Sopo Shatirishvili
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Georgia |
| Born | Sopiko Shatirishvili 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 season's 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 Chorzów, Poland.[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]
