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Natalya LISOVSKAYA

Natalya Lisovskaya - U.S.S.R. - 1987 World & 1988 Olympic Shot Put Champion

Photo/Foto: Stuart Franklin

Date: 10 July 1987

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    • DATE OF BIRTH
      Monday, 16 July 1962
    • PLACE OF BIRTH
      Alegazy, Bashkir, U.S.S.R.
  • INTERNATIONAL
  • U.S.S.R.
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Natalya LISOVSKAYA - U.S.S.R. - 1987 World & 1988 Olympic Shot Put Champion

Natalya Lisovskaya set the world record in the women's shot put with a throw of

22.63 metres (74 feet 3 inches), which she achieved on 7th. June 1987, in Moscow.

The record lasted for decades. Lisovskaya married men's hammer throw world record

holder Yuriy Sedykh and had one daughter, Alexia. 

 

Women's Shot Put Final.

World Athletics Championships 1987

 
1. Natalya LISOVSKAYA   URS   21.24   CR  
2. Kathrin Neimke   GDR   21.21
3. Ines Muller   GDR   20.76

 

 

Women's Shot Put Final.

Olympic Games 1988

 
1. Natalya LISOVSKAYA   SOV   22.24
2. Kathrin Neimke   DDR   21.07
3. Li Meisu   CHN   21.06
 

Women's Shot Put Final.

European Athletics Championships 1990

 
1. Astrid KUMBERNUSS   GDR     20.38  
2. Natalya LISOVSKAYA   URS     20.06  
3. Kathrin NEIMKE   GDR     19.96
 

Women's Shot Put Final.

World Athletics Championships 1991

 
1. Huang Zhihong   CHN   20.85m.
2. Natalya LISOVSKAYA   URS   20.29m.
3. Svetlana Krivelyova   URS   20.16m.