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

Men's shot put

at the Games of the XVII Olympiad

Venue

Dates

August 31

Medalists

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

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.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3
1T	Dallas Long	United States	17.65	17.65	pass	pass
1T	Viktor Lipsnis	Soviet Union	17.65	17.65	pass	pass
3	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	17.32	17.32	pass	pass
4	Parry O'Brien	United States	17.29	17.29	pass	pass
5	Mike Lindsay	Great Britain	17.28	17.28	pass	pass
6	Martyn Lucking	Great Britain	17.20	17.20	pass	pass
7	Bill Nieder	United States	17.14	17.14	pass	pass
8	Dieter Urbach	United Team of Germany	17.09	16.55	17.09	pass
9	Silvano Meconi	Italy	17.08	17.08	pass	pass
10	Alfred Sosgórnik	Poland	17.06	17.06	pass	pass
11	Les Mills	New Zealand	16.93	foul	16.93	pass
12	Hermann Lingnau	United Team of Germany	16.87	16.21	16.87	pass
13	Zsigmond Nagy	Hungary	16.84	16.84	pass	pass
14T	Jaroslav Plíhal	Czechoslovakia	16.81	16.81	pass	pass
14T	Warwick Selvey	Australia	16.81	16.81	pass	pass
16	Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski	Poland	16.71	foul	foul	16.71
17	Arthur Rowe	Great Britain	16.68	16.19	16.42	16.68
18	Georgios Tsakanikas	Greece	16.44	16.44	16.22	16.38
19	Erik Uddebom	Sweden	16.31	16.31	16.09	16.27
20	Fritz Kühl	United Team of Germany	15.71	15.71	15.71	15.69
21	Gideon Ariel	Israel	14.65	14.56	14.65	14.57
22	Salem El-Jisr	Lebanon	13.82	13.34	13.82	13.50
23	Nayef Mohamed Hameed	Iraq	13.65	13.52	12.61	12.65
24	Haider Khan	Pakistan	13.53	13.53	13.47	13.26

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3	4	5	6	Notes
01 !	Bill Nieder	United States	19.68	18.67	18.77	foul	18.67	19.68 OR	foul	OR
02 !	Parry O'Brien	United States	19.11	18.77 OR	19.11 OR	foul	18.64	17.41	18.39
03 !	Dallas Long	United States	19.01	16.80	18.88	18.66	18.25	foul	19.01
4	Viktor Lipsnis	Soviet Union	17.90	17.28	17.90	17.51	foul	foul	17.83
5	Mike Lindsay	Great Britain	17.80	17.63	17.63	17.80	17.09	17.39	17.43
6	Alfred Sosgórnik	Poland	17.57	17.57	17.57	foul	foul	17.52	17.39
7	Dieter Urbach	United Team of Germany	17.47	17.34	17.05	17.47
8	Martyn Lucking	Great Britain	17.43	17.05	16.71	17.43
9	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	17.39	17.31	17.39	foul
10	Jaroslav Plíhal	Czechoslovakia	17.36	17.35	17.36	17.27
11	Les Mills	New Zealand	17.06	16.86	16.09	17.06
12	Hermann Lingnau	United Team of Germany	16.98	16.65	16.98	16.66
13	Silvano Meconi	Italy	16.73	foul	16.73	foul
14	Zsigmond Nagy	Hungary	16.67	foul	16.67	foul
15	Warwick Selvey	Australia	16.18	16.18	15.93	15.76

Key: OR = Olympic record

Shot put at the Olympic Games

Summary

Men	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

Women	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

See also: 1912 Men's two handed shot put

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