AthleticsAthletics world record
Shot put, women
22.63 m
74.25 ft
- Holder
- Natalya Lisovskaya
- Date
- Place
- Moscow
- Standing since
- 1987 (39 years)
How the record evolved
The last record set in each decade, up to the current record (highlighted).
| Year | Record | Holder |
|---|---|---|
| 22.63 m | Natalya Lisovskaya | |
| 22.60 m | Natalya Lisovskaya (URS) | |
| 22.32 m | Helena Fibingerová (TCH) | |
| 20.43 m | Nadezhda Chizhova (URS) | |
| 17.25 m | Tamara Press (URS) | |
| 14.86 m | Klavdia Tochonova (URS) | |
| 14.38 m | Gisela Mauermayer (GER) | |
| 12.85 m | Grete Heublein (GER) |
Put them in order
Sort these records from the oldest to the most recent.
- 14.86 mKlavdia Tochonova (URS)
- 22.32 mHelena Fibingerová (TCH)
- 22.63 mNatalya Lisovskaya
- 12.85 mGrete Heublein (GER)
What to remember
On June 7, 1987, at the Brothers Znamensky Memorial in Moscow, Natalya Lisovskaya put the shot 22.63 m. She edged past her own mark of 22.60 m, set earlier that year. The shot put means pushing a heavy spherical ball as far as possible from a circle closed by a stop board; the women's shot weighs 4 kg, against 7.260 kg for men.
Women have contested the shot put at the Olympics since 1948. The first record kept here, from 1929, belongs to Germany's Grete Heublein with 12.85 m. Gisela Mauermayer reached 14.38 m in 1934, Soviet thrower Tamara Press 17.25 m in 1959, Nadezhda Chizhova 20.43 m in 1969 and Czechoslovakia's Helena Fibingerová 22.32 m in 1977. In 58 years the distance grew by 76.1%.
Lisovskaya trained at Spartak in Moscow and competed mainly in the shot put for the Soviet Union. She won the world title in 1987 and Olympic gold in 1988. After the end of her competitive career she became a French citizen.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of world records in athletics” (revision used 1378411308). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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