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
Medalists Valerie Adams ( NZL )   Gong Lijiao ( CHN )   Li Ling ( CHN )

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
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	20.76	-	-	20.76	admitted to the finals

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
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	19.31	-	-	19.31	admitted to the finals

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  With her 18.30 m, the Italian Chiara Rosa was only fifteen centimeters short of the final

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  The American Jillian Camarena-Williams scored 18.22 m and was eliminated from the qualification

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  17.78 m were not enough for the German Josephine Terlecki to be in the final

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  The German Nadine Kleinert hit 18.36 m and was one of the athletes who were denied participation in the finals by the two doping fraudsters

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  Lin Chia-ying achieved a new national record for Chinese Taipei with 17.43 m, which was not enough for the final

final

Award ceremony:
Kolodko on the left, Astaptschuk in the middle, Adams on the right

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
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
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
	Yevgenia Kolodko	Russia

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  Olympic Champion:
  Valerie Adams, New Zealand

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  Silver medal:
  Gong Lijiao from China

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  The American Michelle Carter took fourth place in the final

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  The Chinese Liu Xiangrong finished fifth in the Olympics

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  The Chilean Natalia Ducó came in eighth place

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  The Olympic contestant Christina Schwanitz from Germany

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  Doping offender Nadseja Ostaptschuk from Belarus

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  The Russian Jewgenija Kolodko was also exposed as a doping sinner

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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 800 , accessed on September 24, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 13, 2012 , accessed on September 24, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Spiegel Online on August 21, 2016 , accessed on September 24, 2018