| World women's all-time best shot put |
| 1 | 22.63 | Natalya Lisovskaya | URS | 620716 | 1 | Moskva | 870606 |
| 2 | 22.45 | Ilona [Schoknecht, Briesenick] Slupianek ¶ | GDR | 560924 | 1 | Potsdam | 800511 |
| 3 | 22.32 | Helena Fibingerova | CS | 490713 | 1 | Nitra | 770820 |
| 4 | 22.19 | Claudia Losch | FRG | 600110 | 1 | Hainfeld | 870823 |
| 5 | 21.89 | Ivanka Khristova | BUL | 411119 | 1 | Belmeken | 760704 |
| 6 | 21.86 | Marianne Adam | GDR | 510919 | 1 | Leipzig | 790623 |
| 7 | 21.76 | Li Meisu | CHN | 590417 | 1 | Shijiazhuang | 880423 |
| 8 | 21.73 | Natalya [Petrova] Akhrimenko | URS | 550512 | 1 | Leselidze | 880521 |
| 9 | 21.69 | Viktoria (Vita) Pavlysh | UKR | 690115 | 1 | Budapest | 980820 |
| 10 | 21.66 | Sui Xinmei &91-93 | CHN | 650129 | 1 | Beijing | 900609 |
| 11 | 21.61 | Verzhina [Veselinova] Ignatova | BUL | 571118 | 1 | Sofia | 820821 |
| 12 | 21.58 | Margitta [Ludewig, Droese] Pufe | GDR | 520910 | 1 | Erfurt | 780528 |
| 13 | 21.57 | Ines [Reichenbach] Müller | GDR | 590102 | 1 | Athína | 880516 |
| 14 | 21.53 | Nunu Abashidze ¶ | UKR | 550327 | 2 | Kiev | 840620 |
| 15 | 21.52 | Huang Zhihong | CHN | 650507 | 1 | Beijing | 900627 |
| 16 | 21.46 | Larisa [Agapova] Peleshenko ¶ | RUS | 640229 | 1 | Moskva | 000826 |
| 17 | 21.45 | Nadezhda Chizhova | URS | 450929 | 1 | Varna | 730929 |
| 18 | 21.43 | Eva Wilms | FRG | 520728 | 2 | München | 770617 |
| 19 | 21.42 | Svetlana (Esfir) [Dolzhenko] Krachevskaya | URS | 441123 | 2 | Moskva | 800724 |
| 20 | 21.31 | Heike [Dittrich] Hartwig | GDR | 621230 | 2 | Athína | 880516 |
| 21 | 21.27 | Liane Schmuhl | GDR | 610629 | 1 | Cottbus | 820626 |
| 22 | 21.22 | Astrid Kumbernuss | GER | 700205 | 1 | Göteborg | 950805 |
| 23 | 21.21 | Kathrin Neimke | GDR | 660718 | 2 | Roma | 870905 |
| 24 | 21.19 | Helma Knorscheidt | GDR | 561231 | 1 | East Berlin | 840524 |
| 25 | 21.10 | Heidi Krieger | GDR | 650720 | 1 | Stuttgart | 860826 |
| 26 | 21.08 | Valentina Fedyushina | UKR | 650218 | 1 | Leselidze | 880515 |
| 27 | 21.06 | Svetlana Krivelyova | URS | 690613 | 1 | Barcelona | 920807 |
| 28 | 21.05 | Zdenka [Bartonova] Silhava ¶ | CS | 540615 | 2 | Praha | 830723 |
| 29 | 21.01 | Ivanka [Petrova, Spasova] Stoycheva | BUL | 510203 | 1 | Sofia | 790728 |
| 30 | 21.00 | Mihaela Loghin | ROM | 520601 | 1 | Formia | 840630 |
| 31 | 21.00 | Cordula Schulze | GDR | 590911 | 4 | Potsdam | 840721 |
| 32 | 20.96A | Belsis Laza | CUB | 670605 | 1 | Ciudad de México | 920502 |
