2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's shot put

The women's shot put at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on March 19, 2016.[1][2]

Women's shot put at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Venue	Oregon Convention Center
Dates	March 19
Competitors	11 from 9 nations
Winning distance	20.21
Medalists
Michelle Carter    United States   Anita Márton    Hungary   Valerie Adams    New Zealand

2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Track events
60 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
Exhibition events
Masters 800 m	men	women

That Valerie Adams took the lead in the first round was not a surprise. Over the previous decade, the only woman to defeat Adams in a major international competition, turned out to be a serial drug cheat. What might have been foretelling was that the lead was not already insurmountable. In the second round, Michelle Carter took the lead, which she solidified in the third round, even though Adams hit her best throw of the competition in that round. Adams may not be back to 100% after the multiple surgeries which caused her absence in Beijing,[3] her best more than a meter short of where she would normally be throwing. But Carter was challenged, when Anita Márton threw her National Record 19.33 on her final attempt. That lasted only long enough for Carter to make her final attempt, 20.21 m (66 ft 3 ¹⁄₂ in) was almost a 3-foot improvement for the winner.