The women's shot put

Shot put

The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

 at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships

2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships

The 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was held between 12 and 14 March at the ASPIRE Dome in Doha, Qatar. The championships was the first of six IAAF World Athletics Series events to take place in 2010.-Bidding and organisation:...

 was held at the ASPIRE Dome

ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence

ASPIRE Dome is an indoor sporting arena located in Doha, Qatar, and the home of the ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence. The ASPIRE academy is a part of the Aspire Zone which also houses the Khalifa Stadium....

 on 13 and 14 March.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Nadzeya Ostapchuk Nadzeya Ostapchuk Nadzeya Astapchuk is a Belarusian shot putter.Born in Stolin, she was initially interested in basketball but the lack of a local team left her unable to pursue the sport further. Astapchuk instead began practising in throwing events and her first international title came at the age of seventeen,...	Valerie Vili Valerie Vili Valerie Kasanita Adams , ONZM is a shot putter from New Zealand. She is the reigning Olympic, world and Commonwealth champion...	Natallia Mikhnevich Natallia Mikhnevich Natallia Mikhnevich is a Belarusian shot putter.She finished third at the 2000 World Junior Championships, but first appeared on the international athletics scene at the 2004 Olympics, where she finished 5th. She repeated this position at the World Athletics Final later that year, and in 2005 she...

Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships
World record		22.50	Jablonec Jablonec nad Nisou Jablonec nad Nisou is a town in northern Bohemia, the second largest town of the Liberec Region. It is known as a mountain resort in the Jizera Mountains, an education centre, and a centre of world-production of glass and jewellery... , Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...	19 February 1977
Championship record		20.55	Birmingham Birmingham Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a... , Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...	15 March 2003
World Leading		21.70	Mogilev Mogilev Mogilev is a city in eastern Belarus, about 76 km from the border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and 105 km from the border with Russia's Bryansk Oblast. It has more than 367,788 inhabitants... , Belarus Belarus Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...	12 February 2010
African record		18.13	Flagstaff Flagstaff, Arizona Flagstaff is a city located in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. In 2010, the city's population was 65,870. The population of the Metropolitan Statistical Area was at 134,421 in 2010. It is the county seat of Coconino County... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	4 February 2006
Asian record		21.10	Beijing Beijing Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's... , China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...	3 March 1990
European record		22.50	Jablonec, Czechoslovakia	19 February 1977
North and Central American and Caribbean record		19.83	Inglewood Inglewood, California Inglewood is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, southwest of downtown Los Angeles. It was incorporated on February 14, 1908. Its population stood at 109,673 as of the 2010 Census... , United States	20 February 1987
Oceanian Record		20.19	Valencia, Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	9 March 2008
South American record		18.33	Piraeus Piraeus Piraeus is a city in the region of Attica, Greece. Piraeus is located within the Athens Urban Area, 12 km southwest from its city center , and lies along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf.... , Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....	24 February 1999

Qualification standards

Indoor
17.50 m

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
March 13, 2010	9:20	Qualification
March 14, 2010	16:35	Final

