Yemisi Ogunleye is pictured above during the final of the women's
shot putter at the Paris Olympic Games.
She won the gold medal with a throw of 20.00 metres in the last round.
It was her third medal of 2024, having won the silver at the World Indoor
in March and the bronze at the European Champions in Rome a few weeks
earlier.
2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Final of the women's shot put.
1. Yemisi Ogunleye (Germany). x 19.55 x 18.75 19.73 20.00. 20.00m
2. Maddi Wesche (New Zealand). x 19.58 18.54 19.10 19.86 19.68. 19.86m PB
3. Song Jiayuan (China) 16.43 18.88 18.78 19.32 x 19.21. 19.32m
4. Jaida Ross (United States). 19.28 x x x 18.79 18.75. 19.28m
5. Gong Lijiao (China). 19.09 19.06 x x 19.27 19.00. 19.27m
6. Jessica Schilder (Netherlands). x x 18.91 x x x. 18.91m
7. Fanny Roos (Sweden). 18.47 18.78 x 18.48 x 18.13. 18.78m
8. Jessica Inchude (Portugal). 18.16 18.41 x 18.32 x x. 18.41m
European Athletics Championships. Rome
2024 Final women's shot put.
1. Jessica Schilder (NED) 18.77
2. Jorinde Van Klinken (NED) 18.67 SB
3. Yemisi Ogunleye (GER) 18.62
4. Alina Kenzel (GER) 18.55
5. María Belén Toimil (ESP) 18.43
6. Fanny Roos (SWE) 18.26
7. Julia Ritter (GER) 18.18
8. Sara Lennman (SWE) 18.16
2024 World Indoor Championships. Glasgow
Final women's shot put.
1. Sarah Mitton (Canada). 19.40 x 19.81 20.20 19.49 20.22. 20.22m SB
2. Yemisi Ogunleye (Germany). 20.19 x 19.71 x x x. 20.19m PB
3. Chase Jackson (United States). 19.56 19.67 19.26 x 19.60 19.29. 19.67m
4. Madison-Lee Wesche (New Zealand). x 15.71 19.32 19.33 19.62 x. 19.62m PB
5. Jessica Schilder (Netherlands). x x 19.37 x x x . 19.37m
6. Danniel Thomas-Dodd (Jamaica). 18.34 18.84 18.33 x 19.12 18.85. 19.12 SBm