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1906 Intercalated Games

Martin Sheridan of the Irish American Athletic Club, competing for the U.S. team, won gold in the 16-pound Shot put and the Freestyle Discus throw and silver in the Standing high jump, Standing long jump and Stone throw.

1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team

Bruno Pauletto, the Vols' strength coach, was an Olympic shot putter who won the gold medal for the Canadian team at the 1982 Commonwealth Games, and was a member of the Canadian team at the 1984 Olympics.

Adewale Olukoju

Adewale Olukoju (born July 27, 1968 in Zaria, Kaduna State) is a Nigerian athlete who competed in discus throw and shot put.

Al Feuerbach

Allan ("Al") Dean Feuerbach (born January 14, 1948 in Preston, Iowa) is a former track and field athlete from the United States, who competed for his native country in the men's shot put event at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1972.

Berliner Sport-Club

Lilli Henoch joined the BSC after World War I. In the 1920s she set world records in the discus (twice), shot put, and 4 × 100 meters relay events, and won German national championships in shot put four times, 4 × 100 meters relay three times, discus twice, and long jump.

Brad Mears

Brad Mears (born 24 December 1970) is an American shot putter, who won the gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games.

Centennial Stadium

The stadium features a 400m synthetic rubberized track surface, as well as separate areas for long jump/triple jump, high jump, pole vault, discus, hammer, shot put, and javelin.

Diana Pickler

She took first place with event bests in the 800 meters and shot put, and a personal heptathlon best of 6290 points, finishing ahead of Sharon Day and Bettie Wade.

Elisângela Adriano

Elisângela Maria Adriano (born July 27, 1972), is a Brazilian shot putter and discus thrower, whose personal best put is 19.30 metres, achieved in July 2001 in Tunja.

Foreign Sports Talent Scheme

Singapore Athletic Association's (SAA) President, Loh Lin Kok, brought in shot put specialists Du Xianhui, Zhang Guirong and Dong Enxin from China under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme in 1998.

Grit Hammer

Grit Hammer, née Haupt (born 4 June 1966 in Saalfeld, Thuringia) is a retired German shot putter.

Heinfried Birlenbach

Heinfried Birlenbach (born May 24, 1940 in Siegen) is a retired West German shot putter.

Helma Knorscheidt

Helma Knorscheidt (born 31 December 1956 in Nauendorf, Saxony-Anhalt) is an East German shot putter.

Ines Müller

Ines Müller, née Reichenbach (born January 2, 1959 in Grimma, Muldentalkreis, Saxony), is a German track and field athlete who represented East Germany in the shot put during the 1980s.

Inoke Breckterfield

Breckterfield attended Damien Memorial High School in Honolulu, Hawaii where he was a standout football player and track performer in the shot put.

Irina Korzhanenko

Irina Korzhanenko (born May 16, 1974 in Azov) is a former Russian shot putter.

Iris Plotzitzka

Iris Plotzitzka (born 7 January 1966 in Memmingen, Bavaria) is a retired West German shot putter.

Jason Tunks

Shot put - Outdoor: 19.06m (62' 6½) - Austin, Texas, April 5, 1997 Indoor: 18.97m (62' 3) - Blacksburg, Virginia, February 23, 2001

Jesseca Cross

She attended the University of Wyoming on a basketball scholarship, and then competed for the United States in the hammer throw and shot put at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Joachim Olsen

Joachim Brøchner Olsen (born 31 May 1977 in Aalborg, Denmark) is a Danish politician and former world class shot putter.

Martina de la Puente

Martina de la Puente Piñera (born April 4, 1975 in Gijón, Asturias) is a retired female shot putter from Spain.

Michael Mertens

Michael Mertens (born 27 December 1965 in Stelle, Lower Saxony) is a retired German shot putter.

Mike Stulce

Michael ("Mike") Stulce (born July 14, 1969 in Killeen, Texas) is a former shot putter from the United States who was an outstanding athlete at Texas A&M University.

Percy Perry Stadium

Percy Perry Stadium features a 400m polyflex synthetic rubberized track surface, as well as separate areas for long jump/triple jump, high jump, pole vault, discus, hammer, shot put, and javelin.

Ralf Reichenbach

Ralf Reichenbach (31 July 1950 in Wiesbaden – 12 February 1998 in Berlin) was a German shot putter.

