Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's shot put

Women's shot put at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	August 4 (qualifying and final)
Medalists
Micheline Ostermeyer France   Amelia Piccinini Italy   Ine Schäffer Austria

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Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
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
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
10 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
Decathlon		men

The women's shot put event was, for the first time, part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on August 4, 1948. The final was won by Frenchwoman Micheline Ostermeyer.

Results

Final standings

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
	Micheline Ostermeyer	France	13.750	OR
	Amelia Piccinini	Italy	13.095
	Ine Schäffer	Austria	13.080
4	Paulette Veste	France	12.985
5	Jaroslava Křítková-Komárková	Czechoslovakia	12.920
6	Anni Bruk	Austria	12.500
7	Marija Radosavljević	Yugoslavia	12.355
8	Bevis Reid	Great Britain	12.170
9	Ingeborg Mello	Argentina	12.085
10	Paulette Laurent	France	12.030
11	Eivor Olson	Sweden	11.840
12	Marianne Schläger	Austria	11.775

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Women's shot put, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-09-28.