2011 World Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put

The Women's shot put event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on August 28 and 29. The winning margin was 1.22 metres which as of 2024 remains the only time the women's shot put has been won by more than 1.2 metres at these championships.

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There were two main contenders for the gold medal: New Zealander Valerie Vili (who returned to using her maiden name of Adams following her 2010 divorce) and Nadzeya Astapchuk of Belarus. Adams, with four straight wins on the Diamond League circuit, entered the competition as the defending champion and reigning Olympic champion. Astapchuk was the only other woman to have thrown over 20.50 m that season and held the world leading mark of 20.94 m. Other in-form throwers included Americans Jillian Camarena-Williams and Michelle Carter, and Chinese athletes Gong Lijiao and Li Ling. The 2009 silver medallist Nadine Kleinert and 2008 Olympic runner-up Natallia Mikhnevich were present, but neither had performed to a high standard that year.^[1]^[2]

Having already clearly won the final, Adams relaxed and let loose a put of 21.24 on her final throw. While it only elevated her to 22nd on the all-time list, it was the best throw since Larisa Peleshenko in 2000. It was obviously her personal best and annual world leader, it was also the New Zealand national record and Oceana area record. It also equalled the championship record from 1987. Previous world leader Nadzeya Astapchuk came through in the fifth round with a 20.05 put, to edge past Jillian Camarena-Williams.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Valerie Adams New Zealand (NZL)	Jillian Camarena-Williams United States (USA)	Gong Lijiao China (CHN)

Records

Prior to the competition, the established records were as follows.

World record	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	22.63	Moscow, Soviet Union	7 June 1987
Championship record	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	21.24	Rome, Italy	5 September 1987
World leading	Nadzeya Astapchuk (BLR)	20.94	Zhukovsky, Russia	3 July 2011
African record	Vivian Chukwuemeka (NGR)	18.35	Ijebu Ode, Nigeria	17 April 2006
Asian record	Meisu Li (CHN)	21.76	Shijiazhuang, China	23 April 1988
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Belsy Laza (CUB)	20.96	Mexico City, Mexico	2 May 1992
South American record	Elisângela Adriano (BRA)	19.30	Tunja, Colombia	14 July 2001
European record	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	22.63	Moscow, Soviet Union	7 June 1987
Oceanian record	Valerie Adams (NZL)	21.07	Thessaloniki, Greece	13 September 2009

Qualification standards

A standard	B standard
18.30	17.30

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 28, 2011	10:20	Qualification
August 29, 2011	20:40	Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 18.65 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	A	Valerie Adams	New Zealand (NZL)	19.79			19.79	Q
2	B	Gong Lijiao	China (CHN)	19.21			19.21	Q
3	B	Christina Schwanitz	Germany (GER)	19.20			19.20	Q, SB
4	B	Nadzeya Astapchuk	Belarus (BLR)	19.11			19.11	Q
5	A	Jillian Camarena-Williams	United States (USA)	19.09			19.09	Q
6	B	Anna Omarova	Russia (RUS)	17.86	18.01	19.03	19.03	Q
7	A	Cleopatra Borel-Brown	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	18.20	18.41	18.95	18.95	Q
8	A	Anna Avdeyeva	Russia (RUS)	18.32	18.33	18.92	18.92	Q
9	B	Yevgeniya Kolodko	Russia (RUS)	18.58	18.90		18.90	Q
10	A	Natallia Mikhnevich	Belarus (BLR)	18.88			18.88	Q
11	B	Michelle Carter	United States (USA)	18.85			18.85	Q
12	A	Nadine Kleinert	Germany (GER)	18.75			18.75	Q
13	A	Li Ling	China (CHN)	18.67			18.67	Q
14	B	Chiara Rosa	Italy (ITA)	17.69	18.27	18.28	18.28
15	B	Mailín Vargas	Cuba (CUB)	x	18.27	x	18.27
16	A	Misleydis González	Cuba (CUB)	18.24	17.96	17.83	18.24
17	B	Liu Xiangrong	China (CHN)	17.59	17.96	18.22	18.22
18	A	Julie Labonté	Canada (CAN)	17.66	18.04	x	18.04
19	A	Josephine Terlecki	Germany (GER)	17.85	17.72	17.20	17.85
20	B	Natalia Ducó	Chile (CHI)	17.42	x	17.42	17.42
21	A	Sarah Stevens-Walker	United States (USA)	16.50	x	17.20	17.20
22	B	Anita Márton	Hungary (HUN)	x	16.33	17.04	17.04
23	B	Lee Mi-Young	South Korea (KOR)	16.08	16.18	15.96	16.18
24	B	Simoné du Toit	South Africa (RSA)	15.83	x	x	15.83
25	A	Radoslava Mavrodieva	Bulgaria (BUL)	x	15.76	x	15.76

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Valerie Adams	New Zealand (NZL)	19.37	x	20.04	20.72	x	21.24	21.24	CR, AR, WL
	Jillian Camarena-Williams	United States (USA)	19.63	18.53	19.24	20.02	18.80	19.44	20.02
	Gong Lijiao	China (CHN)	19.64	x	x	19.82	19.97	x	19.97
4	Yevgeniya Kolodko	Russia (RUS)	18.42	18.28	19.78	x	x	19.26	19.78	PB
5	Li Ling	China (CHN)	19.12	19.71	19.23	19.60	19.50	19.49	19.71
6	Anna Avdeyeva	Russia (RUS)	18.80	18.65	19.16	18.96	19.54	18.51	19.54	SB
7	Nadine Kleinert	Germany (GER)	19.26	x	18.83	x	x	-	19.26	SB
8	Michelle Carter	United States (USA)	18.76	x	18.13				18.76
9	Anna Omarova	Russia (RUS)	18.67	x	x				18.67
10	Natallia Mikhnevich	Belarus (BLR)	18.44	x	18.47				18.47
11	Christina Schwanitz	Germany (GER)	17.96	x	x				17.96
12	Cleopatra Borel-Brown	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	x	17.62	17.53				17.62
	~~Nadezhda Ostapchuk~~	Belarus (BLR)	~~19.58~~	~~19.34~~	~~19.87~~	~~19.87~~	~~20.05~~	~~19.60~~	~~20.05 m~~	DQ

References

^ Landells, Steve (2011-08-19). Women’s Shot Put - PREVIEW Archived 2012-05-09 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-28.
^ Shot Put 2011. IAAF (2011-08-28). Retrieved on 2011-08-28.

External links

Shot put results at IAAF website

[1] Landells, Steve (2011-08-19). Women’s Shot Put - PREVIEW Archived 2012-05-09 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-28.

[2] Shot Put 2011. IAAF (2011-08-28). Retrieved on 2011-08-28.

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