2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put


The women's shot put at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 16. Having set a world-leading and Oceanian record of 20.69 m in May, Valerie Vili was a strong favourite and defending champion. The seven best marks of the season all belonged to Vili, and only Anna Avdeyeva and Natallia Mikhnevich had thrown further than twenty metres that season. Former world champion Nadezhda Ostapchuk, Olympic medallist Nadine Kleinert and Gong Lijiao were other athletes who had a chance of reaching the podium.
Home competitor Kleinert took an early lead with a new personal best of 20.06 m. In the second round, Gong moved up into second place with 19.89 m, a personal best that eventually won her the bronze medal. Vili responded with 20.25 m in the third round, and Kleinert also improved to 20.20 m. Vili proved superior, however, throwing over twenty metres three more times and finishing with a best of 20.44 m. This gave Vili her second World Championships gold medal. Avdeyeva and Mikhnevich rounded out the top five, both with 19.66 m marks.

Medalists

Records

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 18.50 or at least 12 best performers advance to the [|final].
RankGroupAthleteNationality#1#2#3ResultNotes
1BValerie Vili19.7019.70Q
2BNadine Kleinert18.3819.3619.36Q
3ANatallia Mikhnevich19.1219.12Q
4BGong Lijiao19.0819.08Q
5AAnna Avdeyeva18.4518.3118.9218.92Q
6ADenise Hinrichs18.6918.69Q
7BMisleydis González18.6218.62Q
8ALi Meiju18.5318.53Q
9BMichelle Carter17.4318.0718.4418.44q
10AChristina Schwanitz18.2518.1118.25q
11AMailín Vargas18.1417.9517.9818.14q
12BLiu Xiangrong17.9718.1018.10q
13BCleopatra Borel-Brown17.1917.3117.9917.99
14BMariam Kevkhishvili17.9517.6817.7517.95
15AAnca Heltne17.9217.8217.6917.92
16AChiara Rosa17.8917.89
17AAustra Skujytė17.5217.8617.86PB
18BYaniuvis López17.7117.6517.71
19BNatalia Duco17.6117.4517.4317.61
20BJessica Cérival17.0616.9017.3017.30
21ALaurence Manfredi17.04 17.2517.25
22AHelena Engman17.1917.19
23AJillian Camarena16.9216.92
24BAnita Márton15.9916.8016.7616.80
25BLeila Rajabi16.1216.6016.60
26B'Ana Po'uhila15.5016.0916.09
27AAnnie Alexander16.0115.8216.01
28AKristin Heaston14.9814.98

Key: PB = Personal best, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place

Final

Key: PB = Personal best