| 33 | 20.95 | Elena [Stoyanova] Simenova ¶ | BUL | 520123 | 2 | Sofia | 800614 |
| 34 | 20.91 | Svetla [Mitkova] Sinirtas | BUL | 640617 | 1 | Sofia | 870524 |
| 35 | 20.82 | Irina Korzhanenko | RUS | 740516 | 1 | Rostov Na Donu | 980530 |
| 36 | 20.80 | Sona Vasickova | CS | 620314 | 1 | Praha | 880602 |
| 37 | 20.72 | Grit [Hammer] Haupt | GDR | 660604 | 3 | Neubrandenburg | 870611 |
| 38 | 20.61 | Maria Elena Sarria | CUB | 540914 | 1 | La Habana | 820722 |
| 39 | 20.61 | Yanina Korolchik | BLR | 761226 | 1 | Edmonton, CAN | 010805 |
| 40 | 20.60 | Marina Antonyuk | URS | 620512 | 1 | Chelyabinsk | 860810 |
| 41 | 20.54 | Zhang Liuhong | CHN | 690116 | 1 | Beijing | 940605 |
| 42 | 20.53 | Iris Plotzitzka | FRG | 660107 | 1 | Köln | 880821 |
| 43 | 20.47 | Nina Isayeva | URS | 500706 | 1 | Bryansk | 820828 |
| 44 | 20.47 | Cong Yuzhen | CHN | 630122 | 2 | Tianjin | 880903 |
| 45 | 20.44 | Tatyana Orlova | URS | 550719 | 1 | Staiki | 830528 |
| 46 | 20.40 | Zhou Tianhua | CHN | 660410 | 1 | Beijing | 910905 |
| 47 | 20.34 | Stephanie Storp | GDR | 681128 | 1 | Wolfsburg | 900701 |
| 48 | 20.32 | Irina Khudoroshkina ¶ | RUS | 681013 | 1 | Sochi | 960525 |
| 49 | 20.27 | Danguola [Urbikiene] Bimbaite | LIT | 621210 | 2 | Leselidze | 870513 |
| 50 | 20.27 | Lyudmila [Andriasian] Voyevudskaya | URS | 590622 | 1 | Nikolayev | 870807 |
| 51 | 20.24 | Anna Romanova | RUS | 680309 | 1 | Bryansk | 930529 |
| 52 | 20.23 | Ilke Wyludda | GDR | 690328 | 1 | Karl-Marx-Stadt | 880716 |
| 53 | 20.22 | Margitta [Gummel] & Helmbold | GDR | 410629 | 2 | München | 720907 |
| 54 | 20.21 | Svetlana [Melnikova] Orlova | URS | 510129 | 1 | Riga | 820605 |
| 55 | 20.21 | Lyudmila Savina | URS | 550715 | 2 | Sochi | 840609 |
| 56 | 20.18 | Ramona [Ebert] Pagel | USA | 611110 | 1 | San Diego | 880625 |
| 57 | 20.12 | Vera [Bokova] Tsapkalenko ¶ | URS | 540305 | 2 | Sochi | 770529 |
| 58 | 20.12 | Rimma Muzikeviciene | URS | 520301 | 1 | Vilnius | 800816 |
| 59 | 20.07 | Tatyana Shcherbanos | URS | 600216 | 4 | Donyetsk | 840907 |
| 60 | 20.06 | Raisa Taranda | URS | 470223 | 2 | Kiev | 760623 |
| 61 | 20.06 | Zhen Wenhua | CHN | 670200 | 2 | Beijing | 910905 |
| 62 | 20.04 | Gabriele Retzlaff | GDR | 540906 | 5 | Cottbus | 800718 |
| 63 | 20.03 | Faina [Melnik] Veleva | URS | 450709 | 2 | Bratislava | 760602 |
| 64 | 20.02 | Cheng Xiaoyan | CHN | 751130 | 3 | Beijing | 940605 |
| 65 | 20.00 | Christa Wiese | GDR | 671225 | 1 | Schwerin | 890531 |
