Anna Omarova

Anna Omarova (born 3 October 1981) is an Russian shot putter.
Her personal best throw is 19.69 metres, achieved in June 2007 in Munich.

Russian Olympic team 2008
European Cup Champion 2007
Russian Indoor Champion 2008
Bronze medallist Russian Championships 2008


Statics
Full name: Anna Aleksandrovna Omarova (Tolokina-)
Original name: Анна Александровна Омарова
Gender: Female
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
Weight: 236 lbs (107 kg)
Born: October 3, 1981 in Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Kray, Russia
Affiliations: Russian Army, Stavropol
Country: RUS Russia
Sport: Athletics
Specialization: Shot put

Achievements
Year Tournament Venue Result Extra
2007 European Indoor Championships Birmingham, England 6th
World Championships Osaka, Japan 9th
2008 World Indoor Championships Valencia, Spain 8th
Olympic Games Beijing, China 6th

Performance Wind Place Date
Shot Put 19.69 München 24/06/2007
Discus Throw 54.52 Stavropol 05/05/2009

Nataliya Akhrimenko

Nataliya Akhrimenko is a retired track and field shot putter from Russia, best known for competing at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. There she ended up in seventh place, just like eight years later in Seoul, South Korea.

statics
Full name: Nataliya Akhrimenko (-Petrova)
Original name: Наталья Ахрименко (-Петрова)
Gender: Female
Height: 6'0" (184 cm)
Weight: 198 lbs (90 kg)
Born: May 12, 1955 in Novokuybyshevsk, Samara, Russia
Affiliations: Spartak St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg (RUS) / Dynamo St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg (RUS)
Country: URS Soviet Union

Vita Pavlysh

Vita Pavlysh is a former athlete who specialised 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 98cms and her calf at 65cms.

At the same event Russian Anastasiya Kapachinskaya failed her drug test was also stripped of the gold that she had won in the 200 m and received a two year ban.

statics
Full name: Viktoriya "Vita" Pavlysh
Original name: Виктория Павлыш
Gender: Female
Height: 5'9" (174 cm)
Weight: 187 lbs (85 kg)
Born: January 15, 1969 in Kharkiv, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Affiliations: Dynamo, Kharkov
Country: EUN Unified Team, UKR Ukraine

Ilona Slupianek

Ilona Briesenick, née Schoknecht divorced Slupianek (born September 24, 1956 in Demmin) is a retired German athlete who starred mainly in the shot put. She was disqualified for doping at the 1977 European Cup, where she dominated her event with a superlative 21.20.

She competed for East Germany in Moscow (USSR) where she won the gold medal, at the 1980 Summer Olympics.



statics
Sex: W
Weight: 95.00
Height: 1.80
Date of Birth: 24/09/1956
Place of birth: Demmin

Claudia Losch

Claudia Losch (born January 10, 1960 in Wanne-Eickel) is a German track and field athlete.

Losch won the German indoor championship in the shot put in 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, and 1989. She won the German championship from 1982 through 1990, nine times in a row.

At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles she won the gold medal ahead of Romanian Mihaela Loghin, who won the silver, and Gael Martin from Australia who won the bronze.

statics
Full name: Claudia Losch
Gender: Female
Height: 5'11" (181 cm)
Weight: 185 lbs (84 kg)
Born: January 10, 1960 in Wanne-Eickel, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Affiliations: Leichtathletikclub Quelle Fürth, Münchener Sportclub/Leichtathletikclub Olympiapark
Country: FRG West Germany
Medals: 1 Gold (1 Total)

Ivanka Hristova

Ivanka Marinova Hristova is a retired Bulgarian shot putter. She won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and the bronze in 1972. In addition she won the 1976 European Indoor Championships.
World records

* 21,87 metres on 3 July 1976 in Belmeken
* 21,89 metres on 5 July 1976 in Belmeken

Her latest record only stood until 26 July 1976 when Czechoslovak Helena Fibingerová improved it to 21,99 metres.

