Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's shot put

Athletics at the 1976 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
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 event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada had an entrylist of 13 competitors. The final was held on 31 July 1976. There was no qualification round.

Medalists

Gold	Ivanka Khristova Bulgaria (BUL)
Silver	Nadezhda Chizhova Soviet Union (URS)
Bronze	Helena Fibingerová Czechoslovakia (TCH)

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
OR	olympic record
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1976 Summer Olympics
World Record	Ivanka Khristova (BUL)	21.89 m	July 4, 1976	Belmeken, Bulgaria
Olympic Record	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	21.03 m	September 7, 1972	Munich, West Germany
Broken records during the 1976 Summer Olympics
Olympic Record	Ivanka Khristova (BUL)	21.16 m	July 31, 1976	Montreal, Canada

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Ivanka Khristova (BUL)	19.96	20.88	20.67	20.47	21.16	20.19	21.16 m
	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	20.84	20.96	X	X	14.16	X	20.96 m
	Helena Fibingerová (TCH)	X	19.68	20.15	X	20.67	X	20.67 m
4	Marianne Adam (GDR)	20.55	X	X	X	18.15	19.50	20.55 m
5	Ilona Slupianek (GDR)	20.52	19.78	19.65	19.80	19.72	20.54	20.54 m
6	Margitta Droese (GDR)	X	17.53	19.15	X	19.64	19.79	19.79 m
7	Eva Wilms (FRG)	X	19.11	19.29	19.29	X	X	19.29 m
8	Elena Stoyanova (BUL)	18.89	18.50	18.85	X	X	18.61	18.89 m
9	Svetlana Krachevskaya (URS)	X	18.11	18.36				18.36 m
10	Faina Melnyk (URS)	17.46	17.77	18.07				18.07 m
11	María Elena Sarría (CUB)	X	16.31	X				16.31 m
12	Maren Seidler (USA)	14.63	15.60	X				15.60 m
13	Lucette Moreau (CAN)	14.79	14.87	15.48				15.48 m

See also

• 1974 Women's European Championships Shot Put (Rome)
• 1978 Women's European Championships Shot Put (Prague)

References

• Results
• sports-reference