Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's shot put

Women's shot put at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	6 August
Competitors	32 from 21 nations
Winning distance	20.70
Medalists
Valerie Adams  New Zealand Yevgeniya Kolodko  Russia Gong Lijiao  China

Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men		women
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The Women's shot put competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom was held at the Olympic Stadium on 6 August. Each athlete received three throws in the qualifying round. All who achieved the qualifying distance progressed to the final. If less than twelve athletes would achieve this mark, then the twelve furthest throwing athletes would reach the final. Each finalist was allowed three throws in last round, with the top eight athletes after that point being given three further attempts.

In the finals, Valerie Adams, the defending champion, took the lead in the first throw, but Nadzeya Ostapchuk, who was third in the 2008 Olympic competition, overtook the lead in the second throw and remained the leader until the end of the competition. Gong Lijiao remained third until the last throw, when she was overtaken by Yevgeniya Kolodko. The 2008 silver medalist, Natallia Mikhnevich, qualified for the final, but remained in last place.

On August 13, 2012, IOC announced that Nadzeya Ostapchuk had tested positive for metenolone both before and after winning the shot put event. She was formally expelled from the games and her victory and medal removed from the records. The gold medal was then awarded to Valerie Adams, the silver to Yevgeniya Kolodko, and the bronze to Gong Lijiao.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Date	Time	Round
Monday, 6 August 2012	10:45 19:15	Qualifications Finals

Records

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

World record	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	22.63 m	Moscow, Soviet Union	7 June 1987
Olympic record	Ilona Slupianek (GDR)	22.41 m	Moscow, Soviet Union	24 July 1980
2012 World leading	Nadzeya Ostapchuk (BLR)	21.58 m	Minsk, Belarus	18 July 2012

Results

Qualifying round

Qual. rule: qualification standard 18.90m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	A	Valerie Adams	New Zealand	x	20.40		20.40	Q
2	B	Yevgeniya Kolodko	Russia	19.31			19.31	Q
3	A	Li Ling	China	18.86	19.23		19.23	Q
4	B	Gong Lijiao	China	19.11			19.11	Q
5	B	Liu Xiangrong	China	18.87	18.96		18.96	Q
6	B	Irina Tarasova	Russia	18.55	18.59	18.76	18.76	q
7	A	Michelle Carter	United States	18.27	18.63	x	18.63	q
8	A	Christina Schwanitz	Germany	18.44	18.43	18.62	18.62	q
9	B	Natallia Mikhnevich	Belarus	18.60	18.12	18.30	18.60	q
10	B	Geisa Arcanjo	Brazil	x	18.47	18.33	18.47	q
11	B	Natalia Ducó	Chile	18.45	18.23	18.17	18.45	q
12	A	Cleopatra Borel-Brown	Trinidad and Tobago	18.26	18.36	18.34	18.36
13	B	Nadine Kleinert	Germany	x	18.06	18.36	18.36
14	A	Chiara Rosa	Italy	17.91	18.14	18.30	18.30
15	A	Jillian Camarena-Williams	United States	18.22	17.99	17.51	18.22
16	B	Úrsula Ruiz	Spain	17.99	x	x	17.99	PB
17	B	Janina Karolchyk-Pravalinskaya	Belarus	17.68	17.87	17.69	17.87
18	A	Josephine Terlecki	Germany	17.78	x	17.73	17.78
19	B	Tia Brooks	United States	17.21	17.72	17.29	17.72
20	B	Misleydis González	Cuba	17.68	17.61	17.35	17.68
21	A	Leila Rajabi	Iran	17.17	17.55	17.42	17.55
22	A	Julie Labonté	Canada	17.48	17.32	x	17.48
23	A	Anita Márton	Hungary	16.29	17.04	17.48	17.48
24	A	Anna Avdeyeva	Russia	17.47	x	x	17.47
25	B	Lin Chia-ying	Chinese Taipei	16.74	17.43	x	17.43	NR
26	A	Mailín Vargas	Cuba	16.76	16.64	x	16.76
27	A	Sandra Lemos	Colombia	16.50	16.07	x	16.50
28	B	Alexandra Fisher	Kazakhstan	15.84	16.16	x	16.16
29	B	'Ana Po'uhila	Tonga	15.80	15.75	15.11	15.80
30	A	Elena Smolyanova	Uzbekistan	14.35	14.43		14.43
N/A	B	Radoslava Mavrodieva	Bulgaria	x	x	x	N/A	NM
N/A	A	Nadzeya Ostapchuk	Belarus	20.76			20.76	DQ (drugs) Q

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Valerie Adams	New Zealand	20.61	X	20.70	X	X	20.24	20.70
	Yevgeniya Kolodko	Russia	19.45	19.52	X	X	X	20.48	20.48	PB
	Gong Lijiao	China	20.13	19.67	19.91	19.76	20.22	20.00	20.22	SB
4	Li Ling	China	18.87	18.77	19.28	X	19.63	19.58	19.63
5	Michelle Carter	United States	19.05	18.83	18.92	19.42	19.12	18.88	19.42
6	Liu Xiangrong	China	19.18	18.88	18.74	X	18.47	18.77	19.18
7	Geisa Arcanjo	Brazil	18.27	X	19.02	X	X	17.19	19.02	PB
8	Irina Tarasova	Russia	19.00	18.80	X	N/A	N/A	N/A	19.00
9	Natalia Ducó	Chile	18.80	18.70	18.62	N/A	N/A	N/A	18.80	NR
10	Christina Schwanitz	Germany	18.20	18.47	X	N/A	N/A	N/A	18.47
11	Natallia Mikhnevich	Belarus	18.42	X	18.27	N/A	N/A	N/A	18.42
N/A	Nadzeya Ostapchuk	Belarus	20.01	21.31	21.36	21.15	21.32	X	21.36	DQ (drugs)