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Summer Games Gold Medal Winners: Shot-Put

1948	Micheline Ostermeyer, France	45 ft 1.5 in
1952	Galina Zybina, USSR	50 ft 1.5 in
1956	Tamara Tishkyevich, USSR	54 ft 5 in
1960	Tamara Press, USSR	56 ft 9.875 in
1964	Tamara Press, USSR	59 ft 6 in
1968	Margitta Gummel, East Germany	64 ft 4 in
1972	Nadezhda Chizhova, USSR	69 ft
1976	Ivanka Christova, Bulgaria	69 ft 5 in
1980	IIona Sluplanek, East Germany	73 ft 6 in
1984	Claudia Losch, West Germany	67 ft 2.25 in
1988	Natalya Lisovskaya, USSR	72 ft 11.5 in
1992	Svetlana Kriveleva, Unified Team¹	69 ft 1.25 in
1996	Astrid Kumbernuss, Germany	67 ft 5.5 in
2000	Yanina Korolchik, Belarus	67 ft 5.5 in
2004	Yumileidi Cumba, Cuba	64 ft 3.26 in
2008	Valerie Vili, New Zealand	67 ft 5.44 in

1. Former Soviet Union team.

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