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Kristiina Tiina Lillak
Tiina Lillak (Ilse Kristiina Lillak, born 1961) is a Finnish javelin thrower, 1983 inaugural World champion (70.82 m) and 1984 Olympic silver medalist (69.00 m), who set two world records, best 74.76 m.
Margitta Helmbold Gummel
Margitta Helmbold-Gummel (1941-2021), East German shot putter; 1968 Olympic champion and first woman over 19.00 m (19.61 m WR), 1972 silver (20.22 m PB); later GDR doping case.
Marianne Adam
Marianne Adam (born 1951, Luckenwalde) is a German former shot putter for East Germany; two-time Olympian (5th 1972, 4th 1976), 1974 European silver medallist, and world record holder at 21.60 m (1975) and 21.67 m (1976).
Oksana Yarygina
Oksana Yarygina (Оксана Александровна Ярыгина), Russian javelin thrower born 1972 in Uzbekistan; 1994 Asian Games champion for Uzbekistan, personal best 64.34 m (1999), 26th in qualification at the 2004 Athens Olympics; wife of Sergey Makarov.
Paul Jessup
Paul Jessup (Paul Boulet Jessup, 1908-1992), American discus thrower and shot putter; set a 51.73 m discus world record at the 1930 AAU Meet, won NCAA and AAU titles, and placed 8th in the discus at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.
Rolf Danneberg
Rolf Danneberg (born 1953, Hamburg) is a German discus thrower for West Germany, 1984 Olympic champion with 66.60 m in an upset at Los Angeles and 1988 Seoul bronze medalist with 67.38 m; personal best 67.60 m (1987).
Romas Ubartas
Romas Ubartas (Ромас Убартас), Lithuanian discus thrower born 1960; 1992 Barcelona Olympic champion (65.12 m), first gold for independent Lithuania, 1988 silver for USSR, PB 70.06 m.
Rosemary Payne
Rosemary Payne (Christine Rosemary Payne, née Charters, later Chrimes; born 19 May 1933, Kelso, Scotland) is a Scottish discus thrower, 1970 Commonwealth Games gold and 1974 silver medallist, 1972 Olympian, British record holder 1964-1977, and record-setting masters athlete; not the physiotherapist author of Payne's Relaxation Techniques.
Rudolf Bauer
Rudolf Bauer (Bauer Rudolf, 1879-1932), Hungarian discus thrower, won gold at the 1900 Paris Olympics with 36.04 m and developed the modern rotating discus technique; second Hungarian Olympic champion after Alfréd Hajós.
Sara Kolak
Sara Kolak, Croatian javelin thrower born 1995 in Ludbreg; Olympic champion Rio 2016 (66.18 m NR), European champion 2026 Birmingham, personal best 68.43 m Lausanne 2017; three-time Olympian.
Shot put
Shot put: Olympic track and field throwing event; put one-handed from the shoulder in a 34.92° sector. World records: Ryan Crouser 23.56 m (2023), Natalya Lisovskaya 22.63 m (1987); glide and rotational techniques.
Silke Renk
Silke Renk (Renk-Lange), born 1967 in Querfurt, German javelin thrower; 1992 Barcelona Olympic champion with 68.34 m, 1988 Seoul fifth for East Germany, 1991 World bronze, personal best 71.00 m.
Sim Iness
Sim Iness (Simeon Garland Iness, 1930-1996), American discus thrower; 1952 Helsinki Olympic gold with 55.03 m Olympic record; first man over 190 feet with 57.93 m world record in 1953.
Stephanie Brown Trafton
Stephanie Brown Trafton (Stephanie Karenmonica Brown-Trafton), American discus thrower born 1979; won 2008 Beijing Olympic gold with a first-round 64.74 m, the first U.S. women's discus title since 1932, and set the American record 67.74 m in 2012.
Tamara Press
Tamara Natanovna Press (Тамара Натановна Пресс), Soviet shot putter and discus thrower (1937–2021), won three Olympic golds and one silver and set 11 world records before retiring in 1966 amid gender-verification controversy.
Tatyana Biryulina
Tatyana Biryulina (Татьяна Николаевна Бирюлина), born 1955 in Tashkent, Soviet javelin thrower; set the 70.08 m world record at Podolsk in 1980, first woman over 70 m, and finished sixth at the Moscow Olympics.
Udo Beyer
Udo Beyer (born 1955, Eisenhüttenstadt), East German shot putter, 1976 Olympic champion and 1980 bronze medalist, set three world records ending at 22.64 m in 1986; later ran a Potsdam travel agency.
Wilbur Thompson
Wilbur Marvin "Moose" Thompson (1921–1913... 1921–2013), American shot putter, 1948 London Olympic gold medalist with 17.12 m Olympic record; USC petroleum engineer, world ranked #2 in 1948.
Yanina Pravalinskaya Karolchyk
Yanina Pravalinskaya Karolchyk (Правалінская-Карольчык), Belarusian shot putter born 1976; 2000 Sydney Olympic gold with 20.56 m, 2001 Edmonton world champion with 20.61 m personal best, European bronze 1998 and silver 2010.
Yipsi Moreno
Yipsi Moreno (Yipsi Moreno González), born 1980 in Camagüey, Cuban hammer thrower; 2008 Olympic gold (upgraded after doping DQ), 2004 silver, three-time world champion (2001, 2003, 2005), PB 76.62 m; retired 2014, later represented Albania from 2025.