Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's shot put

The women's shot put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

throwing event at the 1960 Olympic Games
1960 Summer Olympics
The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960 in Rome, Italy...

took place on September 2.

Results

Top 12 throwers and ties plus all throwers reaching 14.50 metres advanced to the finals. All distances are listen in metres.

Qualifying

Rank	Name	Mark	1	2	3
1T	Earlene Brown Earlene Brown Earlene Brown was a U.S. African American athlete notable for her careers in the sports of track and field and roller games. Brown was born in Laredo, Texas.-Track and Field Career:...	16.15	16.15	pass	pass
1T	Valerie Sloper	16.07	16.07	pass	pass
3	Tamara Press Tamara Press Tamara Natanovna Press is a former Soviet shot putter and discus thrower in the 1960s.-Career:Press is Jewish. She competed for VSS Trud...	16.00	13.23	16.00	pass
4	Wilfriede Hoffmann	15.84	15.84	pass	pass
5	Renate Boy	15.78	15.78	pass	pass
6	Johanna Lüttge Johanna Lüttge Johanna Lüttge-Hübner is an East German athlete who competed mainly in the Shot put. She participated in the 1956 Summer Olympics, in the 1960 Summer Olympics, and in the 1964 Summer Olympics for the United Team of Germany.She won the silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome,...	15.51	15.51	pass	pass
7	Zinaida Doynikova	15.10	15.10	pas	pass
8	Galina Zybina Galina Zybina Galina Ivanovna Zybina was a Russian shot-putter and javelin thrower who won three Olympic medals. She trained at VSS Zenit and later at VSS Trud. Her fame rests primarily on eight consecutive world records in the shot put .-External links:*...	15.03	15.03	pass	pass
9	Jadwiga Klimaj	14.85	foul	foul	14.85
10	Milena Usenik	14.74	14.20	14.74	pass
11	Věra Černa	14.51	14.51	pass	pass
12	Eugenia Rusin	14.50	14.28	14.50	pass
13	Lidiya Sharamovich	14.09	14.06	14.09	foul
14	Tsvetanka Krasteva	13.99	13.66	13.99	foul
15	Yasuko Matsuda	13.51	13.51	12.56	12.99
16	Suzanne Farmer	13.10	12.03	13.10	pass
17	Ayala Hetzroni	12.59	12.59	12.59	pass
18	Wu Jin-Yun	11.76	11.53	11.42	11.76

Final

Rank	Name	Mark	1	2	3	4	5	6	Notes
	Tamara Press Tamara Press Tamara Natanovna Press is a former Soviet shot putter and discus thrower in the 1960s.-Career:Press is Jewish. She competed for VSS Trud...	17.32	16.08	17.32 OR	16.40	16.19	16.20	16.14	OR
	Johanna Lüttge Johanna Lüttge Johanna Lüttge-Hübner is an East German athlete who competed mainly in the Shot put. She participated in the 1956 Summer Olympics, in the 1960 Summer Olympics, and in the 1964 Summer Olympics for the United Team of Germany.She won the silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome,...	16.61	16.21	16.59 OR	15.74	15.20	15.40	16.61
	Earlene Brown Earlene Brown Earlene Brown was a U.S. African American athlete notable for her careers in the sports of track and field and roller games. Brown was born in Laredo, Texas.-Track and Field Career:...	16.42	15.73	16.34	16.07	15.80	15.95	16.42
4	Valerie Sloper	16.39	16.11	16.26	15.72	16.39	16.21	16.07
5	Zinaida Doynikova	16.13	foul	15.72	15.40	15.65	16.13	15.52
6	Renate Boy	15.94	15.61	15.94	15.40	15.07	15.20	15.60
7	Galina Zybina Galina Zybina Galina Ivanovna Zybina was a Russian shot-putter and javelin thrower who won three Olympic medals. She trained at VSS Zenit and later at VSS Trud. Her fame rests primarily on eight consecutive world records in the shot put .-External links:*...	15.56	13.82	15.56	15.27
8	Wilfriede Hoffmann	15.14	14.87	14.75	15.14
9	Věra Černa	15.06	15.06	14.29	foul
10	Jadwiga Klimaj	14.66	14.06	14.66	13.78
11	Eugenia Rusin	14.55	foul	14.55	14.18
12	Milena Usenik	14.19	14.19	14.12	14.11

Key: OR = Olympic record

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