Women Shot Put Athletics XVI Olympic Games Melbourne, Australia 1956 - Friday, 30th November - Gold Medal: Tamara Tyshkevich, Soviet Union
Name of the time: "Putting the weight".
Final 15:00
Distance
SO
Tr 1.
Tr 2
Tr 3.
Tr 4.
Tr 5.
Tr 6.
1. Tamara Tyshkevich
Soviet Union
16.59m OR
15.
16.13
14.80
16.32
15.92
15.45
16.59o
2. Galina Zybina
Soviet Union
16.53m
10.
16.35o
16.32
15.82
16.28
16.48o
16.53
3. Marianne Werner
Germany
15.61m
14.
15.61
15.56
15.46
X
15.01
15.53
4. Zinaida Doynikova
Soviet Union
15.54m
6.
X
15.54
15.32
15.23
15.24
15.52
5. Valerie Sloper-Young
New Zealand
15.34m
13.
15.16
14.57
15.34
13.68
14.42
14.95
6. Earlene Brown
United States
15.12m
2.
14.41
14.75
14.56
14.50
14.89
15.12
7. Regina Branner
Austria
14.60m
5.
14.04
14.60
X
8. Nada Kotlusek
Yugoslavia
14.56m
11.
14.52
14.56
14.27
9. Milena Usenik
Yugoslavia
14.49m
12.97
14.35
14.49
10.Jacqueline MacDonald
Canada
14.31m
14.31
X
12.72
11.Johanna Luttge
Germany
13.88m
13.57
13.47
13.88
12.Anne-Katrin Lafrenz
Germany
13.72m
13.72
X
13.44
13.Valerie Dawn Lawrence
Australia
13.12m
10.86
12.39
13.12
14.Lois Ann Testa
United States
13.06m
12.34
13.06
12.64
15.Suzanne Allday
Great Britain
12.71m
12.37
12.71
X
world Women Shot Put History>. Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground. Capp.: 120,000. 18 competitors from 10 nations.
World Record: Galina Zybina, Soviet Union 16.76m Tashkent, Soviet Union 13th October 1956
Olympic Record: Galina Zybina, Soviet Union 15.28m Helsinki, Finland 26th July 1952
Between Helsinki and Melbourne, Zybina broke the world record 12 times, with seven
of those records ratified, and was favoured to win after a 16.76 world record in
October. Zybina opened with 16.35, and led from her great rival Tyshkevich, who started with 16.13 and
improved to 16.32 in the third round. Zybina increased her lead in the fifth round with 16.48 and
finished off with 16.53, only to see her teammate overtake her with 16.59, improving her personal best by seven
centimetres in the process. Doynikova won the battle for bronze from the surprising Val Sloper and big (1.75/114kg)
but light footed Earlene Brown. Tyshkevich – at 113kg some 3kg lighter than in 1952 – was the heaviest-ever women’s
Olympic athletics champion.
Soviet Union
Germany
New Zealand
United States
Austria
Yugoslavia
Canada
Australia
Great Britain
Czechoslovakia