| 66 | 19.94 | Natalya Zubekhina | URS | 510304 | 1 | Tula | 840714 |
| 67 | 19.94 | Yelena Kozlova | URS | 620213 | 2 | Kiev | 840814 |
| 68 | 19.92 | Tamara Bufyetova | URS | 510902 | 1 | Tbilisi | 780617 |
| 69 | 19.91 | Nina Samsonova | URS | 511207 | 2 | Kiev | 820820 |
| 70 | 19.90 | Natalya [Vinogradova] Nosyenko | URS | 510218 | 2 | Kiev | 760523 |
| 71 | 19.89 | Wang Yawen ¶ | CHN | 730823 | 1 | Shijiazhuang | 930402 |
| 72 | 19.86 | Nadine [Schmitt] Kleinert | GER | 751020 | 2 | Edmonton, CAN | 010805 |
| 73 | 19.85 | Aleksandra Mititelu | URS | 590627 | 2 | Tallinn | 840628 |
| 74 | 19.83 | Simone Rüdrich | GDR | 611124 | 1 | Cottbus | 830813 |
| 75 | 19.81 | Aleksandra Abashidze | URS | 581214 | 3 | Kiev | 820820 |
| 76 | 19.80 | Lyubov Kovtunova | URS | 590223 | 1 | Alma-Ata | 850912 |
| 77 | 19.78 | Konstanze [Simm] Kleeberg | GDR | 640514 | 1 | Karl-Marx-Stadt | 840711 |
| 78 | 19.78 | Lyubov [Vasilyeva] Karpova | URS | 570814 | - | Moskva | 860831 |
| 79 | 19.77 | Zhang Zhiying | CHN | 730719 | 3 | Beijing | 930908 |
| 80 | 19.74 | Gael [Mulhall] Martin ¶ | AUS | 560827 | 1 | Berkeley, Ca | 840714 |
| 81 | 19.73 | Brunhilde [Loewe] Martin | GDR | 510218 | 1 | Potsdam | 750817 |
| 82 | 19.73 | Lisette Martinez | CUB | 661011 | 1 | La Habana | 930306 |
| 83 | 19.69 | Nadezhda Ostapchuk | BLR | 801012 | 1 | Nice | 010709 |
| 84 | 19.68 | Vera Schmidt | FRG | 610301 | 2 | München | 880703 |
| 85 | 19.67 | Simona [Sapunaru] Andrusca | ROM | 620324 | 1 | Pitesti | 860720 |
| 86 | 19.66 | Carmen Niesche | GDR | 640601 | 5 | Potsdam | 840721 |
| 87 | 19.65 | Brigitte Griessing | GDR | 560222 | 1 | Warszawa | 760712 |
| 88 | 19.61 | Livia [Mehes] Simon | ROM | 650306 | 1 | Constanta | 860420 |
| 89 | 19.60 | Connie Price-Smith | USA | 620603 | 1 | Knoxville, Tn | 940618 |
| 90 | 19.58 | Ludwika [Dobrowolska] Chewinska | POL | 481009 | 1 | Bydgoszcz | 760626 |
| 91 | 19.58 | Wang Wei (1) | CHN | 67 | 1 | Beijing | 910503 |
| 92 | 19.51 | Mihaela Oana | ROM | 681111 | 1 | Bucuresti | 930530 |
| 93 | 19.51 | Lyudmila Sechko | RUS | 741127 | 3 | Tula | 000602 |
| 94 | 19.49 | Bonnie Dasse | USA | 590722 | 2 | San Diego | 880625 |
| 95 | 19.48 | Ines Wittich | GDR | 691114 | 5 | Leipzig | 870729 |
| 96 | 19.48 | Yumileidi Cumba | CUB | 750211 | 1 | La Habana | 000730 |
| 97 | 19.47 | Li Xiaoyun | CHN | 710710 | - | Beijing | 910913 |
| 98 | 19.43A | Wu Xianchun | CHN | 720201 | 2 | Taiyuan | 950521 |
| 99 | 19.42 | Simone Michel | GDR | 601218 | 3cB | Leipzig | 790623 |
