13 m | 14.85 m | 14.42 m | 15.13 m | |
12 | Yvonne Hanson-Nortey | Great Britain | 15.13 m | 14.86 m | x | 15.13 m | |
13 | Siololovau Ikavuka | Tonga | 12.31 m | x | 11.18 m | 12.31 m |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Ines Müller | GDR | 19.79 m | - | - | 19.79 m | |
2 | Natalia Lisovskaya | Soviet Union | 19.78 m | - | - | 19.78 m | |
3 | Huang Zhihong | People's Republic of China | 19.71 m | - | - | 19.71 m | |
4th | Natalia Achrimenko | Soviet Union | 19.26 m | 19.40 m | x | 19.40 m | |
5 | Iris Plotzitzka | BR Germany | 18.79 m | 19.06 m | x | 19.06 m | |
6th | Ramona Pagel | United States | 18.55 m | 18.45 m | 18.36 m | 18.55 m | |
7th | Judy Oakes | Great Britain | 17.76 m | 18.34 m | 18.02 m | 18.34 m | |
8th | Myrtle Augee | Great Britain | 16.85 m | 16.44 m | 17.31 m | 17.31 m | |
9 | Deborah Saint Phard | Haiti | 14.87 m | 15.35 m | 16.02 m | 16.02 m | |
10 | Grace Apiafi | Nigeria | 15.06 m | 15.05 m | 14.58 m | 15.06 m | |
11 | Choi Mi-sun | South Korea | 13.90 m | 13.44 m | 13.97 m | 13.97 m | |
12 | Jeanne-Nicole Ngo Minyemeck | Cameroon | 11.84 m | 12.73 m | 12.61 m | 12.73 m | |
DNS | Sona Vasickova | Czechoslovakia |
final
Date: October 1, 1988
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, ten of which had exceeded the qualification range. All three participants from China and the GDR were qualified. There were also two athletes each from the Soviet Union and one participant each from the Federal Republic of Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and the United States.
The clear favorite was the world champion and world record holder Natalja Lisowskaja from the USSR. The main candidates for medals were the two GDR athletes Kathrin Neimke, vice world champion, and Ines Müller, third in the World Cup , as well as the 1984 Olympic champion Claudia Losch from the Federal Republic of Germany.
With 21.69 m Lisowskaja took over the leading position from the beginning, which she could maintain until the end of the competition. Their superiority was so great. that each of her six strokes would have been enough for the Olympic victory. The silver medal went to Kathrin Neimke, who brought the ball to 21.07 m in the last round. Olympic champion Natalja Lissowskaja improved again in this round to 22.24 m. Chinese Li Meisu won bronze. She was only an inch behind Neimke, her best was from passage five. Claudia Losch finished fifth, her best shot was fourth with 20.27 m. She was ten centimeters behind Ines Müller and seven centimeters in front of Heike Hartwig from the GDR. Ilona Slupianek's Olympic record - 22.41 m - from Moscow continued after the Seoul Games .
Natalya Lissowskaja won the overall sixth gold medal for the Soviet Union 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 | Natalia Lisovskaya | Soviet Union | 21.69 m | 21.49 m | 21.24 m | 21.74 m | 21.11 m | 22.24 m | 22.24 m | |
2 | Kathrin Neimke | GDR | 19.64 m | 20.07 m | 19.82 m | 20.37 m | 20.72 m | 21.07 m | 21.07 m | |
3 | Li Meisu | People's Republic of China | 19.99 m | 20.03 m | 20.72 m | 20.49 m | 21.06 m | 20.84 m | 21.06 m | |
4th | Ines Müller | GDR | 20.37 m | 19.34 m | x | x | 19.55 m | 20.34 m | 20.37 m | |
5 | Claudia Losch | BR Germany | 20.08 m | x | 19.40 m | 20.27 m | x | x | 20.27 m | |
6th | Heike Hartwig | GDR | 19.94 m | 20.20 m | 19.71 m | 20.16 m | x | 19.75 m | 20.20 m | |
7th | Natalia Achrimenko | Soviet Union | 19.37 m | 19.86 m | 19.18 m | x | 19.60 m | 20.13 m | 20.13 m | |
8th | Huang Zhihong | People's Republic of China | 18.26 m | 19.15 m | 19.82 m | 19.79 m | 19.73 m | 19.56 m | 19.82 m | |
9 | Cong Yuzhen | People's Republic of China | 19.69 m | x | 19.65 m | not in the final of the eight best athletes |
19.69 m | |||
10 | Svetla Mitkova | Bulgaria | 18.29 m | 18.79 m | 19.09 m | 19.09 m | ||||
11 | Zdeňka Šilhavá | Czechoslovakia | 16.85 m | 18.86 m | x | 18.86 m | ||||
12 | Bonnie Dasse | United States | 17.60 m | 17.59 m | 17.51 m | 17.60 m |
Web links
- SportsReference Shot Put , accessed February 2, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , Athletics results: p. 266, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on February 2, 2018
Video
- Athletics Throws at Seoul 1988 Summer Olympics , range 1:32 min - 2:25 min published on June 30, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed on February 2, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 800 , accessed on February 2, 2018
- ↑ a b Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , Athletics results: p. 266, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on February 2, 2018