Women's shot put world record progression

The first world record in the women's shot put was recognised by the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) in 1924. The FSFI was absorbed by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1936. These women's distances were achieved with a 4 kilograms (8.8 lb) shot put.

As of June 21, 2009, the IAAF (and the FSFI before it) have ratified 50 world records in the event.^[1] As of 2025^[update], the official world record, set by Natalya Lisovskaya on 7 June 1987, stands at 22.63 m.^[1]

14 of the top 15 throwers of all time have set their personal best between 1976 and 1990. Since then, athletes have been subject to more rigorous drug testing, and marks like these are effectively unreachable today.^[2] The best throws by any women since Lisovskaya's record have been Larisa Peleshenko's 21.46 m, set in 2000, followed by Valerie Adams's 21.24 m from 2011.^[2]

World record progression

	Ratified
	Not ratified
	Ratified but later rescinded

Mark	Athlete	Date	Location
10.15 m	Violette Gouraud-Morris (FRA)	14 July 1924	Paris, France[1]
11.57 m	Lilli Henoch (GER)	16 August 1925	Leipzig, Germany
10.84 m	Ruth Lange (GER)	28 May 1927	Prague, Czechoslovakia[1]
11.32 m		6 August 1927	Breslau, Germany[1]
11.52 m		3 June 1928	Berlin, Germany[1]
11.96 m	Grete Heublein (GER)	15 July 1928
12.85 m		21 July 1929	Frankfurt am Main, Germany[1]
12.88 m		28 June 1931	Paris, France[1]
13.70 m		16 August 1931	Bielefeld, Germany[1]
14.38 m	Gisela Mauermayer (GER)	15 July 1934	Warsaw, Poland[1]
14.59 m	Tatyana Sevryukova (URS)	4 August 1948	Moscow, Soviet Union[1]
14.86 m	Klavdia Tochonova (URS)	30 October 1949	Tbilisi, Soviet Union[1]
15.02 m	Anna Andreyeva (URS)	9 November 1950	Ploiești, Romania[1]
15.28 m	Galina Zybina (URS)	26 July 1952	Helsinki, Finland[1]
15.37 m		20 September 1952	Frunze, Soviet Union[1]
15.42 m		1 October 1952
16.20 m		9 October 1953	Malmö, Sweden[1]
16.28 m		14 September 1954	Kiev, Soviet Union[1]
16.28 m		5 September 1955	Leningrad, Soviet Union[1]
16.67 m		15 November 1955	Tbilisi, Soviet Union[1]
16.76 m		13 October 1956	Tashkent, Soviet Union[1]
17.25 m	Tamara Press (URS)	26 April 1959	Nalchik, Soviet Union[1]
17.42 m		16 July 1960	Moscow, Soviet Union[1]
17.78 m		13 August 1960
18.55 m		10 June 1962	Leipzig, East Germany[1]
18.55 m		12 September 1962	Beograd, Yugoslavia[1]
18.59 m		19 September 1965	Kassel, West Germany[1]
18.67 m	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	28 April 1968	Sochi, Soviet Union[1]
18.87 m	Margitta Gummel (GDR)	22 September 1968	Frankfurt (Oder), East Germany[1]
19.07 m		20 October 1968	Mexico City, Mexico[1]
19.61 m
19.72 m	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	30 May 1969	Moscow, Soviet Union[1]
20.09 m		13 July 1969	Chorzów, Poland[1]
20.10 m	Margitta Gummel (GDR)	11 September 1969	East Berlin, East Germany[1]
20.10 m	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	16 September 1969	Athens, Greece[1]
20.43 m
20.43 m		29 August 1971	Moscow, Soviet Union[1]
20.63 m		19 May 1972	Sochi, Soviet Union[1]
21.03 m		7 September 1972	Munich, West Germany[1]
21.20 m		28 August 1973	Lvov, Soviet Union[1]
21.60 m	Marianne Adam (GDR)	6 August 1975	East Berlin, East Germany[1]
21.67 m		30 May 1976	Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany[1]
21.87 m	Ivanka Khristova (BUL)	3 July 1976	Belmeken, Bulgaria[1]
21.89 m		4 July 1976
21.99 m	Helena Fibingerová (TCH)	26 September 1976	Opava, Czechoslovakia[1]
22.32 m		20 August 1977	Nitra, Czechoslovakia[1]
22.36 m	Ilona Slupianek (GDR)	2 May 1980	Celje, Yugoslavia[1]
22.45 m		11 May 1980	Potsdam, East Germany[1]
22.53 m	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	27 May 1984	Sochi, Soviet Union[1]
22.60 m		7 June 1987	Moscow, Soviet Union[1]
22.63 m

See also

• Men's shot put world record progression