2015 World Athletics Championships / Women's Shot Put

World Athletics Championships 2015
discipline	Women's shot put
city	Beijing
place	Beijing National Stadium
Participants	24 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	22nd August 2015
Medalists
gold	Christina Schwanitz ( GER )
silver	Gong Lijiao ( CHN )
bronze	Michelle Carter ( USA )

World champion Christina Schwanitz from Germany

The shot put women at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 22, 2015 in Beijing , People's Republic of China instead.

The German Christina Schwanitz became world champion . The Chinese Gong Lijiao won the silver medal, the bronze went to the American Michelle Carter .

Records

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

qualification

August 22, 2015, 10:10 a.m. local time (4:10 a.m. CEST )

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualifying distance for direct entry into the final was 18.30 m. Since only seven athletes exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to a total of twelve participants (highlighted in light green). In the end, 17.73 m was enough to make it to the final.

Group A

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
01	Christina Schwanitz	Germany	19.39	-	-	19.39
02	Anita Marton	Hungary	17.40	18.85	-	18.85
03	Cleopatra Borel	Trinidad and Tobago	17.01	18.55	-	18.55
04th	Alyona Dubitskaya	Belarus	17.95	18.51	-	18.51
05	Gao Yang	People's Republic of China	17.97	18.18	18.21	18.21
06th	Paulina Guba	Poland	17.46	17.55	17.73	17.73
07th	Tia Brooks	United States	17.71	x	x	17.71
08th	Chiara Rosa	Italy	x	17.54	x	17.54
09	Geisa Arcanjo	Brazil	17.26	17.02	17.42	17.42
10	Halyna Obleshchuk	Ukraine	16.97	16.74	16.12	16.97
11	Auriol Dongmo Mekemnang	Cameroon	16.46	16.85	x	16.85
12	Danniel Thomas	Jamaica	x	16.62	x	16.62

The Italian Chiara Rosa missed the final with her 17.54 m by eighteen centimeters

The Chinese Guo Tianqian - here with her silver medal from the Asian Games 2017 - was eliminated with 17.10 m in the qualification

Group B

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
01	Michelle Carter	United States	19.22	-	-	19.22
02	Gong Lijiao	People's Republic of China	19.11	-	-	19.11
03	Natallja Michnewitsch	Belarus	17.97	18.17	18.57	18.57
04th	Natalia Ducó	Chile	17.84	18.29	x	18.29
05	Jeneva Stevens	United States	17.81	17.77	18.05	18.05
06th	Julija Leanzjuk	Belarus	17.58	17.96	x	17.96
07th	Guo Tianqian	People's Republic of China	17.10	x	16.98	17.10
08th	Yaniuvis López	Cuba	16.85	17.10	16.94	17.10
09	Leyla Rajabi	Iran	17.04	x	x	17.04
10	Ahymará Espinoza	Venezuela	16.53	16.76	x	16.76
11	Úrsula Ruiz	Spain	16.36	16.26	x	16.36
12	Keely Medeiros	Brazil	x	14.69	15.17	15.17

final

August 22, 2015, 8:05 p.m. local time (1:05 ​​p.m. CEST )

After the New Zealander Valerie Adams was not there in Beijing , three favorites competed in this final to become world champion. Gong Lijiao from the People's Republic of China silver was at the 2012 Olympics won, was the World Championship -Third of 2013 and the World Cup -Vierte of 2011 , the German Christina Schwanitz was the Vice World Champion in 2013 and European champion of 2014 , the US-American Michelle Carter finished fourth at the 2012 Olympic Games and 2013 World Championships. Already in the qualification these three athletes had clearly achieved the best distances of all participants.

Gong put down a 20-meter distance with her first push, with 20.30 m she took the lead in front of Schwanitz, who achieved 19.80 m. Carter hit 19.45 m, the three-way battle began. All other athletes initially stayed under nineteen meters. In the second round, Carter climbed - to 19.76 m - and Schwanitz - to exactly 20.00 m - and the Chinese again exceeded the twenty meters with 20.05 m. The outcome was still completely open. Schwanitz succeeded in lap three with a push to 20.37 m, which she replaced Gong, who also achieved a great distance with 20.25 m, at the front.

In the fourth round nothing changed in the medal ranks, but with the Hungarian Anita Márton - 19.48 m - and the Chinese Gao Yang - 19.04 m - two other athletes reached distances above nineteen meters. On lap five, Schwanitz pushed 20.10 m further than twenty meters. But nothing changed in the order. Christina Schwanitz became world champion with a seven centimeter lead over Gong Lijiao. Michelle Carter won the bronze medal ahead of Anita Márton and Gao Yang.

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)
	Christina Schwanitz	Germany	19.80	20.00	20.37	x	20.10	x	20.37
	Gong Lijiao	People's Republic of China	20.30	20.05	20.25	x	x	19.91	20.30
	Michelle Carter	United States	19.45	19.76	18.57	18.85	19.48	19.71	19.76
04th	Anita Marton	Hungary	18.02	18.23	18.06	19.48	18.89	19.11	19.48
05	Gao Yang	People's Republic of China	18.15	18.09	17.84	19.04	x	x	19.04
06th	Alyona Dubitskaya	Belarus	18.21	x	18.52	17.43	x	x	18.52
07th	Julija Leanzjuk	Belarus	17.38	18.25	17.67	17.85	x	17.85	18.25
08th	Natallja Michnewitsch	Belarus	17.05	18.09	17.75	18.11	17.79	18.24	18.24
09	Natalia Ducó	Chile	17.94	17.95	17.98	not in the final of the eight best athletes			17.98
10	Jeneva Stevens	United States	16.79	17.44	17.84				17.84
11	Paulina Guba	Poland	17.04	17.52	17.11				17.52
12	Cleopatra Borel	Trinidad and Tobago	17.43	x	16.85				17.43

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  World champion Christina Schwanitz, Germany

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  Vice World Champion Gong Lijiao from the People's Republic of China

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  Bronze medalist Michelle Carter, USA

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  The Chilean Natalia Ducó took ninth place in the final

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  Tenth place for the American Jeneva Stevens

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2015 World Championships, Women's Shot Put on the IAAF website , accessed on November 13, 2018
• Results of the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 13, 2018
• Reports on the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 13, 2018

Video

• Shot Put Final Highlights World Championships Beijing 2015 on youtube.com, published September 7, 2016, accessed November 13, 2018