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Shot Put At The World Athletics Championships
The shot put at the World Championships in Athletics The World Athletics Championships (until 2019 known as the World Championships in Athletics) are a biennial athletics competition organized by World Athletics (formerly IAAF, International Association of Athletics Federations). Alongside the Ol ... has been contested by both men and women since the inaugural edition in 1983. Medalists Men Multiple medalists Medals by country Women Multiple medalists Medals by country References Bibliography * {{IAAF World Championships in Athletics Events at the World Athletics Championships ...
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Joe Kovacs
Joseph Mathias Kovacs (born June 28, 1989) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the shot put and has a personal record of 23.23 meters outdoors and 22.05 meters indoors. He won gold medals at the 2015 and 2019 World Championships. He won silver medals at the 2017 World Championships, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. His personal best of 23.23 metres makes him the second best competitor all-time in the shot put event. Since college he was coached by Art Venegas, widely regarded as one of the best coaches in the world and the only coach to have athletes reach 73' with both the glide and rotational techniques in the shot put. Since 2019 he has been coached by his wife, Ashley Kovacs. Early life and education Kovacs was born in Nazareth, Pennsylvania on June 28, 1989. He excelled in high school track and field, winning PIAA titles in discus and shot put during his senior season. The winning shot put mark of is the PIAA Class AA state record. He attend ...
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Oleksandr Bagach
Oleksandr Bahach ( uk, Олександр Багач) born 21 November 1966 in village of Matusiv) is a former Ukraine, Ukrainian shot putter, an athlete of the Central Sports Club of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During his career he won bronze medals at the Olympic Games and World Championships in Athletics, World Championships. Having originally won the gold medal at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics, 1997 World Championships, he failed a drug test for ephedrine and lost the medal. He had previously served a two-year suspension after testing positive for testosterone in 1989. Career *Summer Olympic Games: **1996 Summer Olympics, 1996 Atlanta - bronze *World Championships in Athletics, World Championships: **1993 World Championships in Athletics, 1993 Stuttgart - bronze **1999 World Championships in Athletics, 1999 Seville - bronze *European Championships in Athletics, European Championships: **1994 European Championships in Athletics - Men's Shot Put, 1994 Helsinki - ...
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Nadzeya Astapchuk
Nadzeya Astapchuk ( be, Надзея Мікалаеўна Астапчук, ''Nadzeya Mikalayeuna Astapchuk''; russian: Надежда Остапчук, ''Nadezhda Ostapchuk;'' born October 28, 1980) is a Belarusian shot putter. She briefly was designated the Olympic Champion in 2012, but was subsequently stripped of the title for failing a drug test and the gold medal was awarded to New Zealand shot putter Valerie Adams. She was World Champion in 2005, but in March 2013, the IAAF reported that her drug test sample from that event had been retested and found to be positive. Astapchuk was initially designated as the bronze medallist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics (but was subsequently disqualified from that too, because of a doping violation), and was the World Indoor and European Champion in 2010. Her overall personal best of 21.70 m that year is the fourth best women's all-time distance indoors. However, IAAF has subsequently disqualified all of her results since August 200 ...
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Natalya Lisovskaya
Natalya Venediktovna Lisovskaya (russian: Наталья Венедиктовна Лисовская; born 16 July 1962) is a Soviet former athlete who competed mainly in shot put. Lisovskaya trained at Spartak in Moscow. Career Born in Alegazy, Bashkir ASSR, Lisovskaya competed for the USSR in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea where she won the gold medal. Lisovskaya holds the world record in women's shot put with a throw of , which she achieved on 7 June 1987 in Moscow, Russia. She also has the three farthest throws of all time by a female shot putter. After her career, she gained French citizenship and competed between 1999 and 2002 at some local competitions in France. Lisovskaya married men's hammer throw world record holder Yuriy Sedykh and has one daughter, Alexia. They live in Paris, France. Doping Former head of the Russian Anti-doping laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov Grigory Mikhailovich Rodchenkov (russian: Григорий Михайлов ...
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Vita Pavlysh
Viktoriya Anatoliïvna Pavlysh ( uk, Вікторія Анатопіївна Павпиш; born 15 January 1969 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a former track and field athlete who specialized in the shot put. Pavlysh was stripped of her 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships gold medal after she had tested positive for anabolic steroid stanozolol at the event in Maebashi, Japan. She claimed that she may have taken the drug to aid her recovery from injury. For this offence she received a two-year ban. Five years later at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Budapest, Hungary she won the title again only to fail the drug test for the same reason. She was again stripped of her title and banned from athletics for life. Whether because of her drug-use or not, Pavlysh was famed for her very muscular lower body. During a state television show her middle-thigh was measured at 98 cm and her calf at 65 cm. See also *List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping ...
