Women Shot Put Athletics XVII Olympic Games Roma, Italy 1960 - Friday, 2nd September - Gold Medal: Tamara Press, Soviet Union
Final 16:40
Distance
SO
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
1. Tamara Press
Soviet Union
17.32m
8.
16.08
17.32
16.40
16.19
16.20
16.14
2. Johanna Luttge
Germany
16.61m
4.
16.21
15.59
15.74
15.20
15.40
16.61
3. Earlene Brown
United States
16.42m
11.
15.73
16.34
16.07
15.80
15.95
16.42
4. Valerie Sloper-Young
New Zealand
16.39m
10.
16.11
16.26
15.72
16.39
16.21
16.07
5. Zinaida Doynikova
Soviet Union
16.13m
9.
X
15.72
15.40
15.65
16.13
15.52
6. Renate Garisch
Germany
15.94m
1.
15.61
15.94
15.40
15.07
15.20
15.60
7. Galina Zybina
Soviet Union
15.56m
3.
13.82
15.56
15.37
8. Wilfiriede Hoffmann
Germany
15.14m
2.
14.87
14.75
15.14
9. V. Cerna
Czechoslovakia
15.06m
15.06
14.29
X
10.J. Klimaj
Poland
14.66m
14.06
14.66
13.78
11.E. Rusin
Poland
14.55m
X
14.55
14.18
12.M. Usenik
Yugoslavia
14.19m
14.19
14.12
14.11
Competitors: 18; Countries: 12
Tamara Press, older sister of Irina, the 80m hurdles winner, had three
times improved Zybina’s world record, culminating in 17.78 three
weeks before the Games, and was naturally the favourite for gold.
Medal contenders Brown and Sloper led the qualifiers with 16.15 and
16.07 respectively. After Lüttge led the first round with 16.21, Press
exploded with 17.32, the third-best throw ever, and the title was settled.
Lüttge won the battle for silver with two efforts beyond the best of
Brown and Sloper. Down in seventh place was Zybina, who had suf-
fered a rare bad day, finishing more than a metre down on her season’s
best of 16.73.
Soviet Union
Germany
United States
New Zealand
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Japan
Great Britain
Israel
Chinese Taipei
Romania
Hungary