Shot Put, Women 1948-2016 

1948
1 Micheline Ostermeyer FRA 13,75
2 Amelia Piccinini ITA 13,09
3 Ine Schaffer AUT 13,08
4 Paulette Veste FRA 12,98
5 Jaroslava Komarkova TCH 12,92
6 Anni Bruk AUT 12,50
7 Maria Radosaljevic YUG 12,35
8 Bevis reid GBR 12,17

1952
1 Galina Zybina URS 15,28
2 Marianne Werner GER 14,57
3 Klavdia Tochenova URS 14,50
4 Tamara Tyskevich URS 14,42
5 Gertrud Kille GER 13,84
6 Ivette Williams NZL 13,35
7 Maria Radosalievic YUG 13,30
8 Meeri Saari FIN 13,02

1956
1 Tamara Tyshkevich URS 16,59
2 Galina Zybina URS 16,53
3 Marianne Werner GER 15,61
4 Zinaida Doynikova URS 15,54
5 Valerie Sloper NZL 15,34
6 Earlene Brown USA 15,12
7 Regina Branner AUS 14,60
8 Nadya Kotulsek YUG 14,56

1960
1 Tamara Press URS 17,32
2 Johanna Luttge GER 16,61
3 Earlene Brown USA 16,42
4 Valerie Sloper NZL 16,39
5 Zinaida Doynikova URS 16,13
6 Renate Garisch GER 15,94
7 Galina Zybina RUS 15,56
8 Wilfriede Hoffmann GDR 15,14

1964
1 Tamara Press URS 18,14
2 Renate Garisch GER 17,61
3 Galina Zybina URS 17,45
4 Valerie Young NZL 17,26
5 Margitta Helmboldt GER 16,91
6 Iryna Press URS 16,71
7 Nancy McCredie CAN 15,89
8 Ana Salagean ROU 15,83

1968
1 Margitta Gummel GDR 19,61
2 Marita Lange GDR 18,78
3 Nadezhda Chizhova URS 18,19
4 Lendvai-Judit Bognar HUN 17,78
5 Renate Boy GDR 17,72
6 Ivanka Khristova BUL 17,25
7 Marlene Fuchs RFG 17,11
8 Els Van Noorduyn NED 16,23

1972
1 Nadezhda Chizhova URS 21,03
2 Margitta Gummel GDR 20,22
3 Ivanlka Khristova BUL 19,35
4 Esfir Dolzhenko URS 19,24
5 Marianne Adam GDR 18,94
6 Marita Lange GDR 18,85
7 Helena Fibingerova TCH 18,81
8 Yelena Stoyanova BUL 18,34

1976
1 Ivanka Khristova BUL 21,16
2 Nadezhda Chizhova URS 20,96
3 Helena Fibingerova TCH 20,67
4 Marianne Adam GDR 20,55
5 Ilona Schoknecht GDR 20,54
6 Margitta Droese GDR 19,79
7 Eva Wilms RFG 19,29
8 Yelena Stoyanova BUL 18,89

1980
1 Ilona Slupianek GDR 22,41
2 Svetlana Krachevskaya URS 21,42
3 Margitta Pufe GDR 21,20
4 Nun Abashidze URS 21,15
5 Verginia Vesselinova BUL 20,72
6 Elena Stoyanova BUL 20,22
7 Natalya Akhrimenko URS 19,74
8 Ines Reichenbach GDR 19,66
14 Cinzia Petrucci ITA 17,27

1984
1 Claudia Losch RFG 20,48
2 Mihaela Lophin ROU 20,47
3 Gael Martin AUS 19,19
4 Judith Oakes GBR 18,14
5 Li Meisu CHN 17,96
6 Venissa Head GBR 17,90
7 Carol Cady USA 17,23
8 Florenta Craciunescu ROU 17,23

1988
1 Natalya Lisovskaya URS 22,24
2 Kathrin Neimke GDR 21,07
3 Li Meisu CHN 21,06
4 Ines Muller GDR 20,37
5 Claudia Losch RFG 20,27
6 Heike Hartwig GDR 20,20
7 Natalya Akhremenko URS 20,13
8 Huang Zhihong CHN 19,82

1992
1 Svetlana Kriveleva SUN/RUS 21,06
2 Huang Zhihong CHN 20,47
3 Kathrin Neimke GER 19,78
4 Belsis Munoz CUB 19,70
5 Zhou Zhou CHN 19,26
6 Svetlana Mitkova BUL 19,23
7 Stephanie Storp GER 19,10
8 Viktoriya Pavlych SUN/UKR 18,69

1996
1 Astrid Kumbernuss GER 20,56
2 Xinmei Sui CHN 19,88
3 Irina Khudorzhkina RUS 19,35
4 Vita Pavlysh UKR 19,30
5 Connie Price-Smith USA 19,22
6 Stephanie Storp GER 19,06
7 Kathrin Nemke GER 18,92
8 Irina Korzhanenko RUS 18,68

2000
1 Yanina Korolchik BLR 20,56
2 Larisa Peleshenko RUS 19,92
3 Astrid Kumbernuss GER 19,62
4 Svetlana Kriveleva RUS 19,37
5 Krystyna Danilczyk POL 19,18
6 Yumileidi Cumba CUB 18,70
7 Kalliopi Ouzouni GRE 18,63
8 Nadine Kleinert GER 18,49
Qual. Mara Rosolen ITA 16,66

2004
1 Yumileidi Cumba CUB 19,59
2 Nadine Kleinert GER 19,55
3
4 Nadezhda Ostapchuk BLR 19,01
5 Natalia Khoroneko BLR 18,96
6 Krystyna Zabawska POL 18,64
7 Misleydis Gonzalez CUB 18,59
8 Valerie Adams NZL 18,56
Svetlana Krivelyova RUS (19,49) has been disqualified due the anti-doping rule violations. The Medal hasn't been reallocated.

2008
1 Valerie Vili NZL 20,56
2 Misleydis Gonzalez CUB 19,50
3 Lijiao Gong CHN 19,20
4 Anna Omarova RUS 19,08
5 Nadine Kleinert GER 19,01
6 Meiju Li CHN 19,00
7 Olga Ivanova RUS18,44
8 Mailin Vargas CUB 18,28
11 Chiara Rosa ITA 18,22
Qual. Assunta Legnante ITA 17,76
Natallia Mikhenevich BLR (20,28) and Nadzeya Ostapchuk BLR (19,86) have been disqualified due to anti-doping rule violations.

2012
1 Valerie Adams  NZL 20,70 
2 Lijiao Gong CHN 20,22
3 Ling Li CHN 19,63 
4 Michelle Carter USA 19,42
5 Xiangrong Liu CHN 19,18
6 Geisa Arcanjo BRA 19,02
7 Irina Tarasova RUS 19,00
8 Natalia Duco CHI 18,80
Qual. Chiara Rosa ITA 18,30
Nadzeya Ostapchuk BLR (21,36) and Evgeniia Kolodko RUS (20,48) have been disqualified due to anti-doping rule violations.

2016
1 Michelle Carter USA 20,63
2 Valerie Adams NZL 20,42
3 Anita Marton HUN 19,87
4 Lijiao Gong CHN 19,39
5 Raven Saunders USA 19,35
6 Christina Schwanitz GER 19.03
7 Cleopatra Borel TTO 18,37
8 Aliona Dubitskaya BLR 18,23