Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's shot put

Women's shot put at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venues	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 30, 1988 (1988-09-30) (qualifications) October 1, 1988 (1988-10-01) (finals)
Competitors	26 from 14 nations
Winning distance	22.24
Medalists
Natalya Lisovskaya  Soviet Union Kathrin Neimke  East Germany Li Meisu  China

Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
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
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Wheelchair races

The Women's Shot Put event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entrylist of 26 competitors, with two qualifying groups before the final (12) took place on Saturday October 1, 1988.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Natalya Lisovskaya  Soviet Union
Silver	Kathrin Neimke  East Germany
Bronze	Li Meisu  China

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Records

Standing records prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics
World Record	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	22.63 m	July 7, 1987	Moscow, Soviet Union
Olympic Record	Ilona Slupianek (GDR)	22.41 m	July 24, 1980	Moscow, Soviet Union

Qualification

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
			1	2	3
1	1	Claudia Losch (FRG)	18.82	20.39	—	20.39 m
2	2	Li Meisu (CHN)	20.30	—	—	20.30 m
3	3	Kathrin Neimke (GDR)	20.18	—	—	20.18 m
4	4	Heike Hartwig (GDR)	19.22	20.06	—	20.06 m
5	7	Zdeňka Šilhavá (TCH)	19.74	—	—	19.74 m
6	9	Cong Yuzhen (CHN)	19.55	—	—	19.56 m
7	10	Svetla Mitkova (BUL)	18.80	19.53	—	19.53 m
8	11	Bonnie Dasse (USA)	19.29	19.45	18.94	19.45 m
9	13	Valentina Fedjuschina (URS)	16.93	19.05	19.06	19.06 m
10	18	Connie Price (USA)	15.61	X	17.09	17.09 m
11	20	María Isabel Urrutia (COL)	15.13	14.85	14.42	15.13 m
12	21	Yvonne Hanson-Nortey (GBR)	15.13	14.86	X	15.13 m
13	25	Siololovau Ikavuka (TGA)	12.31	X	11.18	12.31 m

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
			1	2	3
1	5	Ines Müller (GDR)	19.79	—	—	19.79 m
2	6	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	19.78	—	—	19.78 m
3	8	Huang Zhihong (CHN)	19.71	—	—	19.71 m
4	12	Natalya Akhrimenko (URS)	19.26	19.40	X	19.40 m
5	14	Iris Plotzitzka (FRG)	18.79	19.06	X	19.06 m
6	15	Ramona Pagel (USA)	18.55	18.45	18.36	18.55 m
7	16	Judy Oakes (GBR)	17.76	18.34	18.02	18.34 m
8	17	Myrtle Augee (GBR)	16.85	16.44	17.31	17.31 m
9	19	Deborah Saint-Phard (HAI)	14.87	15.35	16.02	16.02 m
10	22	Grace Apiafi (NGR)	15.06	15.05	14.58	15.06 m
11	23	Choi Mi-seon (KOR)	13.90	13.44	13.97	13.97 m
12	24	Jeanne-Nicole Ngo Minyemeck (CMR)	11.84	12.73	12.61	12.73 m
—	—	Sona Vasickova (TCH)	—	—	—	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	21.69	21.49	21.24	21.74	21.11	22.24	22.24 m
	Kathrin Neimke (GDR)	19.64	20.07	19.82	20.37	20.72	21.07	21.07 m
	Li Meisu (CHN)	19.99	20.03	20.72	20.49	21.06	20.84	21.06 m
4	Ines Müller (GDR)	20.37	19.34	X	X	19.55	20.34	20.37 m
5	Claudia Losch (FRG)	20.08	X	19.40	20.27	X	X	20.27 m
6	Heike Hartwig (GDR)	19.94	20.20	19.71	20.16	X	19.75	20.20 m
7	Natalya Akhrimenko (URS)	19.37	19.86	19.18	X	19.60	20.13	20.13 m
8	Huang Zhihong (CHN)	18.26	19.15	19.82	19.79	19.73	19.56	19.82 m
9	Cong Yuzhen (CHN)	19.69	X	19.65				19.69 m
10	Svetla Mitkova (BUL)	18.29	18.79	19.09				19.09 m
11	Zdeňka Šilhavá (TCH)	16.85	18.86	X				18.86 m
12	Bonnie Dasse (USA)	17.60	17.59	17.51				17.60 m

See also

• 1986 Women's European Championships Shot Put (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Women's World Championships Shot Put (Rome)
• 1990 Women's European Championships Shot Put (Split)
• 1991 Women's World Championships Shot Put (Tokyo)

References

External links

• (in English) Official Report
• (in English) todor66