# 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's shot put

The women's shot put at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the ASPIRE Dome on 13 and 14 March.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Valerie Vili New Zealand | Anna Avdeyeva Russia | Nadine Kleinert Germany |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships :
| World record | Helena Fibingerová (TCH) | 22.50 | Jablonec, Czechoslovakia | 19 February 1977 |
| Championship record | Irina Korzhanenko (RUS) | 20.55 | Birmingham, Great Britain | 15 March 2003 |
| World Leading | Nadzeya Ostapchuk (BLR) | 21.70 | Mogilev, Belarus | 12 February 2010 |
| African record | Vivian Chukwuemeka (NGR) | 18.13 | Flagstaff, United States | 4 February 2006 |
| Asian record | Sui Xinmei (CHN) | 21.10 | Beijing, China | 3 March 1990 |
| European record | Helena Fibingerová (TCH) | 22.50 | Jablonec, Czechoslovakia | 19 February 1977 |
| North and Central American and Caribbean record | Ramona Pagel (USA) | 19.83 | Inglewood, United States | 20 February 1987 |
| Oceanian Record | Valerie Vili (NZL) | 20.19 | Valencia, Spain | 9 March 2008 |
| South American record | Elisângela Adriano (BRA) | 18.33 | Piraeus, Greece | 24 February 1999 |

## Qualification standards

* Indoor
* 17.50 m

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| March 13, 2010 | 9:20 | Qualification |
| March 14, 2010 | 16:35 | Final |

## Results
### Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 18.50 (Q) or at least 8 best performers (q) advance to the final.
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | Result | Notes |
| DQ | Nadzeya Ostapchuk | Belarus | 20.09 | | | 20.09 | Q |
| 1 | Valerie Vili | New Zealand | 19.81 | | | 19.81 | Q |
| DQ | Anca Heltne | Romania | 19.10 | | | 19.10 | Q |
| 2 | Gong Lijiao | China | 18.87 | | | 18.87 | Q, SB |
| 3 | Jillian Camarena-Williams | United States | 18.85 | | | 18.85 | Q, SB |
| 4 | Nadine Kleinert | Germany | x | 18.77 | | 18.77 | Q |
| DQ | Natallia Mikhnevich | Belarus | 18.67 | | | 18.67 | Q |
| 5 | Anna Avdeyeva | Russia | 18.53 | | | 18.53 | Q |
| 6 | Misleydis González | Cuba | 17.69 | 18.51 | | 18.51 | Q |
| 7 | Olga Ivanova | Russia | 18.42 | x | x | 18.42 | |
| 8 | Liu Xiangrong | China | 18.34 | 18.15 | x | 18.34 | SB |
| 9 | Cleopatra Borel-Brown | Trinidad and Tobago | 17.98 | 18.31 | 18.09 | 18.31 | |
| 10 | Michelle Carter | United States | 18.16 | x | 18.20 | 18.20 | SB |
| 11 | Melissa Boekelman | Netherlands | x | 16.91 | 17.57 | 17.57 | |
| 12 | Austra Skujytė | Lithuania | 17.07 | 17.28 | 17.55 | 17.55 | |
| 13 | Mailín Vargas | Cuba | 17.37 | 17.52 | x | 17.52 | |
| 14 | Anita Márton | Hungary | 17.34 | 17.08 | 16.98 | 17.34 | |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
| DQ | Nadzeya Ostapchuk | Belarus | 20.24 | x | x | x | 20.68 | 20.85 | 20.85 | CR |
| | Valerie Vili | New Zealand | x | 20.45 | 20.41 | 20.10 | 20.49 | 20.27 | 20.49 | AR |
| DQ | Natallia Mikhnevich | Belarus | 20.42 | x | 19.53 | 19.64 | x | x | 20.42 | SB |
| | Anna Avdeyeva | Russia | 18.64 | 19.41 | 19.47 | 19.42 | 19.26 | x | 19.47 | SB |
| | Nadine Kleinert | Germany | 18.91 | 18.62 | 19.16 | 18.42 | x | 19.34 | 19.34 | SB |
| 4 | Jillian Camarena-Williams | United States | x | 17.88 | 18.41 | 19.08 | 19.34 | 18.98 | 19.34 | PB |
| DQ | Anca Heltne | Romania | 18.86 | 18.58 | x | x | x | x | 18.86 | |
| 5 | Misleydis González | Cuba | 18.56 | x | 18.77 | 18.57 | 18.74 | 18.37 | 18.77 | |
| 6 | Gong Lijiao | China | x | 18.50 | 18.34 | 18.58 | 18.64 | 18.54 | 18.64 | |