Women Shot Put Athletics XXX Olympic Games London 2012 - Monday 06.08 Gold Medal Valerie Adams, New Zealand
Final 20:30
dist.
bib
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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