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Valerie Adams of New Zealand prepares to throw the shot put in an empty Olympic Stadium during the Women's Shot Put Final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Rafer Johnson wearing a USA jersey prepares to throw the shot put during the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics, with a stadium crowd in the background.
Randy Matson putting the shot in 1965.
Parry O'Brien training for the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, Fin., where he won a gold medal in the shot put
Dimensions of (left) shot for women and men, (centre) shot-putting circle, and (right) shot-putting sector.
See a comparative study of four Olympic hurling objects - the hammer, the javelin, the discus, and the shot put
Learn from a side view of an athlete's track-and-field shot put technique
Study the shot-put technique of a track-and-field athlete spinning and heaving a metal ball from the shoulder
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Valerie Adams
Valerie Adams
New Zealand athlete
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Paavo Yrjölä: The Farmhand
Finnish athlete
Gong Lijiao at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Gong Lijiao
Chinese shot-putter
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Micheline Ostermeyer
French athlete and pianist
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John J. Flanagan
Irish-American athlete
Olympic champion Tamara Press
Tamara Press
Soviet athlete
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Parry O’Brien
American athlete
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Gisela Mauermayer
German athlete
Randy Matson putting the shot in 1965.
Randy Matson
American athlete
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Jack Torrance
American athlete
Galina Zybina
Galina Zybina
Soviet athlete

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