| 100 | 19.42 | Krystyna [Danilczyk] Zabawska | POL | 680114 | 1 | Lyon | 920708 |
| 101 | 19.41 | Brigitte [Sander] Michel | GDR | 560819 | 5 | Karl-Marx-Stadt | 790526 |
| 102 | 19.40 | Maritta Lange | GDR | 430622 | 2 | East Berlin | 740824 |
| 103 | 19.40 | Irina Bogomolova | URS | 591003 | 1 | Riga | 830604 |
| 104 | 19.40 | Zhou Shuqin | CHN | 680100 | 1 | Shanghai | 920419 |
| 105 | 19.39 | Antonina [Vashchenko] Ivanova | URS | 321225 | 1 | Moskva | 710717 |
| 106 | 19.36 | Birute [Bagdanaviciute] Kershulene | URS | 490210 | 1 | Kaunas | 800517 |
| 107 | 19.36 | Astrid Wagner | GDR | 651103 | 5 | Leipzig | 850809 |
| 108 | 19.36 | Judy Oakes | GBR | 580214 | 1 | Gateshead | 880814 |
| 109 | 19.36 | Lee Myung-sun | SKO | 760212 | 1 | Shanghai | 000419 |
| 110 | 19.35 | Birgit Görmer-Haarnagel | GDR | 540515 | 1 | Halle | 760522 |
| 111 | 19.32 | Natalya [Baranova] Gorbachova | URS | 470724 | 1 | Gorkiy | 770812 |
| 112 | 19.32 | Yu Xin | CHN | 770223 | 1 | Jinzhou | 000608 |
| 113 | 19.30 | Alena Vitoulova | CS | 600506 | 3 | Ostrava | 870610 |
| 114 | 19.30A | Elisangela Maria Adriano | BRA | 720727 | 1 | Tunja | 010714 |
| 115 | 19.28 | Tatyana Khorkhulyova | BLR | 640715 | 1 | Staiki | 920730 |
| 116 | 19.28 | Herminia Fernandez | CUB | 671104 | 1 | La Habana | 960223 |
| 117 | 19.28 | Katarzyna Zakowicz | POL | 750512 | 1 | Biala Podlaska | 000617 |
| 118 | 19.27 | Karin [Fitzner] Schulze | GDR | 541122 | 4 | Halle | 790513 |
| 119 | 19.26 | Yelena Ortina | KZK | 621105 | 2 | Chelyabinsk | 860810 |
| 120 | 19.23 | Jana Ciobanu | ROM | 680112 | 1 | Bucuresti | 880612 |
| 121 | 19.22 | Xie Hongxia | CHN | 700405 | 7 | Beijing | 930908 |
| 122 | 19.22 | Irina Zhuk | UKR | 660115 | 2 | Kiev | 940507 |
| 123 | 19.21 | Radostina [Vasekova] Bakhchevanova | BUL | 501210 | 1 | Sofia | 770831 |
| 124 | 19.21 | Teri [Steer] Tunks | USA | 751003 | 1 | Des Moines, Ia | 010428 |
| 125 | 19.20 | Galina Kuzhil | UKR | 591004 | 1 | Sochi | 870927 |
| 126 | 19.20 | Olga Ryabinkina | RUS | 760924 | Q2 | Sydney, AUS | 000927 |
| 127 | 19.13 | Natalya Shlyakhtich | URS | 620623 | 1 | Vilnius | 850706 |
| 128 | 19.13 | Yu Juan (2) | CHN | 750329 | 1 | Nanjing | 951025 |
| 129 | 19.13 | Yelena Ivanenko | BLR | 780505 | 1 | Brest | 990605 |
| 130 | 19.12 | Yelena [Denisova] Korablyeva | URS | 400218 | 1 | Moskva | 740817 |
| 131 | 19.10 | Beata [Podobinska] Habrzyk | POL | 550413 | 1 | Zabrze | 790513 |
| 132 | 19.10 | Olga [Khoroshilova] Turta | BUL | 570213 | 1 | Moskva | 800509 |
