Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's shot put

Women's shot put at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 4 & 7
Medalists
Nadezhda Chizhova  Soviet Union Margitta Gummel  East Germany Ivanka Khristova  Bulgaria

Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The women's shot put field event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place on September 4 & 7. Nadezhda Chizhova was very disappointed with her bronze medal finish in 1968 Olympics. She has won the (1966, 1969 and the 1971) European Athletics Championships. Since 1968 she has broken the world record six times. The only threat for the gold medal came from Margitta Gummel the defending Olympic Champion.

Results

All throwers reaching and the top 12 including ties, advanced to the finals. All qualifiers are listen in blue. All distances are listed in metres.

Qualifying

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1st throw	2nd throw	3rd throw
1	Ivanka Khristova	Bulgaria	19.20	19.20	p	p
2	Marianne Adam	East Germany	19.11	19.11	p	p
3	Margitta Gummel	East Germany	18.82	18.82	p	p
4	Helena Fibingerová	Czechoslovakia	18.66	18.66	p	p
5	Nadezhda Chizhova	Soviet Union	18.54	18.54	p	p
6	Marita Lange	East Germany	18.16	18.16	p	p
7	Antonina Ivanova	Soviet Union	17.87	17.87	p	p
8	Radostina Vasekova	Bulgaria	17.78	17.78	p	p
9	Elena Stoyanova	Bulgaria	17.70	17.70	p	p
10	Ludwika Chewińska	Poland	17.40	17.40	p	p
11	Esfir Dolzhenko	Soviet Union	17.18	17.18	p	p
12	Valentina Cioltan	Romania	16.85	16.85	p	p
13	Judit Bogná	Hungary	16.52	16.52	p	p
14	Maren Seidler	United States	16.18	15.63	16.05	16.18
15	Baeg Ok-Ja	23x15px South Korea	15.78	x	15.78	x
16	Jan Svendsen	United States	14.96	14.48	x	14.96
17	Rosa Molina	Chile	14.61	14.59	14.61	14.41
18	Nnenna Njoku	Nigeria	10.63	10.63	10.40	9.06

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1st throw	2nd throw	3rd throw	4th throw	5th throw	6th throw
	Nadezhda Chizhova	Soviet Union	21.03 WR	21.03	20.36	20.58	19.97	x	x
	Margitta Gummel	East Germany	20.22	18.46	18.83	19.55	20.22	19.53	x
	Ivanka Khristova	Bulgaria	19.35	19.35	x	19.22	x	18.82	18.95
4	Esfir Dolzhenko	Soviet Union	19.24	18.43	19.24	x	18.74	x	x
5	Marianne Adam	East Germany	18.94	18.75	x	18.58	18.94	18.91	18.71
6	Marita Lange	East Germany	18.85	x	18.46	18.29	18.85	18.38	18.71
7	Helena Fibingerová	Czechoslovakia	18.81	18.62	x	x	18.59	18.81	x
8	Elena Stoyanova	Bulgaria	18.34	18.24	17.75	18.34	x	17.55	x
9	Antonina Ivanova	Soviet Union	18.28	18.28	17.99	17.98
10	Ludwika Chewińska	Poland	18.24	17.71	18.24	17.73
11	Judit Bognár	Hungary	18.23	17.93	17.97	18.23
12	Radostina Vasekova	Bulgaria	17.86	17.86	17.48	17.52
13	Valentina Cioltan	Romania	16.62	16.37	16.62	x

Key: WR = world record; p = pass; x = fault

References

• Sports Reference
• Official report