Women Shot Put Athletics XXX Olympic Games London 2012 - Monday 06.08 Gold Medal Valerie Adams, New Zealand

Women Shot Put Athletics XXX Olympic Games London 2012 - Monday 06.08 Gold Medal Valerie Adams, New Zealand

Final 20:30		dist.		bib	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
1. Valerie Adams	NZL	20.70m		2613	20.61	X	20.70	X	X	20.24
2. Lijiao Gong	CHN	20.22m	SB	1374	20.13	19.67	19.91	19.76	20.22	20.00
3. Ling Li	CHN	19.63m		1377	18.87	18.77	19.28	X	19.63	19.58
4. Michelle Carter	USA	19.42m		3276	19.05	18.83	18.92	19.42	19.12	18.88
5. Xiangrong Liu	CHN	19.18m		1383	19.18	18.88	18.74	X	18.47	18.77
6. Geisa Arcanjo	BRA	19.02m	PB	1233	18.27	X	19.02	X	X	17.19
eliminated after 3 attempts.
7. Irina Tarasova	RUS	19.00m		2898	19.00	18.80	X
8. Natalia Duco	CHI	18.80m	NR	1337	18.80	18.70	18.62
9. Christina Schwanitz	GER	18.47m		1964	18.20	18.47	X
10.Natallia Mikhnevich	BLR	18.42m		1190	18.42	X	18.27
disqualified
-. Nadzeya Ostapchuk	BLR	21.36m		1193	20.01	21.31	21.36	21.15	21.32	X
-. Evgeniia Kolodko	RUS	20.48m	PB	2870	19.45	19.52	X	X	X	20.48

The original winner, Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus, was stripped of her gold medal shortly after the event after failing a doping test. The rest of the competitors were elevated by one position accordingly. On 20 August 2016, Yevgeniya Kolodko of Russia was also stripped of her silver medal after retested samples from the competition returned a positive doping result.
Gong Lijiao of China was advanced to silver, and Li Ling of China to bronze.

Adams was the reigning Olympic and three-time World Champion, but Nadezhda Ostapchuk had suddenly improved from her 2005 outdoor best of 21.09 to 21.47 then 21.58 in Minsk on July 18. Even so, the New Zealander was still the one ro beat because the Belarusian’s best outside her home country or Russia was 20.78. Adams had thrown over 21 metres four times, always on foreign soil. Ostapchuk led the qualifying with 20.76 to Adams’s 20.40. The final saw Adams lead with her opening throw of 20.61, before being overwhelmed by Ostapchuk’s 21.36. Adams managed 20.70, and was approached by Kolodko’s personal best of 20.48 in the final round which snatched the bronze from Gong. That’s the way the medals were presented on August 6, when Ostapchuk was in a flood of joyful tears. But then on August 13, the day after the Games closed, it was announced that the Belarusian had tested positive for a steroid. Adams was quickly named as the rightful winner and was eventually given her second Olympic gold in Auckland in September. Gong was promoted to bronze after Kolodko, and thus improved two places from her Beijing finish. Adams’s Olympic experience in 2012 had already been stressful. An apparent clerical error meant she was originally undeclared for the qualifying round and as a result almost excluded from the competition. The New Zealand Olympic Committee had to plead for an emergency amendment from the IOC and the IAAF in order for her to be added to the start list.

Qualification

- Monday 06.08 10:45 - Mark 18.90m? - 6+6 Athletes

Ranking		Dist.	Gr.		bib	1.	2.	3.
1. Valerie Adams	NZL	20.40m	A		2613	X	20.40	-
2. Evgeniia Kolodko	RUS	19.31m	B		2870	19.31	-	-
3. Ling Li	CHN	19.23m	A		1377	18.86	19.23	-
4. Lijiao Gong	CHN	19.11m	B		1374	19.11	-	-
5. Xiangrong Liu	CHN	18.96m	B		1383	18.87	18.96	-
6. Irina Tarasova	RUS	18.76m	B		2898	18.55	18.59	18.76
7. Michelle Carter	USA	18.63m	A		3276	18.27	18.63	X
8. Christina Schwanitz	GER	18.62m	A		1964	18.44	18.43	18.62
9. Natallia Mikhnevich	BLR	18.60m	B		1190	18.60	18.12	18.30
10.Geisa Arcanjo	BRA	18.47m	B		1233	X	18.47	18.33
11.Natalia Duco	CHI	18.45m	B		1337	18.45	18.23	18.17
12.Cleopatra Borel	TRI	18.36m	A		3057	18.26	18.36	18.34
13.Nadine Kleinert	GER	18.36m	B		1941	X	18.06	18.36
14.Chiara Rosa	ITA	18.30m	A		2160	17.91	18.14	18.30
15.Jillian Camarena-Williams	USA	18.22m	A		3274	18.22	17.99	17.51
16.Ursula Ruiz	ESP	17.99m	B	PB	1657	17.99	X	X
17.Yanina Pravalinskay-Karolchyk	BLR	17.87m	B		1195	17.68	17.87	17.69
18.Josephine Terlecki	GER	17.78m	A		1970	17.78	X	17.73
19.Tia Brooks	USA	17.72m	B		3271	17.21	17.72	17.29
20.Misleydis Gonzalez	CUB	17.68m	B		1496	17.68	17.61	17.35
21.Leyla Rajabi	IRI	17.55m	A		2089	17.17	17.55	17.42
22 Julie Labonte	CAN	17.48m	A		1312	17.48	17.32	X
23.Anita Marton	HUN	17.48m	A		2057	16.29	17.04	17.48
24.Anna Avdeeva	RUS	17.47m	A		2845	17.47	X	X
25.Chia-ying Lin	TPE	17.43m	B	NR	3035	16.74	17.43	X
26.Mailin Vargas	CUB	16.76m	A		1507	16.76	16.64	X
27.Sandra Lemos	COL	16.50m	A		1434	16.50	16.07	X
28.Alexandra Fisher	KAZ	16.16m	A		2278	15.84	16.16	X
29.Ana Pouhila	TGA	15.80m	B		3019	15.80	15.75	15.11
30.Elena Smolyanova	UZB	14.43m	B		3338	14.35	14.43	-
-. Radoslava Mavrodieva	BUL	NM	B		1269	X	X	X
-. Nadzeya Ostapchuk	BLR	DQ	A		1193	20.76	-	-