Events at the 1987 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

These are the official results of the Women's Shot Put event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. The final was held on Saturday September 5, 1987.

Gold	Natalya Lisovskaya Soviet Union (URS)
Silver	Kathrin Neimke East Germany (GDR)
Bronze	Ines Müller East Germany (GDR)

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

• All results shown are in metres

Standing records prior to the 1987 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	22.63 m	June 7, 1987	Moscow, Soviet Union
Event Record	Helena Fibingerová (TCH)	21.05 m	August 12, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Kathrin Neimke (GDR)	21.21 m	September 5, 1987	Rome, Italy
Event Record	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	21.24 m	September 5, 1987	Rome, Italy

• Held on Friday 1987-09-04

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Kathrin Neimke (GDR)	20.26 m
2.	Claudia Losch (FRG)	19.73 m
3.	Li Meisu (CHN)	19.47 m
4.	Heike Hartwig (GDR)	19.35 m
5.	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	19.22 m
6.	Soňa Vašíčková (TCH)	19.09 m
7.	Iris Plotzitzka (FRG)	19.08 m
8.	Judy Oakes (GBR)	18.43 m
9.	Ramona Pagel (USA)	18.12 m
10.	Asta Hovi-Ovaska (FIN)	17.89 m

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Helena Fibingerová (TCH)	20.40 m
2.	Ines Müller (GDR)	19.96 m
3.	Stephanie Storp (FRG)	19.64 m
4.	Mihaela Loghin (ROU)	19.27 m
5.	Natalya Akhrimenko (URS)	19.21 m
6.	Huang Zhihong (CHN)	19.18 m
7.	Svetla Mitkova (BUL)	19.07 m
8.	Bonnie Dasse (USA)	17.68 m
9.	Deborah Saint-Phard (HAI)	16.54 m
10.	Melody Torcolacci (CAN)	15.98 m

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	20.89	20.22	21.16	20.93	21.24	20.80	21.24 m	CR
	Kathrin Neimke (GDR)	20.32	21.21	20.12	20.53	20.59	X	21.21 m	PB
	Ines Müller (GDR)	20.76	20.11	20.05	X	19.96	20.20	20.76 m	PB
4	Claudia Losch (FRG)	20.05	20.73	X	19.88	20.33	20.61	20.73 m
5	Natalya Akhrimenko (URS)	20.20	19.68	20.53	20.09	X	20.68	20.68 m
6	Heike Hartwig (GDR)	19.79	19.97	19.84	20.63	X	20.25	20.63 m
7	Li Meisu (CHN)	19.95	20.00	20.09	18.74	20.43	19.98	20.43 m	PB
8	Helena Fibingerová (TCH)	19.97	X	19.51	20.05	20.15	20.29	20.29 m
9	Svetla Mitkova (BUL)							19.37m
10	Stephanie Storp (FRG)							19.36 m
11	Huang Zhihong (CHN)							19.35 m	PB
12	Iris Plotzitzka (FRG)							19.19 m
13	Soňa Vašíčková (TCH)							18.71 m
—	Mihaela Loghin (ROU)							DNS

• 1982 Women's European Championships Shot Put (Athens)
• 1984 Women's Olympic Shot Put (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Women's European Championships Shot Put (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Shot Put Year Ranking
• 1988 Women's Olympic Shot Put (Seoul)

• Results