| Women's shot put at the Games of the XIX Olympiad | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venue | Estadio Olímpico Universitario | |||||||||
| Date | October 20, 1968 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 14 from 9 nations | |||||||||
| Winning distance | 19.61WR | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
| ||||||||||
| Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics | ||
|---|---|---|
 | ||
| Track events | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | |
| 5000 m | men | |
| 10,000 m | men | |
| 80 m hurdles | women | |
| 110 m hurdles | men | |
| 400 m hurdles | men | |
| 3000 m steeplechase | men | |
| 4 × 100 m relay | men | women |
| 4 × 400 m relay | men | |
| Road events | ||
| Marathon | men | |
| 20 km walk | men | |
| 50 km walk | men | |
| Field events | ||
| Long jump | men | women |
| Triple jump | men | |
| High jump | men | women |
| Pole vault | men | |
| Shot put | men | women |
| Discus throw | men | women |
| Javelin throw | men | women |
| Hammer throw | men | |
| Combined events | ||
| Pentathlon | women | |
| Decathlon | men | |
Thewomen's shot put competition at the1968 Summer Olympics inMexico City,Mexico took place on October 20.[1]
The competition consisted of a single round. Each competitor was allowed three throws, with the top eight athletes after that point being given three further attempts.
Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record |  Margitta Gummel (GDR) | 18.87 m | Frankfurt (Oder),East Germany | April 23, 1967 |
| Olympic record |  Tamara Press (URS) | 18.14 m | Tokyo,Japan | October 20, 1964 |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Margitta Gummel |  East Germany | 18.53 | 17.88 | 19.07 | 18.30 | 19.61 | 18.59 | 19.61 | WR |
 | Marita Lange | East Germany | 18.78 | X | 18.17 | 18.47 | 18.20 | 18.26 | 18.78 | |
 | Nadezhda Chizhova | Soviet Union | 18.19 | X | 18.03 | 17.62 | 17.49 | 17.26 | 18.19 | |
| 4 | Judit Bognár |  Hungary | 17.14 | 17.30 | 17.21 | 17.78 | 17.75 | 16.83 | 17.78 | |
| 5 | Renate Garisch-Culmberger | East Germany | 17.67 | 17.15 | 17.68 | 17.49 | 17.72 | 17.69 | 17.72 | |
| 6 | Ivanka Khristova |  Bulgaria | 16.65 | 17.25 | 16.85 | X | X | 17.20 | 17.25 | |
| 7 | Marlene Fuchs | West Germany | 17.11 | 16.56 | X | X | X | 16.19 | 17.11 | |
| 8 | Els van Noorduyn |  Netherlands | 15.89 | 15.71 | 14.97 | 15.54 | 16.23 | 16.10 | 16.23 | |
| 9 | Irina Solontsova-Kudryavtseva | Soviet Union | X | 15.88 | 15.76 | N/a | 15.88 | |||
| 10 | Gertrud Schäfer | West Germany | 14.70 | 15.26 | 15.10 | N/a | 15.26 | |||
| 11 | Maren Seidler |  United States | 14.38 | 14.86 | X | N/a | 14.86 | |||
| 12 | Rosa Molina |  Chile | 12.85 | 11.89 | 11.94 | N/a | 12.85 | |||
| 13 | Baeg Ok-Ja |  South Korea | 12.67 | 12.08 | 11.97 | N/a | 12.67 | |||
| 14 | Rosario Martínez |  El Salvador | 9.58 | X | 10.18 | N/a | 10.18 | |||
| Mary Peters |  Great Britain | N/a | DNS | |||||||
| Josephine de la Viña |  Philippines | N/a | DNS | |||||||
