2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Women)

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Olympic rings
Stade Olympique des JO de Rio 2016 (28633599424) .jpg
sport athletics
discipline Shot put
gender Women
Attendees 36 athletes from 25 countries
Competition location Estádio Nilton Santos
Competition phase August 12, 2016
Medalists
gold medal Michelle Carter ( USA ) United StatesUnited States 
Silver medal Valerie Adams ( NZL ) New ZealandNew Zealand 
Bronze medal Anita Márton ( HUN ) HungaryHungary 

The women's shot put at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was played on August 12, 2016 at the Estádio Nilton Santos . 36 athletes took part.

The American Michelle Carter became the Olympic champion . She won before Valerie Adams from New Zealand and Anita Márton from Hungary .

Sara Gambetta , Christina Schwanitz and Lena Urbaniak started for Germany . Gambetta and Urbaniak failed to qualify. Schwanitz qualified for the final and finished sixth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic Champion Valerie Adams ( New Zealand ) New ZealandNew Zealand  20.70 m London 2012
world champion Christina Schwanitz ( Germany ) GermanyGermany  20.37 m Beijing 2015
European champion 20.17 m Amsterdam 2016
North / Central America / Caribbean Champion Jillian Camarena-Williams ( USA ) United StatesUnited States  18.62 m San José 2015
South America Champion Geisa Arcanjo ( Brazil ) BrazilBrazil  17.76 m Lima 2015
Asian champion Guo Tianqian ( People's Republic of China ) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  18.59 m Wuhan 2015
African champion Auriol Dongmo Mekemnang ( Cameroon ) CameroonCameroon  17.64 m Durban 2016
Oceania champion Milika Tuivanuavou ( Fiji ) FijiFiji  14.35 m Cairns 2015

Existing records

World record Natalja Lisovskaya ( Soviet Union ) Soviet UnionSoviet Union  22.63 m Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia ) June 7, 1987
Olympic record Ilona Slupianek ( GDR ) Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR  22.41 m Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia ) July 24, 1980

Remarks:

  • All times are based on local time in Rio ( UTC-3 ).
  • All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance required for direct participation in the final was 18.40 m. Since only six athletes exceeded this distance - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best athletes from both groups to twelve participants - highlighted in light green. So finally 17.76 m had to be achieved for the final participation.

Group A

August 12, 2016, 10:05 a.m.

space Surname nation 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Width (m) annotation
1 Valerie Adams New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand 19.74 - - 19.74
2 Michelle Carter United StatesUnited States United States 17.95 19.01 - 19.01
3 Raven Saunders United StatesUnited States United States x 18.83 - 18.83
4th Cleopatra Borel Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 16.94 17.78 18.20 18.20
5 Natalia Ducó ChileChile Chile 18.18 x x 18.18
6th Alyona Dubitskaya BelarusBelarus Belarus x x 17.76 17.76
7th Melissa Boekelman NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 16.97 17.69 x 17.69
8th Bian Ka China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 17.68 17.36 16.84 17.68
9 Brittany crew CanadaCanada Canada 16.67 x 17.45 17.45
10 Sara Gambetta GermanyGermany Germany x 16.93 17.24 17.24
11 Emel Dereli TurkeyTurkey Turkey 17.01 16.86 x 17.01
12 Saily Viart CubaCuba Cuba 15.82 x 16.99 16.99
13 Olha Holodna UkraineUkraine Ukraine 16.10 16.35 16.83 16.83
14th Nwanneka Okwelogu NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 16.67 x x 16.67
15th Sandra Lemos ColombiaColombia Colombia 16.46 16.46 16.12 16.46
16 Leyla Rajabi IranIran Iran 16.10 16.34 16.16 16.34
17th Gao Yang China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 16.17 15.48 x 16.17
18th Dimitriana Surdu Moldova RepublicRepublic of Moldova Moldova 15.14 15.17 15.25 15.25

Group B

August 12, 2016, 10:05 a.m.

space Surname nation 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Width (m) annotation
1 Christina Schwanitz GermanyGermany Germany 19.18 - - 19.18
2 Gong Lijiao China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 18.74 - - 18.74
3 Anita Marton HungaryHungary Hungary 18.51 - - 18.51
4th Geisa Arcanjo BrazilBrazil Brazil 18.27 17.67 x 18.27
5 Auriol Dongmo Mekemnang CameroonCameroon Cameroon 17.92 17.71 x 17.92
6th Alena Abramtschuk BelarusBelarus Belarus 17.78 17.19 16.97 17.78
7th Paulina Guba PolandPoland Poland 17.70 17.56 x 17.70
8th Felisha Johnson United StatesUnited States United States x 17.64 17.69 17.69
9 Julija Leanzjuk BelarusBelarus Belarus 17.66 x 16.69 17.66
10 Ahymará Espinoza VenezuelaVenezuela Venezuela x 17.27 16.77 17.27
11 Radoslava Mawrodiewa BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria x 17.11 17.20 17.20
12 Yaniuvis López CubaCuba Cuba 17.15 x x 17.15
13 Manpreet Kaur IndiaIndia India 16.68 17.06 16.76 17.06
14th Danniel Thomas JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 16.70 16.43 16.99 16.99
15th Taryn suttie CanadaCanada Canada 16.55 16.74 16.60 16.74
16 Lena Urbaniak GermanyGermany Germany 16.32 16.62 x 16.62
17th Galina Obleshchuk UkraineUkraine Ukraine 15.81 x x 15.81
18th Jéssica Inchude Guinea-BissauGuinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau 14.12 15.15 14.84 15.15

