1990 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
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The women's shot put event at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, at Deveti Septemvri Stadium on 8 and 9 August.^[1][2]

Gold	Qiu Qiaoping  China
Silver	Li Xiaoyun  China
Bronze	Heike Hopfer  East Germany

9 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts						Result	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Qiu Qiaoping	China	17.17	17.43	17.74	18.05	18.20	17.58	18.20
	Li Xiaoyun	China	17.13	x	17.66	17.74	x	17.74	17.74
	Heike Hopfer	East Germany	15.44	17.27	17.23	17.25	x	x	17.27
4	Ilona Gersdorff	East Germany	x	16.31	16.61	x	16.79	16.64	16.79
5	Anna Shilofest	Soviet Union	x	16.66	x	16.47	x	x	16.66
6	Yekaterina Shishenko	Soviet Union	15.00	15.42	15.47	16.05	15.62	15.66	16.05
7	Marika Tuliniemi	Finland	14.87	x	15.24	15.38	15.06	15.09	15.38
8	Päivi Rikala	Finland	14.87	15.26	15.25	15.07	15.26	15.24	15.26
9	Alexandra Amaro	Brazil	15.12	14.55	14.14				15.12
10	Elisângela Adriano	Brazil	15.03	14.95	x				15.03
11	Nicole Carkeek	Australia	14.10	15.01	x				15.01
12	Stevanie Wadsworth	United States	14.57	14.97	14.37				14.97
13	Galabina Koleva	Bulgaria	x	14.15	14.97				14.97

8 Aug

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts			Result	Notes
			1	2	3
1	Li Xiaoyun	China	16.66	-	-	16.66	Q
2	Ilona Gersdorff	East Germany	16.47	-	-	16.47	Q
3	Qiu Qiaoping	China	16.00	-	-	16.00	Q
4	Heike Hopfer	East Germany	15.73	-	-	15.73	Q
5	Stevanie Wadsworth	United States	15.62	-	-	15.62	Q
6	Yekaterina Shishenko	Soviet Union	15.46	-	-	15.46	Q
7	Marika Tuliniemi	Finland	14.87	15.38	-	15.38	Q
8	Galabina Koleva	Bulgaria	15.29	-	-	15.29	Q
9	Päivi Rikala	Finland	15.27	-	-	15.27	Q
10	Alexandra Amaro	Brazil	14.69	14.47	15.16	15.16	Q
11	Elisângela Adriano	Brazil	14.71	15.14	-	15.14	Q
12	Anna Shilofest	Soviet Union	15.09	-	-	15.09	Q
13	Nicole Carkeek	Australia	15.01	-	-	15.01	Q
14	Dawn Dumble	United States	14.03	x	14.78	14.78
15	Eva Cernanová	Czechoslovakia	13.87	14.34	14.77	14.77
16	Linda-Marie Mårtensson	Sweden	14.64	14.31	14.64	14.64
17	Daniela Grigorova	Bulgaria	14.05	13.19	x	14.05
18	Sadith Fretes	Paraguay	10.83	10.80	10.80	10.83

According to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.