Sopo Shatirishvili
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Sopiko Shatirishvili |
| Nationality | Georgia |
| Born | 15 January 1995 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Track and field |
| Event | Shot put |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | Shot put: 18.74 m (Tbilisi, 2021) Discus: 36.21 m (Tbilisi, 2022) |
Sopiko Shatirishvili (born 15 January 1995) is a Georgian Olympic shot putter.[1] She has won multiple national championships titles in the shot put, and in 2022 won the Georgian national title in the discus throw.[2]
Career
She was chosen to represent Georgia in the shot put at the inaugural 2015 European Athletics Team Championships in Baku.[3]
Shatirishvili competed at the delayed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan in 2021, managing a distance of 15.31 metres but did not proceed to the final.[4][5] She had entered the Games with a personal best distance recorded at 18.74 metres.[6]
She won the Georgian Athletics Championships titles in 2022 in both the shot put (16.07 metres), as well as the discus throw, in which she managed a distance of 36.21 metres.[7][8] She competed in the shot put at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany where she threw a distance of 15.52 metres without qualifying for the final.[9] She was a silver medalist in the shot put at the 2022 Balkan Athletics Championships in Romania.[10]
She competed at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey in the women's shot put in March 2023, achieving a seasons best 15.08 metres without qualifying for the final.[11] She threw 15.86 metres in the shot put, placing first among 12 participants, in Georgia's division of the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships in Chorzow, Silesia.[12] She was a bronze medalist in the shot put at the 2023 Balkan Athletics Championships in Romania.[13]
She won the Georgian Indoor Athletics Championships in February 2025 with a distance of 14.28 metres.[14]
Personal life
She is from Ozurgeti in the province of Guria in Georgia.[15]
References
- ^ "Sopo Shatirishvili". Tokyo2020.org. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-08-01. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
- ^ "Sopo Shatirishvili". World Athletics. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "European Games: Georgian team expelled from the SEOC". mygoals.ge (in Georgian). 8 June 2025. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Athletics - Qualification - Group B Results - Start List, Olympic Stadium - Shot Put B - 30 Jul - 19:25". olympics.com. Archived from the original on 2021-08-18.
- ^ "Shatirishvili completes Tokyo performance". lelo.ge (in Georgian). 30 July 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Tushishvili V Riner in the Semifinals? - What to Expect on July 30". Betsson.sport. 29 July 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Georgian Championships". World Athletics. 25 June 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Georgian Championships". World Athletics. 26 June 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "European Championships". Wprld Athletics. 15 August 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Balkan Championships". World Athletics. 19 June 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics Indoor Championships 2023 Women's Shot Put Results". Watch Athletics. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "European Games. Krakow 2023 Starts before the opening of the Games: Most points from Sopho Shatirishvili!". lelo.ge (in Georgian). 21 June 2023. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Balkan Championships". World Athletics. 22 July 2023. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Georgian Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 22 February 2025. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Athletics. National Championship with a youth record". lelo.ge (in Georgian). 13 February 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
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