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Sports > Olympics > Summer Olympics Through The Years > Event-by-Event > Track & Field > Women's Olympic Track & Field

Shot Put

Year		Distance
1948	Micheline Ostermeyer, FRA	45- 1¹/2
1952	Galina Zybina, USSR	50- 1³/4	WR
1956	Tamara Tyshkevich, USSR	54- 5	OR
1960	Tamara Press, USSR	56- 10	OR
1964	Tamara Press, USSR	59- 6¹/4	OR
1968	Margitta Gummel, E. Ger	64- 4	WR
1972	Nadezhda Chizhova, USSR	69- 0	WR
1976	Ivanka Hristova, BUL	69- 5¹/4	OR
1980	Ilona Slupianek, E. Ger	73- 6¹/4	OR
1984	Claudia Losch, W. Ger	67- 2¹/4
1988	Natalia Lisovskaya, USSR	72- 11³/4
1992	Svetlana Krivaleva, UT	69- 1¹/4
1996	Astrid Kumbernuss, GER	67- 5¹/2
2000	Yanina Korolchik, BLR	67- 5¹/2
2004	Yumileidi Cumba, CUB^*	64-3¹/4

*Russia’s Irina Korzhanenko (69- 1¹/4) was stripped of the gold for failing a post-competition drug test.

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