1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	25 athletes from 16 countries
Competition location	Centennial Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 31, 1996 (qualifying) August 2, 1996 (final)
Medalists Astrid Kumbernuss ( GER )   Sui Xinmei ( CHN )   Irina Khudoroschkina ( RUS )

The shot put women at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta was on 31 July and 2 August 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium held. 25 athletes took part.

The German Astrid Kumbernuss became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Chinese Sui Xinmei and the Russian Irina Chudoroschkina .

In addition to the winner Kumbernuss, Kathrin Neimke and Stephanie Storp also competed for Germany . Both qualified for the final. Storp was sixth, Neimke seventh.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion in 1992	Svetlana Kriweljowa ( EUN )	21.06 m	Barcelona 1992
World Champion 1995	Astrid Kumbernuss ( Germany )	21.22 m	Gothenburg 1995
European champion in 1994	Wita Pavlysch ( Ukraine )	19.61 m	Helsinki 1994
Pan American Champion 1995	Connie Price-Smith ( USA )	19.17 m	Mar del Plata 1995
Central America and Caribbean champion 1995	Belsy Laza ( Cuba )	17.64 m	Guatemala City 1995
South America Champion 1995	Elisângela Adriano ( Brazil )	17.37 m	Manaus 1995
Asian champion 1995	Sui Xinmei ( People's Republic of China )	18.87 m	Jakarta 1995
African champion 1996	Hanan Ahmed Khaled ( Egypt )	14.47 m	Yaoundé 1996
Oceania champion 1994	Elizabeth Binns ( New Zealand )	13.08 m	Auckland 1994

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

Remarks:

• All times are local Atlanta time ( UTC − 5 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

July 31, 1996, from 5:15 p.m.

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 18.80 m. Since only nine athletes exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve athletes (highlighted in light green). So finally 18.55 m was enough for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Astrid Kumbernuss	Germany	19.93	-	-	19.93
2	Connie Price-Smith	United States	18.79	x	19.08	19.08
3	Wita Pavlysch	Ukraine	17.49	19.04	-	19.04
4th	Irina Korschanenko	Russia	x	18.92	-	18.92
5	Yumileidi Cumbá	Cuba	18.44	18.55	18.47	18.55
6th	Li Meisu	People's Republic of China	17.88	x	18.39	18.39
7th	Svetlana Kriweljowa	Russia	18.23	17.60	17.86	18.23
8th	Valeyta Althouse	United States	17.62	17.54	18.16	18.16
9	Elvira Urusova	Georgia	16.61	17.27	17.69	17.69
10	Karoliina Lundahl	Finland	17.14	16.97	x	17.14
11	Jelena Baltabeyeva	Kazakhstan	16.40	x	15.35	16.40
12	Teresa Machado	Portugal	15.91	15.62	15.60	15.91
DNS	Huang Zhihong	People's Republic of China

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Sui Xinmei	People's Republic of China	19.36	-	-	19.36
2	Stephanie Storp	Germany	19.29	-	-	19.29
3	Valentina Fedyushina	Ukraine	19.22	-	-	19.22
4th	Irina Khudoroschkina	Russia	x	17.73	19.03	19.03
5	Kathrin Neimke	Germany	19.02	-	-	19.02
6th	Belsy Laza	Cuba	18.15	18.61	18.58	18.61
7th	Judy Oakes	Great Britain	18.37	18.56	18.45	18.56
8th	Ramona Pagel	United States	17.61	18.55	18.48	18.55
9	Svetla Mitkova	Bulgaria	17.41	17.48	17.30	17.48
10	Lee Myung-sun	South Korea	15.90	16.92	16.64	16.92
11	Elisângela Adriano	Brazil	x	16.49	14.61	16.49
12	Nada Kawar	Jordan	15.28	x	14.73	15.28
13	Lisa Misipeka	American Samoa	13.40	13.72	13.74	13.74
DNS	Corrie de Bruin	Netherlands

final

August 2, 1996, 6:55 pm

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, nine of them by the required qualification distance, the other three by their placements. Three Germans, two Russians, two Ukrainians and two Americans met one participant each from China, Cuba and Great Britain.