| 133 | 19.09 | Maren Seidler | USA | 510611 | 1 | Walnut, Ca | 790616 |
| 134 | 19.06 | Yuliya Zaginay | RUS | 630803 | 1 | Vladivostok | 990529 |
| 135 | 19.04 | Tamara Posmetyukh | URS | 490528 | 1 | Kiev | 810905 |
| 136 | 19.03 | Marina [Chuguyevskaya] Burina | URS | 620226 | 4 | Sochi | 860524 |
| 137 | 19.03 | Myrtle Augee | GBR | 650204 | 1 | Cardiff | 900602 |
| 138 | 19.02 | Valentina [Cioltan] Groapa ¶ | ROM | 520104 | 1 | Düsseldorf | 760608 |
| 139 | 19.02 | Tatyana Byelova | URS | 620512 | 1 | Irkutsk | 870808 |
| 140 | 19.01 | Vera Kot | URS | 51 | 5 | Podolsk | 780819 |
| 141 | 19.01 | Vera Yevko | URS | 590428 | 2 | Gorkiy | 850824 |
| 142 | 19.01 | Elvira Urusova | GEO | 660202 | 4 | Moskva | 960607 |
| 143 | 19.00 | Mioara Boros | ROM | 560507 | 2 | Bucuresti | 820530 |
| 144 | 19.00 | Mariana [Ionescu] Lengyel | ROM | 530414 | 1 | Poiana Brasov | 870719 |
| 145 | 19.00 | Wang Hui (2) | CHN | 730706 | - | Beijing | 920411 |
| 146 | 18.99 | Meg Ritchie | GBR | 520706 | 1 | Tucson | 830507 |
| 147 | 18.94 | Heike Rohrmann | GDR | 690222 | 1 | Halle | 880514 |
| 148 | 18.94 | Lucica Ciobanu | ROM | 790510 | 1 | Onesti | 000520 |
| 149 | 18.93 | Venissa Head | GBR | 560901 | 1 | Haverfordwest | 840513 |
| 150 | 18.90 | Hannelore Friedel | GDR | 480125 | 2 | East Berlin | 710805 |
| 151 | 18.88 | Valeyta Althouse | USA | 740107 | 1 | Los Angeles, Ca | 970517 |
| 152 | 18.88 | Tressa Thompson ¶ | USA | 750506 | 2 | Rieti | 990905 |
| 153 | 18.87 | Corrie de Bruin | NED | 761026 | 1 | Papendal | 980719 |
| 154 | 18.86 | Daniela Curovic | YUG | 740307 | 1 | Subotica | 980719 |
| 155 | 18.85 | Lyudmila Devitskaya | URS | 590622 | 1 | Tbilisi | 790923 |
| 156 | 18.81 | Inge Friedrich | GDR | 410123 | 1 | Eisenach | 720618 |
| 157 | 18.81 | Mara Rosolen | ITA | 650727 | 1 | Avezzano | 000820 |
| 158 | 18.80 | Galina Kalinina | RUS | 520921 | 3 | Chelyabinsk | 860810 |
| 159 | 18.80 | Sabine Kruse | FRG | 660310 | 1 | Ulm | 880806 |
| 160 | 18.80 | Claudia Mues | GER | 750103 | 2 | Berlin | 960830 |
| 161 | 18.79 | Yang Yanqin | CHN | 660828 | | Shijiazhuang | 860404 |
| 162 | 18.77 | Dong Bo | CHN | 710300 | 2 | Shijiazhuang | 930423 |
| 163 | 18.76 | Bettina Libera | GDR | 670904 | 1 | Cottbus | 850823 |
| 164 | 18.76 | Qiu Qiaoping ¶ | CHN | 711031 | - | Beijing | 900414 |
| 165 | 18.75 | Skaidrite Baikova | URS | 500326 | 3 | Riga | 840602 |
| 166 | 18.74 | Cinzia Petrucci | ITA | 551028 | 1 | Firenze | 800604 |