statics
Full name: Ivanka Marinova Khristova (Todorova-)
Original name: Иванка Маринова Христова (Тодорова-)
Gender: Female
Height: 5'8" (172 cm)
Weight: 183 lbs (83 kg)
Born: November 19, 1941 in Osikovitsa, Sofia, Bulgaria
Affiliations: Spartak Sofia, Sofia (BUL) / Levski Sofia, Sofia (BUL)
Country: BUL Bulgaria

Medals: 1 Gold, 1 Bronze (2 Total)

Major achievements
Year /Competition /Venue /Position
1967 /European Indoor Games /Prague, Czechoslovakia /2nd
1969 /European Indoor Games /Belgrade, Yugoslavia /2nd
1972 /Summer Olympics /Munich, West Germany /3rd
1975 /European Indoor Championships /Katowice, Poland /3rd
1976 /European Indoor Championships /Munich, West Germany /1st
1976 /Summer Olympics /Montreal, Canada /1st

Marianne Adam

Marianne Adam (born 19 September 1951) is a retired shot putter who competed for East Germany in the 1970s. She was born in Luckenwalde. She was a member of SC Dynamo Berlin. She won the bronze medal at the 1974 European Championships in Athletics, and at the European Indoor Championships she won one gold medal (1975), one silver medal (1979) and two bronze medals (1972, 1974).

Her personal best throw was 21.86 metres, which puts her sixth in the all-time performers list.

statics
Full name: Marianne Adam
Gender: Female
Height: 6'0" (183 cm)
Weight: 187 lbs (85 kg)
Born: September 19, 1951 in Luckenwalde, Brandenburg, Germany
Affiliations: SC Dynamo Berlin, Berlin (GER)
Country: GDR East Germany

Career highlights
* 1971, European Indoor Championships: fourth place (17,49 metres - 17,48 - 17,26 - 16,54 - 17,10 - 17,40)
* 1972, European Indoor Championships: bronze medal (18,30 - 17,95 - 17,81 - 17,75 - x - 17,87)
* 1972, Olympic Games: fifth place (18,75 - x - 18,58 - 18,94 - 18,91 - 18,71)
* 1974, European Indoor Championships: bronze medal (19,35 - 18,68 - 19,04 - 18,66 - 19,70 - 19,37)
* 1974, European Championships: silver medal (20,43 - 20,18 - 19,86 - x - 20,09 - 20,42)
* 1975, European Indoor Championships: gold medal (18,86 - 20,05 - 19,30 - 19,19 - 19,55 - 19,94)
* 1976, Olympic Games: fourth place (20,55 - x - x - x - 18,15 - 19,50)
* 1979, European Indoor Championships: silver medal (19,86 - 19,99 - 20,14 - 19,47 - 19,69 - 20,11)

Helena Fibingerová

Helena Fibingerová (born July 13, 1949) is a Czech shot putter who won an Olympic bronze medal and set three world records. She was born in Víceměřice.

World records

* 21,57 metres on September 21, 1974 in Gottwaldov
* 21,99 metres on July 26, 1976 in Opava
* 22,32 metres on August 20, 1977 in Nitra

Her latest record stood until May 2, 1980, when East German Ilona Slupianek improved it by four centimetres.

Fibingerová still holds the indoor world record with 22,50 metres, achieved on February 19, 1977 in Jablonec.

Medals: 1 Bronze (1 Total)

Achievements
Year /Competition /Venue /Position /Notes
1973 /European Indoor Championships /Rotterdam, Netherlands /1st /
1974 /European Indoor Championships /Gothenburg, Sweden /1st /
1974 /European Championships /Rome, Italy /3rd /
1975 /European Indoor Championships /Katowice, Poland /2nd /
1976 /Olympic Games /Montreal, Canada 3rd
1977 /European Indoor Championships /San Sebastián, Spain /1st /
1978 /European Indoor Championships /Milan, Italy 1st
1978 /European Championships /Prague, Czechoslovakia /2nd /
1980 /European Indoor Championships /Sindelfingen, West Germany /1st /
1981 /European Indoor Championships /Grenoble, France /2nd /
1982 /European Indoor Championships /Milan, Italy /2nd /
1982 /European Championships /Athens, Greece /2nd /
1983 /European Indoor Championships /Budapest, Hungary /1st /
1983 /World Championships /Helsinki, Finland /1st /
1984 /European Indoor Championships /Gothenburg, Sweden /1st /
1985 /European Indoor Championships /Athens, Greece /1st /
1986 /European Championships /Stuttgart, West Germany /10th /
1987 /World Championships /Rome, Italy /8th /

