2012 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Shot put | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 32 athletes from 21 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium London | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 6, 2012 | ||||||||
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The shot put women at the 2012 Olympics in London was on August 6, 2012 at the Olympic Stadium London discharged. 32 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the New Zealander Valerie Adams , who won ahead of the two Chinese women Gong Lijiao and Li Ling .
For Germany took Nadine Kleinert , Christina Schwanitz and Josephine Terlecki part. Kleinert and Terlecki were eliminated from the qualification. Schwanitz reached the final and was ninth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic Champion | Valerie Vili ( New Zealand ) - maiden name Valerie Adams: Vili | 20.56 m | Beijing 2008 |
world champion | Valerie Adams ( New Zealand ) | 21.24 m | Daegu 2011 |
European champion | Nadine Kleinert ( Germany ) | 19.18 m | Helsinki 2012 |
Central America and Caribbean champion | Cleopatra Borel ( Trinidad and Tobago ) | 19.00 m | Mayagüez 2011 |
South America Champion | Natalia Ducó ( Chile ) | 17.15 m | Buenos Aires 2011 |
Asian champion | Meng Qiangqiang ( People's Republic of China ) | 18.31 m | Kobe 2011 |
African champion | Chinwe Okoro ( Nigeria ) | 16.21 m | Porto-Novo 2012 |
Oceania champion | Alexaraee Toeaina ( American Samoa ) | 11.44 m | Cairns 2012 |
Existing records
World record | Natalja Lisovskaya ( Soviet Union ) | 22.63 m | Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia ) | June 7, 1987 |
Olympic record | Ilona Slupianek ( GDR ) | 22.41 m | Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia ) | July 24, 1980 |
Remarks:
- All times in this article are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).
- All widths are noted in meters (m).
Doping and its consequences
The shot put at these games resulted in two cases of doping:
- The day after the final, the Belarusian Nadseja Astaptschuk , who had initially occupied first place, was disqualified. The anabolic steroid methenolone was detected in her two doping samples . The next placed athletes moved up one rank each.
- In 2016, follow-up examinations also detected prohibited substances in Yevgenia Kolodko's sample. She was diagnosed with the anabolic steroid Turinabol and the growth hormone Ipamorelin. Kolodko was subsequently disqualified. Even now the next placed athletes moved up one rank each.
Affected by these doping frauds were not only the athletes who only subsequently enjoyed their earned medals, but also other female shot putters.
- In the qualification, two athletes who should have participated in the final were eliminated:
- Cleopatra Borel , Trinidad and Tobago - 18.36m in qualifying group A.
- Nadine Kleinert , Germany - 18.36 m in qualification group B.
- In the final, two athletes were deprived of their additional three attempts, which they would have been entitled to as seventh and eighth place:
- Irina Tarasova , Russia
- Natalia Ducó , Chile
qualification
August 6, 2012, 10:45 am
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance was 18.90 m. Since only six athletes exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), two of whom were doped, as later proved, the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to a total of twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 18.45 m had to be achieved for participation in the finals.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Valerie Adams | New Zealand | x | 20.40 | - | 20.40 | |
2 | Li Ling | People's Republic of China | 18.86 | 19.23 | - | 19.23 | |
3 | Michelle Carter | United States | 18.27 | 18.63 | x | 18.63 | |
4th | Christina Schwanitz | Germany | 18.44 | 18.43 | 18.62 | 18.62 | |
5 | Cleopatra Borel | Trinidad and Tobago | 18.26 | 18.36 | 18.34 | 18.36 | actually qualified for the final |
6th | Chiara Rosa | Italy | 17.91 | 18.14 | 18.30 | 18.30 | |
7th | Jillian Camarena-Williams | United States | 18.22 | 17.99 | 17.51 | 18.22 | |
8th | Josephine Terlecki | Germany | 17.78 | x | 17.73 | 17.78 | |
9 | Leila Rajabi | Iran | 17.17 | 17.55 | 17.42 | 17.55 | |
10 | Julie Labonté | Canada | 17.48 | 17.32 | x | 17.48 | |
11 | Anita Marton | Hungary | 16.29 | 17.04 | 17.48 | 17.48 | |
12 | Anna Avdeeva | Russia | 17.47 | x | x | 17.47 | |
13 | Mailín Vargas | Cuba | 16.76 | 16.64 | x | 16.76 | |
14th | Sandra Lemos | Colombia | 16.50 | 16.07 | x | 16.50 | |
15th | Yelena Smolyanova | Uzbekistan | 14.35 | 14.43 | - | 14.43 | |