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 18.50 (Q) or at least 8 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	Nadzeya Ostapchuk Nadzeya Ostapchuk Nadzeya Astapchuk is a Belarusian shot putter.Born in Stolin, she was initially interested in basketball but the lack of a local team left her unable to pursue the sport further. Astapchuk instead began practising in throwing events and her first international title came at the age of seventeen,...		20.09			20.09	Q
2	Valerie Vili Valerie Vili Valerie Kasanita Adams , ONZM is a shot putter from New Zealand. She is the reigning Olympic, world and Commonwealth champion...		19.81			19.81	Q
3	Gong Lijiao Gong Lijiao Gong Lijiao is a Chinese shot putter.-Career:She finished seventh at the 2007 World Championships, her international debut...		18.87			18.87	Q, SB
4	Jillian Camarena-Williams Jillian Camarena-Williams Jillian Camarena-Williams is an American track and field athlete who competes in the shot put...		18.85			18.85	Q, SB
5	Nadine Kleinert Nadine Kleinert ', since 1999 married Schmitt is a German shot putter.Her personal best throw is 20.20 metres, achieved in August 2009 in Berlin.-Achievements:-References:...			18.77		18.77	Q
6	Natallia Mikhnevich Natallia Mikhnevich Natallia Mikhnevich is a Belarusian shot putter.She finished third at the 2000 World Junior Championships, but first appeared on the international athletics scene at the 2004 Olympics, where she finished 5th. She repeated this position at the World Athletics Final later that year, and in 2005 she...		18.67			18.67	Q
7	Anna Avdeyeva Anna Avdeyeva Anna Avdeyeva, also known as Anna Avdeeva, is a Russian shot putter. She was fifth at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics and improved to fourth at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships...		18.53			18.53	Q
8	Misleydis González Misleydis González Misleydis González Tamayo is a female shot putter from Cuba. Her personal best throw is 19.50 metres, achieved in August 2008 in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.-Achievements:-References:...		17.69	18.51		18.51	Q
9	Olga Ivanova Olga Ivanova (athlete) Olga Viktorovna Ivanova is a Russian shot putter. Her personal best throw is 19.48 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Tula.She finished seventh at the 2005 European Indoor Championships and ninth at the 2008 Olympic Games...		18.42			18.42
10	Liu Xiangrong		18.34	18.15		18.34	SB
11	Cleopatra Borel-Brown Cleopatra Borel-Brown Cleopatra Borel-Brown is a female shot putter from Trinidad and Tobago. Her personal best throw is 19.03 metres, achieved in August 2010 at the London Grand Prix in London. She has 19.48 metres on the indoor track, achieved in February 2004 in Blacksburg.-Achievements:-External links:...		17.98	18.31	18.09	18.31
12	Michelle Carter Michelle Carter (athlete) Michelle Denee Carter is an American shot putter.She won the silver medal at the 2001 World Youth Championships and the gold medal at the 2004 World Junior Championships, and finished fifteenth at the 2008 Olympic Games.Her personal best throw is 18.85 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Eugene...		18.16		18.20	18.20	SB
13	Melissa Boekelman Melissa Boekelman Melissa Boekelman is a Dutch shot putter.-Achievements:-References:...			16.91	17.57	17.57
14	Austra Skujytė Austra Skujyte Austra Skujytė is a Lithuanian athlete, competing in both the heptathlon and the decathlon. On 15 April 2005 in Columbia, Missouri, she broke the women's decathlon world record, with a score of 8366....		17.07	17.28	17.55	17.55
15	Mailín Vargas Mailín Vargas Mailín Vargas is a Cuban shot putter. She finished tenth at the 2008 Olympic Games. She achieved a personal best throw of 19.00 metres in July 2008 in Alcalá de Henares. She improved this to 19.02 m in June 2009, winning the Barrientos Memorial in Cuba.-Achievements:-References:...		17.37	17.52		17.52
16	Anita Márton Anita Márton Anita Márton is a Hungarian shot putter.-Achievements:-References:...		17.34	17.08	16.98	17.34

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Anca Heltne

Anca Heltne, née Vilceanu is a Romanian shot putter. She has an indoor personal best of 19.54 metres, achieved in February 2009 in Bucharest....

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Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Nadzeya Ostapchuk Nadzeya Ostapchuk Nadzeya Astapchuk is a Belarusian shot putter.Born in Stolin, she was initially interested in basketball but the lack of a local team left her unable to pursue the sport further. Astapchuk instead began practising in throwing events and her first international title came at the age of seventeen,...		20.24				20.68	20.85	20.85	CR
	Valerie Vili Valerie Vili Valerie Kasanita Adams , ONZM is a shot putter from New Zealand. She is the reigning Olympic, world and Commonwealth champion...			20.45	20.41	20.10	20.49	20.27	20.49	AR
	Natallia Mikhnevich Natallia Mikhnevich Natallia Mikhnevich is a Belarusian shot putter.She finished third at the 2000 World Junior Championships, but first appeared on the international athletics scene at the 2004 Olympics, where she finished 5th. She repeated this position at the World Athletics Final later that year, and in 2005 she...		20.42		19.53	19.64			20.42	SB
4	Anna Avdeyeva Anna Avdeyeva Anna Avdeyeva, also known as Anna Avdeeva, is a Russian shot putter. She was fifth at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics and improved to fourth at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships...		18.64	19.41	19.47	19.42	19.26		19.47	SB
5	Nadine Kleinert Nadine Kleinert ', since 1999 married Schmitt is a German shot putter.Her personal best throw is 20.20 metres, achieved in August 2009 in Berlin.-Achievements:-References:...		18.91	18.62	19.16	18.42		19.34	19.34	SB
6	Jillian Camarena-Williams Jillian Camarena-Williams Jillian Camarena-Williams is an American track and field athlete who competes in the shot put...			17.88	18.41	19.08	19.34	18.98	19.34	PB
7	Misleydis González Misleydis González Misleydis González Tamayo is a female shot putter from Cuba. Her personal best throw is 19.50 metres, achieved in August 2008 in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.-Achievements:-References:...		18.56		18.77	18.57	18.74	18.37	18.77
8	Gong Lijiao Gong Lijiao Gong Lijiao is a Chinese shot putter.-Career:She finished seventh at the 2007 World Championships, her international debut...			18.50	18.34	18.58	18.64	18.54	18.64

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Anca Heltne

Anca Heltne, née Vilceanu is a Romanian shot putter. She has an indoor personal best of 19.54 metres, achieved in February 2009 in Bucharest....

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