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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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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified title of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Transfer of mechanical energy during the shot put.	Aakanksha Gaur	Jul 03, 2026
	Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Sports and Active Living - Valid knowledge of performance provided by a motion capturing system in shot put.	Emily Rodriguez	Nov 19, 2025
	Add new Web site: Journal of Physical Education and Sport - Comparison between rotational and glide techniques in shot put based on the performance analysis of competitions (PDF).	Gloria Lotha	Apr 24, 2025
	Add new Web site: IOPscience - Journal of Physics: Conference Series - Mathematical simulation approach to diagnose performance limiting factor of shot put technique (PDF).	Yamini Chauhan	Feb 24, 2025
	Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Transfer of mechanical energy during the shot put.	Yamini Chauhan	Jan 17, 2025
	Media added.	Will Gosner	Jul 15, 2024
	Add new Web site: Academia - Kinematical variables analysis of shot-put activity in para athletics (class f32/33) and their relationships with digital level achievement.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 25, 2024
	Add new Web site: IndiaNetzone - Shot Put.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 07, 2024
	Add new Web site: Wolfram MathWorld - Cartesian Coordinates.	Aakanksha Gaur	Jan 19, 2024
	Add new Web site: Nature - Change of world-record rankings of shot put and hammer throw due to the effects of Earth rotation and athlete�s height.	Aakanksha Gaur	Jan 19, 2024
	Corrected display issue.	Adam Augustyn	Aug 09, 2021
	Add new Web site: World Athletics - Shot Put.	Satyavrat Nirala	Oct 11, 2015
	Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Shot Put.	Dutta Promeet	Feb 01, 2011
	Media added.	Adam Augustyn	Jul 28, 2008
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Apr 07, 2005
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 12, 2004
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Apr 26, 2002
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Nov 03, 2000
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 04, 1999