DOP | Nadsey Astaptchuk | Belarus | - | - | admitted to the finals |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Gong Lijiao | People's Republic of China | 19.11 | - | - | 19.11 | |
2 | Liu Xiangrong | People's Republic of China | 18.87 | 18.96 | - | 18.96 | |
3 | Irina Tarasova | Russia | 18.55 | 18.59 | 18.76 | 18.76 | |
4th | Natallja Michnewitsch | Belarus | 18.60 | 18.12 | 18.30 | 18.60 | |
5 | Geisa Arcanjo | Brazil | x | 18.47 | 18.33 | 18.47 | |
6th | Natalia Ducó | Chile | 18.45 | 18.23 | 18.17 | 18.45 | |
7th | Nadine Kleinert | Germany | x | 18.06 | 18.36 | 18.36 | actually qualified for the final |
8th | Úrsula Ruiz | Spain | 17.99 | x | x | 17.99 | |
9 | Janina Karoltschyk-Pravalinskaja | Belarus | 17.68 | 17.87 | 17.69 | 17.87 | |
10 | Tia Brooks | United States | 17.21 | 17.72 | 17.29 | 17.72 | |
11 | Misleydis González | Cuba | 17.68 | 17.61 | 17.35 | 17.68 | |
12 | Lin Chia-ying | Chinese Taipei | 16.74 | 17.43 | x | 17.43 | NO |
13 | Alexandra Fisher | Kazakhstan | 15.84 | 16.16 | x | 16.16 | |
14th | 'Ana Po'uhila | Tonga | 15.80 | 15.75 | 15.11 | 15.80 | |
ogV | Radoslava Mawrodiewa | Bulgaria | x | x | x | - | without space |
DOP | Yevgenia Kolodko | Russia | - | - | admitted to the finals |
final
August 6, 2012, 7:15 pm
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, six of them by qualifying distance and another six by their placements. Three Chinese women fought for the medals together with one participant each from Brazil, Chile, Germany, New Zealand, Russia, Belarus and the USA. In addition, a Russian woman and a Belarusian woman who were doped took part in the final. Ironically, these two initially took first and second place. However, due to their doping fraud, they will not play a role in the following description of the final process.
The New Zealander Valerie Adams was the 2008 Olympic champion and three-time world champion as the big favorite. She actually only had competition from the athletes who subsequently turned out to be doped. For the places behind Adams, the American Michelle Carter and the Chinese had the best prospects.
Adams took the lead in the first attempt with 20.61 m, followed by the two Chinese women Gong Lijiao with 20.13 m and Liu Xiangrong with 19.18 m. The American Michelle Carter was fourth with 19.05 m. Adams improved to 20.70 m after an invalid shot. In the fifth attempt, Gong was able to increase to 20.22 m, the decision on the first two places was thus made. But in the battle for third place it remained exciting. First, Carter came in round four 19.42 m and was thus interim third. But the Chinese Li Ling reached 19.63 m with her last stroke and ultimately won bronze.
After Tamara Press from the Soviet Union - in 1956 and 1960 - Valerie Adams was only the second shot putter to repeat her Olympic victory.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Valerie Adams | New Zealand | 20.61 | x | 20.70 | x | x | 20.24 | 20.70 | |
2 | Gong Lijiao | People's Republic of China | 20.13 | 19.67 | 19.91 | 19.76 | 20.22 | x | 20.22 | |
3 | Li Ling | People's Republic of China | 18.87 | 18.77 | 19.28 | x | 19.63 | 19.58 | 19.63 | |
4th | Michelle Carter | United States | 19.05 | 18.83 | 18.92 | 19.42 | 19.12 | 18.88 | 19.42 | |
5 | Liu Xiangrong | People's Republic of China | 19.18 | 18.88 | 18.74 | x | 18.47 | 18.77 | 19.18 | |
6th | Geisa Arcanjo | Brazil | 18.27 | x | 19.02 | x | x | 17.19 | 19.02 | |
7th | Irina Tarasova | Russia | 19.00 | 18.80 | x | not in the final of the eight best athletes |
19.00 | actually entitled to 3 more hits |
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8th | Natalia Ducó | Chile | 18.80 | 18.70 | 18.62 | 18.80 | ||||
9 | Christina Schwanitz | Germany | 18.20 | 18.47 | x | 18.47 | ||||
10 | Natallja Michnewitsch | Belarus | 18.42 | x | 18.27 | 18.42 | ||||
DOP | Nadsey Astaptchuk | Belarus | Results canceled for doping abuse |
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Yevgenia Kolodko | Russia |
Web links
- SportsReference Shot Put , accessed September 24, 2018
- Official report , accessed September 24, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation (English) , accessed on September 24, 2018
Video
- Women Shot Put - Final - Athletics - London 2012 - Olympics on youtube.com, published July 28, 2016, accessed September 24, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 800 , accessed on September 24, 2018
- ↑ a b c Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 13, 2012 , accessed on September 24, 2018
- ↑ a b c Spiegel Online on August 21, 2016 , accessed on September 24, 2018