Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put

The men's shot put event was part of the track and field athletics programme

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics

At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, 29 athletics events were contested, 23 for men and 6 for women. The program of events was unchanged from the previous Games. There was a total of 776 participants from 43 countries competing.-Medal table:...

at the 1936 Summer Olympics

1936 Summer Olympics

The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain on April 26, 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona...

. The competition was held on August 2, 1936. The final was won by German

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

Hans Woellke.

Final

Rank	Athlete	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Hans Woellke Hans Woellke Hans Otto Woellke was a German athlete who mainly competed in the shot put, who won the gold medal in the men's shot put competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.Hans Woellke was in the Berlin Police force...	15.96	14.76	15.72	15.90	16.20	14.98	16.20	OR
	Sulo Bärlund Sulo Bärlund Sulo Richard Bärlund was a Finnish athlete who mainly competed in the shot put.He competed for Finland at the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany where he won the silver medal in the men's shot put event.Bärlund finished fourth in the 1938 European Championships shot put...	15.68	16.03	14.98	15.52	16.12	15.42	16.12
	Gerhard Stöck Gerhard Stöck Gerhard Stöck was a German athlete who competed mainly in the shot put and javelin throw.Gerhard Stöck represented Germany at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, earning a bronze medal in the shot put and a come-from-behind gold medal in the javelin throw.In the shot put, Stöck was out performed...	15.56	15.56	15.14	15.29	14.78	15.66	15.66
4	Sam Francis	15.45	15.09	15.09		14.57	13.61	15.45
5	Jack Torrance	15.38	14.40	15.34	14.79	14.57	14.56	15.38
6	Dimitri Zaitz	15.32	14.16	14.09	14.09		14.85	15.32
7	František Douda František Douda František Douda was a Czech shot putter who competed for Czechoslovakia. He was born in Planá nad Lužnicí....	15.09	15.05	15.28				15.28
8	Arnold Viiding	14.72	14.31	15.23				15.23
9	Gunnar Bergh	14.83	15.01	14.51				15.01
10	Hans-Heinrich Sievert Hans-Heinrich Sievert Hans Heinrich Sievert was a German Olympic decathlete.He won the gold medal at the 1934 European Championships. In the Nazi period in Germany, Sievert was seen as a symbolic hope of the German "master race" in the 1936 Summer Olympics. However, he was injured during the games and the gold medal...	14.79	14.43	13.23				14.79
11	Aleksa Kovačević	14.74		14.27				14.74
12	József Darányi	14.63	14.45					14.63
13	Risto Kuntsi		14.20	14.61				14.61
14	István Horváth	13.66	14.18	14.32				14.32
15	Karel Hoplíček	14.12	13.72	13.34				14.12

Key: OR = Olympic record

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