Editing Shot put (section)

{{Short description|Track and field event}}
{{Infobox athletics event
|event= Shot put
|image= Tomasz Majewski - 2. Memoriał Kamili Skolimowskiej - Warszawa, 2011-09-20.jpg
|caption= Polish double Olympic champion [[Tomasz Majewski]]
|WRmen= {{flagicon|USA}} [[Ryan Crouser]] {{T&Fcalc|23.56}} (2023)
|ORmen= {{flagicon|USA}} [[Ryan Crouser]] {{T&Fcalc|23.30}} (2021)
|CRmen= {{flagicon|USA}} [[Ryan Crouser]] {{T&Fcalc|23.51}} (2023)
|ICRmen= {{flagicon|USA}} [[Ryan Crouser]] {{T&Fcalc|22.77}} (2024)
|WRwomen= {{nowrap|{{flagicon|URS}} [[Natalya Lisovskaya]] {{T&Fcalc|22.63}} (1987)}}
|ORwomen= {{flagicon|GDR}} [[Ilona Slupianek]] {{T&Fcalc|22.41}} (1980)
|CRwomen= {{flagicon|URS}} [[Natalya Lisovskaya]] {{T&Fcalc|21.24}} (1987) <br />{{flagicon|NZL}} [[Valerie Adams]] {{T&Fcalc|21.24}} (2011)
|ICRwomen= {{flagicon|NZL}} [[Valerie Adams]] {{T&Fcalc|20.67}} (2014)
}}
The '''shot put''' is a [[track-and-field]] event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical [[Ball (sports)|ball]]—the ''shot''—as far as possible. For men, the sport has been a part of the [[Olympic Games|modern Olympics]] since their [[1896 Summer Olympics|revival]] (1896), and women's competition began in [[1948 Summer Olympics|1948]]. The shot put is part of the most common [[Combined track and field events|combined events]], the [[decathlon]], the [[Women's Heptathlon|women's]] and [[men's heptathlon]] and the [[women's pentathlon]].