European Athletics Championships 1938 / Men's Shot Put

2. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Men
city	Paris
Stadion	Stade Olympique
Attendees	12 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	September 4th
Medalist
gold	Aleksander Kreek ( EST )
silver	Gerhard Stöck ( GER )
bronze	Hans Woellke ( GER )

Olympic Stadium in Paris 1924

The shot put men at the 1938 European Athletics Championships was on September 4, 1938 at the Stade Olympique to the French capital Paris held.

European champion was the Estonian Aleksander Kreek . The two actually favored Germans Gerhard Stöck - bronze at the Olympic Games in 1936 and here in second place - as well as the Olympic champion from 1936 Hans Woellke - here in third place - won silver and bronze.

Records

Existing records

World record	17.40 m	Jack Torrance	Oslo , Norway	August 5, 1934
Championship record	15.19 m	Arnold Viiding	EM Turin , Italy	September 9, 1934

Record improvement

 Aleksander Kreek improved the EM record of his compatriot Arnold Viiding by 64 centimeters to 15.83 meters.

execution

On the IAAF website there is only one list of results for all technical disciplines with the final result for all participants. A qualification is not listed there for any jumping, pushing or throwing competition. Accordingly, all twelve shot putters started together in one 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 jumpers went into a final with three more rounds.

At the Olympic Games during this time, it was common practice in the technical 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

Surprise
European champion Aleksander Kreek

September 4, 1938, 4.15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Aleksander Kreek	Estonia	15.83 CR
2	Gerhard Stock	German Empire	15.59 SB
3	Hans Woellke	German Empire	15.52 SB
4th	Sulo Bärlund	Finland	15.07
5	Gunnar Bergh	Sweden	14.92 PB
6th	Jaroslav Vítek	Czechoslovakia	14.77 PB
7th	Angiolo Profeti	Italy	14.67 SB
8th	Witold Gerutto	Poland	14.41
9	Jules Noël	France	14.36 PB
10	Roger Braconnot	France	14.12 PB
11	Kalevi Kotkas	Finland	13.92 SB
12	Jean Wagner	Luxembourg	13.35 SB

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  The athletes in ranks two to four ( on the photo after the shot put competition at the Olympic Games 1936 ) Olympic champion and European Championship third Hans Woellke ( left ), Olympic runner-up and European Championship fourth Sulo Bärlund ( center ), Olympic third and European Championship runner-up Gerhard Stöck ( right )

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  Gunnar Berg ( in the photo as a discus thrower - he won bronze in the discus throwing competition ) reached fifth place

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  Jules Noël ( right after the discus throwing competition, in which he was seventh, together with the European discus throwing champion Willy Schröder ) finished ninth

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  Kalevi Kotkas - European high jump champion from 1934 and runner-up European champion from 1938 - as a shot putter eleventh in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Paris 1938 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 12, 2019
• Men Shot Put European Championships 1938 Paris (FRA) on todor66.com, accessed March 12, 2019
• II European Championship, Paris 1938 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed March 12, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1938, men's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on March 12, 2019
• 2nd European Men's Athletics Championships 1938 in Paris, France from ifosta.de, accessed on March 12, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put, men , accessed March 12, 2019
2. ^ European Athletics Championships - Paris 1938 , accessed March 12, 2019