2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's shot put

The women's shot put at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on March 19, 2016.

Women's shot put at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Venue	Oregon Convention Center
Dates	March 19
Competitors	11 from 9 nations
Winning distance	20.21
Medalists
Michelle Carter   United States   Anita Márton   Hungary   Valerie Adams   New Zealand

That Valerie Adams took the lead in the first round was not a surprise. Over the previous decade, the only woman to defeat Adams in a major international competition, turned out to be a serial drug cheat. What might have been foretelling was that the lead was not already insurmountable. In the second round, Michelle Carter took the lead, which she solidified in the third round, even though Adams hit her best throw of the competition in that round. Adams may not be back to 100% after the multiple surgeries which caused her absence in Beijing, her best more than a meter short of where she would normally be throwing. But Carter was challenged, when Anita Márton threw her National Record 19.33 on her final attempt. That lasted only long enough for Carter to make her final attempt, 20.21 m (66 ft 3+1⁄2 in) was almost a 3-foot improvement for the winner.

Results

The final was started at 17.45.

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Michelle Carter	United States	x	18.90	19.31	19.28	x	20.21	20.21	WL
	Anita Márton	Hungary	17.99	18.38	19.01	18.71	19.08	19.33	19.33	NR
	Valerie Adams	New Zealand	18.49	18.30	19.25	x	19.02	18.31	19.25
4	Cleopatra Borel	Trinidad and Tobago	17.41	17.73	17.59	17.31	18.38	17.50	18.38	SB
5	Jillian Camarena-Williams	United States	18.17	x	x	17.57	17.52		18.17
6	Radoslava Mavrodieva	Bulgaria	17.01	18.00	x	x	17.91		18.00	SB
7	Lena Urbaniak	Germany	x	17.19	17.55	x	17.91		17.91
8	Gao Yang	China	17.26	17.27	17.65	17.67	17.02		17.67
9	Aliona Dubitskaya	Belarus	17.45	x	x				17.45
10	Bian Ka	China	16.86	17.13	17.34				17.34
11	Chiara Rosa	Italy	17.10	x	16.89				17.10