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

Men's shot put at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
Dates	August 2
Competitors	22 from 14 nations
Medalists
Hans Woellke Germany   Sulo Bärlund Finland   Gerhard Stöck Germany

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's shot put event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on August 2, 1936. The final was won by German Hans Woellke.

Results

Qualifying

Athlete	Nationality	Distance	Notes
Hans Woellke	Germany		Q
Sulo Bärlund	Finland		Q
Gerhard Stöck	Germany		Q
Sam Francis	United States		Q
Jack Torrance	United States		Q
Dimitri Zaitz	United States		Q
František Douda	Czechoslovakia		Q
Arnold Viiding	Estonia		Q
Gunnar Bergh	Sweden		Q
Hans-Heinrich Sievert	Germany		Q
Aleksa Kovačević	Yugoslavia		Q
József Darányi	Hungary		Q
Risto Kuntsi	Finland		Q
Karel Hoplíček	Czechoslovakia		Q
Antônio Lira	Brazil
Abdul Rahim	Afghanistan
Chen Baoqiu	China
Jaroslav Vítek	Czechoslovakia
Jean Wagner	Luxembourg
Jules Noël	France
Shizuo Takada	Japan

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Hans Woellke	Germany	15.96	14.76	15.72	15.90	16.20	14.98	16.20	OR
	Sulo Bärlund	Finland	15.68	16.03	14.98	15.52	16.12	15.42	16.12
	Gerhard Stöck	Germany	15.56	15.56	15.14	15.29	14.78	15.66	15.66
4	Sam Francis	United States	15.45	15.09	15.09	x	14.57	13.61	15.45
5	Jack Torrance	United States	15.38	14.40	15.34	14.79	14.57	14.56	15.38
6	Dimitri Zaitz	United States	15.32	14.16	14.09	14.09	x	14.85	15.32
7	František Douda	Czechoslovakia	15.09	15.05	15.28				15.28
8	Arnold Viiding	Estonia	14.72	14.31	15.23				15.23
9	Gunnar Bergh	Sweden	14.83	15.01	14.51				15.01
10	Hans-Heinrich Sievert	Germany	14.79	14.43	13.23				14.79
11	Aleksa Kovačević	Yugoslavia	14.74	x	14.27				14.74
12	József Darányi	Hungary	14.63	14.45	x				14.63
13	Risto Kuntsi	Finland	x	14.20	14.61				14.61
14	István Horváth	Hungary	13.66	14.18	14.32				14.32
15	Karel Hoplíček	Czechoslovakia	14.12	13.72	13.34				14.12

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's shot put, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-05-08.