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	Ratified but later rescinded

Indoor

Only Fibingerova's 22.50 m in 1987 was ratified by the IAAF.^[3]

Women's shot put indoor world record progression

Mark	Athlete	Date	Location
12.02 m (39 ft 5 in)	Genowefa Cejzik (POL)	9 March 1937	Warsaw
12.56 m (41 ft 2+1⁄4 in)	Genowefa Cejzik (POL)	6 February 1938	Poznan
13.11 m (43 ft 0 in)	Gisela Mauermayer (GER)	3 February 1940	Munich
14.22 m (46 ft 7+3⁄4 in)	Tatyana Sevryukova (URS)	1 February 1947	Moscow
14.47 m (47 ft 5+1⁄2 in)	Tatyana Sevryukova (URS)	1 February 1947	Leningrad
14.55 m (47 ft 8+3⁄4 in)	Tatyana Sevryukova (URS)	23 February 1948	Moscow
15.47 m (50 ft 9 in)	Galina Zybina (URS)	1 March 1953	Leningrad
16.03 m (52 ft 7 in)	Galina Zybina (URS)	31 October 1954	Leningrad
16.09 m (52 ft 9+1⁄4 in)	Galina Zybina (URS)	1 March 1958	Leningrad
16.38 m (53 ft 8+3⁄4 in)	Galina Zybina (URS)	9 March 1958	Leningrad
17.11 m (56 ft 1+1⁄2 in)	Tamara Press (URS)	17 January 1960	Leningrad
17.15 m (56 ft 3 in)	Tamara Press (URS)	19 March 1961	Leningrad
17.18 m (56 ft 4+1⁄4 in)	Tamara Press (URS)	28 March 1963	Leningrad
17.19 m (56 ft 4+3⁄4 in)	Renate Garisch (GDR)	9 February 1964	Berlin Est
17.70 m (58 ft 3⁄4 in)	Tamara Press (URS)	2 April 1964	Leningrad
17.75 m (58 ft 2+3⁄4 in)	Tamara Press (URS)	26 March 1965	Leningrad
17.86 m (58 ft 7 in)	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	22 December 1967	Leningrad
18.28 m (59 ft 11+1⁄2 in)	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	28 January 1968	Leningrad
18.36 m (60 ft 2+3⁄4 in)	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	18 January 1970	Leningrad
18.44 m (60 ft 5+3⁄4 in)	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	1 February 1970	Moscow
18.60 m (61 ft 1⁄4 in)	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	15 March 1970	Wien
18.62 m (61 ft 1 in)	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	16 January 1971	Leningrad
18.66 m (61 ft 2+1⁄2 in)	Margitta Gummel (GDR)	14 February 1971	Berlin East
18.74 m (61 ft 5+3⁄4 in)	Margitta Gummel (GDR)	20 February 1971	Berlin East
19.22 m (63 ft 1⁄2 in)	Margitta Gummel (GDR)	20 February 1971	Berlin East
19.35 m (63 ft 5+3⁄4 in)	Margitta Gummel (GDR)	20 February 1971	Berlin East
19.54 m (64 ft 1+1⁄4 in)	Margitta Gummel (GDR)	28 February 1971	Berlin East
19.70 m (64 ft 7+1⁄2 in)	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	13 March 1971	Sofia
20.36 m (66 ft 9+1⁄2 in)	Helena Fibingerova (TCH)	16 February 1974	Sofia
20.40 m (66 ft 11 in)	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	2 March 1974	Moscow
20.75 m (68 ft 3⁄4 in)	Helena Fibingerova (TCH)	9 March 1974	Göteborg
21.13 m (69 ft 3+3⁄4 in)	Helena Fibingerova (TCH)	15 February 1975	Jablonec
21.58 m (70 ft 9+1⁄2 in)	Helena Fibingerova (TCH)	29 January 1977	Ostrava
21.60 m (70 ft 10+1⁄4 in)	Helena Fibingerova (TCH)	2 February 1977	Budapest
21.66 m (71 ft 3⁄4 in)	Helena Fibingerova (TCH)	2 February 1977	Budapest
22.50 m (73 ft 9+3⁄4 in)	Helena Fibingerova (TCH)	19 February 1977	Jablonec

Outdoor

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