Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's shot put

Women's shot put at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Lenin Central Stadium
Date	24 July
Competitors	14 from 8 nations
Winning distance	22.41 WR
Medalists
Ilona Slupianek  East Germany Svetlana Krachevskaia  Soviet Union Margitta Pufe  East Germany

Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The Women's Shot Put event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union had an entrylist of 14 competitors. The final was held on Thursday 24 July 1980.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Ilona Slupianek  East Germany
Silver	Svetlana Krachevskaia  Soviet Union
Bronze	Margitta Pufe  East Germany

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Records

Standing records prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics
World Record	Ilona Slupianek (GDR)	22.45 m	May 10, 1980	Potsdam, East Germany
Olympic Record	Ivanka Khristova (BUL)	21.16 m	July 31, 1976	Montreal, Canada
Broken records during the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic Record	Margitta Pufe (GDR)	21.20 m	July 24, 1980	Moscow, Soviet Union
Olympic Record	Ilona Slupianek (GDR)	22.41 m	July 24, 1980	Moscow, Soviet Union

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Ilona Slupianek (GDR)	22.41	21.81	21.42	21.60	22.00	21.85	22.41 m	OR
	Svetlana Krachevskaya (URS)	20.00	20.67	21.42	X	21.03	X	21.42 m
	Margitta Pufe (GDR)	21.20	21.07	20.42	20.72	20.05	20.36	21.20 m
4	Nunu Abashidze (URS)	20.74	X	X	X	20.02	21.15	21.15 m
5	Verzhinia Veselinova (BUL)	20.72	19.75	20.55	20.37	X	X	20.72 m
6	Elena Stoyanova (BUL)	20.22	19.80	19.56	19.83	20.00	20.18	20.22 m
7	Natalya Akhrimenko (URS)	19.64	19.63	19.74	X	X	19.28	19.74 m
8	Ines Reichenbach (GDR)	19.19	19.66	19.49	19.03	19.65	19.63	19.66 m
9	María Elena Sarría (CUB)	19.20	19.37	18.91				19.37 m
10	Zdena Bartoňová (TCH)	17.43	18.40	X				18.40 m
11	Ivanka Petrova (BUL)	18.34	X	18.28				18.34 m
12	Gael Mulhall (AUS)	17.45	X	18.00				18.00 m
13	Angela Littlewood (GBR)	16.14	16.35	17.53				17.53 m
14	Cinzia Petrucci (ITA)	17.17	17.00	17.27				17.27 m

See also

• 1978 Women's European Championships Shot Put (Prague)
• 1982 Women's European Championships Shot Put (Athens)
• 1983 Women's World Championships Shot Put (Helsinki)
• 1986 Women's European Championships Shot Put (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Women's World Championships Shot Put (Rome)

References

External links

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