Women · Throws · All-Time
Shot Put
22.63
Best mark
World record
21.19
Top 25 cutoff
25 rows
21.57
Median
Of the 25 best-by-athlete marks
10
Countries
GDR 8 · URS 5 · 8 others
Performance distribution
25 athletes from 22.63 to 21.19 · median 21.57
Top 25 cutoff through history
How fast an athlete needed to be to make the list each year
Season lists are not yet published for this event. This chart fills in as they are imported from a permitted source.
World all-time top 25
Best by athlete · updated 1 Sep 2026 · Wikipedia (English) revision of 1 Sep 2026 · methodology
25 rows
| # | Athlete | Country | Mark | Date | Venue | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Natalya Lisovskaya WR | URS | 22.63 | 7 Jun 1987 | Moscow | 24 |
| 2 | Ilona Slupianek | GDR | 22.45 | 11 May 1980 | Potsdam | 23 |
| 3 | Helena Fibingerová | TCH | 22.32 | 20 Aug 1977 | Nitra | 28 |
| 4 | Claudia Losch | FRG | 22.19 | 23 Aug 1987 | Hainfeld | 27 |
| 5 | Ivanka Khristova | BUL | 21.89 | 4 Jul 1976 | Belmeken | 34 |
| 6 | Marianne Adam | GDR | 21.86 | 23 Jun 1979 | Leipzig | 27 |
| 7 | Li Meisu | CHN | 21.76 | 23 Apr 1988 | Shijiazhuang | 29 |
| 8 | Natalya Akhrimenko | URS | 21.73 | 21 May 1988 | Leselidze | 33 |
| 9 | Vita Pavlysh | UKR | 21.69 | 20 Aug 1998 | Budapest | 29 |
| 10 | Sui Xinmei | CHN | 21.66 | 9 Jun 1990 | Beijing | 25 |
| 11 | Verzhinia Veselinova | BUL | 21.61 | 21 Aug 1982 | Sofia | 24 |
| 12 | Margitta Droese-Pufe | GDR | 21.58 | 28 May 1978 | Erfurt | 25 |
| 13 | Ines Müller | GDR | 21.57 | 16 May 1988 | Athens | 29 |
| 14 | Nunu Abashidze | URS | 21.53 | 20 Jun 1984 | Kyiv | 29 |
| 15 | Huang Zhihong | CHN | 21.52 | 27 Jun 1990 | Beijing | 25 |
| 16 | Larisa Peleshenko | RUS | 21.46 | 26 Aug 2000 | Budapest | 36 |
| 17 | Nadezhda Chizhova | URS | 21.45 | 29 Sep 1973 | Varna | 28 |
| 18 | Eva Wilms | FRG | 21.43 | 17 Jun 1977 | Munich | 24 |
| 19 | Svetlana Krachevskaya | URS | 21.42 | 24 Jul 1980 | Moscow | 35 |
| 20 | Heike Hartwig | GDR | 21.31 | 16 May 1988 | Athens | 25 |
| 21 | Liane Schmuhl | GDR | 21.27 | 26 Jun 1982 | Cottbus | 20 |
| 22 | Valerie Adams | NZL | 21.24 | 29 Aug 2011 | Daegu | 26 |
| 23 | Astrid Kumbernuss | GER | 21.22 | 5 Aug 1995 | Gothenburg | 25 |
| 24 | Kathrin Neimke | GDR | 21.21 | 5 Sep 1987 | Rome | 21 |
| 25 | Helma Knorscheidt | GDR | 21.19 | 24 May 1984 | Berlin | 27 |