Sultan Al-Hebshi

His personal best was set at the 2009 Doha meeting, throwing a new area record of 21.13 m and finishing in third, only behind Olympic champion Tomasz Majewski and World Champion Reese Hoffa.

Tadeusz Krzyżanowski

Tadeusz Krzyżanowski (29 August 1920 in Osterfeld – 31 January 1987 in Gdańsk) was a Polish shot putter who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Witold Gerutto

Witold Gerutto (1 October 1912 in Harbin, China – 13 October 1973 in Konstancin) was a Polish shot putter and decathlete who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Women's powerlifting in Australia

Australian Commonwealth Games competitors and Australians Olympians who took up the sport include Bev Francis, a shot putter and javelin thrower.

Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum

In the 1972 Games, hosted in Heidelberg, West Germany, she won a gold medal in javelin with a new world record of 18.5 metres, and also won a silver medal in the shot put.


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1906 Michigan Wolverines football team

He broke world records in the discus throw and high hurdles and won two medals in the 1908 Summer Olympics – a silver medal in the 110 meter hurdles and a bronze medal in the shot put.

Alicia Thompson

She was raised in Big Lake, Texas and attended high school at Reagan County High School where she excelled in basketball, shot put and discus throw.

Brampton, Cambridgeshire

Geoff Capes, the Commonwealth shot put champion and two times winner of the title of World's Strongest Man, served as a police officer here in the 1970s.

Brent Noon

Barnes is the current world record holder in the shot put and was a mentor to the younger Noon, residing with the Noon family while visiting California training for the Jack in the Box Invitational meet where he ultimately set the record.

Colby Mules

Harold Alfond Stadium new in 2008, contains an illuminated 400-meter, 8-lane track, with area for the long and triple jump, new discus and hammer cage and separate areas for shot put and javelin competition.

Emporia State Hornets

Al Feuerbach, Former Olympian and World Record Holder in the shot put

Gerhard Stöck

Gerhard Stöck was born in Kaiserswalde, Province of Posen (modern Grabionna, Poland), he represented Germany at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, earning a bronze medal in the shot put and a come-from-behind gold medal in the javelin throw.

Hans Woellke

Hans Otto Woellke (born 18 February 1911 in Bischofsburg, Ermland – 22 March 1943 in Guba near Minsk, Belarus) was a German athlete who mainly competed in the shot put, who won the gold medal in the men's shot put competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.

Ida Marcussen

She competed at the international combined event meets in Götzis and Ratingen, setting new personal bests in the shot put, javelin and 800 metres.

John Cheffers

His most successful athlete was Jean Roberts who won several Commonwealth Games silver and bronze in the Discus and Shot Put during the 1960s and 1970s.

John Kuck

Born in Wilson, Kansas, Kuck competed for the United States at the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands where he won the gold medal in the men's shot put event.

Menggenjimisu

There she won a gold medal in the F40 discus and a silver medal in the women's F40 shot put event.

Mitchell Watt

As a 13 year old he competed in the GPS 100m, 200m, 400m relay, 100m relay, long jump, high jump, triple jump, shot put and discus, winning all of his events bar and discus with a respectable 4th.

Nancy McCredie

Nancy McCredie (born February 5, 1945 in Belleville, Ontario) is a retired female track and field athlete from Canada, who represented her native country in two events (discus and shot put) at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Petra Lammert

Her personal best throw in the shot put is 20.04 metres, achieved in May 2007 in Zeven.

Preston, Iowa

Al Feuerbach, former track and field athlete, who competed in the men's shot put event at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics.

Sourabh Vij

Born in New Delhi, Vij won his first medal at the 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games, where his mark of 18.45 metres brought him the shot put gold medal (India's second athletics gold of the competition along with Hari Shankar Roy).

His first successes came the following year: he won the national junior championships, took a silver medal at the 2006 Asian Junior Athletics Championships and represented India at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Beijing, where he finished seventh in the shot put final.

TuS Makkabi Berlin

In 1924, Lilli Henoch, the world record holder in the discus, shot put, and 4 × 100 meters relay events, trained the women's section in the club.

Ulf Timmermann

His coach was Mr Werner Goldmann who is currently coaching shot put and discus throw in Berlin.

Virginia Miller

Competing for the Arkansas Lady Razorbacks in 2000 and 2001, Miller set school records in the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200-meters, 800-meters, long jump and heptathlon.

William Coe

Wesley Coe (William Wesley Coe, Jr., 1879–1926), Olympic shot put athlete