1999 World Athletics Championships / Women's Shot Put

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	25 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 25 (qualification / final)
Medalists Astrid Kumbernuss ( GER )   Nadine Kleinert ( GER )   Svetlana Kriweljowa ( RUS )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The shot put women at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics was on 25 August 1999 in the Olympic Stadium of the Spanish city of Seville discharged.

In this competition, the German shot putters achieved a double victory. Astrid Kumbernuss became world champion for the third time in a row, the 1996 Olympic champion , 1990 European champion and 1994 vice European champion . Silver went to Nadine Kleinert . Third place went to the Russian Olympic champion in 1992 , vice world champion in 1993 and third in the 1991 World Cup, Svetlana Kriweljowa .

Existing records

World record	22.63 m	Natalia Lisovskaya	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	June 7, 1987
World Cup record	21.24 m		World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	5th September 1987

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

In qualifying group A on August 25th there was a national record: 17.89 m - Laurence Manfredi , France

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

August 25, 1999, 10:30 a.m.

25 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 18.50 m. Four athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the eight athletes placed next to twelve shot putters (highlighted in light green). So finally 17.90 m was enough for the final.

Group A

Laurence Manfredi (right) was eliminated from qualifying despite her French record of 17.89 m

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Astrid Kumbernuss	Germany	18.84	18.84	-	-
2	Cheng Xiaoyan	People's Republic of China	18.62	18.49	18.62	-
3	Krystyna Zabawska	Poland	18.49	18.49	x	-
4th	Yumileidi Cumbá	Cuba	18.38	18.27	18.38	x
5	Connie Price-Smith	United States	18.10	17.78	18.10	18.06
6th	Elena Hila	Romania	18.09	17.15	17.37	18.09
7th	Janina Karoltschyk	Belarus	17.90	16.62	16.86	17.90
8th	Laurence Manfredi	France	17.89 NO	17.80	17.25	17.89
9	Mara Rosolen	Italy	17.84	17.84	17.09	16.91
10	Anna Romanova	Russia	17.78	17.54	17.78	x
11	Juttaporn Krasaeyan	Thailand	17.39	17.12	17.39	17.11
12	Song Feina	People's Republic of China	17.26	16.86	17.26	17.25
13	Svetla Sınırtaş	Turkey	16.30	16.23	16.14	16.40

Group B

Nadseja Astaptschuk did not reach 17.47 m for the final

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Svetlana Kriweljowa	Russia	19.54	18.25	19.54	-
2	Nadine Kleinert	Germany	18.59	18.59	-	-
3	Lee Myung-Sun	South Korea	18.37	17.63	18.37	x
4th	Valentina Fedyushina	Ukraine	18.28	18.28	18.24	18.23
5	Teri Tunks	United States	18.09	17.43	18.09	x
6th	Yu Juan	People's Republic of China	17.82	17.82	17.27	17.07
7th	Kalliopi Ouzouni	Greece	17.79	17.43	17.79	17.23
8th	Tressa Thompson	United States	17.52	17.47	17.27	17.52
9	Nadsey Astaptchuk	Belarus	17.47	17.37	x	17.47
10	Lieja Koeman	Netherlands	17.45	x	17.45	17.18
11	Martina de la Puente	Spain	16.68	x	x	16.68
12	Nada Qawar	Jordan	16.30	16.30	x	x
DNS	Vivian Chukwuemeka	Nigeria

final

August 25, 1999, 8:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Astrid Kumbernuss	Germany	19.85	18.84	19.34	19.59	19.62	19.85	19.84
2	Nadine Kleinert	Germany	19.61	19.14	18.98	18.63	19.43	19.61	19.19
3	Svetlana Kriweljowa	Russia	19.43	18.92	19.22	x	19.43	19.35	19.34
4th	Janina Karoltschyk	Belarus	19.17	18.08	18.61	x	17.98	19.17	x
5	Cheng Xiaoyan	People's Republic of China	18.67	18.67	18.50	18.23	x	x	18.49
6th	Yumileidi Cumbá	Cuba	18.44	18.25	x	18.44	17.96	x	17.96
7th	Valentina Fedyushina	Ukraine	18.17	17.05	18.17	x	x	17.97	18.15
8th	Krystyna Zabawska	Poland	18.12	x	x	18.12	18.03	x	x
9	Teri Tunks	United States	18.04	18.04	17.54	17.83	not in the finals of the best eight female shot putters
10	Lee Myung-Sun	South Korea	17.92	17.75	x	17.92
11	Connie Price-Smith	United States	17.89	17.50	x	17.89
12	Elena Hila	Romania	17.88	17.38	17.88	x

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  Vice world champion Nadine Kleinert

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  Krystyna Zabawska reached eighth place

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  The eleventh placed Connie Price Smith

Video

• Women's Shot Put Final (last throw only) - 1999 IAAF World Championships on youtube.com, accessed July 30, 2020

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 4, 2020
• Women Shot Put Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 30, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Shot Put, Seville 1999, p. 333 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on July 30, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 30, 2020