Women's shot put at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	4 August (qualifying and final)
Competitors	19 from 12 nations
Winning time	13.750 OR
Medalists
Micheline Ostermeyer  France Amelia Piccinini  Italy Ine Schäffer  Austria
1952 →

Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men
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
10 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
Decathlon	men
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The women's shot put event was, for the first time, part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on 4 August 1948. The final was won by Micheline Ostermeyer of France.^[1]

Since it was the first time this event took place, the following new Olympic record was set during this competition:

Date	Event	Athlete	Time	Notes
4 August	Final	Micheline Ostermeyer (FRA)	13.75 m	OR

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Qual. rule: qualification standard 12.30m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Micheline Ostermeyer	France	13.140	Q OR
2	Eivor Olson	Sweden	12.620	Q
3	Bevis Reid	Great Britain	12.570	Q
4	Amelia Piccinini	Italy		Q
5	Ine Schäffer	Austria		Q
6	Paulette Veste	France		Q
7	Jaroslava Komárková	Czechoslovakia		Q
8	Anni Bruk	Austria		Q
9	Marija Radosavljević	Yugoslavia		Q
10	Ingeborg Mello	Argentina		Q
11	Paulette Laurent	France		Q
12	Marianne Schläger	Austria		Q
13	Elizabeth Müller	Brazil	11.870
14	Frances Kaszubski	United States	11.310
15	Ans Panhorst-Niesink	Netherlands	11.180
16	Dorothy Dodson	United States	11.055
17	Elspeth Whyte	Great Britain	10.755
18	Liv Paulsen	Norway	10.200
19	Margaret Birtwistle	Great Britain	9.740

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
	Micheline Ostermeyer	France	13.750	OR
	Amelia Piccinini	Italy	13.095
	Ine Schäffer	Austria	13.080
4	Paulette Veste	France	12.985
5	Jaroslava Komárková	Czechoslovakia	12.920
6	Anni Bruk	Austria	12.500
7	Marija Radosavljević	Yugoslavia	12.355
8	Bevis Reid	Great Britain	12.170
9	Ingeborg Mello	Argentina	12.085
10	Paulette Laurent	France	12.030
11	Eivor Olson	Sweden	11.840
12	Marianne Schläger	Austria	11.775

Key: OR = Olympic record

• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 5 September 2016.