Women Shot Put Athletics XVIII Olympic Games Athens, Greece 2004 - -- August - Gold Medal:
Women Shot Put Olympic Games Athens 2004 - Wednesday 18.08
Final 16:00
Team
Dist.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
1. Yumileidi Cumbá
CUB
19.59
X
18.39
18.74
X
X
19.59
2. Nadine Kleinert
GER
19.55
18.77
19.55
19.17
18.55
X
X
3. Svetlana Krivelyova
RUS
19.49
18.55
19.49
19.29
19.15
19.20
18.44
4. Nadezhda Ostapchuk
BLR
19.01
18.25
X
19.01
X
X
X
5. Natalia Khoroneko
BLR
18.96
18.82
18.09
18.87
17.80
18.59
18.96
6. Krystyna Zabawska
POL
18.64
X
17.97
18.64
X
18.60
X
7. Misleydis González
CUB
18.59
17.33
18.25
18.59
18.52
X
X
8. Valerie Adams
NZL
18.56
18.56
X
17.93
9. Meiju Li
CHN
18.37
17.82
17.61
18.37
10.Cleopatra Borel
TRI
18.35
17.37
18.28
18.35
11.Lieja Tunks
NED
18.14
X
18.13
18.14
DQ Irina Korzhanenko
RUS
21.06m
Irina Korzhanenko was the favourite after beating Svetlana Krivelyova,
the 1992 Olympic winner, in the Russian indoor and outdoor champi-
onships. Korzhanenko hadn’t competed at the World Indoor
Championships, but appeared at Olympia. Her four valid puts – 20.41,
20.70, 21.06 and 20.04 – averaged 20.55, almost a metre beyond the
best of anyone else. However, on August 23, 2004 it was announced
that she had tested positive (on August 18) for Stanozolol, a prohibited
anabolic steroid. The title reverted to Cumbá, who had been languish-
ing in sixth place before her last throw. She took the title from Kleinert,
whose silver medal was a consolation for Germany after 1996 winner
Kumbernuss had surprisingly failed to make the final.
The bronze medal was redistributed to Krivelyova with her second-
round effort of 19.49, backed up with efforts of 19.29, 19.20 and 19.15.
Unfortunately, she was to become the first athlete to be stripped of a re-
allocated Olympic medal. A later analysis of the Russian’s doping sam-
ple, collected in Athens and then frozen, revealed the presence of a pro-
hibited substance. In December 2012, she was disqualified and her
medal withdrawn by the IOC. The placings above have been adjusted
logically, but as at June 10, 2016 the IOC have not re-reallocated
Krivelyova’s medal. So Ostapchuk, who would be involved in future
doping violations herself as reported, is third but not a bronze medal-
list.
