European Athletics Championships 1934 / Men's Shot Put

1st European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Men
city	Turin
Stadion	Stadio Benito Mussolini
Attendees	13 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	the 9th of September
Medalist
gold	Arnold Viiding ( EST )
silver	Risto Kuntsi ( FIN )
bronze	František Douda ( TCH )

Turin Olympic Stadium - then called
Stadio Benito Mussolini

The shot put men at the 1934 European Athletics Championships was on September 9, 1934 in Turin Stadio Benito Mussolini held.

The Estonian Arnold Viiding won . Risto Kuntsi from Finland became vice European champion . Bronze went to the Czechoslovak František Douda .

Existing records

World record	17.40 m	Jack Torrance	Oslo , Norway	August 5, 1934
Championship record	There was not yet a European championship record.

execution

On the IAAF page on the shot put there is only a list of results with the final result for all thirteen participants. A qualification is not listed there. Accordingly, all thirteen competitors started together in a group for the final. It is not clear how many attempts were available to the athletes and whether after the third round, as was common at the Olympic Games at the time, for example, the best six athletes went into a final with three more rounds.

At the Olympic Games during this period, it was common practice in the jumping and throwing disciplines to first conduct a qualifying round on the morning of the competition day if the number of participants was not too small. This preliminary round was held in two groups. The final with the qualified athletes usually took place in the afternoon of the same day.

final

September 9, 1934

space	Surname	nation	Expanse
1	Arnold Viiding	Estonia	15.19 m CR
2	Risto Kuntsi	Finland	15.19 m CR
3	František Douda	Czechoslovakia	15.18 m SB
4th	Samuel Norrby	Sweden	15.10 m PB
5	Valfrid Rahmqvist	Sweden	15.01 m PB
6th	József Darányi	Hungary	14.86 m PB
7th	Zygmunt Heljasz	Poland	14.78 m SB
8th	Hans Woellke	German Empire	14.67 m SB
9	Clement Duhour	France	14.07 m PB
10	Jules Noël	France	14.00 m SB
11	Aad de Bruyn	Netherlands	13.88 m PB
12	Aleksandar Kovacevic	Italy	13.88 m PB
13	Lauro Bonincini	Italy	13.33 m PB

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  Vice European Champion Risto Kuntsi

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  Bronze medalist František Douda

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  Samuel Norrby finished fourth

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  Hans Woellke - here in eighth place, two years later Olympic champion

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Torino 1934 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 7, 2019
• Men Shot Put Athletics I European Championships 1934 Torino (ITA) on todor66.com, accessed March 9, 2019
• I European Championship, Turin 1934 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed March 7, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1934, men's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on March 7, 2019
• 1st European Men's Athletics Championships 1934 in Turin, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on March 7, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put , accessed March 7, 2019
2. ↑ European Athletics Championships - Torino 1934 , accessed March 7, 2019