2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put

2008 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	women
10,000 m	men
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
10,000 m walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's shot put event at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Zawisza Stadium on 9 and 10 July. ^{[1] [2]}

Medalists

Gold	Natalia Ducó   Chile
Silver	Melissa Boekelman   Netherlands
Bronze	Ma Qiao   China

Results

Final

10 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts						Result	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Natalia Ducó	Chile	17.23	x	17.01	17.20	x	x	17.23
	Melissa Boekelman	Netherlands	16.16	16.43	16.36	16.36	16.60	x	16.60
	Ma Qiao	China	16.18	16.41	16.55	15.75	16.33	16.39	16.55
4	Aliona Hryshko	Belarus	16.32	16.27	16.41	16.55	15.87	15.73	16.55
5	Sophie Kleeberg	Germany	15.68	x	16.01	15.73	16.06	x	16.06
6	Sandra Lemus	Colombia	x	15.38	14.74	15.92	15.41	x	15.92
7	Anita Márton	Hungary	15.22	15.74	15.70	15.88	15.70	x	15.88
8	Lina Berends	Germany	15.68	15.54	15.70	15.43	15.46	15.63	15.70
9	Meng Qianqian	China	14.10	15.22	14.62				15.22
10	Chinwe Okoro	United States	15.18	14.23	14.45				15.18
11	Myriam Lixfe	France	14.03	x	13.73				14.03
12	Viktoriya Bolbat	Ukraine	x	x	14.01				14.01

Qualifications

9 July

Group A

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts			Result	Notes
			1	2	3
1	Natalia Ducó	Chile	17.89	-	-	17.89	Q
2	Sophie Kleeberg	Germany	15.24	15.65	16.20	16.20	Q
3	Ma Qiao	China	15.47	15.84	15.76	15.84	q
4	Anita Márton	Hungary	15.59	15.73	15.71	15.73	q
5	Sandra Lemus	Colombia	15.05	15.72	x	15.72	q
6	Myriam Lixfe	France	15.47	x	14.57	15.47	q
7	Sandra Perković	Croatia	14.59	x	15.03	15.03
8	Virmante Vaičekonytė	Lithuania	14.53	14.78	13.11	14.78
9	Rebecca O'Brien	United States	14.32	14.77	13.97	14.77
10	Kimberley Mulhall	Australia	14.42	14.68	14.71	14.71
11	Vera Kunova	Russia	14.13	x	14.57	14.57
12	Walaa Atteya	Egypt	12.79	x	13.75	13.75
13	Allison Liske	Canada	13.45	x	x	13.45

Group B

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts			Result	Notes
			1	2	3
1	Melissa Boekelman	Netherlands	16.15	-	-	16.15	Q
2	Aliona Hryshko	Belarus	14.90	14.86	15.92	15.92	q
3	Lina Berends	Germany	15.18	15.71	15.40	15.71	q
4	Chinwe Okoro	United States	14.90	15.31	15.41	15.41	q
5	Viktoriya Bolbat	Ukraine	14.50	15.11	x	15.11	q
6	Meng Qianqian	China	15.04	x	x	15.04	q
7	Julie Labonté	Canada	13.41	14.21	14.96	14.96
8	Gianni Robard	France	14.72	12.95	13.38	14.72
9	Zeynep Uzun	Turkey	13.42	14.06	14.49	14.49
10	Margaret Satupai	Samoa	14.25	14.45	13.38	14.45
11	Spela Hus	Slovenia	12.24	14.06	13.88	14.06
12	Lomana Fagatuai	Australia	14.03	13.14	13.48	14.03

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 25 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.

•   Australia (2)
•   Belarus (1)
•   Canada (2)
•   Chile (1)
•   China (2)
•   Colombia (1)
•   Croatia (1)
•   Egypt (1)
•   France (2)
•   Germany (2)
•   Hungary (1)
•   Lithuania (1)
•   Netherlands (1)
•   Russia (1)
•   Samoa (1)
•   Slovenia (1)
•   Turkey (1)
•   Ukraine (1)
•   United States (2)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2008 Bydgoszcz POL Jul 8-13, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 24 February 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF , retrieved 13 June 2015