1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Road events
20 km	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
v t e

The women's shot put event at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, at Laurentian University Stadium on 27 and 28 July.^[1][2]

Gold	Ines Wittich  East Germany
Silver	Heike Rohrmann  East Germany
Bronze	Ella Polyakova  Soviet Union

28 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Ines Wittich	East Germany	18.54
	Heike Rohrmann	East Germany	17.84
	Ella Polyakova	Soviet Union	17.10
4	Svetlana Krivelyova	Soviet Union	16.91
5	Petya Zhecheva	Bulgaria	16.66
6	Gabriele Völkl	West Germany	16.56
7	Diana Stoyanova	Bulgaria	16.48
8	Zhang Liuhong	China	15.43
9	Katja Bick	West Germany	15.27
10	Angie Ryker	United States	14.67
11	Justine Buttle	United Kingdom	14.65
12	Anne Brouzet	France	14.53

27 Jul

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Ines Wittich	East Germany	17.74	Q
2	Heike Rohrmann	East Germany	17.18	Q
3	Ella Polyakova	Soviet Union	16.71	Q
4	Svetlana Krivelyova	Soviet Union	16.24	Q
5	Gabriele Völkl	West Germany	15.92	Q
6	Diana Stoyanova	Bulgaria	15.55	Q
7	Petya Zhecheva	Bulgaria	15.31	Q
8	Zhang Liuhong	China	14.91	Q
9	Katja Bick	West Germany	14.81	Q
10	Anne Brouzet	France	14.73	Q
11	Angie Ryker	United States	14.65	Q
12	Justine Buttle	United Kingdom	14.33	q
13	Nicole Carkeek	Australia	14.13
14	Wang Hong	China	14.01
15	Teresa Machado	Portugal	13.99
16	Christy Ward	United States	13.06
17	Alexandra Amaro	Brazil	12.94
18	Kelly-Anne Kempf	Canada	12.90

According to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.