statics
Full name: Helena Fibingerová (-Smídová)
Gender: Female
Height: 5'10" (179 cm)
Weight: 194 lbs (88 kg)
Born: July 13, 1949 in Víceměřice, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Affiliations: VŽKG Vítkovice
Country: TCH Czechoslovakia
Sport: Athletics

Natalya Lisovskaya

Natalya Lisovskaya (Russian: Наталья Лисовская; born 16 July 1962 in Alegazy, Bashkir ASSR) is a former Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the shot put. Lisovskaya trained at Spartak in Moscow.

She 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 the women's shot put with a throw of 22.63 meters, which she achieved on June 7, 1987 in Moscow, Russia. She also has the four farthest throws of all time by a female shot putter.

Lisovskaya is married to men's hammer world record holder Yuriy Sedykh and has one daughter, Alexia. They live in Paris, France.

Statics
Sex : Woman
Weight : 105.00
Height : 1.86
Date of Birth : 16/07/1962
Place of birth : Alegazy; Bashkir ASSR

Medal record
Women's Athletics Competitor for the Soviet Union

Olympic Games
Gold 1988 Seoul Shot put

World Championships
Gold 1987 Rome Shot put
Silver 1991 Tokyo Shot put

World Indoor Championships
Gold 1985 Paris Shot put
Gold 1987 Indianapolis Shot put

European Championships
Silver 1990 Split Shot put

IAAF World Cup
Gold 1985 Canberra Shot put

Personal Best - Outdoor
Shot Put 22.63
Discus Throw 62.28

Nadzeya Astapchuk

Nadzeya Astapchuk is a Belarusian shot putter. She rose to top international level in the early 2000's, winning several medals, and finishing fourth at her first Summer Olympics in 2004. She became world champion in 2005.

Her personal best is 21.09 metres, achieved in July 2005 in Minsk. She improved upon this with a 21.70 m throw at the Belarusian championships in 2010, making her the third best indoor thrower on the all-time lists. She scored her first world indoor title at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, throwing a championship record of 20.85 m. She won further honours at the 2010 European Cup Winter Throwing meeting, easily winning gold ahead of compatriot Natallia Mikhnevich.

Nadzeya Ostapchuk was born in the small city of Rechitsa where her first love was basketball. But athletics took over after a track and field trainer visited her sports hall and suggested to several girls that they try competition. Among them was the 15-year-old Nadzeya. Remaining with the trainer, she ran and jumped with pleasure. First it was the 400m and broad jumps then, in the second year, long distances.

Valery Oksenchuk became her new trainer, and Ostapchuk begun to progress quickly. As soon as the second year, Ostapchuk went to Portugal to participate in Olympic days of youth and the next year, in 1998, she has won the gold medal at the World Junior Championships, in Annecy, France, and set a new personal record (18.23).

Time passes and she needed new specialist knowledge. As her trainer concentrated mainly on javelin throwers, he decided to transfer Ostapchuk to his colleague from Minsk, Alexander Efimov.

Efimov has structured training differently. Ostapchuk worked more on weights, her training volumes grew and, together, performances have grown too. There was much to change in her technique and movement. She has thought, for the first time, of what is necessary to make the shot fly further.

In 2001 Ostapchuk won the European Under-23 Championship with a new personal record (19.73) which is still a record for this competition. She won her first senior medal at the 2001 World Indoor Championship, in Lisbon, taking silver with an indoor personal best at 19.24. In 2003 she won silver medals at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham (20.31) and the outdoor World Championships in Paris (20.12).

