Tamara Press Breaks Her Own Shot Put World Record Tokyo 1964 Olympics

After winning the gold medal in the discus event the USSR s Tamara Press went on to not only win the gold medal in the shot put but also break her own world record in the event at the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games. Subscribe to the Olympic channel: Tamara Press challenge at the Tokyo 1964 Games was to retain her shot put title and take the discus gold. Two years earlier, she had secured the double in the European Championships, and her greatest rivals there were likely to be her main competitors in Tokyo. On the day after she won gold in the discus event, it was time for the shot put, an event in which Press had broken the world record twice since the Rome Olympic Games. But while nerves had blighted the early rounds of her discus final, this time around she was in form from the very start. Her first put took her into a lead that she never looked like losing. In fact, Press s final effort was her longest an Olympic record distance of but by