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....

event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 16 August at the Beijing Olympic Stadium. The qualifying standards were (A standard) and (B standard).

The event was won by Valerie Vili

Valerie Vili

Valerie Kasanita Adams , ONZM is a shot putter from New Zealand. She is the reigning Olympic, world and Commonwealth champion...

 of New Zealand

New Zealand

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, with a best throw of 20.56 metres.

Medalists

Schedule

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  Qualification Round
  Group A	Group B
  16.08.2008 – 09:10h	16.08.2008 – 10:40h
  Final Round
  16.08.2008 – 21:10h

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

  Q	automatic qualification
  q	qualification by rank
  DNS	did not start
  NM	no mark
  OR	olympic record
  WR	world record
  AR	area record
  NR	national record
  PB	personal best
  SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics
World Record		22.63 m	June 7, 1987	Moscow Moscow Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent... , Soviet Union Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
Olympic Record		22.41 m	July 24, 1980	Moscow Moscow Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent... , Soviet Union Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

Qualifying round

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 18.40 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	Result	Notes
1	A	Valerie Vili Valerie Vili Valerie Kasanita Adams , ONZM is a shot putter from New Zealand. She is the reigning Olympic, world and Commonwealth champion...		19.73			19.73	Q
2	B	Gong Lijiao Gong Lijiao Gong Lijiao is a Chinese shot putter.-Career:She finished seventh at the 2007 World Championships, her international debut...		19.46			19.46	Q, PB
3	A	Li Meiju Li Meiju Li Meiju is a Chinese shot putter.Her personal best put is 19.19 metres, achieved in the qualifying round of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.-Achievements:-References:...		19.18			19.18	Q, PB
4	A	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...		19.11			19.11	Q
5	A	Christina Schwanitz Christina Schwanitz Christina Schwanitz is a German shot putter. Her personal best is 19.31 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Schönebeck. She has 19.68 m on the indoor track, achieved in February 2008 in Chemnitz.- Achievements :- References :...		x	17.97	19.09	19.09	Q
6	B	Nadzeya Astapchuk		19.08			19.08	Q
7	A	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:...		18.42	18.91		18.91	Q
8	B	Anna Omarova Anna Omarova Anna Omarova is an Russian shot putter.Her personal best throw is 19.69 metres, achieved in June 2007 in Munich.-Achievements:-References:...		18.26	x	18.74	18.74	Q
9	A	Chiara Rosa Chiara Rosa -Biography:Chiara Rosa is a female shot putter from Italy. Her personal best throw is 19.15 metres, achieved in June 2007 in Milan.-Carereer:...		18.74			18.74	Q, SB
10	B	Li Ling		18.60			18.60	Q
11	B	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:...		18.52			18.52	Q
12	A	Jillian Camarena Jillian Camarena Jillian Camarena-Williams is an American track and field athlete who competes in the shot put...		18.15	18.32	18.51	18.51	Q, SB
13	B	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...		18.49			18.49	Q
14	A	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:...		18.47			18.47	Q
15	A	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...		17.69	18.27	18.46	18.46	Q
16	A	Denise Hinrichs Denise Hinrichs Denise Hinrichs is a German shot putter. Her personal best is 19.07 metres, achieved in May 2008 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt.-Achievements:-References:...		18.36	18.27	x	18.36
17	B	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:...		17.96	17.32	17.57	17.96
18	A	Yanina Karolchyk-Pravalinskaya		17.44	17.77	17.79	17.79
19	B	Assunta Legnante Assunta Legnante Assunta Legnante is an Italian retired shot putter.-Career:She won the silver medal at the 2002 and the gold medal at the 2007 European Indoor Athletics Championships. She finished fifth at the 2006 European Athletics Championships.Her personal best throw is 19.04 metres, achieved in September...		16.93	17.76	x	17.76
20	B	Yumileidi Cumbá Yumileidi Cumbá Yumileidi Cumbá Jay is a Cuban shot putter.Her greatest season was 2004, when she won an Olympic gold medal and achieved a new personal best throw....		x	17.60	x	17.60
21	A	Anca Heltne 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....		17.48	x	17.40	17.48
22	A	Natalia Duco Natalia Duco Natalia Ducó Soler is a Chilean shot putter.Ducó finished fourth at the 2005 World Youth Championships, twelfth at the 2006 World Junior Championships and won the gold medal at the 2008 World Junior Championships...		17.24	x	17.40	17.40
23	A	Kristin Heaston Kristin Heaston Kristin L. Heaston is a female shot putter from the United States.Heaston was a participant in the 2008 Olympic Games where she placed 23rd in the qualifying round with a throw of 17.34m...		x	17.34	17.34	17.34
24	B	Vivian Chukwuemeka Vivian Chukwuemeka Vivian Chukwuemeka is a Nigerian shot putter and two-time Olympian. She won the gold medal in the shot put at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and has won three consecutive titles at the All-Africa Games from 1999 to 2007. She was the African Champion in the event in 2002, 2006 and 2008...		17.15	17.05	x	17.15
25	B	Irina Khudoroshkina Irina Khudoroshkina Irina Khudoroshkina is a Russian shot putter.She won the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She also finished second at the 1996 European Indoor Championships....		16.46	16.84	16.78	16.84
26	A	Irini Terzoglou Irini Terzoglou Irini Terzoglou is a Greek shot putter. Her personal best put is 19.10 metres, achieved in June 2003 in Trikala. This is the current Greek record.-Achievements:-External links:*...		16.08	16.14	16.50	16.50
27	B	Ana Pouhila Ana Pouhila Ana Po'uhila is a Tongan athlete born October 18, 1979 in Longoteme, Tongatapu. She represented the Kingdom of Tonga for the event of shot put during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She had the honor of being the flagbearer of her country at the opening ceremony...		16.21	16.42	16.35	16.42
28	B	Lin Chia-Ying Lin Chia-Ying Lin Chia-Ying is a Taiwanese shot putter.She finished ninth at the 2005 Summer Universiade, eighth at the 2005 Asian Championships and won the bronze medal at the 2006 Asian Games...		16.24	x	16.32	16.32
29	B	Zhang Guirong Zhang Guirong Zhang Guirong is a Singaporean shot putter. She changed nationality from China in late 2003.Her personal best throw is 18.57 metres, achieved at the 2005 Asian Championships in Incheon. This is the current Singaporean record. She is also the national record holder in discus throw and javelin...		x	16.23	16.08	16.23
30	B	Mariam Kevkhishvili Mariam Kevkhishvili Mariam "Marie" Kevkhishvili Machavariani is a Georgian shot putter.Kevkhishvili attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she was a member of coach Mike Holloway's Florida Gators track and field team. She graduated from the university with a bachelor's degree in sociology...		x	15.99	x	15.99
31	B	Zara Northover Zara Northover Zara Northover is a Jamaican shot putter. Northover has dual citizenship in the United States and Jamaica, and competed for Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics....		15.73	15.85	15.64	15.85
32	A	Iolanta Ulyeva Iolanta Ulyeva Iolanta Yevgenyevna Ulyeva is a female shot putter from Kazakhstan. Her personal best throw is 17.82 metres, achieved in August 2000 in Almaty....		15.49	x	15.06	15.49
33	A	Lee Mi-Young Lee Mi-Young (athlete) Lee Mi-Young is a female shot putter from South Korea.She finished fourth at the 2003 Asian Championships, sixth at the 2005 Asian Championships, fourth at the 2006 Asian Games and won the silver medal at the 2007 Asian Championships...		14.76	x	15.10	15.10

