Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's shot put

Athletics at the 1980 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 event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union had an entrylist of 14 competitors. The final was held on Thursday 24 July 1980.

Medalists

Gold	Ilona Slupianek East Germany (GDR)
Silver	Svetlana Krachevskaia Soviet Union (URS)
Bronze	Margitta Pufe East Germany (GDR)

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 1980 Summer Olympics
World Record	Ilona Slupianek (GDR)	22.45 m	May 10, 1980	Potsdam, East Germany
Olympic Record	Ivanka Khristova (BUL)	21.16 m	July 31, 1976	Montreal, Canada
Broken records during the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic Record	Margitta Pufe (GDR)	21.20 m	July 24, 1980	Moscow, Soviet Union
Olympic Record	Ilona Slupianek (GDR)	22.41 m	July 24, 1980	Moscow, Soviet Union

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Ilona Slupianek (GDR)	22.41	21.81	21.42	21.60	22.00	21.85	22.41 m	OR
	Svetlana Krachevskaya (URS)	20.00	20.67	21.42	X	21.03	X	21.42 m
	Margitta Pufe (GDR)	21.20	21.07	20.42	20.72	20.05	20.36	21.20 m
4	Nunu Abashidze (URS)	20.74	X	X	X	20.02	21.15	21.15 m
5	Verzhinia Veselinova (BUL)	20.72	19.75	20.55	20.37	X	X	20.72 m
6	Elena Stoyanova (BUL)	20.22	19.80	19.56	19.83	20.00	20.18	20.22 m
7	Natalya Akhrimenko (URS)	19.64	19.63	19.74	X	X	19.28	19.74 m
8	Ines Reichenbach (GDR)	19.19	19.66	19.49	19.03	19.65	19.63	19.66 m
9	María Elena Sarría (CUB)	19.20	19.37	18.91				19.37 m
10	Zdena Bartoňová (TCH)	17.43	18.40	X				18.40 m
11	Ivanka Petrova (BUL)	18.34	X	18.28				18.34 m
12	Gael Mulhall (AUS)	17.45	X	18.00				18.00 m
13	Angela Littlewood (GBR)	16.14	16.35	17.53				17.53 m
14	Cinzia Petrucci (ITA)	17.17	17.00	17.27				17.27 m

See also

• 1978 Women's European Championships Shot Put (Prague)
• 1982 Women's European Championships Shot Put (Athens)
• 1983 Women's World Championships Shot Put (Helsinki)
• 1986 Women's European Championships Shot Put (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Women's World Championships Shot Put (Rome)

References

• Results
• sports-reference