  • The Dutchwoman Melissa Boekelman pushed 17.69 m in the qualification and was eliminated

  • Her width of 17.25 m was not enough for the German Sara Gambetta to be in the final

  • The Turkish Emel Dereli failed with her 17.01 m in the qualification

  • The Irish Leyla Rajabi did not reach the final with her 16.34 m

  • The German Lena Urbaniak retired with 16.62 m in the qualification

final

August 12, 2016, 10:00 p.m.

In the final, each participant initially had three attempts, the length of the qualifying round was not counted. The best eight athletes then had three more attempts, the last four were eliminated.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, six of them over the qualification distance, six more over their placements. Two US-Americans and two Belarusians fought for the medals with one athlete each from Brazil, Chile, China, Germany, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Hungary and the USA.

New Zealand's 2012 Olympic champion and 2013 world champion Valerie Adams started as the favorite . Other medal candidates were the Chinese vice world champion from 2015 Gong Lijiao, the US American World Cup third in 2015 and World Cup fourth in 2013 Michelle Carter as well as the German world champion from 2015 and two-time European champion from 2014 and 2016 Christina Schwanitz, who, however, did not quite have the form had to keep up with the best.

As expected, Adams then took the lead on the first lap, which she expanded to 20.42 m in round two. Schwanitz hit 19.03 m in the first attempt and was third behind the American Michelle Carter. who had scored 19.12 m and 19.82 m in the second attempt. The Chinese Gong Lijiao pushed past Schwanitz in the second attempt with 19.39 m. The Hungarian Anita Márton also hit 19.39 m in round three and was fourth because the Chinese had the better second best attempt. Carter secured her second place further and after the fourth attempt with 19.87 m had a lead of 48 cm over Lijiao and Márton.

The sixth and final lap brought another big change. The American Raven Saunders passed Schwanitz with 19.35 m in fifth place. Márton achieved 19.87 m and was only in third place because of the poorer second-best distance. Michelle Carter hit the ball to 20.63 m, breaking the US national record. Quite surprisingly, she became an Olympic champion. Valerie Adams could not improve with 20.39 m and won the silver medal with her stroke of 20.42 m from the second round. Anita Márton won the bronze, she had set a new Hungarian national record with 19.87 m. Gong Lijiao was fourth ahead of Raven Saunders and Christina Schwanitz.

Michelle Carter won the first gold medal for the US in the shot put of women.
Anita Márton was the first Hungarian medalist in this discipline.

space Surname nation 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt 4th attempt 5th attempt 6th attempt Width (m) annotation
1 Michelle Carter United StatesUnited States United States 19.12 19.82 19.44 19.87 19.84 20.63 20.63 NO
2 Valerie Adams New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand 19.79 20.42 19.80 x x 20.39 20.42
3 Anita Marton HungaryHungary Hungary 17.60 18.72 19.39 19.38 19.10 19.87 19.87 NO
4th Gong Lijiao China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 18.98 19.39 19.18 x x x 19.39
5 Raven Saunders United StatesUnited States United States 18.88 x x x x 19.35 19.35
6th Christina Schwanitz GermanyGermany Germany 19.03 x x x x 18.92 19.03
7th Cleopatra Borel Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 18.05 18.24 x 17.94 18.37 x 18.37
8th Alyona Dubitskaya BelarusBelarus Belarus 18.00 18.23 x x x x 18.23
9 Geisa Arcanjo BrazilBrazil Brazil 17.50 17.68 18.16 not in the final of the
eight best athletes		 18.16
10 Natalia Ducó ChileChile Chile 18.07 17.73 17.99 18.07
11 Alena Abramtschuk BelarusBelarus Belarus 17.37 x x 17.37
12 Auriol Dongmo Mekemnang CameroonCameroon Cameroon x 16.99 16.82 16.99

  • Olympic Champion
    Michelle Carter, USA

  • Silver medalist
    Valerie Adams, New Zealand

  • The Chinese Gong Lijiao took fourth place in the final

  • The German Christina Schwanitz came in sixth place

  • The Chilean Natalia Ducó was Olympic tenth

Web links

Video

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 800 , accessed on October 17, 2018