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Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Valerie Vili Valerie Vili Valerie Kasanita Adams , ONZM is a shot putter from New Zealand. She is the reigning Olympic, world and Commonwealth champion...		20.56	20.40	20.26	20.01	20.52	-	20.56	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...		19.16	20.28	19.87	19.82	19.94	20.10	20.28
	Nadzeya Astapchuk		x	18.69	18.36	x	19.86	19.36	19.86
4	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:...		19.30	x	19.01	19.23	19.50	x	19.50	PB
5	Gong Lijiao Gong Lijiao Gong Lijiao is a Chinese shot putter.-Career:She finished seventh at the 2007 World Championships, her international debut...		18.45	18.75	18.90	18.92	19.04	19.20	19.20
6	Anna Omarova Anna Omarova Anna Omarova is an Russian shot putter.Her personal best throw is 19.69 metres, achieved in June 2007 in Munich.-Achievements:-References:...		19.08	18.21	x	x	x	18.76	19.08
7	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:...		18.30	18.68	19.01	18.99	x	18.81	19.01
8	Li Meiju Li Meiju Li Meiju is a Chinese shot putter.Her personal best put is 19.19 metres, achieved in the qualifying round of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.-Achievements:-References:...		18.68	18.99	18.74	x	18.85	19.00	19.00
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...		17.96	x	18.44				18.44
10	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:...		18.28	17.88	17.74				18.28
11	Christina Schwanitz Christina Schwanitz Christina Schwanitz is a German shot putter. Her personal best is 19.31 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Schönebeck. She has 19.68 m on the indoor track, achieved in February 2008 in Chemnitz.- Achievements :- References :...		x	17.96	18.27				18.27
12	Jillian Camarena Jillian Camarena Jillian Camarena-Williams is an American track and field athlete who competes in the shot put...		18.09	18.24	17.44				18.24
13	Chiara Rosa Chiara Rosa -Biography:Chiara Rosa is a female shot putter from Italy. Her personal best throw is 19.15 metres, achieved in June 2007 in Milan.-Carereer:...		18.22	17.98	x				18.22
14	Li Ling		17.94	x	17.81				17.94
15	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...		16.97	17.65	17.74				17.74