2016 European Athletics Championships – Women's shot put
# 2016 European Athletics Championships – Women's shot put

The women's shot put at the 2016 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 6 and 7 July.

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2016 European Athletics Championships :

| World record | Natalya Lisovskaya (URS) | 22.63 m | Moscow, Soviet Union | 7 June 1987 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| European record | Natalya Lisovskaya (URS) | 22.63 m | Moscow, Soviet Union | 7 June 1987 |
| Championship record | Vita Pavlysh (UKR) | 21.69 m | Budapest, Hungary | 20 August 1998 |
| World Leading | Lijiao Gong (CHN) | 20.43 m | Halle, Germany | 21 May 2016 |
| European Leading | Christina Schwanitz (GER) | 19.49 m | Kassel, Germany | 19 June 2016 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| - | - | - |
| 6 July 2016 | 19:10 | Qualification |
| 7 July 2016 | 17:05 | Final |

All times are local times (UTC+2)

## Results

### Qualification

Qualification: 17.30 m (Q) or best 12 performers (q)

| Rank | Group | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | Result | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | B | Christina Schwanitz | Germany | 19.02 | | | 19.02 | Q |
| 2 | B | Emel Dereli | Turkey | x | 17.15 | 17.88 | 17.88 | Q |
| 3 | B | Sara Gambetta | Germany | 17.22 | 17.77 | | 17.77 | Q |
| 4 | A | Anita Márton | Hungary | 17.54 | | | 17.54 | Q |
| 5 | B | Melissa Boekelman | Netherlands | 16.62 | 17.50 | | 17.50 | Q |
| 6 | A | Aliona Dubitskaya | Belarus | 17.45 | | | 17.45 | Q |
| 7 | B | Paulina Guba | Poland | 17.44 | | | 17.44 | Q |
| 8 | B | Yulia Leantsiuk | Belarus | 16.18 | 17.35 | | 17.35 | Q |
| 9 | A | Olha Holodna | Ukraine | x | 16.19 | 17.29 | 17.29 | q |
| 10 | A | Radoslava Mavrodieva | Bulgaria | 17.01 | 17.16 | x | 17.16 | q |
| 11 | A | Úrsula Ruiz | Spain | 16.74 | 16.03 | 16.86 | 16.86 | q |
| 12 | A | Rachel Wallader | Great Britain | 16.86 | x | 16.48 | 16.86 | q |
| 13 | A | Lena Urbaniak | Germany | 16.77 | 16.83 | 16.64 | 16.83 | |
| 14 | A | Jolien Boumkwo | Belgium | 16.66 | x | 16.10 | 16.66 | |
| 15 | B | Markéta Cervenková | Czech Republic | 16.56 | x | 15.51 | 16.56 | |
| 16 | B | Halyna Obleshchuk | Ukraine | 16.30 | 16.22 | 15.95 | 16.30 | |
| 17 | B | Viktoryia Kolb | Belarus | 16.27 | 16.09 | 16.17 | 16.27 | |
| 18 | A | Chiara Rosa | Italy | 15.86 | x | 16.26 | 16.26 | |
| 19 | B | Valentina Mužarić | Croatia | 16.02 | x | 16.17 | 16.17 | |
| 20 | B | Fanny Roos | Sweden | 16.07 | x | 16.11 | 16.11 | |
| 21 | B | María Belén Toimil | Spain | 15.62 | 15.89 | 16.00 | 16.00 | |
| 22 | A | Kätlin Piirimäe | Estonia | 14.31 | 14.91 | 15.85 | 15.85 | |
| 23 | B | Julaika Nicoletti | Italy | 15.37 | x | 15.81 | 15.81 | |
| 24 | A | Giedre Kupstyte | Lithuania | 15.63 | 15.03 | 15.06 | 15.63 | |
| 25 | A | Dimitriana Surdu | Moldova | 15.50 | 14.91 | 15.27 | 15.50 | |
| 26 | A | Stamatia Skarvelis | Greece | 14.49 | x | 15.50 | 15.50 | |
| 27 | A | Svitlana Marusenko | Ukraine | 14.84 | 14.78 | 14.92 | 14.92 | |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Christina Schwanitz | Germany | 20.17 | 19.28 | 19.55 | x | x | 19.46 | 20.17 | EL |
| | Anita Márton | Hungary | 17.79 | 18.52 | 18.72 | 18.05 | 18.31 | 18.63 | 18.72 | |
| | Emel Dereli | Turkey | 17.73 | 17.90 | 18.22 | x | x | x | 18.22 | |
| 4 | Yulia Leantsiuk | Belarus | x | x | 17.80 | 17.53 | x | 18.20 | 18.20 | |
| 5 | Radoslava Mavrodieva | Bulgaria | 17.34 | x | 18.10 | x | x | 17.54 | 18.10 | |
| 6 | Aliona Dubitskaya | Belarus | 17.65 | 17.87 | x | 18.03 | 17.78 | x | 18.03 | |
| 7 | Sara Gambetta | Germany | 17.35 | 17.95 | 17.60 | x | 17.55 | x | 17.95 | PB |
| 8 | Melissa Boekelman | Netherlands | 17.76 | 17.62 | x | 17.45 | 17.92 | 17.29 | 17.92 | |
| 9 | Olha Holodna | Ukraine | 17.65 | x | x | | | | 17.65 | |
| 10 | Úrsula Ruiz | Spain | 17.14 | 16.86 | x | | | | 17.14 | SB |
| 11 | Paulina Guba | Poland | 16.95 | x | x | | | | 16.95 | |
| 12 | Rachel Wallader | Great Britain | x | 15.77 | 16.06 | | | | 16.06 | |