The reigning world champion Astrid Kumbernuss from Germany was the favorite. She had remained undefeated in 37 competitions up to the Games. The Russian Olympic champion from 1992 Svetlana Kriweljowa, who started for the United Team four years ago, was eliminated in the qualification as well as the World Cup and European Championship third Svetla Mitkova from Bulgaria. Vice world champion Huang Zhihong was registered for the competition, but not started. The strongest competitors for Kumbernuss were the World Cup fifth Sui Xinmei from China and the European champion Wita Pawlysch from Ukraine, who was later banned for repeated doping offenses .

Astrid Kumbernuss took the lead in the first attempt with 20.56 m, which lasted until the end of the competition. Kumbernuss was the only athlete who took the ball over the 20-meter mark, in her last valid attempt she reached another 20.47 m. The Russian Irina Khudoroschkina had also achieved her best distance of 19.35 m with her first shot and was thus in second position for two laps. In the third round, Sui Xinmei reached 19.88 m. With that she surpassed the Russian woman and won the silver medal. With her width of 19.35 m, Irina Chudoroschkina stayed on the bronze rank until the end. Wita Pawlysch was just behind fourth with 19.30 m eight centimeters in front of the American Connie Price-Smith. In the last attempt, the German Stephanie Storp reached 19.06 m, with which she took sixth place. The Olympic runner-up from 1988 - then for the GDR - and bronze medalist from 1992 - now for Germany - Kathrin Neimke, came in seventh this time.

The level of performance was no longer comparable to the level offered by the athletes in the 1980s, when 20-meter widths were mass-produced. There were also numerous impacts of more than 21 or even 22 meters in the absolute top area. The decline in development that has now occurred must be seen primarily in connection with a particular high point in the use of prohibited means to improve performance. In numerous publications there are references to doping practices from the 80s, the controls had an even more holey standard than later. So there are in the sense of a clean sport from professional circles u. a. Demands for the withdrawal of all existing athletics records. There is no official evidence or positive doping results for the athletes who had shone with their achievements at the time. But the critical reviews do not come out of nowhere.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Astrid Kumbernuss	Germany	20.56	x	19.67	x	x	20.47	20.56
2	Sui Xinmei	People's Republic of China	19.06	18.95	19.88	19.24	19.21	19.43	19.88
3	Irina Khudoroschkina	Russia	19.35	x	x	x	-	-	19.35
4th	Wita Pavlysch	Ukraine	17.30	18.20	19.30	18.21	19.23	x	19.30
5	Connie Price-Smith	United States	18.44	18.61	19.22	x	x	x	19.22
6th	Stephanie Storp	Germany	18.91	x	x	18.06	18.25	19.06	19.06
7th	Kathrin Neimke	Germany	17.87	18.40	18.92	x	18.62	18.65	18.92
8th	Irina Korschanenko	Russia	18.43	x	18.55	18.65	18.50	18.68	18.68
9	Ramona Pagel	United States	16.57	18.48	17.55	not in the final of the eight best athletes			18.48
10	Belsy Laza	Cuba	x	18.40	18.40				18.40
11	Judy Oakes	Great Britain	18.34	18.10	18.18				18.34
12	Valentina Fedyushina	Ukraine	x	x	17.99				17.99

literature

• Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 52f

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed March 16, 2018
• Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 94, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 16, 2018

Video

• Women's Shot Put Final Atlanta Olympics 1996 , posted June 21, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 16, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 800 , accessed on March 16, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 94, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 16, 2018 
3. ↑ Doping in the shot put , Kölner Stadtanzeiger August 22, 2004, accessed on March 16, 2018
4. ↑ Michael Reinsch, Tabula rasa for track and field records , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, updated on May 3, 2017, accessed on March 15, 2018
5. ↑ “Everything is swallowed” , Der Spiegel H. 18/1990, April 30, 1990, accessed on March 15, 2018
6. ↑ The drama of the dubious diva on derstandard.at, September 24, 2013, accessed on March 15, 2018