Women Shot Put Athletics XXVI Olympic Games Atlanta, United States 1996 - -- July - Gold Medal: Astrid Kumbernuss, Germany
Final
Distnance
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1. Astrid Kumbernuss
Germany
20.56m
20.56
X
19.67
X
X
20.47
2. Xinmei Sui
China
19.88m
19.06
18.95
19.88
19.24
19.21
19.43
3. Irina Khudorozhkina
Russia
19.35m
19.35
X
X
X
-
-
4. Vita Pavlysh
Ukraine
19.30m
17.30
18.20
19.30
18.21
19.23
X
5. Connie Price-Smith
United States
19.22m
18.44
18.61
19.22
X
X
X
6. Stephanie Storp
Germany
19.06m
18.91
X
X
18.06
18.25
19.06
7. Kathrin Neimke
Germany
18.92m
17.87
18.40
18.92
X
18.62
18.65
8. Irina Korzhanenko
Russia
18.68m
18.43
X
18.55
18.65
18.50
18.68
9. Ramona Pagel
United States
18.48m
16.57
18.48
17.55
10.Belsis Laza
Cuba
18.40m
X
18.40
18.40
11.Judy Oakes
Great Britain
18.34m
18.34
18.10
18.18
12.Valentyna Fedyushyna
Ukraine
17.99m
X
X
17.99
Kumbernuss had won 37 successive competitions prior to Atlanta and
her qualifying throw of 19.93 was more than half a metre ahead of any-
one else. She repeated the dose two days later with her first round
throw of 20.56. Only Sui’s third round throw of 19.88 was within a
metre of Kumbernuss’s best. The German had only two other fair
throws, the latter of which was 20.47. Khudorozhkina’s opening throw
of 19.35 was good enough to hold off Pavlysh (19.30) and Price-Smith
(19.22) for the bronze.