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)
Medalists Natalja Lisovskaya ( URS )   Kathrin Neimke ( GDR )   Li Meisu ( CHN )

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

The GDR athlete Heike Hartwig was sixth in the Olympics

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
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

Ines Müller from the GDR won the Olympics

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
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
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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 800 , accessed on February 2, 2018
2. ↑ ^{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