Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's shot put

Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
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
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men
Wheelchair races

The Women's Shot Put event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entrylist of 26 competitors, with two qualifying groups before the final (12) took place on Saturday October 1, 1988.

Medalists

Gold	Natalya Lisovskaya Soviet Union (URS)
Silver	Kathrin Neimke East Germany (GDR)
Bronze	Li Meisu China (CHN)

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 1988 Summer Olympics
World Record	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	22.63 m	July 7, 1987	Moscow, Soviet Union
Olympic Record	Ilona Slupianek (GDR)	22.41 m	July 24, 1980	Moscow, Soviet Union

Qualification

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
			1	2	3
1	1	Claudia Losch (FRG)	18.82	20.39	—	20.39 m
2	2	Li Meisu (CHN)	20.30	—	—	20.30 m
3	3	Kathrin Neimke (GDR)	20.18	—	—	20.18 m
4	4	Heike Hartwig (GDR)	19.22	20.06	—	20.06 m
5	7	Zdeňka Šilhavá (TCH)	19.74	—	—	19.74 m
6	9	Cong Yuzhen (CHN)	19.55	—	—	19.56 m
7	10	Svetla Mitkova (BUL)	18.80	19.53	—	19.53 m
8	11	Bonnie Dasse (USA)	19.29	19.45	18.94	19.45 m
9	13	Valentina Fedjuschina (URS)	16.93	19.05	19.06	19.06 m
10	18	Connie Price (USA)	15.61	X	17.09	17.09 m
11	20	María Isabel Urrutia (COL)	15.13	14.85	14.42	15.13 m
12	21	Yvonne Hanson-Nortey (GBR)	15.13	14.86	X	15.13 m
13	25	Siololovau Ikavuka (TGA)	12.31	X	11.18	12.31 m

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
			1	2	3
1	5	Ines Müller (GDR)	19.79	—	—	19.79 m
2	6	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	19.78	—	—	19.78 m
3	8	Huang Zhihong (CHN)	19.71	—	—	19.71 m
4	12	Natalya Akhrimenko (URS)	19.26	19.40	X	19.40 m
5	14	Iris Plotzitzka (FRG)	18.79	19.06	X	19.06 m
6	15	Ramona Pagel (USA)	18.55	18.45	18.36	18.55 m
7	16	Judy Oakes (GBR)	17.76	18.34	18.02	18.34 m
8	17	Myrtle Augee (GBR)	16.85	16.44	17.31	17.31 m
9	19	Deborah Saint-Phard (HAI)	14.87	15.35	16.02	16.02 m
10	22	Grace Apiafi (NGR)	15.06	15.05	14.58	15.06 m
11	23	Choi Mi-Sun (KOR)	13.90	13.44	13.97	13.97 m
12	24	Jeanne-Nicole Ngo (CMR)	11.84	12.73	12.61	12.73 m
—	—	Sona Vasickova (TCH)	—	—	—	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	21.69	21.49	21.24	21.74	21.11	22.24	22.24 m
	Kathrin Neimke (GDR)	19.64	20.07	19.82	20.37	20.72	21.07	21.07 m
	Li Meisu (CHN)	19.99	20.03	20.72	20.49	21.06	20.84	21.06 m
4	Ines Müller (GDR)	20.37	19.34	X	X	19.55	20.34	20.37 m
5	Claudia Losch (FRG)	20.08	X	19.40	20.27	X	X	20.27 m
6	Heike Hartwig (GDR)	19.94	20.20	19.71	20.16	X	19.75	20.20 m
7	Natalya Akhrimenko (URS)	19.37	19.86	19.18	X	19.60	20.13	20.13 m
8	Huang Zhihong (CHN)	18.26	19.15	19.82	19.79	19.73	19.56	19.82 m
9	Cong Yuzhen (CHN)	19.69	X	19.65				19.69 m
10	Svetla Mitkova (BUL)	18.29	18.79	19.09				19.09 m
11	Zdeňka Šilhavá (TCH)	16.85	18.86	X				18.86 m
12	Bonnie Dasse (USA)	17.60	17.59	17.51				17.60 m

See also

• 1986 Women's European Championships Shot Put (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Women's World Championships Shot Put (Rome)
• 1990 Women's European Championships Shot Put (Split)
• 1991 Women's World Championships Shot Put (Tokyo)

References

• (English) Official Report
• (English) todor66
• (English) sports-reference