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Valerie Adams at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Rafer Johnson, putting the shot in the Olympic decathlon, 1960

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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Valerie Adams at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Rafer Johnson, putting the shot in the Olympic decathlon, 1960

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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O’Brien style decathlon heptathlon athletics pole vault weight throw hammer throw long jump discus throw pentathlon high jump javelin throw triple jump running

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Valerie Adams

Valerie Adams

New Zealand athlete

Gong Lijiao at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Gong Lijiao

Chinese shot-putter

Micheline Ostermeyer

French athlete and pianist

John J. Flanagan

Irish-American athlete

Olympic champion Tamara Press

Tamara Press

Soviet athlete

Parry O’Brien

American athlete

Gisela Mauermayer

German athlete

Randy Matson putting the shot in 1965.

Randy Matson

American athlete

Jack Torrance

American athlete

Galina Zybina

Galina Zybina

Soviet athlete

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