1954 European Athletics Championships – Women's shot put

Events at the 1954 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
10,000 m track walk		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The women's shot put at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 26 August 1954.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Galina Zybina  Soviet Union
Silver	Mariya Kuznetsova  Soviet Union
Bronze	Tamara Tyshkevich  Soviet Union

Results

Final

26 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Galina Zybina	Soviet Union	15.65	CR
	Mariya Kuznetsova	Soviet Union	14.99
	Tamara Tyshkevich	Soviet Union	14.78
4	Adéla Tislerová	Czechoslovakia	14.02
5	Marianne Werner	West Germany	13.93
6	Marija Radosavljević	Yugoslavia	13.71
7	Marlene Biedermann	West Germany	12.96
8	Mária Fehér	Hungary	12.93
9	Anni Pöll	Austria	12.89
10	Melania Velicu	Romania	12.73
11	Regina Branner	Austria	12.67
12	Jaroslava Komárková-Krítková	Czechoslovakia	12.53
13	Herlinde Peyker	Austria	12.30
14	Rosmarie Bosshard	Switzerland	11.86
15	Simone Saenen	Belgium	11.64
16	Nicole Oosterlynck	Belgium	11.04

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 16 athletes from 9 countries participated in the event.

Austria (3)  Belgium (2)  Czechoslovakia (2)

Hungary (1)  Romania (1)

Soviet Union (3)   Switzerland (1)

West Germany (2)  Yugoslavia (1)

References

1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 377–384, retrieved 13 August 2014