Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's shot put

Women's shot put
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Women's shot put; at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	2 September
Medalists
	← 1956 1964 →

The women's shot put throwing event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on 2 September.^[1]

Results

Top 12 throwers and ties plus all throwers reaching 14.50 metres advanced to the finals. All distances are listed in metres.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3
1	Earlene Brown	United States	16.15	16.15	pass	pass
2	Valerie Sloper	New Zealand	16.07	16.07	pass	pass
3	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	16.00	13.23	16.00	pass
4	Wilfriede Hoffmann	United Team of Germany	15.84	15.84	pass	pass
5	Renate Boy	United Team of Germany	15.78	15.78	pass	pass
6	Johanna Lüttge	United Team of Germany	15.51	15.51	pass	pass
7	Zinaida Doynikova	Soviet Union	15.10	15.10	pas	pass
8	Galina Zybina	Soviet Union	15.03	15.03	pass	pass
9	Jadwiga Klimaj	Poland	14.85	foul	foul	14.85
10	Milena Usenik	Yugoslavia	14.74	14.20	14.74	pass
11	Věra Černá	Czechoslovakia	14.51	14.51	pass	pass
12	Eugenia Rusin	Poland	14.50	14.28	14.50	pass
13	Lidiya Sharamovich	Bulgaria	14.09	14.06	14.09	foul
14	Tsvetanka Krasteva	Bulgaria	13.99	13.66	13.99	foul
15	Yasuko Matsuda	Japan	13.51	13.51	12.56	12.99
16	Suzanne Farmer	Great Britain	13.10	12.03	13.10	pass
17	Ayala Hetzroni	Israel	12.59	12.59	12.59	pass
18	Wu Jin-yun	Formosa	11.76	11.53	11.42	11.76

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3	4	5	6	Notes
	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	17.32	16.08	17.32 OR	16.40	16.19	16.20	16.14	OR
	Johanna Lüttge	United Team of Germany	16.61	16.21	16.59 =OR	15.74	15.20	15.40	16.61
	Earlene Brown	United States	16.42	15.73	16.34	16.07	15.80	15.95	16.42
4	Valerie Sloper	New Zealand	16.39	16.11	16.26	15.72	16.39	16.21	16.07
5	Zinaida Doynikova	Soviet Union	16.13	foul	15.72	15.40	15.65	16.13	15.52
6	Renate Boy	United Team of Germany	15.94	15.61	15.94	15.40	15.07	15.20	15.60
7	Galina Zybina	Soviet Union	15.56	13.82	15.56	15.27
8	Wilfriede Hoffmann	United Team of Germany	15.14	14.87	14.75	15.14
9	Věra Černá	Czechoslovakia	15.06	15.06	14.29	foul
10	Jadwiga Klimaj	Poland	14.66	14.06	14.66	13.78
11	Eugenia Rusin	Poland	14.55	foul	14.55	14.18
12	Milena Usenik	Yugoslavia	14.19	14.19	14.12	14.11

Key: OR = Olympic record

^ "Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Women's Shot Put". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2018.

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Men	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
Women	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
See also: 1912 Men's two handed shot put

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
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
Decathlon	men
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