Shot put

Athletics Shot put
Polish double Olympic champion Tomasz Majewski
World records
Men	Ryan Crouser 23.56 m (77 ft 3+1⁄2 in) (2023)
Women	Natalya Lisovskaya 22.63 m (74 ft 2+3⁄4 in) (1987)
Olympic records
Men	Ryan Crouser 23.30 m (76 ft 5+1⁄4 in) (2021)
Women	Ilona Slupianek 22.41 m (73 ft 6+1⁄4 in) (1980)
World Championship records
Men	Ryan Crouser 23.51 m (77 ft 1+1⁄2 in) (2023)
Women	Natalya Lisovskaya 21.24 m (69 ft 8 in) (1987) Valerie Adams 21.24 m (69 ft 8 in) (2011)
World Indoor Championship records
Men	Ryan Crouser 22.77 m (74 ft 8+1⁄4 in) (2024)
Women	Valerie Adams 20.67 m (67 ft 9+3⁄4 in) (2014)

The shot put is a track-and-field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical ball—the shot—as far as possible. For men, the sport has been a part of the modern Olympics since their revival (1896), and women's competition began in 1948. The shot put is part of the most common combined events, the decathlon, the women's and men's heptathlon and the women's pentathlon.