Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put

Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
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 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

These are the official results of the men's shot put event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The qualifying round and the final both were held on Wednesday November 28, 1956.

Fourteen shot putters from ten nations competed.

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Parry O'Brien United States (USA)	Bill Nieder United States (USA)	Jiří Skobla Czechoslovakia (TCH)

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 1956 Summer Olympics.

World Record	19.25	Parry O'Brien	Los Angeles (USA)	November 1, 1956
Olympic Record	17.41	Parry O'Brien	Helsinki (FIN)	July 21, 1952

Final classification

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	DISTANCE
	Parry O'Brien (USA)	18.57 m
	Bill Nieder (USA)	18.18 m
	Jiří Skobla (TCH)	17.65 m
4.	Kenneth Bantum (USA)	17.48 m
5.	Boris Belyaev (URS)	16.96 m
6.	Erik Uddebom (SWE)	16.65 m
7.	Karl-Heinz Wegmann (EUA)	16.63 m
8.	Georgios Tsakanikas (GRE)	16.56 m
9.	Barry Donath (AUS)	16.52 m
10.	Silvano Meconi (ITA)	16.28 m
11.	Robert Hanlin (AUS)	16.08 m
12.	Barclay Palmer (GBR)	15.81 m
13.	Vladimir Loshchilov (URS)	15.62 m
14.	Raymond Thomas (FRA)	15.31 m

References

• Official Report
• Results