2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	38 athletes from 28 countries
Competition location	Ancient Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 18, 2004
Medalists Yumileidi Cumbá ( Cuba )   Nadine Kleinert ( Germany )   not awarded due to special doping problems

The shot put women at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , on 18 August 2004 at the ancient stadium of Olympia performed. 38 athletes took part.

The women's shot put was overshadowed by three doping cases .

• The Russian Irina Korschanenko was stripped of the gold medal that she had received for her distance of 21.06 m because of doping. The athletes placed behind each moved up one place.
• The Uzbek Olga Shchukina - here in Athens did not get beyond the qualification - had tested positive for Clenbuterol during a training control shortly before the games , but this only became official after the Athens games. Her result was canceled and she was banned from the IAAF for two years.
• On December 5, 2012, the now new Russian bronze medalist Svetlana Kriweljowa (19.49 m) was also stripped of the medal because of doping.

The Cuban Yumileidi Cumbá became the Olympic champion . German Nadine Kleinert won silver . A bronze medal was not awarded due to the special doping problem.

With Astrid Kumbernuss and Nadine Beckel , two other German participants started alongside Kleinert. Both Kumbernuss and Beckel were eliminated from the qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein were not among the participants.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 2000	Janina Karoltschyk ( Belarus )	20.56 m	Sydney 2000
World Champion 2003	Svetlana Kriweljowa ( Russia )	20.63 m	Paris 2003
European Champion 2002	Irina Korschanenko ( Russia )	20.64 m	Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003	Yumileidi Cumbá ( Cuba )	19.31 m	Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean Champion 2003	Misleydis González ( Cuba )	18.09 m	St. George’s 2003
South American Champion 2003	Elisângela Adriano ( Brazil )	18.34 m	Barquisimeto 2003
Asian Champion 2003	Li Meiju ( People's Republic of China )	18.45 m	Manila 2003
African champion 2004	Wafa Ismail El Baghdadi ( Egypt )	15.53 m	Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002	ʻAna Poʻuhila ( Tonga )	15.66 m	Christchurch 2002

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 Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

August 18, 2004, 8:30 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 nine athletes reached this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). In the end, 18.16 m had to be achieved to take part. In the end, however, only ten athletes were included in the ranking due to the doping-related disqualifications.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Yumileidi Cumbá	Cuba	19.10	-	-	19.10
2	Valerie Adams	New Zealand	18.79	-	-	18.79
3	Nadine Kleinert	Germany	18.65	-	-	18.65
4th	Krystyna Zabawka	Poland	18.05	18.61	-	18.61
5	Natallja Charaneka	Belarus	17.70	18.52	-	18.52	These two shot putters would actually qualify for the final
6th	Misleydis González	Cuba	18.33	x	18.15	18.33
7th	Laurence Manfredi	France	17.78	17.05	17.20	17.78
8th	Elisângela Adriano	Brazil	17.31	17.07	17.44	17.44
9	Zhang Xiaoyu	People's Republic of China	17.03	17.22	16.21	17.22
10	Li Fengfeng	People's Republic of China	16.80	16.36	16.90	16.90
11	Zhang Guirong	Singapore	16.58	16.51	x	16.58
12	Laura Gerraughty	United States	15.97	x	16.47	16.47
13	Kimberly Barrett	Jamaica	15.80	16.45	16.09	16.45
14th	Lee Mi-young	South Korea	15.76	16.35	x	16.35
15th	Filiz Kadoğan	Turkey	15.20	14.73	x	15.20
16	Miriam Kevkhishvili	Georgia	14.10	15.02	15.06	15.06
17th	Jolanta Ulyeva	Kazakhstan	14.48	14.55	14.88	14.88
DOP	Irina Korschanenko	Russia	Disqualification took place later, therefore initially in the final
	Olga Shchukina	Uzbekistan

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Nadsey Astaptchuk	Belarus	19.69	-	-	19.69
2	Cleopatra Borel	Trinidad and Tobago	18.90	-	-	18.90	NO
3	Lieja Tunks	Netherlands	18.38	x	18.33	18.38
4th	Li Meiju	People's Republic of China	18.16	18.01	18.13	18.16
5	Kalliopi Ouzouni	Greece	18.03	17.87	x	18.03
6th	Olga Ryabinkina	Russia	18.00	x	17.99	18.00
7th	Fior Vásquez	Dominican Republic	16.00	17.99	17.08	17.99
8th	Astrid Kumbernuss	Germany	17.89	17.52	17.86	17.89
9	Irini Terzoglou	Greece	17.34	x	-	17.34
10	Oksana Zakharchuk	Ukraine	17.19	17.28	x	17.28
11	Kristin Heaston	United States	16.41	x	17.17	17.17
12	Nadine Beckel	Germany	17.11	17.03	x	17.11
13	Juttaporn Krasaeyan	Thailand	16.45	16.49	16.22	16.49
14th	Irache Quintanal	Spain	15.27	15.99	15.52	15.99
15th	Anelija Kumanova	Bulgaria	15.49	15.91	15.50	15.91
16	Chinatsu Mori	Japan	15.86	14.59	x	15.86
17th	'Ana Po'uhila	Tonga	14.16	15.33	15.08	15.33
18th	Éva Kürti	Hungary	14.60	x	x	14.60
DOP	Svetlana Kriweljowa	Russia	Disqualification took place later, therefore initially in the final

final

August 18, 2004, 4:00 p.m.

