1958 European Athletics Championships – Men's shot put

Events at the
1958 European
Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
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
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 1958 European Athletics Championships was held in Stockholm, Sweden, at Stockholms Olympiastadion on 23 August 1958.[1]

Medalists

Gold Arthur Rowe
 United Kingdom
Silver Viktor Lipsnis
 Soviet Union
Bronze Jiří Skobla
 Czechoslovakia

Results

Final

23 August

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st Arthur Rowe  United Kingdom 17.78 CR NR
2nd Viktor Lipsnis  Soviet Union 17.47
3rd Jiří Skobla  Czechoslovakia 17.12
4 Hermann Lingnau  West Germany 17.07
5 Silvano Meconi  Italy 16.98
6 Vladimir Loshchilov  Soviet Union 16.96
7 Vilmos Varjú  Hungary 16.77
8 Alfred Sosgórnik  Poland 16.65
9 Dieter Urbach  West Germany 16.65
10 Todor Artarski  Bulgaria 16.48
11 Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski  Poland 16.33
12 Jaroslav Plíhal  Czechoslovakia 16.26
13 Joel Eklund  Sweden 16.20
14 Martyn Lucking  United Kingdom 16.02
15 Aksel Thorsager  Denmark 15.88
16 Georgios Tsakanikas  Greece 15.73
17 Gunnar Huseby  Iceland 15.62

Qualification

23 August

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1 Hermann Lingnau  West Germany 17.00 Q
2 Alfred Sosgórnik  Poland 16.79 Q
3 Viktor Lipsnis  Soviet Union 16.76 Q
4 Vladimir Loshchilov  Soviet Union 16.75 Q
5 Jiří Skobla  Czechoslovakia 16.75 Q
6 Silvano Meconi  Italy 16.07 Q
7 Arthur Rowe  United Kingdom 16.04 Q
8 Vilmos Varjú  Hungary 15.95 Q
9 Georgios Tsakanikas  Greece 15.91 Q
10 Dieter Urbach  West Germany 15.89 Q
11 Joel Eklund  Sweden 15.76 Q
12 Martyn Lucking  United Kingdom 15.74 Q
13 Todor Artarski  Bulgaria 15.61 Q
14 Jaroslav Plíhal  Czechoslovakia 15.60 Q
15 Gunnar Huseby  Iceland 15.50 Q
16 Aksel Thorsager  Denmark 15.45 Q
17 Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski  Poland 15.32 Q
18 Mario Monti  Italy 14.53

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

References

  1. ↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 384–390, retrieved 13 August 2014
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