The women's shot put at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held on 18 August 2004 at the Ancient Olympia Stadium. It was originally planned to hold the discus throw 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. There were 38 competitors from 28 nations. After a series of doping-related disqualifications, the event was won by Yumileidi Cumba of Cuba, the nation's first medal in the event. All distances are given in metres.

Disqualifications

On 23 August 2004, Irina Korzhanenko of Russia was stripped of her gold medal and received a lifetime ban by the International Olympic Committee (as it was her second doping offense after 1999) after she tested positive for the steroid stanozolol. Accordingly, Cuba's Yumileidi Cumbá, Germany's Nadine Kleinert, and Korzhanenko's teammate Svetlana Krivelyova were upgraded to the medal positions.

On 5 December 2012, eight years after the official medal ceremony, Krivelyova was disqualified and stripped of her bronze medal after a re-analysis of her 2004 sample tested positive for oxandrolone. The bronze medal was not re-awarded. Аs the next two finishers Nadzeya Astapchuk and Natallia Kharaneka had both been banned for doping offenses since 2004, the IOC decided to declare the bronze medal vacant (in the official publication of the results, Nadzeya Astapchuk is listed third, but without getting a bronze medal).

Competition format Each athlete receives three throws in the qualifying round. All who achieve the qualifying distance progress to the final. If less than twelve athletes achieve this mark, then the twelve furthest throwing athletes reach the final. Each finalist is allowed three throws in last round, with the top eight athletes after that point being given three further attempts.

Schedule All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2) Date Time RoundWednesday, 18 August 2004 08:3016:00 QualificationFinal

Records Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

No new records were set during the competition.

Results

Qualifying round Rule: Qualifying standard 18.50 (Q) or at least 12 best qualified (q).

Rank Group Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes 1 B Nadzeya Astapchuk 19.69 19.69 Q 2 A Irina Korzhanenko 19.43 19.43 Q 3 A Yumileidi Cumbá 19.10 19.10 Q 4 B Cleopatra Borel 18.90 18.90 Q, NR 5 A Valerie Adams 18.79 18.79 Q 6 A Nadine Kleinert 18.65 18.65 Q 7 A Krystyna Zabawska 18.05 18.61 18.61 Q 8 B Svetlana Krivelyova 18.45 17.89 18.57 18.57 Q 9 A Natallia Kharaneka 17.70 18.52 18.52 Q 10 B Lieja Tunks 18.38 18.33 18.38 q 11 A Misleydis González 18.33 18.15 18.33 q 12 B Li Meiju 18.16 18.01 18.13 18.16 q 13 B Kalliopi Ouzouni 18.03 17.87 18.03 14 B Olga Ryabinkina 18.00 17.99 18.00 15 B Fior Vásquez 16.00 17.99 17.08 17.99 SB 16 B Astrid Kumbernuss 17.89 17.52 17.86 17.89 17 A Laurence Manfredi 17.78 17.05 17.20 17.78 18 A Elisângela Adriano 17.31 17.07 17.44 17.44 19 B Irini Terzoglou 17.34 17.34 20 B Oksana Zakharchuk 17.19 17.28 17.28 21 A Zhang Xiaoyu 17.03 17.22 16.21 17.22 22 B Kristin Heaston 16.41 17.17 17.17 23 B Nadine Beckel 17.11 17.03 17.11 24 A Li Fengfeng 16.80 16.36 16.90 16.90 25 A Zhang Guirong 16.58 16.51 16.58 26 B Juttaporn Krasaeyan 16.45 16.49 16.22 16.49 27 A Laura Gerraughty 15.94 16.47 16.47 28 A Kimberly Barrett 15.80 16.45 16.09 16.45 29 A Lee Mi-young 15.76 16.35 16.35 30 B Irache Quintanal 15.27 15.99 15.52 15.99 31 B Aneliya Kumanova 15.49 15.91 15.50 15.91 32 B Chinatsu Mori 15.86 14.59 15.86 33 B Ana Po'uhila 14.16 15.33 15.08 15.33 34 A Filiz Kadoğan 15.20 14.73 15.20 35 A Mariam Kevkhishvili 14.10 15.02 15.06 15.06 36 A Iolanta Ulyeva 14.48 14.55 14.88 14.88 37 B Éva Kürti 14.60 14.60 A Olga Shchukina 14.19 14.13 14.44 14.44

Olga Shchukina of Uzbekistan was disqualified after she tested positive for clenbuterol during the pre-competition screening process.

Final Rank Athlete Nationality123456 Result Notes Yumileidi Cumbá 18.3918.7419.5919.59 Nadine Kleinert 18.7719.5519.1718.5519.55SB not awarded 3 Nadzeya Astapchuk 18.2519.0119.01 4 Natallia Kharaneka 18.8218.0918.8717.8018.5918.9618.96 5 Krystyna Zabawska 17.9718.6418.6018.64 6 Misleydis González 17.3318.2518.5918.5218.59 7 Valerie Adams 18.5617.93 18.56 8 Li Meiju 17.8217.6118.37 18.37 9 Cleopatra Borel 17.3718.2818.35 18.35 10 Lieja Tunks 18.1318.14 18.14 — Irina Korzhanenko 20.4120.7021.0620.0421.06 — Svetlana Krivelyova 18.5519.4919.2919.1519.2018.4419.49 IOC decided to declare the bronze medal vacant (in the official publication of the results, Nadzeya Astapchuk is listed third, but without getting a bronze medal).

References

External links Official Olympic Report