2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
place	Beijing National Stadium
Attendees	35 athletes from 22 countries
Competition phase	August 16, 2008
Medalist
gold	Valerie Vili ( NZL )
silver	Misleydis González ( CUB )
bronze	Gong Lijiao ( CHN )

The shot put at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing was held on 16 August, 2008. 35 athletes took part.

The New Zealander Valerie Vili became Olympic champion . Misleydis González from Cuba won the silver medal, bronze went to the Chinese Gong Lijiao .

Current titleholders

Olympic Champion 2004	Yumileidi Cumbá ( Cuba )	19.59 m	Athens 2004
World Champion 2007	Valerie Vili ( New Zealand )	20.54 m	Osaka 2007
European Champion 2006	Natallja Charaneka ( Belarus )	19.43 m	Gothenburg 2006
Pan American Champion 2007	Misleydis González ( Cuba )	18.83 m	Rio de Janeiro 2007
2008 Central American and Caribbean Champion	Cleopatra Borel-Brown ( Trinidad and Tobago )	18.39 m	Cali 2008
South American Champion 2007	Elisângela Adriano ( Brazil )	17.41 m	São Paulo 2007
Asian Champion 2007	Liu Xiangrong ( People's Republic of China )	17.65 m	Amman 2007
African champion 2004	Vivian Chukwuemeka ( Nigeria )	17.50 m	Addis Ababa 2008
Oceania Champion 2008	Tasele Iva Marg Satupai ( Samoa )	13.94 m	Saipan 2008

Existing records

World record	22.63 m	Natalja Lisovskaya ( Soviet Union )	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	June 7, 1987
Olympic record	22.41 m	Ilona Slupianek ( GDR )	Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia )	July 24, 1980

doping

The shot put also had two doping cases. Both affected athletes came from Belarus.

• Natallja Michnewitsch . It attracted positive attention in the extensive doping follow-up tests in 2016. She was doped with metandienone and stanozolol in 2008, was subsequently disqualified and therefore lost her silver medal.
• Nadsey Astaptchuk . Her bronze medal was canceled during subsequent check-ups for doping abuse.

The athletes placed in the final after Lebedewa and Devetzi moved up two places in the official ranking.

qualification

August 16, 2008, 9:10 a.m.

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 18.45 m. Since fifteen athletes reached this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was not filled any further. The athletes who qualified for the final also included the two doping fraudsters Michnewitsch and Astaptschuk, so that ultimately thirteen athletes made it to the final.

Group A

The German Denise Hinrichs missed the qualification for the final by nine centimeters with 18.36 m

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Valerie Vili	New Zealand	19.73 m	-	-	19.73 m
2	Li Meiju	People's Republic of China	19.18 m	-	-	19.18 m	PB
3	Christina Schwanitz	Germany	x	17.97 m	19.09 m	19.09 m
4th	Misleydis González	Cuba	18.41 m	18.91 m	-	18.91 m
5	Chiara Rosa	Italy	18.74 m	-	-	18.74 m
6th	Jillian Camarena	United States	18.15 m	18.32 m	18.51 m	18.51 m
7th	Mailín Vargas	Cuba	18.47 m	-	-	18.47 m
8th	Olga Ivanova	Russia	17.69 m	18.27 m	18.46 m	18.46 m
9	Denise Hinrichs	Germany	18.36 m	18.27 m	x	18.36 m
10	Janina Pravalinskaja-Karoltschyk	Belarus	17.44 m	17.77 m	17.79 m	17.79 m
11	Anca Heltne	Romania	17.48 m	x	17.40 m	17.48 m
12	Natalia Duco	Chile	17.24 m	x	17.40 m	17.40 m
13	Kristin Heaston	United States	x	17.34 m	17.34 m	17.34 m
14th	Irini Terzoglou	Greece	16.08 m	16.14 m	16.50 m	16.50 m
15th	Jolanta Ulyeva	Kazakhstan	15.49 m	x	15.06 m	15.49 m
16	Lee Mi-young	South Korea	14.76 m	x	15.10 m	15.10 m
ogV	Irache Quintanal	Spain	x	x	x		without space
DOP	Natallja Michnewitsch	Belarus					in the final, later disqualified

Group B

The Italian Assunta Legnante does not reach the final with her 17.76 m

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Gong Lijiao	People's Republic of China	19.46 m	-	-	19.46 m	PB
2	Anna Omarova	Russia	18.26 m	x	18.74 m	18.74 m
3	Li Ling	People's Republic of China	18.60 m	-	-	18.60 m
4th	Nadine Kleinert	Germany	18.52 m	-	-	18.52 m
5	Michelle Carter	United States	18.46 m	-	-	18.46 m
6th	Cleopatra Borel-Brown	Trinidad and Tobago	17.96 m	17.32 m	17.57 m	17.96 m
7th	Assunta Legnante	Italy	16.93 m	17.76 m	x	17.76 m
8th	Yumileidi Cumbá	Cuba	x	17.60 m	x	17.60 m
9	Vivian Chukwuemeka	Nigeria	17.15 m	17.05 m	x	17.15 m
10	Irina Khudoroschkina	Russia	16.46 m	16.84 m	16.78 m	16.84 m
11	'Ana Po'uhila	Tonga	16.21 m	16.42 m	16.35 m	16.42 m
12	Lin Chia-ying	Taiwan	16.24 m	x	16.32 m	16.32 m
13	Zhang Guirong	Singapore	x	16.23 m	16.08 m	16.23 m
14th	Mariam Kewchishvili	Georgia	x	15.99 m	x	15.99 m
15th	Zara Northover	Jamaica	15.73 m	15.85 m	15.64 m	15.85 m
ogV	Krystyna Danilczyk-Zabawska	Poland	x	x	x		without space
DOP	Nadsey Astaptchuk	Belarus					in the final, later disqualified

final

August 16, 2008, 9:10 p.m.

