The 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....

 events at the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

 were held on 18 August 2004 at the Ancient Olympia Stadium. It was originally planned to hold the discus throw

Discus throw

The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

 at this venue, but it was discovered that the field was not large enough to accommodate the range of modern discus throwers, and would have posed a danger to spectators. As such, it was decided instead to hold the shot put at the site, despite the fact that the shot put was not contested at the Ancient Olympic Games. All distances are given in metres.

From the qualifying rounds the top twelve competitors progressed to the final where the previous rounds distances were ignored and they were given a further three throws. After that the top eight went on to have a further three attempts to decide the gold medal

Gold medal

A gold medal is typically the medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture...

list. This had the result that the person with the longest distance throw - Nadzeya Astapchuk at 19.69 m - was not beaten by the eventual medal winners and was not one herself.

American Kristin Heaston

Kristin Heaston

Kristin L. Heaston is a female shot putter from the United States.Heaston was a participant in the 2008 Olympic Games where she placed 23rd in the qualifying round with a throw of 17.34m...

 opened the competition, the first athlete to compete in the Olympic Games at the original site in 1,635 years. The favorite was Irina Korzhanenko

Irina Korzhanenko

Irina Korzhanenko is a former Russian shot putter. She gained international recognition when she won a bronze medal at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships...

 (RUS), who had won the Russian indoor and outdoor championships in 2004, defeating 1992 Olympic champion Svetlana Krivelyova

Svetlana Krivelyova

Svetlana Vladimirovna Krivelyova is an athlete who specialises in the shot put....

. And Korzhanenko ruled the event. Her first throw of 20.41 metres (66-11½) was good enough to win, but she bettered it in rounds two and three to seemingly win the gold medal with 21.06 metres (69-1¼).

However a few days later she was disqualified for a doping positive for stanozolol, an anabolic steroid. The gold medal then reverted to Cuba’s Yumileidi Cumbá

Yumileidi Cumbá

Yumileidi Cumbá Jay is a Cuban shot putter.Her greatest season was 2004, when she won an Olympic gold medal and achieved a new personal best throw....

, who had only made the final three throws with her third round mark of 18.74 metres (61-5¾), and was in sixth place until her final throw. Cumbá had been 2003 Pan American Games

2003 Pan American Games

The 14th Pan American Games were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from 1 to 17 August 2003. The successful bid for the games was made in the mid-1990s, when this country had one of the highest growth rates in Latin America....

 champion, after winning a silver medal in that event in 1999 and a bronze in 1995.

Medalists

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* Irina Korzhanenko

Irina Korzhanenko

Irina Korzhanenko is a former Russian shot putter. She gained international recognition when she won a bronze medal at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships...

 (RUS

Russia at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Russia at the 2004 Summer Olympics was represented by the Russian Olympic Committee . The team won 92 total medals , including 27 gold medals .-Medalists:-Archery:MenWomen-Athletics:...

) was stripped of her gold medal after she tested positive for stanozolol.

Schedule

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  Qualification Round
  Group A	Group B
  18.08.2004 – 08:30h	18.08.2004 – 08:30h
  Final Round
  18.08.2004 – 16:00h

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 2004 Summer Olympics
World Record		22.63 m	June 7, 1987	Moscow Moscow Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent... , Soviet Union Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
Olympic Record		22.41 m	July 24, 1980	Moscow Moscow Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent... , Soviet Union Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
			1	2	3
1	2		19.10	—	—	19.10 m
2	4		18.79	—	—	18.79 m
3	5		18.65	—	—	18.65 m
4	6		18.05	18.61	—	18.61 m
5	8		17.70	18.52	—	18.52 m
6	10		18.33	X	18.15	18.33 m
7	16		17.78	17.05	17.20	17.78 m
8	17		17.31	17.07	17.44	17.44 m
9	20		17.03	17.22	16.21	17.22 m
10	23		16.80	16.36	16.90	16.90 m
11	24		16.58	16.51	X	16.58 m
12	26		15.94	X	16.47	16.47 m
13	27		15.80	16.45	16.09	16.45 m
14	28		15.76	16.35	X	16.35 m
15	33		15.20	14.73	X	15.20 m
16	34		14.10	15.02	15.06	15.06 m
17	35		14.48	14.55	14.88	14.88 m
—	—		19.43	—	—	19.43 m	DSQ
—	—		—	—	—	14.44 m	DSQ

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
			1	2	3
1	1		19.69	—	—	19.69 m
1	3		18.90	—	—	18.90 m	NR Trinidad and Tobago records in athletics The following are the national records in athletics in Trinidad and Tobago maintained by Trinidad and Tobago's national athletics federation: National Association of Athletic Administration of Trinidad and Tobago .-Men:-Women:-Men:-Women:...
1	7		18.45	17.89	18.57	18.57 m
4	9		18.38	X	18.33	18.38 m
5	11		18.16	18.01	18.13	18.16 m
6	12		18.03	17.87	X	18.03 m
7	13		18.00	X	17.99	18.00 m
8	14		16.00	17.99	17.08	17.99 m	SB
9	15		17.89	17.52	17.86	17.89 m
10	18		17.34	X	—	17.34 m
11	19		17.19	17.28	X	17.28 m
12	21		16.41	X	17.17	17.17 m
13	22		17.11	17.03	X	17.11 m
14	25		16.45	16.49	16.22	16.49 m
15	29		15.27	15.99	15.52	15.99 m
16	30		15.49	15.91	15.50	15.91 m
17	31		15.86	14.59	X	15.86 m
18	32		14.16	15.33	15.08	15.33 m
19	36		14.60	X	X	14.60 m

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
		X	18.39	18.74	X	X	19.59	19.59 m
		18.77	19.55	19.17	18.55	X	X	19.55 m	SB
		18.55	19.49	19.29	19.15	19.20	18.44	19.49 m
4		18.25	X	19.01	X	X	X	19.01 m
5		18.82	18.09	18.87	17.80	18.59	18.96	18.96 m
6		X	17.97	18.64	X	18.60	X	18.64 m
7		17.33	18.25	18.59	18.52	X	X	18.59 m
8		18.56	X	17.93				18.56 m
9		17.82	17.61	18.37				18.37 m
10		17.37	18.28	18.35				18.35 m
11		X	18.13	18.14				18.14 m
—		20.41	20.70	21.06	20.04	X	X	21.06	DSQ