Originally twelve athletes had qualified for the final, nine of them by qualifying distance and another three by their placements. Two Russians were represented - later both disqualified, two Cubans and two Belarusians as well as one participant each from China, Germany, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Poland and Trinidad and Tobago.

Many of the athletes favored for this competition were not rated afterwards due to doping or were not allowed to compete at all , like the suspended Wita Pawlysch from Ukraine or Janina Karoltschyk from Belarus, Olympic champion of 2000 and world champion of 2001 . The women's shot put got into a deep doping swamp, especially in the Eastern European countries of Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. The bronze medal was not awarded again by the IOC after the three subsequent disqualifications.

From the circle of shot putters with good prospects, the Belarusian Nadseja Astaptschuk, who was later also caught as a doping sinner, the Pan-American champion Yumileidi Cumbá from Cuba and the German vice world champion from 2001 Nadine Kleinert remained. The 1996 Olympic champion Astrid Kumbernuss from Germany was also there again, but she was far from having the shape of her successful years and was eliminated from the qualification.

Because of the subsequent disqualifications, the final went differently than can be seen here. For example, the Olympic champion Cumbá initially had to assume that she had won a silver medal. For the ultimately recognized results - and only these are decisive - the Belarusian Natallja Charaneka led with 18.82 m ahead of Kleinert with 18.77 m and the New Zealander Valerie Adams with 18.56 m after the first round. In the second round, Kleinert took the lead with 19.55 m, little changed after that, only Cumbá took fifth position with her first valid shot of 18.39 m. The third round brought clear shifts again. Astaptschuk hit 19.01 m and was second, Charaneka stayed in fourth place, but improved to 18.87 m, Cumbá moved up to fifth with 18.74 m and Krystyna Zabawka from Poland was sixth with 18.64 m. In the further course, hardly anything happened, but there was still one decisive change. With her last stroke, Yumileidi Cumbá reached 19.59 m, which finally brought her the Olympic victory. Nadine Kleinert won silver, bronze was not awarded retrospectively. Fourth place went to Nadseja Astaptschuk ahead of Natallja Charaneka and Krystyna Zabawka. The second Cuban Misleydis González came in seventh ahead of Valerie Adams.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Yumileidi Cumbá	Cuba	x	18.39	18.74	x	x	19.59	19.59
2	Nadine Kleinert	Germany	18.77	19.55	19.17	18.55	x	x	19.55
A bronze medal was ultimately not awarded after the doping-related disqualifications.
4th	Nadsey Astaptchuk	Belarus	18.25	x	19.01	x	x	x	19.01
5	Natallja Charaneka	Belarus	18.82	18.09	18.87	17.80	18.59	18.96	18.96
6th	Krystyna Zabawka	Poland	x	17.97	18.64	x	18.60	x	18.64
7th	Misleydis González	Cuba	17.33	18.25	18.59	18.52	x	x	18.59
8th	Valerie Adams	New Zealand	18.56	x	17.93	not in the final of the eight best athletes			18.56	These two shot putters would actually have allowed three more attempts
9	Li Meiju	People's Republic of China	17.82	17.61	18.37				18.37
10	Cleopatra Borel	Trinidad and Tobago	17.37	18.28	18.35				18.35
11	Lieja Tunks	Netherlands	x	18.13	18.14				18.14
DOP	Irina Korschanenko	Russia
	Svetlana Kriweljowa	Russia

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  Silver medalist Nadine Kleinert from Germany in 2010

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  The New Zealand Olympic eighth Valerie Adams

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed May 15, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website, accessed on May 15, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on May 15, 2018
• Kleinert: jail for doping offenders! on spox.com, August 15, 2012, accessed May 15, 2018

Video

• 2004 Athens Olympics- Women's Shot Put Final part 1 , published December 31, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed May 15, 2018
• 2004 Athens Olympics- Women's Shot Put Final part 2 , published December 31, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed May 15, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Korschanenko loses gold - Kleinert wins silver Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung August 23, 2004, accessed on April 19, 2018
2. ↑ Shchukina tested positive for Clenbuterol Official site of the IOC August 20, 2004, accessed May 15, 2018
3. ^ IOC Media Relations Team: IOC disqualifies four medallists from Athens 2004 following further analysis of stored samples ( English ) International Olympic Committee. December 5, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
4. ↑ Central American and Caribbean Championships (Women) on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 15, 2018
5. ^ South American Championships (Women) on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 15, 2018
6. ↑ Asian Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 15, 2018
7. ^ Oceania Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 15, 2018
8. ↑ IAAF World Records, Women's Shot Put , accessed on May 15, 2018
9. ↑ "Dopingopfer" Kleinert for life-long bans  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Zeit Online. August 2, 2013, accessed May 15, 2018  
10. ↑ Doping - Belarusian loses gold in the shot put on welt.de. August 13, 2012, accessed May 15, 2018