Sopo Shatirishvili

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Sopo Shatirishvili
Personal information
Birth nameSopiko Shatirishvili
Nationality Georgia
Born (1995-01-15) 15 January 1995 (age 30)
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]

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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

  1. "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.
  2. "Sopo Shatirishvili". World Athletics. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  3. "European Games: Georgian team expelled from the SEOC". mygoals.ge (in Georgian). 8 June 2025. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  4. "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.
  5. "Shatirishvili completes Tokyo performance". lelo.ge (in Georgian). 30 July 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  6. "Tushishvili V Riner in the Semifinals? - What to Expect on July 30". Betsson.sport. 29 July 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  7. "Georgian Championships". World Athletics. 25 June 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  8. "Georgian Championships". World Athletics. 26 June 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  9. "European Championships". Wprld Athletics. 15 August 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  10. "Balkan Championships". World Athletics. 19 June 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  11. "European Athletics Indoor Championships 2023 Women's Shot Put Results". Watch Athletics. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  12. "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.
  13. "Balkan Championships". World Athletics. 22 July 2023. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  14. "Georgian Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 22 February 2025. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  15. "Athletics. National Championship with a youth record". lelo.ge (in Georgian). 13 February 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2025.