Women Shot Put Athletics XXX Olympic Games London 2012 - Monday 06.08 Gold Medal Valerie Adams, New Zealand
Final 20:30dist. bib1.2.3.4.5.6.
1. Valerie AdamsNZLNZL20.70m 261320.61X20.70XX20.24
2. Lijiao GongCHNCHN20.22mSB137420.1319.6719.9119.7620.2220.00
3. Ling LiCHNCHN19.63m 137718.8718.7719.28X19.6319.58
4. Michelle CarterUSAUSA19.42m 327619.0518.8318.9219.4219.1218.88
5. Xiangrong LiuCHNCHN19.18m 138319.1818.8818.74X18.4718.77
6. Geisa ArcanjoBRABRA19.02mPB123318.27X19.02XX17.19
eliminated after 3 attempts.
7. Irina TarasovaRUSRUS19.00m 289819.0018.80X
8. Natalia DucoCHICHI18.80mNR133718.8018.7018.62
9. Christina SchwanitzGERGER18.47m 196418.2018.47X
10.Natallia MikhnevichBLRBLR18.42m 119018.42X18.27
disqualified
-. Nadzeya OstapchukBLRBLR21.36m 119320.0121.3121.3621.1521.32X
-. Evgeniia KolodkoRUSRUS20.48mPB287019.4519.52XXX20.48
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
RankingDist.Gr. bib1.2.3.
1. Valerie AdamsNZLNZL20.40mA 2613X20.40-
2. Evgeniia KolodkoRUSRUS19.31mB 287019.31--
3. Ling LiCHNCHN19.23mA 137718.8619.23-
4. Lijiao GongCHNCHN19.11mB 137419.11--
5. Xiangrong LiuCHNCHN18.96mB 138318.8718.96-
6. Irina TarasovaRUSRUS18.76mB 289818.5518.5918.76
7. Michelle CarterUSAUSA18.63mA 327618.2718.63X
8. Christina SchwanitzGERGER18.62mA 196418.4418.4318.62
9. Natallia MikhnevichBLRBLR18.60mB 119018.6018.1218.30
10.Geisa ArcanjoBRABRA18.47mB 1233X18.4718.33
11.Natalia DucoCHICHI18.45mB 133718.4518.2318.17
12.Cleopatra BorelTRITRI18.36mA 305718.2618.3618.34
13.Nadine KleinertGERGER18.36mB 1941X18.0618.36
14.Chiara RosaITAITA18.30mA 216017.9118.1418.30
15.Jillian Camarena-WilliamsUSAUSA18.22mA 327418.2217.9917.51
16.Ursula RuizESPESP17.99mBPB165717.99XX
17.Yanina Pravalinskay-KarolchykBLRBLR17.87mB 119517.6817.8717.69
18.Josephine TerleckiGERGER17.78mA 197017.78X17.73
19.Tia BrooksUSAUSA17.72mB 327117.2117.7217.29
20.Misleydis GonzalezCUBCUB17.68mB 149617.6817.6117.35
21.Leyla RajabiIRIIRI17.55mA 208917.1717.5517.42
22 Julie LabonteCANCAN17.48mA 131217.4817.32X
23.Anita MartonHUNHUN17.48mA 205716.2917.0417.48
24.Anna AvdeevaRUSRUS17.47mA 284517.47XX
25.Chia-ying LinTPETPE17.43mBNR303516.7417.43X
26.Mailin VargasCUBCUB16.76mA 150716.7616.64X
27.Sandra LemosCOLCOL16.50mA 143416.5016.07X
28.Alexandra FisherKAZKAZ16.16mA 227815.8416.16X
29.Ana PouhilaTGATGA15.80mB 301915.8015.7515.11
30.Elena SmolyanovaUZBUZB14.43mB 333814.3514.43-
-. Radoslava MavrodievaBULBULNMB 1269XXX
-. Nadzeya OstapchukBLRBLRDQA 119320.76--
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