shot put

     

The shot put is an athletics (track an field) event involving "putting" (throwing in a pushing motion) a heavy metal ball (called the shot) as far as possible.

Trivia about shot put

  • In 1993 Werner Gunther of Switzerland threw one of these 72 feet 1 inch
  • The Olympic record for tossing one of these is 73 feet, 8 3/4 inches in 1988
  • In a very real sense it's a "put-down", but it's also an Olympic event
  • Of the events in a decathlon