Women's shot put at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing National Stadium
Date	16 August 2008
Competitors	35 from 22 nations
Winning distance	20.56
Medalists
Valerie Vili  New Zealand Misleydis González  Cuba Gong Lijiao  China
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Athletics at the 2008 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
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The women's shot put event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 16 August at the Beijing Olympic Stadium.^[1] The qualifying standards were 18.35 m (60 ft 2 in) (A standard) and 17.20 m (56 ft 5 in) (B standard).^[2]

The event was won by Valerie Vili (née Adams) of New Zealand, with a best throw of 20.56 metres.^[3]

In 2016 it was announced that a reanalysis of samples resulted in doping violations by Natallia Mikhnevich and Nadzeya Ostapchuk. They were disqualified from the competition and the silver and bronze medals were reallocated by the IAAF (now World Athletics).^[4]

All times are China standard time (UTC+8)

Prior to this 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

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

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 18.40 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	Result	Notes
1	A	Valerie Vili	New Zealand	19.73			19.73	Q
2	B	Gong Lijiao	China	19.46			19.46	Q, PB
3	A	Li Meiju	China	19.18			19.18	Q, PB
DSQ[5]	A	Natallia Mikhnevich	Belarus	19.11			19.11	Q
5	A	Christina Schwanitz	Germany	x	17.97	19.09	19.09	Q
DSQ[6]	B	Nadzeya Ostapchuk	Belarus	19.08			19.08	Q
7	A	Misleydis González	Cuba	18.42	18.91		18.91	Q
8	B	Anna Omarova	Russia	18.26	x	18.74	18.74	Q
9	A	Chiara Rosa	Italy	18.74			18.74	Q, SB
10	B	Li Ling	China	18.60			18.60	Q
11	B	Nadine Kleinert	Germany	18.52			18.52	Q
12	A	Jillian Camarena	United States	18.15	18.32	18.51	18.51	Q, SB
13	B	Michelle Carter	United States	18.49			18.49	Q
14	A	Mailín Vargas	Cuba	18.47			18.47	Q
15	A	Olga Ivanova	Russia	17.69	18.27	18.46	18.46	Q
16	A	Denise Hinrichs	Germany	18.36	18.27	x	18.36
17	B	Cleopatra Borel-Brown	Trinidad and Tobago	17.96	17.32	17.57	17.96
18	A	Yanina Karolchyk-Pravalinskaya	Belarus	17.44	17.77	17.79	17.79
19	B	Assunta Legnante	Italy	16.93	17.76	x	17.76
20	B	Yumileidi Cumbá	Cuba	x	17.60	x	17.60
21	A	Anca Heltne	Romania	17.48	x	17.40	17.48
22	A	Natalia Duco	Chile	17.24	x	17.40	17.40
23	A	Kristin Heaston	United States	x	17.34	17.34	17.34
24	B	Vivian Chukwuemeka	Nigeria	17.15	17.05	x	17.15
25	B	Irina Khudoroshkina	Russia	16.46	16.84	16.78	16.84
26	A	Irini Terzoglou	Greece	16.08	16.14	16.50	16.50
27	B	Ana Po'uhila	Tonga	16.21	16.42	16.35	16.42
28	B	Lin Chia-Ying	Chinese Taipei	16.24	x	16.32	16.32
29	B	Zhang Guirong	Singapore	x	16.23	16.08	16.23
30	B	Mariam Kevkhishvili	Georgia	x	15.99	x	15.99
31	B	Zara Northover	Jamaica	15.73	15.85	15.64	15.85
32	A	Iolanta Ulyeva	Kazakhstan	15.49	x	15.06	15.49
33	A	Lee Mi-Young	South Korea	14.76	x	15.10	15.10
	A	Irache Quintanal	Spain	x	x	x	NM
	B	Krystyna Zabawska	Poland	x	x	x	NM

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

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