Thirteen athletes had qualified for the final, all over the qualification range. There were three Chinese women, two German, two Cuban, Russian and American women as well as one participant each from Italy and New Zealand. In addition, there were the two Belarusians Natallja Michnewitsch and Nadseja Astaptschuk, who were both disqualified almost nine years after this competition for doping abuse .

There were initially two favorites for this final. The 2007 world champion and 2005 vice world champion Valerie Vili, later known by her name Valerie Adams, from New Zealand had assumed an increasingly dominant role in the previous years. Their widths were reliably well over twenty meters. Actually the only danger came from last year's vice world champion Nadseja Astaptschuk from Belarus, who, however, as described above, was exposed and disqualified as a doping sinner almost nine years after these games . Another contender for a top spot, Astaptschuk's compatriot Natallja Michnewitsch, who was still European champion in 2006 , felt the same way. In the following description of the final, the two doping fraudsters have been omitted. The candidates for the medals behind Vili were the German Olympic runner-up in 2004, third in the World Cup in 2005 and 2007, as well as the Chinese Li Ling in fourth in 2007 and Li Meiju in fifth in 2005 and sixth in 2007.

In the final, the dominance of the reigning world champion was evident from the start. Vili hit 20.56 m and, with her subsequent attempts, left no doubt as to who would become Olympic champion here. Her first shot remained her best, and with all four other valid attempts she passed the 20-meter mark. None of their competitors came anywhere near this brand. The fight for second place, however, remained open until the last round. The Cuban Misleydis González reached 19.30 m in round one, the Russian Anna Omarowa was third with 19.08 m, all other athletes except Vili did not exceed the nineteen meters in the first two rounds. In lap three Kleinert achieved 19.01 m, which meanwhile meant fourth place. There were only changes in the last two rounds. On lap five González improved to 19.50 m and thus consolidated her second place. The Chinese Gong Lijiao hit 19.04 m, displacing Kleinert from fourth place. With her final attempt, Gong then reached 19.20 m. That earned her the bronze medal.

Olympic champion was completely superior to Valerie Vili, who was more than a meter ahead of the silver medalist Misleydis González. Bronze went to Gong Lijiao, Anna Omarowa came fourth. After taking silver in Athens four years ago , Nadine Kleinert was fifth this time ahead of Li Meiju.

Misleydis González and Gong Lijiao, who had to assume that they had not received a medal for almost nine years, were particularly hard hit by Lebedewas and Devetzi doping fraud. Subsequent handing over of the silver or bronze medal after this long period is only a weak compensation.

Valerie Vili won her Olympic victory also the first medal for New Zealand at all in the shot put of women.
Misleydis González won the second medal for Kube in this discipline after Olympic gold for Yumileidi Cumbá in 2004.
For China, Gong Lijiao bronze brought the fourth medal in the women's shot put.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Valerie Vili	New Zealand	20.56 m	20.40 m	20.26 m	20.01 m	20.52 m	x	20.56 m	OZ
2	Misleydis González	Cuba	19.30 m	x	19.01 m	19.23 m	19.50 m	x	19.50 m
3	Gong Lijiao	People's Republic of China	18.45 m	18.75 m	18.90 m	18.92 m	19.04 m	19.20 m	19.20 m
4th	Anna Omarova	Russia	19.08 m	18.21 m	x	x	x	18.76 m	19.08 m
5	Nadine Kleinert	Germany	18.30 m	18.68 m	19.01 m	18.99 m	x	18.81 m	19.01 m
6th	Li Meiju	People's Republic of China	18.68 m	18.99 m	18.74 m	x	18.85 m	19.00 m	19.00 m
7th	Olga Ivanova	Russia	17.96 m	x	18.44 m	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			18.44 m	actually qualified for the final of the top eight
8th	Mailín Vargas	Cuba	18.28 m	17.88 m	17.74 m				18.28 m
9	Christina Schwanitz	Germany	x	17.96 m	18.27 m				18.27 m
10	Jillian Camarena	United States	18.09 m	18.24 m	17.44 m				18.24 m
11	Chiara Rosa	Italy	18.22 m	17.98 m	x				18.22 m
12	Li Ling	People's Republic of China	17.94 m	x	17.81 m				17.81 m
13	Michelle Carter	United States	16.94 m	17.65 m	17.74 m				17.74 m
DOP	Natallja Michnewitsch	Belarus								disqualified almost nine years after this competition was held
	Nadsey Astaptchuk	Belarus

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  Olympic champion Valerie Vili from New Zealand

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  Bronze medalist Gong Lijiao from China

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  After silver in Athens, she is now fifth for German Nadine Kleinert

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  The Olympic contestant Christina Schwanitz from Germany

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  The Italian Chiara Rosa ranks eleventh in the final

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  The American Michelle Carter comes in thirteenth

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put Women , accessed July 4, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed on July 4, 2018 (English)
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on July 4, 2018

Video

• Athletics - Women's Shot Put Final - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games , published August 16, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed July 4, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on July 4, 2018.
2. ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on July 4, 2018.
3. ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed July 4, 2018. 
4. ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on July 4, 2018.
5. ↑ IAAF World Records, Women's Shot Put , accessed July 4, 2018
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} IOC Sanctions 12 Athletes for Failing Anti-doping Test at London 2012. In: olympic.org. November 25, 2016. Retrieved July 4, 2018 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Nadzeya Ostapchuk has to hand in the shot put bronze from Beijing. In: Leichtathletik.de. January 12, 2017. Retrieved July 4, 2018 .