European Athletics Championships 1946 / Men's Shot Put

3. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Men
city	Oslo
Stadion	Bislett Stadium
Attendees	13 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	August 23 (qualification / final)
Medalist
gold	Gunnar Huseby ( ISL )
silver	Dmitri Goryainov ( URS )
bronze	Yrjö Lehtilä ( FIN )

The Bislett Stadium in Oslo shortly after the European Championships

The shot put men at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was on August 23, 1946 at Bislett Stadium in the Norwegian capital Oslo held.

Icelander Gunnar Huseby became European champion . Second place went to Dmitri Goryainov from the USSR. The Finn Yrjö Lehtilä won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	17.40 m	Jack Torrance	Oslo , Norway	August 5, 1935
European record	16.60 m	Hans Woellke	Frankfurt am Main , Germany	August 20, 1938
Championship record	15.83 m	Aleksander Kreek	EM Paris , France	September 4, 1938

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

qualification

August 23, 1946

The first nine athletes qualified for the final - highlighted in light blue. The qualifying distance for reaching the final directly was 14.00 m. Nine athletes exceeded this value and made it to the final.
As today, the achieved distances were not included in the final ranking.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Gunnar Huseby	Iceland	15.64 SB
2	Thage Pettersson	Sweden	14.72
3	Yrjö Lehtilä	Finland	14.50
4th	Witold Gierutto	Poland	14.49 SB
5	Eivind Sværen	Norway	14.32
6th	Dmitri Goryainov	Soviet Union	14.32
7th	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	14.20
8th	Sulo Bärlund	Finland	14.11
9	Lars Ulgenes	Norway	14.02
10	Čestmír Kalina	Czechoslovakia	13.60 SB
11	Dave Guiney	Ireland	13.57 SB
12	Roger Verhaes	Belgium	12.77 SB
13	Mieczysław Łomowski	Poland	12.53 SB

final

August 23, 1946, 6:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Gunnar Huseby	Iceland	15.56
2	Dmitri Goryainov	Soviet Union	15.25 PB
3	Yrjö Lehtilä	Finland	15.23 PB
4th	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	15.16 SB
5	Thage Pettersson	Sweden	14.87
6th	Sulo Bärlund	Finland	14.75 SB
7th	Eivind Sværen	Norway	14.34 PB
8th	Lars Ulgenes	Norway	14.28 PB
9	Witold Gierutto	Poland	13.90

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  Roland Nilsson came in fourth

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  Thage Pettersson finished fifth

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  Sulo Bärlund, second in the Olympic Games in 1936 and fourth in the European Championship in 1938 , came in sixth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 20, 2019
• Men Shot Put European Championship 1946 Oslo on todor66.com, accessed March 20, 2019
• III European Championship, Oslo 1946 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed March 20, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1946, men's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on March 20, 2019
• 3rd European Athletics Championships 1946 in Oslo, Norway from ifosta.de, accessed on March 20, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put, men , accessed March 20, 2019
2. ↑ Portrait of Hans Woellke in the database of trackfield.brinkster.net (English), accessed on March 20, 2019.