Fourth in 2004 Athens Olympics, in 2005 she became world champion, in Helsinki, exceeding 21m (21.09). She also won the World Athletics Final in 2004, 2005 and 2007.
The last of those victories, achieved in Stuttgart, reversed the result from the 2007 World Championships, in Osaka, in which Valerie Vili, from New Zealand, took the gold medal while Ostapchuk had to settle for silver and the loss of her world title.

Achievements
Year Competition Position Notes
1998 World Junior Championships 1st 18.23 m = PB
2001 World Indoor Championships 2nd 19.24 m = PB
World Championships 7th 18.98 m
2002 European Championships 5th
2003 World Indoor Championships 2nd
World Championships 2nd 20.12 m = PB
World Athletics Final 3rd
2004 World Indoor Championships 7th
Olympic Games 4th
World Athletics Final 1st
2005 European Indoor Championships 1st
World Championships 1st
World Athletics Final 1st
2006 World Indoor Championships 6th
European Championships 2nd
2007 World Championships 2nd
World Athletics Final 1st
2008 World Indoor Championships 2nd
Olympic Games 3rd
2010 World Indoor Championships 1st 20.85 m = CR

Valerie Vili

Valerie Kasanita Vili, ONZM (née Adams; born 6 October 1984) is a shot putter from New Zealand. She is the reigning Olympic, world and Commonwealth champion. She also currently holds the New Zealand, Oceanian and Commonwealth records for the shot put with a personal best of 21.07 m.

In 1998 Vili first met former javelin thrower Kirsten Hellier, who would become her long-standing coach.

Vili first came to prominence when winning the World Youth Championships in 2001, with a throw of 16.87 m. She followed this up in 2002 by becoming World Junior champion, throwing 17.73 m, and had her first taste of senior success winning a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games with 17.45 m.

She finished fifth at the 2003 World Championships at eighteen years of age.

At her first Olympics in 2004, Vili finished eighth, while still recovering from an appendectomy she had just weeks before the competition.

The following year, she earned a place in the international elite, winning a bronze medal at the World Championships with a personal best throw of 19.87 m, and going on to finish second at the World Athletics Final. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games the 1.96 m-tall athlete won the gold medal, breaking the 20-year-old Commonwealth Games record of 19.00 m with a throw of 19.66 m.

In 2007, Vili went to the Osaka World Championships as a favourite to take a medal due to her being one of only three women to throw over 20m before the championships. In qualifying, Vili led the field with a throw of 19.45 m. Vili held second place behind Nadzeya Astapchuk throughout the final, but responded well in the last round with a mammoth throw and Commonwealth record of 20.54 m to take the gold. This made Vili one of few female athletes ever to take IAAF World Titles at youth, junior and senior level.

In 2008 Vili broke the Oceania record in winning her first World Indoor Title in Valencia (20.19 m).

At the Beijing Olympics, she qualified for the final with the longest distance thrown, 19.73 meters, on her first attempt. She won the gold with a throw of 20.56 m, a personal best, beating Belarussian thrower Natallia Mikhnevich. It is the first Olympic gold medal in track and field for New Zealand since John Walker won the 1,500 meter race in 1976.

She also won the New Zealand Sports Award of the year in 2008.

At the 2009 Grande Prêmio Rio in Brazil Vili won the competition with a new personal best and Oceanian area record of 20.69 m. The throw was also the world leading distance for the event.

On the 16th of August 2009, Vili won the world championship in Berlin with a throw of 20.44 meters, ahead of the German Nadine Kleinert (20.20 PB) and Lijiao Gong of China (19.89 PB).

Vili announced on 28 March 2010 that she would no longer be coached by Kirsten Hellier after an 11 year partnership.


stats
Nationality :New Zealand
Born :October 6, 1984
Place Rotorua, New Zealand
Height: 1.96 m
Weight: 120 kg
Records
Current record holder of Oceania's Shot Put (20,69 m)
Olympic 1 gold
World Championships 2 gold 1 copper
Commonwealth Games 1 gold 1 silver