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Athletics At The 2015 Summer Universiade – Women's Shot Put ...
The women's shot put event at the 2015 Summer Universiade was held on 8 July at the Gwangju Universiade Main Stadium. The winning margin was 6 cm, which as of 2024 remains the narrowest winning margin in the women's shot put at these games. Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Athletics at the 2015 Summer Universiade - Women's shot put Shot 2015 in women's athletics 2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shot Put
The shot put is a track-and-field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical Ball (sports), ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. For men, the sport has been a part of the Olympic Games, modern Olympics since their 1896 Summer Olympics, revival (1896), and women's competition began in 1948 Summer Olympics, 1948. The shot put is part of the most common Combined track and field events, combined events, the decathlon, the Women's Heptathlon, women's and men's heptathlon and the women's pentathlon. History Homer mentions competitions of rock throwing by soldiers during the Trojan War, siege of Troy but there is no record of any weights being thrown in Greek competitions. The first evidence for Stone put, stone- or weight-throwing events were in the Scottish Highlands, and date back to approximately the first century. In the 16th century Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII was noted for his prowess in court competitions of weight and hammer throwing. The first eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giedrė Kupstytė
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Gloria Hinestroza
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Ashlie Blake
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TeRina Keenan
Te Rina Catherine Keenan (born 29 June 1990 in Auckland) is a New Zealand athlete whose specialty is the discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight (object), weight called a discus in an attempt to mark a further distance than other competitors. It is a .... She competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without qualifying for the final. Her personal best in the event is 60.78 metres (Hamilton 2015). In addition, she has a best of 16.11 metres in the shot put (Kazan 2013). Competition record References External links * 1990 births Living people New Zealand female discus throwers World Athletics Championships athletes for New Zealand Athletes from Auckland Competitors at the 2013 Summer Universiade Competitors at the 2015 Summer Universiade New Zealand female shot putters New Zealand Athletics Championships winners 21st-century New Zeala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics At The 2015 Summer Universiade
Sport of athletics, Athletics was contested at the 2015 Summer Universiade from July 8 to 12 at the Gwangju World Cup Stadium, Gwangju Universiade Main Stadium in Gwangju, South Korea. Medal summary Men's events Women's events Medal table Participating nations References *Mulkeen, Jon (2015-07-09)Van der Plaetsen retains World University Games decathlon title IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-10. *Mulkeen, Jon (2015-07-09)Simbine and Fajdek win World University Games titles in Gwangju IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-10. External links {{EventsAt2015SummerUniversiade Athletics at the 2015 Summer Universiade, 2015 in athletics (track and field), Universiade Events at the 2015 Summer Universiade, Athletics Athletics at the Summer World University Games, 2015 International athletics competitions hosted by South Korea, 2015 Universiade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manpreet Kaur (athlete)
Manpreet Kaur (born 6 July 1990) is an Indian professional Olympic shot putter. Born in Ambala, her gold-medal winning performance of 18.86m at the 2017 Asian Grand Prix in Jinhua, China turned out to be a world-leading throw, taking her to the No. 1 spot in the rankings. Kaur was qualified to represented India at Summer Olympics at Rio 2016 in shot put. Early life Kaur is the eldest of three siblings. When she was 13 years old, her father passed away. Her mother was paralyzed in 2006. She developed an interest in athletics through father and her cousins who were also into sports. One of her cousins was a university-level 100m sprinter and other is a discus thrower, while her sister-in-law was also a shot putter. She initially trained for a year in the 100m, but her brother whom she trained under felt she would do better in shot put and she switched. She hails from Sahauli village from Patiala and works at the Indian Railways. Career Kaur placed 9th in the 5th IAAF World Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Kirichenko (athlete) .
Irina Ivanovna Kirichenko (; 13 June 1937 – 11 March 2020) was a Soviet sprint cyclist who won two gold, four silver and one bronze medal at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in 1962–1969. Between 1960 and 1969 she also won 10 national titles. After retirement from competitions she worked as a cycling coach in Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine. References 
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