Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put


The men's shot put throwing event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on August 31.

Results

All throwers reaching 16.75 metres advanced to the finals. All distances are listen in metres.

Qualifying

RankNameNationalityMark123
1TDallas Long17.6517.65passpass
1TViktor Lipsnis17.6517.65passpass
3Jiří Skobla17.3217.32passpass
4Parry O'Brien17.2917.29passpass
5Mike Lindsay17.2817.28passpass
6Martyn Lucking17.2017.20passpass
7Bill Nieder17.1417.14passpass
8Dieter Urbach17.0916.5517.09pass
9Silvano Meconi17.0817.08passpass
10Alfred Sosgórnik17.0617.06passpass
11Les Mills16.93foul16.93pass
12Hermann Lingnau16.8716.2116.87pass
13Zsigmond Nagy16.8416.84passpass
14TJaroslav Plíhal16.8116.81passpass
14TWarwick Selvey16.8116.81passpass
16Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski16.71foulfoul16.71
17Arthur Rowe16.6816.1916.4216.68
18Georgios Tsakanikas16.4416.4416.2216.38
19Erik Uddebom16.3116.3116.0916.27
20Fritz Kühl15.7115.7115.7115.69
21Gideon Ariel14.6514.5614.6514.57
22Salem El-Jisr13.8213.3413.8213.50
23Nayef Mohamed Hameed13.6513.5212.6112.65
24Haider Khan13.5313.5313.4713.26

Final

RankNameNationalityMark123456Notes
Bill Nieder19.6818.6718.77foul18.6719.68 ORfoulOR
Parry O'Brien19.1118.77 OR19.11 ORfoul18.6417.4118.39
Dallas Long19.0116.8018.8818.6618.25foul19.01
4Viktor Lipsnis17.9017.2817.9017.51foulfoul17.83
5Mike Lindsay17.8017.6317.6317.8017.0917.3917.43
6Alfred Sosgórnik17.5717.5717.57foulfoul17.5217.39
7Dieter Urbach17.4717.3417.0517.47----
8Martyn Lucking17.4317.0516.7117.43----
9Jiří Skobla17.3917.3117.39foul----
10Jaroslav Plíhal17.3617.3517.3617.27----
11Les Mills17.0616.8616.0917.06----
12Hermann Lingnau16.9816.6516.9816.66----
13Silvano Meconi16.73foul16.73foul----
14Zsigmond Nagy16.67foul16.67foul----
15Warwick Selvey16.1816.1815.9315.76----

Key: OR = Olympic record