1950 European Athletics Championships / Men's Shot Put

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Men
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Attendees	13 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	August 25 (qualification / final)
Medalist
gold	Gunnar Huseby ( ISL )
silver	Angiolo Profeti ( ITA )
bronze	Oto Grigalka ( URS )

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The shot put men at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was on 25 August 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital Brussels held.

The Icelandic defending champion Gunnar Huseby became European champion . He won ahead of the Italian Angiolo Profeti . Bronze went to Oto Grigalka from the USSR.

Records

Existing records

World record	17.95 m	Jim Fox	Eskilstuna , Sweden	22nd August 1950
European record	16.93 m	Heino Lipp	Moscow , then Soviet Union (now Russia )	August 6, 1950
Championship record	15.83 m	Aleksander Kreek	EM Paris , France	September 4, 1938

Record improvement

European champion Gunnar Huseby improved the EM record twice:  

• 16.29 m - Qualification, August 25
• 16.74 m - final, August 25

qualification

August 25, 1950, 10:30 a.m.

The thirteen participants competed in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 14.50 m. Nine athletes exceeded this value (highlighted in light blue) and thus qualified for the final.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Gunnar Huseby	Iceland	16.29 CR
2	John Savidge	Great Britain	15.54 SB
3	Oto Grigalka	Soviet Union	15.45 SB
4th	Vladimír Jirout	Czechoslovakia	15.23 PB
5	Petar Šarčević	Yugoslavia	15.18 SB
6th	Angiolo Profeti	Italy	14.95
7th	Willy Senn	Switzerland	14.79
8th	Gosta Arvidsson	Sweden	14.57 SB
9	John Giles	Great Britain	14.52 PB
10	Konstantinos Giataganas	Greece	14.49 PB
11	Roger Verhaes	Belgium	14.37 PB
12	Willy Wuyts	Belgium	13.28 SB
13	Jean Darot	France	13.12 PB

final

Gösta Arvidsson finished ninth in the final

August 25, 1950

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Gunnar Huseby	Iceland	16.74 CR / NO
2	Angiolo Profeti	Italy	15.16 PB
3	Oto Grigalka	Soviet Union	15.14
4th	Willy Senn	Switzerland	14.95 PB
5	Petar Šarčević	Yugoslavia	14.90
6th	Vladimír Jirout	Czechoslovakia	14.89
7th	John Savidge	Great Britain	14.69
8th	John Giles	Great Britain	14.29
9	Gosta Arvidsson	Sweden	14.17

European champion Gunnar Huseby had the following series in the final:
16.18 m / 16.74 m / 16.00 m / 16.09 m / 14.91 m / 16.12 m.

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 30, 2019
• Men Shot Put European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed March 30, 2019
• IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 30, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, men's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on March 30, 2019
• 4th European Athletics Championships 1950 in Brussels, Belgium from ifosta.de, accessed on March 30, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put, men , accessed March 30, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Shot Put on rfea.es, p. 27 (PDF), accessed on April 7, 2019