Women Shot Put Athletics IV World Championship 1993 Stuttgart (GER) - Sunday 15.08

Women Shot Put Athletics IV World Championship 1993 Stuttgart (GER) - Sunday 15.08 - Gold Medal: Zhihong Huang, China

Final 19:20		Distance	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
1. Zhihong Huang	CHN	20.57m	19.75	20.31	20.19	20.57	X	20.46
2. Svetlana Krivelyova	RUS	19.97m	19.97	19.57	X	X	19.56	X
3. Kathrin Neimke	GER	19.71m	19.71	19.36	X	X	19.25	19.19
4. Xinmei Sui	CHN	19.61m	19.46	19.61	19.49	19.46	X	19.51
5. Yuzhen Cong	CHN	19.58m	18.64	18.83	19.26	19.23	19.50	19.58
6. Astrid Kumbernuss	GER	19.42m	19.42	18.99	19.02	19.32	19.33	19.15
7. Valentina Fedyushina	UKR	19.27m	18.71	19.18	19.27	X	X	18.69
8. Belsy Laza	CUB	19.27m	18.09	18.98	19.27	18.79	X	-
9. Larisa Peleshenko	RUS	19.22m
10.Svetla Mitkova-Sinirtas	BUL	18.91m
11.Stephanie Storp	GER	18.83m
12.Ramona Pagel	USA	17.77m

Women Shot Put - History

Huang won with even more ease than in 1993. Olympic Champion Krivelyova went to the front with 19.97 in the first round. The Russian could throw no further, whereas Huang produced four 20m+ puts, just as she had in Tokyo. In third place throughout the contest was the 1987 runner-up, Neimke.

Qualification - Saturday 14.08 18:00

Mark 19.00m -9 Athletes passed and next 3 were added to Final.

Group A		Distance	Rk.
1. Zhihong Huang	CHN	19.36m	5.
2. Svetla Mitkova-Sinirtas	BUL	19.16m	6.
3. Kathrin Neimke	GER	19.11m	7.
4. Belsy Laza	CUB	19.02m	9.
5. Larisa Peleshenko	RUS	18.84m	11.
6. Anna Romanova	RUS	18.12m	13.
7. Connie Price-Smith	USA	18.09m	14.
8. Vita Pavlysh	UKR	18.00m	15.
9. Jana Ciobanu	ROM	17.77m	16.
10.Danijela Curovic	IWP	16.91m	19.
11.Marika Tuliniemi	FIN	16.80m	20.
12.Elisangela Adriano	BRA	16.41m	22.
13.Natasa Erjavec	SLO	15.71m	24.

Group B		Distance	Rk.
1. Svetlana Krivelyova	RUS	19.96m	1.
2. Astrid Kumbernuss	GER	19.92m	2.
3. Xinmei Sui	CHN	19.67m	3.
4. Stephanie Storp	GER	19.38m	4.
5. Valentina Fedyushina	UKR	19.04m	8.
6. Yuzhen Cong	CHN	18.97m	10.
7. Ramona Pagel	USA	18.54m	12.
8. Krystyna Danilczyk-Zabawska	POL	17.62m	17.
9. Lisette Martinez	CUB	17.44m	18.
10.Agnese Maffeis	ITA	16.61m	21.
11.Myrtle Augee	GBR	16.06m	23.
12.Christy Barrett	USA	14.58m	25.
13.Aye Aye Nwe	MYA	13.88m	26.
14.Tea Ai Seng	BRU	12.23m	27.