Personal information | |
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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]
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]
She is from Ozurgeti in the province of Guria in Georgia. [15]