Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's shot put

Women's shot put at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Estadio Olímpico Universitario
Date	October 20
Competitors	14 from 9 nations
Winning distance	19.61 WR
Medalists
Margitta Gummel  East Germany Marita Lange  East Germany Nadezhda Chizhova  Soviet Union
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Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's shot put competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico took place on October 20.^[1]

The competition consisted of a single round. Each competitor was allowed three throws, with the top eight athletes after that point being given three further attempts.

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Margitta Gummel (GDR)	18.87 m	Frankfurt (Oder), East Germany	April 23, 1967
Olympic record	Tamara Press (URS)	18.14 m	Tokyo, Japan	October 20, 1964

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Margitta Gummel	East Germany	18.53	17.88	19.07	18.30	19.61	18.59	19.61	WR
	Marita Lange	East Germany	18.78	X	18.17	18.47	18.20	18.26	18.78
	Nadezhda Chizhova	Soviet Union	18.19	X	18.03	17.62	17.49	17.26	18.19
4	Judit Bognár	Hungary	17.14	17.30	17.21	17.78	17.75	16.83	17.78
5	Renate Garisch-Culmberger	East Germany	17.67	17.15	17.68	17.49	17.72	17.69	17.72
6	Ivanka Khristova	Bulgaria	16.65	17.25	16.85	X	X	17.20	17.25
7	Marlene Fuchs	West Germany	17.11	16.56	X	X	X	16.19	17.11
8	Els van Noorduyn	Netherlands	15.89	15.71	14.97	15.54	16.23	16.10	16.23
9	Irina Solontsova-Kudryavtseva	Soviet Union	X	15.88	15.76	—			15.88
10	Gertrud Schäfer	West Germany	14.70	15.26	15.10	—			15.26
11	Maren Seidler	United States	14.38	14.86	X	—			14.86
12	Rosa Molina	Chile	12.85	11.89	11.94	—			12.85
13	Baeg Ok-Ja	South Korea	12.67	12.08	11.97	—			12.67
14	Rosario Martínez	El Salvador	9.58	X	10.18	—			10.18

• Official Olympic Report^{[permanent dead link‍]}, la84foundation.org. Retrieved August 16, 2012.