Shot put at the Olympics
Games Gold Silver Bronze
1948 London details Micheline Ostermeyer France Amelia Piccinini Italy Ina Schäffer Austria
1952 Helsinki details Galina Zybina Soviet Union Marianne Werner Germany Klavdiya Tochenova Soviet Union
1956 Melbourne details Tamara Tyshkevich Soviet Union Galina Zybina Soviet Union Marianne Werner United Team of Germany
1960 Rome details Tamara Press Soviet Union Johanna Lüttge United Team of Germany Earlene Brown United States
1964 Tokyo details Tamara Press Soviet Union Renate Culmberger United Team of Germany Galina Zybina Soviet Union
1968 Mexico City details Margitta Gummel East Germany Marita Lange East Germany Nadezhda Chizhova Soviet Union
1972 Munich details Nadezhda Chizhova Soviet Union Margitta Gummel East Germany Ivanka Khristova Bulgaria
1976 Montreal details Ivanka Khristova Bulgaria Nadezhda Chizhova Soviet Union Helena Fibingerová Czechoslovakia
1980 Moscow details Ilona Slupianek East Germany Svetlana Krachevskaya Soviet Union Margitta Pufe East Germany
1984 Los Angeles details Claudia Losch West Germany Mihaela Loghin Romania Gael Martin Australia
1988 Seoul details Natalya Lisovskaya Soviet Union Kathrin Neimke East Germany Li Meisu China
1992 Barcelona details Svetlana Krivelyova Unified Team Huang Zhihong China Kathrin Neimke Germany
1996 Atlanta details Astrid Kumbernuss Germany Sui Xinmei China Irina Khudoroshkina Russia
2000 Sydney details Yanina Karolchik Belarus Larisa Peleshenko Russia Astrid Kumbernuss Germany
2004 Athens details Yumileidi Cumbá Cuba Nadine Kleinert Germany Not awarded
2008 Beijing details Valerie Vili New Zealand Misleydis González Cuba Gong Lijiao China
2012 London details Valerie Adams New Zealand Gong Lijiao China Li Ling China
2016 Rio de Janeiro details Michelle Carter United States Valerie Adams New Zealand Anita Márton Hungary
Medalists -- Women
The shot put at the Summer Olympics is one of four track and field throwing events held at the multi-sport event. The men's shot put has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1896 (one of two throws events at the first Olympics, alongside the discus). The women's event was added to the programme at the 1948 Olympics just over fifty years later. The Olympic record for the women's event was set by the East German athlete Ilona Slupianek with a put of in 1980, and the record for the men's event of was set by the American Ryan Crouser in 2016. Two variations on the event have been contested at the Olympics: a two-handed competition at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, with athletes using both left and right arm putting techniques, and a stone throw at the 1906 Intercalated Games.