History of Shot Put Sports
History of Shot Put Sports
Shot Put is one of the sports contested in an international
class. Shot Put into the athletics branch.
The world record of shot put is currently held by athletes
from the United States named Randy Barnes. By recording a record of bullets as
far as 23.12 Meters on May 20, 1990. Until now the record is still unsolved.
As for the Asian region, the record for a shot put was held
by a Saudi Arabian athlete named Sultan Al-Hebshi with a 21.13-meter repulsion
made in 2009.
The national record for shot put repelling is held by Sukraj
Singh, an athlete from North Sumatra with a 16.87-meter repulsion he made in
1999 in Jakarta. Until now it is still difficult to break the record for the
best Indonesian shop put record.
At the last PON in West Java 2016, the gold medal holder from
Central Java named Krisna Wahyu Permana only reached a throw of 15.48 meters.
The history of bullet can begin to be traced from Homer, a
writer in ancient Greece who recorded during the siege of the Greek army
against the city of Troy. The soldiers used stones to pelt Troy's soldiers from
behind the fortress walls. But unfortunately, there were no further reports
about how many casualties were caused by the incident. So the record of
throwing stones is considered to be less powerful.
In the 1st century AD it was said that the Scottish
population had started to do shot put sports but still used stones as a
throwing tool.
In the early 16th century in England a hammer throwing event
was held by the English King who reigned at that time (King Henry VIII). But
still it is not a bullet as intended.
In the 15th and 16th centuries the activity of repelling
bullets had begun frequently by soldiers in various European countries who were
resting. With the aim of releasing stress due to war.
The world-recorded shot put competition was held in Scotland
in 1866. And then Reject Bullets became one of the sports contested on the
first Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.
American athlete Robert Garret became the first gold medalist
in the Olympic shot put branch. Robert set a record of 11.22 meters, while
silver and bronze medals at the first Olympics in the world were captured by
Greek host athletes with a throw of 11.03 meters and 10.36 meters.