| 167 | 18.74 | Lyubov Khvostikova | URS | 640416 | 4 | Zhitomir | 870908 |
| 168 | 18.74 | Wang Hong | CHN | 700410 | 1 | Chengdu | 930416 |
| 169 | 18.71 | Bao Dongying | CHN | 730413 | 2 | Shijiazhuang | 960924 |
| 170 | 18.68 | Laurence Manfredi | FRA | 740520 | 1 | Castres | 000727 |
| 171 | 18.68 | Song Feina | CHN | 770125 | 1 | Luohe | 001022 |
| 172 | 18.66 | He Xiuqin | CHN | 670318 | 4 | Jinan | 930606 |
| 173 | 18.64 | Gabriele Greiner | GDR | 501110 | | Leipzig | 730902 |
| 174 | 18.63 | Wang Jiang | CHN | 70 | - | Tianjin | 900808 |
| 175 | 18.63 | Zheng Hui | CHN | 731218 | 3 | Beijing | 920425 |
| 176 | 18.63 | Kalliopi Ouzouni | GRE | 730208 | 7 | Sydney, AUS | 000928 |
| 177 | 18.62 | Viktoria [Szelinger] Horvath | HUN | 560818 | 3 | Nitra | 870531 |
| 178 | 18.59 | Tamara Press | URS | 370510 | 1 | Kassel | 650919 |
| 179 | 18.59 | Elena Hila | ROM | 740520 | 1 | Istanbul | 010616 |
| 180 | 18.58 | Tamara Sidorchuk | URS | 49 | 1 | Novosibirsk | 780728 |
| 181 | 18.57 | Galina Nekrasova | URS | 360704 | 1 | Podolsk | 720528 |
| 182 | 18.57 | Snezhana Vasileva | BUL | 640701 | 1 | Sofia | 830605 |
| 183 | 18.57 | Asta [Ovaska] Hovi | FIN | 630729 | 1 | Stockholm | 890820 |
| 184 | 18.56 | Lieja Koeman | NED | 760310 | 1 | Tilburg | 010707 |
| 185 | 18.55 | Liu Lina | CHN | 770215 | 3 | Nanjing | 951025 |
| 186 | 18.54 | Tuula Kivi | FIN | 580118 | 1 | Rauma | 800819 |
| 187 | 18.53 | Eleni Tsentemeidou ¶ | GRE | 690521 | 1 | Piraeus | 970509 |
| 188 | 18.52 | Svetlana Tatichek | TJK | 630926 | 1 | Dushanbe | 870531 |
| 189 | 18.51 | Rosa Fernandez | CUB | 571007 | 2 | Tampere | 830613 |
| 190 | 18.51 | Anastasia Pavlova | RUS | 680616 | - | Sankt Peterburg | 920514 |
| 191 | 18.51 | Tian Xiue | CHN | 711004 | 9 | Beijing | 930908 |
| 192 | 18.49 | Beatrix Philipp | FRG | 570926 | 1 | Augsburg | 780624 |
| 193 | 18.49 | Galina Kurochkina | URS | 650102 | 1 | Volgograd | 850907 |
| 194 | 18.49 | Zhang Xiaoyu | CHN | 830316 | 1 | Ningbo | 010428 |
| 195 | 18.46 | Li Meiju | CHN | 810123 | q | Chengdu | 010630 |
| 196 | 18.44 | Malgorzata Wolska | POL | 660906 | 1 | Sopot | 870725 |
| 197 | 18.43 | Monika Andris | URS | 650202 | 1 | Tashkent | 890514 |
| 198 | 18.42 | Karin Kracik | GDR | 580507 | 5 | Leipzig | 780630 |
| 199 | 18.42 | Gabriele Naumann | GDR | 630704 | Q | Erfurt | 840602 |
| 200 | 18.42 | Leng Molian | CHN | 67 | - | Zhengzhou | 870607 |
| 201 | 18.42 | Yelena Byelovolova | URS | 650206 | 1 | Smolensk | 880627 |