1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	18 athletes from 11 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Barcelona
Competition phase	August 5, 1992 (qualification) August 7, 1992 (final)
Medalists Svetlana Kriweljowa ( EUN )   Huang Zhihong ( CHN )   Kathrin Neimke ( GER )

The women's shot put at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was played on August 5th and 7th, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. Eighteen athletes took part.

Svetlana Kriweljowa from Russia was the Olympic champion , here for the United Team, who won ahead of the Chinese Huang Zhihong . The bronze medal went to the German Kathrin Neimke .

In addition to medalist Neimke, Stephanie Storp also competed for Germany . She also qualified for the final and was seventh there.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion in 1988	Natalja Lisovskaya ( Soviet Union )	22.24 m	Seoul 1988
World Champion 1991	Huang Zhihong ( People's Republic of China )	20.83 m	Tokyo 1991
European champion in 1990	Astrid Kumbernuss ( GDR )	20.38 m	Split 1990
Pan American Champion 1991	Belsy Laza ( Cuba )	18.87 m	Havana 1991
Central America and Caribbean champion 1991	Lilliam Rivera ( Puerto Rico )	14.08 m	Xalapa 1991
South American Champion 1991	María Isabel Urrutia ( Colombia )	16.34 m	Manaus 1991
Asian champion 1991	Huang Zhihong ( People's Republic of China )	17.51 ​​m	Kuala Lumpur 1991
African champion 1992	Fouzia Fatihi ( Morocco )	15.82 m	Belle Vue Maurel 1992
Oceania Champion 1990	Tania Lutton ( New Zealand )	13.52 m	Suva 1990

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: August 5, 1992

For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 18.50 m. Since only eight throwers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best female throwers from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 17.39 m was enough for the final

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Natalia Lisovskaya	EUN	19.58 m	-	-	19.58 m
2	Svetla Mitkowa	Bulgaria	19.21 m	-	-	19.21 m
3	Zhou Tianhua	People's Republic of China	17.98 m	18.63 m	-	18.63 m
4th	Stephanie Storp	Germany	18.49 m	18.58 m	-	18.58 m
5	Ramona Pagel	United States	16.53 m	18.02 m	17.89 m	18.02 m
6th	Wita Pavlysch	EUN	x	x	17.39 m	17.39 m
7th	Myrtle Augee	Great Britain	x	15.92 m	16.53 m	16.53 m
8th	Pam Dukes	United States	x	16.46 m	15.46 m	16.46 m
9	Georgette Reed	Canada	15.14 m	15.15 m	15.33 m	15.33 m

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Svetlana Kriweljowa	EUN	19.98 m	-	-	19.98 m
2	Kathrin Neimke	Germany	19.13 m	-	-	19.13 m
3	Huang Zhihong	People's Republic of China	18.93 m	-	-	18.93 m
4th	Belsy Laza	Cuba	18.33 m	18.36 m	18.72 m	18.72 m
5	Krystyna Danilczyk	Poland	17.51 ​​m	18.04 m	18.30 m	18.30 m
6th	Zhen Wenhua	People's Republic of China	18.07 m	x	18.17 m	18.17 m
7th	Margarita Ramos	Spain	x	16.82 m	16.64 m	16.82 m
8th	Elli Evangelidou	Cyprus	14.42 m	14.38 m	14.69 m	14.69 m
DOP	Bonnie Dasse	United States	16.33 m	x	16.68 m

The American Bonnie Dasse tested positive for Clenbuterol after qualifying . She was disqualified and banned for four years.

The Polish Krystyna Danilczyk - here on a later recording - reached the final and was tenth there

final

Date: August 7, 1992

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, eight over the required qualification distance, the other four over their placements. All three participants from China and the United Team took part in the final. There were also two athletes from Germany and one participant each from Bulgaria, Cuba, Poland and the USA.

The Chinese world champion Huang Zhihong was considered the favorite. The 1988 Olympic champion Natalja Lissowskaja, who started for the United Team, no longer had the top form of earlier years. The 1988 silver medalist Kathrin Neimke, who competed for the GDR in Seoul , was there again, but was also no longer rated as very strong. A medal candidate, on the other hand, was the World Cup third Swetlana Kriweljowa from the United Team.

In the first attempt, Kriweljowa took the lead. At 20.34 m, she was nine centimeters from Zhihong. Neimke was third with 19.61 m, Lissowskaya with 18.60 m in the back field. With two more failed attempts, she failed to qualify for the final of the top eight. In lap two, Cuban Belsy Laza moved past Neimke to third with 19.70 m. In the third attempt, Zhihong reached 20.47 m and she had taken the lead. But Kriweljowa countered in the fifth round with 20.89 m and replaced the Chinese at the top again. Svetlana Kriweljowa extended her lead with her last stroke to 21.06 m and thus secured the Olympic victory over Huang Zhihong. Kathrin Neimke recently climbed to 19.78 m and moved past Laza to the bronze medal. Chinese Zhou Tianhua came in fifth ahead of Swetla Mitkowa from Bulgaria.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Svetlana Kriweljowa	EUN	20.34 m	20.09 m	x	19.99 m	20.89 m	21.06 m	21.06 m
2	Huang Zhihong	People's Republic of China	20.25 m	20.19 m	20.47 m	x	20.11 m	20.44 m	20.47 m
3	Kathrin Neimke	Germany	19.61 m	18.56 m	19.56 m	19.22 m	x	19.78 m	19.78 m
4th	Belsy Laza	Cuba	18.78 m	19.70 m	x	x	18.69 m	18.75 m	19.70 m
5	Zhou Tianhua	People's Republic of China	19.11 m	18.66 m	18.64 m	19.26 m	18.34 m	18.57 m	19.26 m
6th	Svetla Mitkowa	Bulgaria	19.23 m	x	x	19.09 m	19.21 m	19.19 m	19.23 m
7th	Stephanie Storp	Germany	17.58 m	19.10 m	19.08 m	x	18.96 m	18.43 m	19.10 m
8th	Wita Pavlysch	EUN	18.69 m	x	x	x	18.61 m	x	18.69 m
9	Natalia Lisovskaya	EUN	18.60 m	x	x	not in the final of the eight best athletes			18.60 m
10	Krystyna Danilczyk	Poland	17.61 m	17.89 m	18.29 m				18.29 m
11	Ramona Pagel	United States	18.24 m	18.04 m	17.21 m				18.24 m
12	Zhen Wenhua	People's Republic of China	17.56 m	17.81 m	x				17.81 m

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed February 19, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 74, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 19, 2018

Video

• 1992 Olympics ~ Women's Shot Put , published August 5, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed February 19, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 800 , accessed on February 19, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 74, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 19, 2018
3. ↑ List of Olympic doping offenders on SportsReference , accessed on February 19, 2018