1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's shot put

Events at the 1954 European Athletics Championships
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
10,000 m track walk	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	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
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's shot put at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 27 August 1954.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Jiří Skobla Czechoslovakia
Silver	Oto Grigalka Soviet Union
Bronze	Heino Heinaste Soviet Union

Results

Final

27 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
01 !	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	17.20	CR
02 !	Oto Grigalka	Soviet Union	16.69
03 !	Heino Heinaste	Soviet Union	16.27
4	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	16.17
5	John Savidge	United Kingdom	16.10
6	Ferenc Kövesdi	Hungary	15.70
7	Gabriel Georgescu	Romania	15.48
8	Petar Šarčević	Yugoslavia	15.43
9	Reijo Koivisto	Finland	15.39
10	Raymond Thomas	France	15.35
11	János Mihályfi	Hungary	15.18
12	Josef Stoklasa	Czechoslovakia	15.13
13	Yrjö Puntti	Finland	15.02
14	Erik Uddebom	Sweden	15.01
15	Edouard Vandezande	Belgium	14.94
16	Mark Pharaoh	United Kingdom	14.65

Qualification

27 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Heino Heinaste	Soviet Union	15.90	Q
2	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	15.86	Q
3	Oto Grigalka	Soviet Union	15.52	Q
4	John Savidge	United Kingdom	15.46	Q
5	Gabriel Georgescu	Romania	15.27	Q
6	Reijo Koivisto	Finland	15.15	Q
7	Petar Šarčević	Yugoslavia	15.12	Q
8	Josef Stoklasa	Czechoslovakia	15.09	Q
9	Raymond Thomas	France	15.09	Q
10	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	14.92	Q
11	Erik Uddebom	Sweden	14.83	Q
12	Ferenc Kövesdi	Hungary	14.82	Q
13	János Mihályfi	Hungary	14.72	Q
14	Yrjö Puntti	Finland	14.67	Q
15	Edouard Vandezande	Belgium	14.51	Q
16	Mark Pharaoh	United Kingdom	14.50	Q
17	Lucien Guillier	France	14.43
18	Skúli Thorarensen	Iceland	14.35
19	Alois Schwabl	Austria	14.14
20	Max Hubacher	Switzerland	14.13
21	Konstantinos Giataganas	Greece	14.01
22	Nuri Turan	Turkey	13.74
23	Willy Senn	Switzerland	13.70
24	Willy Wuyts	Belgium	13.64

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.

France (2)
Greece (1)
Hungary (2)
Iceland (1)

References

↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 377–384, retrieved 13 August 2014

Shot put at the European Athletics Championships

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