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Athletics — Shot Put, Women

Times held 19
Total participants 280
Total countries 67

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1948 Shot Put, Women Olympic 19 12
1952 Shot Put, Women Olympic 20 13
1956 Shot Put, Women Olympic 18 9
1960 Shot Put, Women Olympic 18 12
1964 Shot Put, Women Olympic 16 11
1968 Shot Put, Women Olympic 14 10
1972 Shot Put, Women Olympic 18 11
1976 Shot Put, Women Olympic 13 8
1980 Shot Put, Women Olympic 14 8
1984 Shot Put, Women Olympic 13 8
1988 Shot Put, Women Olympic 25 14
1992 Shot Put, Women Olympic 18 11
1996 Shot Put, Women Olympic 25 16
2000 Shot Put, Women Olympic 25 18
2004 Shot Put, Women Olympic 38 28
2008 Shot Put, Women Olympic 35 22
2012 Shot Put, Women Olympic 32 21
2016 Shot Put, Women Olympic 36 25
2020 Shot Put, Women Olympic 32 22

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1948 Micheline OstermeyerFRA Amelia PiccininiITA Ine SchäfferAUT
1952 Galina ZybinaURS Marianne WernerGER Klavdiya TochonovaURS
1956 Tamara TyshkevichURS Galina ZybinaURS Marianne WernerGER
1960 Tamara PressURS Johanna LüttgeGER Earlene BrownUSA
1964 Tamara PressURS Renate Garisch-CulmbergerGER Galina ZybinaURS
1968 Margitta GummelGDR Marita LangeGDR Nadezhda ChizhovaURS
1972 Nadezhda ChizhovaURS Margitta GummelGDR Ivanka HristovaBUL
1976 Ivanka HristovaBUL Nadezhda ChizhovaURS Helena FibingerováTCH
1980 Ilona SlupianekGDR Esfir KrachevskayaURS Margitta PufeGDR
1984 Claudia LoschFRG Mihaela LoghinROU Gael MartinAUS
1988 Nataliya LisovskayaURS Kathrin NeimkeGDR Li MeisuCHN
1992 Svetlana KrivelyovaEUN Huang ZhihongCHN Kathrin NeimkeGER
1996 Astrid KumbernussGER Sui XinmeiCHN Irina KhudoroshkinaRUS
2000 Yanina KarolchykBLR Larisa PeleshenkoRUS Astrid KumbernussGER
2004 Yumileidi CumbáCUB Nadine KleinertGER ——
2008 Valerie ViliNZL Misleydis GonzálezCUB Gong LijiaoCHN
2012 Valerie AdamsNZL Gong LijiaoCHN Li LingCHN
2016 Michelle CarterUSA Valerie AdamsNZL Anita MártonHUN
2020 Gong LijiaoCHN Raven SaundersUSA Valerie AdamsNZL

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Soviet Union URS 6 3 3 12
East Germany GDR 2 3 1 6
New Zealand NZL 2 1 1 4
Germany GER 1 4 3 8
People's Republic of China CHN 1 3 3 7
United States USA 1 1 1 3
Cuba CUB 1 1 0 2
Bulgaria BUL 1 0 1 2
Belarus BLR 1 0 0 1
France FRA 1 0 0 1
Unified Team EUN 1 0 0 1
West Germany FRG 1 0 0 1
Russian Federation RUS 0 1 1 2
Italy ITA 0 1 0 1
Romania ROU 0 1 0 1
Australia AUS 0 0 1 1
Austria AUT 0 0 1 1
Czechoslovakia TCH 0 0 1 1
Hungary HUN 0 0 1 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Valerie Adams-Vili NZL 2 1 1 4
Tamara Press RUS
URS		 2 0 0 2
Nadezhda Chizhova RUS
URS		 1 1 1 3
Galina Zybina RUS
URS		 1 1 1 3
Gong Lijiao CHN 1 1 1 3