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Huang Zhihong
Huang Zhihong (); born May 7, 1965, in Lanxi, Jinhua, Zhejiang) is a former shot put athlete from China. An Olympic silver medallist and a double world champion, she was in fact the first Asian to win a world championship in athletics. Her personal best throw is 21.52, achieved in Beijing 1990. Achievements See also * China at the World Championships in Athletics The People's Republic of China (PRC) first competed at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in 1983, at the World Championships in Helsinki. Medals by World Championships Medalists 1983 *Zhu Jianhua – Bronze – Men's high jump 1987 * Y ... References External links * 1965 births Living people People from Jinhua Athletes from Zhejiang Chinese female shot putters Olympic athletes for China Olympic silver medalists for China Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olym ...
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Astrid Kumbernuss
Astrid Kumbernuss (; born 5 February 1970 in Grevesmühlen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is a former German female shot putter and discus thrower. Her career started at the SC Neubrandenburg sports club. Her greatest successes were gold medals at the 1995, 1997 and 1999 World Championships in Athletics, and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 .... In 1997, she was awarded ''Athlete of the Year''. In 1998, she gave birth to her son Philip, and retired from her sports career in 2005. International competitions References * * 1970 births Living people People from Grevesmühlen German female shot putters German female discus throwers East German female discus throwers East German female shot putters Olympic athl ...
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Christina Schwanitz
Christina Schwanitz (; born 24 December 1985) is a retired German shot putter. Her personal best is 20.77 metres, achieved on 20 May 2015 at World Challenge meeting in Beijing. She has 20.05 m on the indoor track, achieved on 2 February 2014 in Rochlitz Rochlitz (; hsb, Rochlica) is a major district town (Große Kreisstadt) in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. Rochlitz is the head of the "municipal partnership Rochlitz" (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Rochlitz) with its other members .... Achievements References External links * * * * * * * * 1985 births Living people Athletes from Dresden German female shot putters German national athletics champions Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Germany World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany World Athletics Championships medal ...
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Svetlana Krivelyova
Svetlana Vladimirovna Krivelyova (russian: Светлана Владимировна Кривелёва; born 13 June 1969) is a former track and field athlete who specialised in the shot put. Krivelyova was born in Bryansk, Russia. Her career highlights were the Summer Olympics gold medal in 1992 whilst representing the Unified Team where she beat the reigning world champion Huang Zhihong of China and her World Championship victory in 2003. Her most unlikely victory came at the 2004 World Indoor Championships. She was awarded the gold medal after Ukraine's Vita Pavlysh was stripped of her title for failing a drug test. This was the second time Pavlysh was found to have taken anabolic steroids and lost a World indoor title; she was subsequently banned from athletics for life. Despite being world ranked number 1 in the run up to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, Krivelyova could only manage to finish fourth to match her finish at the 2000 Summer Olympics. However th ...
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Nadine Kleinert
, since 1999 married Schmitt (born 20 October 1975 in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German shot putter. Her personal best throw is 20.20 metres, achieved in August 2009 in Berlin. She competed at four Summer Olympic Games The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ..., from 2000 to 2012. Achievements References External links * * * * * * * 1975 births Living people Sportspeople from Magdeburg German female shot putters German national athletics champions Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Germany Olympic silver medalists for Germany World Athleti ...
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Valerie Adams
Dame Valerie Kasanita Adams (formerly Vili; born 6 October 1984) is a retired New Zealand shot putter. She is a four-time IAAF World Championships in Athletics, World champion, four-time IAAF World Indoor Championships, World Indoor champion, two-time Athletics at the Summer Olympics, Olympic, three-time Athletics at the Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth Games champion and twice IAAF Continental Cup winner. She has a personal best throw of 21.24 metres outdoors and 20.98 m indoors. These marks are List of Oceanian records in athletics, Oceanian, List of Commonwealth records in athletics, Commonwealth and List of New Zealand records in athletics, New Zealand national records. She also holds the List of Oceanian junior records in athletics, Oceanian junior record (18.93 m) and the List of Oceanian youth bests in athletics, Oceanian youth record (17.54 m), as well as the List of World Championships in Athletics records, World Championships record, List of IAAF Wo ...
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Ralf Bartels
Ralf Bartels (born 21 February 1978 in Stavenhagen, Germany, then German Democratic Republic) is a German shot putter. He became European Champion at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, Sweden after beating Belarusian Andrei Mikhnevich with a final put of 21.13 metres, two centimetres ahead of the Belarusian. Bartels also won bronze at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ..., with a put of 20.99 m. He had previously been a bronze medalist at the 2002 European Athletics Championships. Competition record External links * * 1978 births Living people People from Mecklenburgische Seenplatte (district) People from Bezirk Neubrandenburg German male shot putters Sportspeople fr ...
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