2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	25 athletes from 18 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 27, 2000 (qualification) September 28, 2000 (final)
Medalists Janina Karoltschyk ( BLR )   Larissa Peleschenko ( RUS )   Astrid Kumbernuss ( DEU )

The shot put women at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was on 27 and 28 September 2000 at Stadium Australia held. 25 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Belarusian Janina Karoltschyk . She won ahead of the Russian Larissa Peleschenko and the German Astrid Kumbernuss .

With Nadine Kleinert-Schmitt , another German took part in the competition. She was able to qualify for the final and was eighth. Valentina Fedjuschina competed
for Austria, taking part in Seoul in 1988 for the Soviet Union and in Atlanta in 1996 for the Ukraine. Fedyushina reached the final and finished twelfth. Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 1996	Astrid Kumbernuss ( Germany )	20.56 m	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999		19.85 m	Seville 1999
European Champion 1998	Wita Pavlysch ( Ukraine )	21.69 m	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Connie Price-Smith ( USA )	19.06 m	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champion 1999	Doris Thompson ( Bahamas )	13.23 m	Bridgetown 1999
South America Champion 1999	Elisângela Adriano ( Brazil )	19.02 m	Bogotá 1999
Asian Champion 2000	Nada Kawar ( Jordan )	17.46 m	Jakarta 2000
African champion 2000	Hanaa Salah El Megeli ( Egypt )	16.01 m	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	ʻAna Poʻuhila ( Tonga )	14.36 m	Adelaide 2000

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 based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

September 27, 2000, 10:00 a.m.

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 18.50 m. Since only seven participants exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best participants from both groups to twelve athletes (highlighted in light green). So finally 17.84 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

As tenth of her qualifying group with 17.42 m, the American Connie Price-Smith did not reach the final

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Krystyna Danilczyk-Zabawska	Poland	18.32	18.42	18.93	18.93
2	Astrid Kumbernuss	Germany	18.90	-	-	18.90
3	Svetlana Kriweljowa	Russia	18.48	18.56	-	18.56
4th	Kalliopi Ouzouni	Greece	17.35	18.56	-	18.56
5	Yumileidi Cumbá	Cuba	x	18.02	18.42	18.42
6th	Cheng Xiaoyan	People's Republic of China	17.67	18.23	x	18.23
7th	Liesbeth Koeman	Netherlands	17.43	17.99	17.35	17.99
8th	Vivian Chukwuemeka	Nigeria	x	17.33	17.47	17.47
9	Lee Myung-sun	South Korea	17.25	17.40	17.44	17.44
10	Connie Price-Smith	United States	17.38	16.70	17.42	17.42
11	Laurence Manfredi	France	16.57	16.38	x	16.57
12	Martina de la Puente	Spain	x	16.30	x	16.30

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Janina Karoltschyk	Belarus	19.36	-	-	19.36
2	Olga Ryabinkina	Russia	17.32	18.04	19.20	19.20
3	Larissa Peleschenko	Russia	19.08	-	-	19.08
4th	Nadine Kleinert-Schmitt	Germany	17.75	x	18.39	18.39
5	Valentina Fedyushina	Austria	16.95	17.84	17.45	17.84
6th	Judy Oakes	Great Britain	16.96	x	17.81	17.81
7th	Jesseca Cross	United States	17.15	17.27	16.91	17.27
8th	Katarzyna Żakowicz	Poland	16.49	16.74	16.95	16.95
9	Mara Rosolen	Italy	16.13	x	16.66	16.66
10	Jolanta Ulyeva	Kazakhstan	16.38	15.11	16.31	16.38
11	Teri Tunks	United States	x	15.30	16.34	16.34
12	Yu Xin	People's Republic of China	15.68	16.18	-	16.18
13	Nada Kawar	Jordan	x	15.67	x	15.67

final

September 28, 2000, 8:30 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, seven of them by qualifying distance, another five by their placements. The participants were three Russians, two Germans and one competitor each from China, Greece, Cuba, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland and Belarus.

The favorites were above all the 1996 Olympic champion , at the same time world champion from 1999 and 1997 Astrid Kumbernuss from Germany, the winner from 1992 and third place in the 1999 World Cup, Swetlana Kriweljowa from Russia, the German vice world champion Nadine Kleinert-Schmitt and the Belarusian Janina Karoltschyk as World Cup - fourth in 1999 and EM - third in 1998.

Karoltschyk hit 19.43 m in the first attempt, which initially meant the lead in front of Kumbernuss with 19.38 m. In the second round the Russian Larissa Peleschenko took the lead with 19.92 m. Up until the penultimate round nothing changed in the top positions. It was only with her fifth stroke that Kriweljowa moved up to fourth place with 19.37 m to within one centimeter of kumbernuss. Kumbernuss rose again to 19.62 m in the last attempt, but remained on the bronze rank. Janina Karoltschyk succeeded in her final attempt with 20.56 m, the only push in the entire competition over the 20-meter mark. This made her Olympic champion ahead of Larissa Peleschenko and Astrid Kumbernuss. Svetlana Kriweljowa took fourth place, Krystyna Danilczyk-Zabawska from Poland was fifth, and Yumileidi Cumbá from Cuban was sixth. Seventh place went to the Greek Kalliopi Ouzouni ahead of Nadine Kleinert-Schmitt.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Janina Karoltschyk	Belarus	19.43	x	18.76	19.11	x	20.56 NO	20.56	NO
2	Larissa Peleschenko	Russia	19.16	19.92	19.79	x	x	19.60	19.92
3	Astrid Kumbernuss	Germany	19.38	19.24	18.73	18.76	18.89	19.62	19.62
4th	Svetlana Kriweljowa	Russia	18.84	18.60	19.04	19.12	19.37	19.36	19.37
5	Krystyna Danilczyk-Zabawska	Poland	18.61	17.93	19.18	18.39	x	17.16	19.18
6th	Yumileidi Cumbá	Cuba	18.33	18.30	18.70	x	x	x	18.70
7th	Kalliopi Ouzouni	Greece	18.45	x	18.63 NO	18.34	x	17.09	18.63	NO
8th	Nadine Kleinert-Schmitt	Germany	x	18.49	18.33	x	x	x	18.49
9	Liesbeth Koeman	Netherlands	x	17.56	17.96	not in the final of the eight best athletes			17.96
10	Olga Ryabinkina	Russia	17.33	17.85	17.66				17.85
11	Cheng Xiaoyan	People's Republic of China	17.30	17.85	x				17.85
12	Valentina Fedyushina	Austria	16.70	17.14	16.75				17.14

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  The Olympic fifth Krystyna Danilczyk-Zabawska from Poland

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  The German Nadine Kleinert-Schmitt finished eighth in the final

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  Ninth place in the final for Liesbeth Koeman from the Netherlands

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed April 15, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 15, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 15, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 800 , accessed on April 15, 2018