2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put

Events at the 2007 World Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men		women
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The Women's Shot Put event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 26, 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan.

Medallists

Victory ceremony

Gold	Valerie Vili (NZL)
Silver	Nadzeya Astapchuk (BLR)
Bronze	Nadine Kleinert (GER)

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

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

Records

Standing records prior to the 2007 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	22.63 m	June 7, 1987	Moscow, Soviet Union
Event Record	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	21.24 m	September 5, 1987	Rome, Italy

Qualification

Group A

Place	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Valerie Vili (NZL)	19.45	Q
2	Li Meiju (CHN)	19.05	Q
3	Chiara Rosa (ITA)	18.77	Q
4	Li Ling (CHN)	18.76	Q
5	Petra Lammert (GER)	18.72	Q
6	Yanina Karolchyk-Pravalinskaya (BLR)	18.52	Q
7	Yumileidi Cumbá (CUB)	18.29	q
8	Anna Avdeyeva (RUS)	18.19
9	Helena Engman (SWE)	17.50
10	Kristin Heaston (USA)	17.40
11	Elisângela Adriano (BRA)	17.07
12	Sarah Stevens (USA)	16.87
13	Ana Pouhila (TGA)	16.62
14	Lin Chia-Ying (TPE)	16.41

Group B

Place	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Nadine Kleinert (GER)	19.17	Q
2	Anna Omarova (RUS)	18.85	Q
3	Gong Lijiao (CHN)	18.38	Q
4	Misleydis González (CUB)	18.28	q
5	Nadzeya Astapchuk (BLR)	18.23	q
6	Assunta Legnante (ITA)	18.19
7	Oksana Gaus (RUS)	17.65
8	Cleopatra Borel-Brown (TRI)	17.29
9	Yoko Toyonaga (JPN)	17.02	SB
10	Jillian Camarena (USA)	16.95
11	Irache Quintanal (ESP)	16.53
12	Anca Heltne (ROM)	16.27
13	Iolanta Ulyeva (KAZ)	15.52
	Vivian Chukwuemeka (NGR)	NM

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Result	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Valerie Vili (NZL)	19.89	19.74	19.80	X	19.95	20.54	20.54 m	SB
	Nadzeya Ostapchuk (BLR)	20.04	X	19.17	X	X	20.48	20.48 m
	Nadine Kleinert (GER)	18.75	19.45	19.04	X	19.77	19.72	19.77 m	SB
4	Li Ling (CHN)	18.21	18.88	X	18.92	X	19.38	19.38 m	PB
5	Petra Lammert (GER)	19.33	X	19.27	18.86	18.92	X	19.33 m
6	Li Meiju (CHN)	17.29	18.79	18.83	18.32	18.77	18.62	18.83 m
7	Gong Lijiao (CHN)	17.82	18.66	X	18.34	X	X	18.66 m
8	Chiara Rosa (ITA)	X	18.35	18.17	18.39	X	X	18.39 m
9	Anna Omarova (RUS)	18.20	X	X				18.20 m
10	Yanina Karolchyk-Pravalinskaya (BLR)	X	18.17	X				18.17 m
11	Misleydis González (CUB)	17.36	18.14	17.87				18.14 m
12	Yumileidi Cumbá (CUB)	X	17.93	17.83				17.93 m

See also

• 2007 Shot Put Year Ranking

References

• Official results, qualification - IAAF.org
• Official results, final - IAAF.org
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