1958 European Athletics Championships / Men's Shot Put
| 6th European Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| discipline | Shot Put Men |
| city |
 Stockholm
|
| Stadion | Olympic Stadium |
| Attendees | 18 athletes from 12 countries |
| Competition phase | August 21 (qualifying) August 23 (final) |
| Medalist | |
 gold |
Arthur Rowe ( GBR )
 |
 silver |
Wiktor Lipsnis ( URS )
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 bronze |
Jíři Skobla ( TCH )
 |
The shot put men at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was on 21 and 23 August 1958 at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium held.
British Arthur Rowe became European champion . He won ahead of Viktor Lipsnis from the USSR. Bronze went to the defending champion, European record holder and Olympic third party from 1956, Jíři Skobla from Czechoslovakia.
Records
Existing records
| World record | 19.25 m |
 Parry O'Brien
|
Los Angeles , USA | November 1, 1956 |
| European record | 18.01 m |
Jiří Skobla
|
Prague , then Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic ) | August 25, 1957 |
| EM record | 17.20 m | EM Bern , Switzerland | August 27, 1954 |
Record improvement
European champion Arthur Rowe improved the championship record in the final on August 23 by 58 centimeters to 17.78 m.
qualification
August 21, 1958, 11:15 a.m.
The eighteen participants competed in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 15.20 m. Seventeen athletes achieved this distance and were thus in the final (highlighted in light blue). Only one athlete dropped out. As in almost all jumping and throwing disciplines, the question arises why qualifications were even carried out under these circumstances.
| space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) | Best width (m) |
| 1 | Hermann Lingnau |
 Germany
|
17.00 | - | - | 17.00 |
| 2 | Alfred Sosgórnik |
.svg){kind=small} Poland
|
16.79 | - | - | 16.79 |
| 3 | Viktor Lipsnis |
Soviet Union
|
16.76 | - | - | 16.76 |
| 4th | Vladimir Loschtschilow |
Soviet Union
|
16.75 | - | - | 16.75 |
| 5 | Jíři Skobla |
Czechoslovakia
|
16.75 | - | - | 16.75 |
| 6th | Silvano Meconi |
 Italy
|
16.07 | - | - | 16.07 |
| 7th | Arthur Rowe |
Great Britain
|
16.04 | - | - | 16.04 |
| 8th | Vilmos Varjú |
 Hungary
|
15.95 | - | - | 15.95 |
| 9 | Georgios Tsakanikas |
.svg){kind=small} Greece
|
? | 15.91 | - | 15.91 |
| 10 | Dietrich Urbach |
Germany
|
15.89 | - | - | 15.89 |
| 11 | Joel Eklund |
Sweden
|
15.76 | - | - | 15.76 |
| 12 | Martyn Lucking |
Great Britain
|
15.74 | - | - | 15.74 |
| 13 | Todor Artarski |
.svg){kind=small} Bulgaria
|
15.61 | - | - | 15.61 |
| 14th | Jaroslav Plíhal |
Czechoslovakia
|
15.60 | - | - | 15.60 |
| 15th | Gunnar Huseby |
 Iceland
|
15.50 | - | - | 15.50 |
| 16 | Aksel Thorsager |
 Denmark
|
? | 15.45 | - | 15.45 |
| 17th | Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski |
Poland
|
15.32 | - | - | 15.32 |
| 18th | Mario Monti |
Italy
|
Test series not known | 14.53 | ||
final
August 23, 1958, 5 p.m.
| space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arthur Rowe |
Great Britain
|
17.78 CR / NO |
| 2 | Viktor Lipsnis |
Soviet Union
|
17.47 SB |
| 3 | Jíři Skobla |
Czechoslovakia
|
17.12 SB |
| 4th | Hermann Lingnau |
Germany
|
17.07 SB |
| 5 | Silvano Meconi |
Italy
|
16.98 SB |
| 6th | Vladimir Loschtschilow |
Soviet Union
|
16.96 PB |
| 7th | Vilmos Varjú |
Hungary
|
16.77 SB |
| 8th | Alfred Sosgórnik |
Poland
|
16.65 |
| 9 | Dietrich Urbach |
Germany
|
16.65 SB |
| 10 | Todor Artarski |
Bulgaria
|
16.48 PB |
| 11 | Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski |
Poland
|
16.33 SB |
| 12 | Jaroslav Plíhal |
Czechoslovakia
|
16.26 PB |
| 13 | Joel Eklund |
Sweden
|
16.20 PB |
| 14th | Martyn Lucking |
Great Britain
|
16.02 SB |
| 15th | Aksel Thorsager |
Denmark
|
15.88 SB |
| 16 | Georgios Tsakanikas |
Greece
|
15.73 |
| 17th | Gunnar Huseby |
Iceland
|
15.62 SB |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 1, 2019
- Men Shot Put European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed on May 1, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 1, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, men's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on May 1, 2019
- 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on May 1, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ a b There are two different sources of information on the date of qualification. On todor66.com Shot_Put , accessed on May 1, 2019, August 21 is named, while european-athletics.org , accessed on May 1, 2019, is August 23.
- ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put men , accessed May 1, 2019
- ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Shot Put on rfea.es, p. 27 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 1, 2019