1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's shot put

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Events at the
1999 IAAF World Indoor
Championships

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Track events
60 m  men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m men women
60 m hurdles men women
4×400 m relay men women
Field events
High jump men women
Pole vault men women
Long jump men women
Triple jump men women
Shot put men women
Combined events
Pentathlon women
Heptathlon men

The women's shot put event at the 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 6.

1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships 1999 edition of the IAAF World Indoor Championships

The 7th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in the Green Dome Maebashi stadium in Maebashi, Japan from March 5 to March 7, 1999. It was the first time the Championships were staged outside Europe or North America. Primo Nebiolo, president of the IAAF, characterized the championships as "the greatest ever". There were a total number of 487 participating athletes from 115 countries.

Results

Rank Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes
Svetlana Krivelyova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 18.16 x 19.08 18.52 18.87 x 19.08
Krystyna Danilczyk-Zabawska Flag of Poland.svg  Poland x 19.00 x 18.53 x 18.28 19.00
Teri Steer-Tunks Flag of the United States.svg  United States 17.56 18.86 18.72 x 18.84 x 18.86
4 Connie Price-Smith Flag of the United States.svg  United States 18.48 x 18.82 x 18.43 18.47 18.82 SB
5 Nadine Kleinert Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 18.33 x 18.17 18.42 18.51 18.39 18.51
6 Yumileidi Cumbá Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba x 17.29 17.73 x x 17.8017.80
7 Li Meisu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 16.41 16.63 x 16.63
8 Yoko Toyonaga Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 15.55 15.39 15.7315.73
9 Vita Pavlysh Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine *
9 Irina Korzhanenko Flag of Russia.svg  Russia *

* Vita Pavlysh and Irina Korzhanenko originally won gold and silver respectively but were later disqualified for doping.

Viktoriya Anatoliïvna Pavlysh is a former track and field athlete who specialized in the shot put.

Irina Nikolayevna Korzhanenko ; born May 16, 1974 in Azov) is a former Russian shot putter. She gained international recognition when she won a bronze medal at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships. In the following years she became European Indoor champion, European champion and World Indoor champion.

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