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

The men's shot put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

throwing event at the 1960 Olympic Games
1960 Summer Olympics
The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960 in Rome, Italy...

took place on August 31.

Results

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

Qualifying

Rank	Name	Mark	1	2	3
1T	Dallas Long Dallas Long Dallas Crutcher Long is an American track and field athlete, who was four time world record holder in the shot put. He was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.Long attended the University of Southern California...	17.65	17.65	pass	pass
1T	Viktor Lipsnis	17.65	17.65	pass	pass
3	Jiří Skobla Jirí Skobla Jiří Skobla was a Czechoslovakian athlete who competed mainly in the shot put.He competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia in the shot put where he won the bronze medal....	17.32	17.32	pass	pass
4	Parry O'Brien Parry O'Brien William Parry O'Brien, Jr. was an American shot put champion. Born in Santa Monica, California, he competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics where he won two gold medals and one silver medal . In his last Olympic competition he placed fourth. For this, he is inducted in the U.S...	17.29	17.29	pass	pass
5	Mike Lindsay	17.28	17.28	pass	pass
6	Martyn Lucking	17.20	17.20	pass	pass
7	Bill Nieder Bill Nieder William Henry Nieder is an American athlete who mainly competed in the shot put. He was born in Hempstead, New York....	17.14	17.14	pass	pass
8	Dieter Urbach	17.09	16.55	17.09	pass
9	Silvano Meconi	17.08	17.08	pass	pass
10	Alfred Sosgórnik	17.06	17.06	pass	pass
11	Les Mills Les Mills Leslie Roy Mills CNZM, MBE, is a retired New Zealand athlete, who represented New Zealand at Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games over two decades. He competed in shot put, discus and weightlifting events...	16.93	foul	16.93	pass
12	Hermann Lingnau	16.87	16.21	16.87	pass
13	Zsigmond Nagy	16.84	16.84	pass	pass
14T	Jaroslav Plíhal	16.81	16.81	pass	pass
14T	Warwick Selvey Warwick Selvey Warwick Selvey is a former Australian Olympic athlete who competed in the shot put and discus events.Selvey won a total of 18 Australian Championships in Athletics between 1960 and 1973 which is a record for male athletes....	16.81	16.81	pass	pass
16	Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski was a Polish politician and economist, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, government minister and manager of the Second Polish Republic....	16.71	foul	foul	16.71
17	Arthur Rowe Arthur Rowe Arthur Sydney Rowe was the first manager to lead Tottenham Hotspur football club to the First Division Championship title in 1951...	16.68	16.19	16.42	16.68
18	Georgios Tsakanikas Georgios Tsakanikas Georgios Tsakanikas is a retired Greek shot putterGeorgios Tsakanikas won a gold medal in the 1959 Mediterranean Games and a bronze medal in the 1959 Summer Universiade in Shot Put, he also represented Greece in 1956, 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympic Games in Shot put and in 1964 Summer Olympic...	16.44	16.44	16.22	16.38
19	Erik Uddebom	16.31	16.31	16.09	16.27
20	Fritz Kühl	15.71	15.71	15.71	15.69
21	Gideon Ariel	14.65	14.56	14.65	14.57
22	Salem El-Jisr	13.82	13.34	13.82	13.50
23	Nayef Mohamed Hameed	13.65	13.52	12.61	12.65
24	Haider Khan	13.53	13.53	13.47	13.26

Final

Rank	Name	Mark	1	2	3	4	5	6	Notes
	Bill Nieder Bill Nieder William Henry Nieder is an American athlete who mainly competed in the shot put. He was born in Hempstead, New York....	19.68	18.67	18.77	foul	18.67	19.68 OR	foul	OR
	Parry O'Brien Parry O'Brien William Parry O'Brien, Jr. was an American shot put champion. Born in Santa Monica, California, he competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics where he won two gold medals and one silver medal . In his last Olympic competition he placed fourth. For this, he is inducted in the U.S...	19.11	18.77 OR	19.11 OR	foul	18.64	17.41	18.39
	Dallas Long Dallas Long Dallas Crutcher Long is an American track and field athlete, who was four time world record holder in the shot put. He was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.Long attended the University of Southern California...	19.01	16.80	18.88	18.66	18.25	foul	19.01
4	Viktor Lipsnis	17.90	17.28	17.90	17.51	foul	foul	17.83
5	Mike Lindsay	17.80	17.63	17.63	17.80	17.09	17.39	17.43
6	Alfred Sosgórnik	17.57	17.57	17.57	foul	foul	17.52	17.39
7	Dieter Urbach	17.47	17.34	17.05	17.47
8	Martyn Lucking	17.43	17.05	16.71	17.43
9	Jiří Skobla Jirí Skobla Jiří Skobla was a Czechoslovakian athlete who competed mainly in the shot put.He competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia in the shot put where he won the bronze medal....	17.39	17.31	17.39	foul
10	Jaroslav Plíhal	17.36	17.35	17.36	17.27
11	Les Mills Les Mills Leslie Roy Mills CNZM, MBE, is a retired New Zealand athlete, who represented New Zealand at Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games over two decades. He competed in shot put, discus and weightlifting events...	17.06	16.86	16.09	17.06
12	Hermann Lingnau	16.98	16.65	16.98	16.66
13	Silvano Meconi	16.73	foul	16.73	foul
14	Zsigmond Nagy	16.67	foul	16.67	foul
15	Warwick Selvey Warwick Selvey Warwick Selvey is a former Australian Olympic athlete who competed in the shot put and discus events.Selvey won a total of 18 Australian Championships in Athletics between 1960 and 1973 which is a record for male athletes....	16.18	16.18	15.93	15.76

Key: OR = Olympic record

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