Event: | Women's shot put |
Games: | 1948 Summer |
Venue: | Olympic Stadium |
Dates: | 4 August (qualifying and final) |
Competitors: | 19 |
Nations: | 12 |
Win Value: | 13.750 |
Longnames: | yes |
Gold: | Micheline Ostermeyer |
Goldnoc: | FRA |
Silver: | Amelia Piccinini |
Silvernoc: | ITA |
Bronze: | Ine Schäffer |
Bronzenoc: | AUT |
Next: | 1952 |
The women's shot put event was, for the first time, part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on 4 August 1948. The final was won by Micheline Ostermeyer of France.[1]
Since it was the first time this event took place, the following new Olympic record was set during this competition:
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)
Date | Time | Round | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday 4 August 1948 | 11:00 | Qualifications | |||
style=background:lemonchiffon | Wednesday 4 August 1948 | style=background:lemonchiffon | 17:00 | style=background:lemonchiffon | Finals |
Qual. rule: qualification standard 12.30m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).
Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | align=left | align=left | 13.140 | OR | |||
2 | align=left | align=left | 12.620 | ||||
3 | align=left | align=left | 12.570 | ||||
4 | align=left | align=left | |||||
5 | align=left | align=left | |||||
6 | align=left | align=left | |||||
7 | align=left | align=left | |||||
8 | align=left | align=left | |||||
9 | align=left | align=left | |||||
10 | align=left | align=left | |||||
11 | align=left | align=left | |||||
12 | align=left | align=left | |||||
13 | align=left | align=left | 11.870 | ||||
14 | align=left | align=left | 11.310 | ||||
15 | align=left | align=left | 11.180 | ||||
16 | align=left | align=left | 11.055 | ||||
17 | align=left | align=left | 10.755 | ||||
18 | align=left | align=left | 10.200 | ||||
19 | align=left | align=left | 9.740 |
Rank | Name | Nationality | Distance | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Micheline Ostermeyer | 13.750 | OR | |||
13.095 | |||||
13.080 | |||||
4 | 12.985 | ||||
5 | 12.920 | ||||
6 | 12.500 | ||||
7 | 12.355 | ||||
8 | 12.170 | ||||
9 | 12.085 | ||||
10 | 12.030 | ||||
11 | 11.840 | ||||
12 | 11.775 |
Key: OR = Olympic record