2017 World Athletics Championships / Women's Shot Put

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Women
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Participants	31 athletes from 22 countries
Competition phase	August 8, 2017 (qualification) August 9, 2017 (final)
Medalists
gold	Gong Lijiao ( CHN )
silver	Anita Márton ( HUN )
bronze	Michelle Carter ( USA )

London Olympic Stadium

The shot put women at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics took place on 8 and 9 August 2017 in London , UK , instead.

Chinese Gong Lijiao became world champion . The Hungarian Anita Márton took second place. 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

The French Jessica Cérival was eliminated with 16.56 m

The German Sara Gambetta was 17.71 m short of eight centimeters to reach the final

The Chilean Natalia Duco hit 17.66 m and was not in the final

The Swede Fanny Roos failed with her 17.31 m in the qualification

August 8, 2017, 8:40 p.m. local time (9:40 p.m. CEST )

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance required for direct entry into the final was 18.30 m. Since only five athletes exceeded this value - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the subsequent best shot putters from both groups to a total of twelve participants - highlighted in light green. So finally 17.79 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
1	Anita Marton	Hungary	18.76	-	-	18.76
2	Raven Saunders	United States	17.94	18.63	-	18.63
3	Danniel Thomas-Dodd	Jamaica	x	18.42	-	18.42
4th	Bian Ka	People's Republic of China	17.82	x	18.18	18.18 SB
5	Brittany crew	Canada	17.41	17.26	18.01	18.01
6th	Melissa Boekelman	Netherlands	17.55	17.19	17.88	17.88
7th	Gao Yang	People's Republic of China	17.82	17.87	x	17.87
8th	Alyona Dubitskaya	Belarus	x	x	17.68	17.68
9	Klaudia Kardasz	Poland	16.24	16.34	17.52	17.52
10	Radoslava Mawrodiewa	Bulgaria	x	16.99	x	16.99
11	Noora Salem Jasim	Bahrain	16.68	16.97	16.61	16.97
12	Rachel Wallader	Great Britain	16.73	16.81	15.83	16.81
13	Jessica Cérival	France	15.80	16.56	16.32	16.56
14th	María Belén Toimil	Spain	16.20	16.38	x	16.38
15th	Jéssica Inchude	Guinea-Bissau	14.63	x	14.52	14.63
DNS	Auriol Dongmo Mekemnang	Cameroon

Group B

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
1	Gong Lijiao	People's Republic of China	18.97	-	-	18.97
2	Michelle Carter	United States	18.92	-	-	18.92
3	Julija Leanzjuk	Belarus	17.92	18.01	17.82	18.01
4th	Yaniuvis López	Cuba	x	17.84	17.84	17.84
5	Geisa Arcanjo	Brazil	17.67	17.48	17.79	17.79
6th	Sara Gambetta	Germany	17.44	16.97	17.71	17.71
7th	Natalia Ducó	Chile	17.31	17.66	17.29	17.66
8th	Paulina Guba	Poland	17.01	17.13	17.52	17.52
9	Daniella Hill	United States	16.76	17.39	x	17.39
10	Dimitriana Surdu	Moldova	17.24	17.37	x	17.37
11	Fanny Roos	Sweden	16.87	x	17.31	17.31
12	Taryn suttie	Canada	16.47	x	x	16.47
13	Sandra Lemos	Colombia	16.33	x	16.36	16.36
14th	Úrsula Ruiz	Spain	x	16.20	x	16.20
15th	Gleneve Grange	Jamaica	x	15.96	x	15.96

final

August 9, 2017, 8:25 p.m. local time (9:25 p.m. CEST )

The New Zealander Valerie Adams , who had dominated the shot put for a long time, was no longer there. The reigning world champion and two-time European champion of 2014 / 2016 Christina Schwanitz from Germany was missing because of her pregnancy. The favorites were the US Olympic champion from 2016 and third in the 2015 World Cup, Michelle Carter, the Chinese Gong Lijiao - among other things, vice world champion in 2015 and Olympic runner-up in 2012 - and Hungarian Anita Márton as vice European champion in 2016, Olympic third in 2016 and World Cup -Fourth of 2015.

The big distances did not take place in this competition, so there was no push beyond the 20-meter mark. In the first two rounds, only Lijiao got two shots that were farther than sixteen meters. She led after the third round with 19.35 m. With her third attempt, Carter also surpassed the 19-meter mark. She achieved 19.14 m and was second. Márton and the Jamaican Danniel Thomas-Dodd followed with widths of just under nineteen meters. In lap five, Lijiao rose to 19.94 m and was clearly ahead. Thomas-Dodd now achieved her greatest distance with 18.91 m, which put her on the bronze course. But in the last round, Márton improved to 19.49 m. This meant that the widths of all three medalists were over nineteen meters. Gong Lijiao was world champion ahead of Anita Márton and Michelle Carter. Danniel Thomas-Dodd took fourth place in front of the Chinese Gao Yang and the Canadian Brittany Crew.

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)
	Gong Lijiao	People's Republic of China	19.16	19.35	19.03	x	19.94	19.89	19.94
	Anita Marton	Hungary	18.50	18.89	18.65	18.33	18.54	19.49	19.49
	Michelle Carter	United States	18.82	18.86	19.14	19.03	x	18.97	19.14
4th	Danniel Thomas-Dodd	Jamaica	18.70	x	18.76	18.56	18.91	18.76	18.91
5	Gao Yang	People's Republic of China	18.03	18.00	17.79	18.22	18.11	18.25	18.25
6th	Brittany crew	Canada	17.52	18.21	17.71	x	x	x	18.21
7th	Julija Leanzjuk	Belarus	17.84	x	18.12	x	x	17.51	18.12
8th	Yaniuvis López	Cuba	17.28	17.98	18.03	x	17.46	x	18.03
9	Geisa Arcanjo	Brazil	17.93	x	18.03	not in the final of the eight best athletes			18.03
10	Raven Saunders	United States	x	13.75	17.86				17.86
11	Melissa Boekelman	Netherlands	17.61	17.73	x				17.73
12	Bian Ka	People's Republic of China	17.60	x	x				17.60

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  World Champion Gong Lijiao, People's Republic of China

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  Bronze medalist Michelle Carter, USA

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  The Dutchwoman Melissa Boekelman came in eleventh place

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, Women's Shot Put on the IAAF website , accessed on December 19, 2018
• Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships from Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 19, 2018
• Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 19, 2018

Video

• WCH London 2017 Highlights - Shot Put Women, Final - Lijiao Gong wins on youtube.com, published August 10, 2017, accessed December 19, 2018