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Beijing Olympics 2008 Shot put Women Field Events Athletics

Beijing Olympics

Gold	Valerie Vili New Zealand (NZL)
Silver	Natallia Mikhnevich Belarus (BLR)
Bronze	Nadzeya Astapchuk Belarus (BLR)

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World Record	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	22.63	Moscow, Soviet Union	7 June 1987
Olympic Record	Ilona Slupianek (GDR)	22.41	Moscow, Soviet Union	24 July 1980

No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.

Group	Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
A	1	Valerie Vili	New Zealand	19.73	Q
B	2	Gong Lijiao	China	19.46	Q, PB
A	3	Li Meiju	China	19.18	Q, PB
A	4	Natallia Mikhnevich	Belarus	19.11	Q
A	5	Christina Schwanitz	Germany	19.09	Q
B	6	Nadzeya Astapchuk	Belarus	19.08	Q
A	7	Misleydis González	Cuba	18.91	Q
A	8	Chiara Rosa	Italy	18.74	Q, SB
B	8	Anna Omarova	Russia	18.74	Q
B	10	Li Ling	China	18.60	Q
B	11	Nadine Kleinert	Germany	18.52	Q
A	12	Jillian Camarena	United States	18.51	Q, SB
B	13	Michelle Carter	United States	18.49	Q
A	14	Mailín Vargas	Cuba	18.47	Q
A	15	Olga Ivanova	Russia	18.46	Q
A	16	Denise Hinrichs	Germany	18.36
B	17	Cleopatra Borel-Brown	Trinidad and Tobago	17.96
A	18	Yanina Karolchyk-Pravalinskaya	Belarus	17.79
B	19	Assunta Legnante	Italy	17.76
B	20	Yumileidi Cumbá	Cuba	17.60
A	21	Anca Heltne	Romania	17.48
A	22	Natalia Duco	Chile	17.40
A	23	Kristin Heaston	United States	17.34
B	24	Vivian Chukwuemeka	Nigeria	17.15
B	25	Irina Khudoroshkina	Russia	16.84
A	26	Irini Terzoglou	Greece	16.50
B	27	Ana Pouhila	Tonga	16.42
B	28	Lin Chia-Ying	Chinese Taipei	16.32
B	29	Zhang Guirong	Singapore	16.23
B	30	Mariam Kevkhishvili	Georgia	15.99
B	31	Zara Northover	Jamaica	15.85
A	32	Iolanta Ulyeva	Kazakhstan	15.49
A	33	Lee Mi-Young	South Korea	15.10
A		Irache Quintanal	Spain	NM
B		Krystyna Zabawska	Poland	NM

Position	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
1	Valerie Vili	New Zealand	20.56	20.40	20.26	20.01	20.52	-	20.56	AR, NR
2	Natallia Mikhnevich	Belarus	19.16	20.28	19.87	19.82	19.94	20.10	20.28
3	Nadzeya Astapchuk	Belarus	x	18.69	18.36	x	19.86	19.36	19.86
4	Misleydis González	Cuba	19.30	x	19.01	19.23	19.50	x	19.50	PB
5	Gong Lijiao	China	18.45	18.75	18.90	18.92	19.04	19.20	19.20
6	Anna Omarova	Russia	19.08	18.21	x	x	x	18.76	19.08
7	Nadine Kleinert	Germany	18.30	18.68	19.01	18.99	x	18.81	19.01
8	Li Meiju	China	18.68	18.99	18.74	x	18.85	19.00	19.00
9	Olga Ivanova	Russia	17.96	x	18.44				18.44
10	Mailín Vargas	Cuba	18.28	17.88	17.74				18.28
11	Christina Schwanitz	Germany	x	17.96	18.27				18.27
12	Jillian Camarena	United States	18.09	18.24	17.44				18.24
13	Chiara Rosa	Italy	18.22	17.98	x				18.22
14	Li Ling	China	17.94	x	17.81				17.94
15	Michelle Carter	United States	16.97	17.65	17.74				17.74