European Athletics Championships 1962 / Men's Shot Put

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Men
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	20 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	September 14th (qualification / final)
Medalist
gold	Vilmos Varjú ( HUN )
silver	Wiktor Lipsnis ( URS )
bronze	Alfred Sosgórnik ( POL )

Panoramic view of the Partizan Stadium 2014 - 52nd years after the European Championships there

The shot put men at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was on 14 September 1962 at Belgrade's Partizan Stadium discharged.

The Hungarian Vilmos Varjú won . Like four years before, Wiktor Lipsnis from the USSR became vice European champion. Bronze went to Alfred Sosgórnik from Poland.

Records

Existing records

World record	20.08 m	Dallas Long	Los Angeles , USA	May 18, 1962
European record	19.56 m	Arthur Rowe	Mansfield , UK	May 7, 1961
Championship record	17.78 m		EM Stockholm , Sweden	23rd August 1958

Record improvement

The EM record was improved twice at these European championships:

• 18.00 m - Wiktor Lipsnis, qualification on September 14th
• 19.02 m - Vilmos Varjú , final on September 14th 

qualification

September 14, 1962, 9:20 a.m.

The twenty participants competed in a joint qualifying round on the morning of September 14th. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 17.00 m. Fifteen athletes surpassed this mark (highlighted in light blue) and entered the final in the afternoon of the same day.

Jean-Claude Ernwein retired with 16.82 m in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Viktor Lipsnis	Soviet Union	18.00 CR
2	Zsigmond Nagy	Hungary	17.91
3	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	17.88
4th	Alfred Sosgórnik	Poland	17.71
5	Milija Jocović	Yugoslavia	17.46
6th	Mike Lindsay	Great Britain	17.44 SB
7th	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	17.31
8th	Wladyslaw Komar	Poland	17.22
9	Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski	Poland	17 ,? SB
10	Dietrich Urbach	Germany	17.13
11	Boško Tomasović	Yugoslavia	17.12 PB
12	Peter Gratz	Germany	17.12 PB
13	Jarmo Kunnas	Finland	17.08 PB
14th	Martyn Lucking	Great Britain	17.06
15th	Rudolf Langer	Germany	17.05 SB
16	Silvano Meconi	Italy	16.93 SB
17th	Jean-Claude Ernwein	France	16.82 PB
18th	Aksel Thorsager	Denmark	16.22
19th	Bjørn Bang Andersen	Norway	16.12 SB
20th	André Godard	France	15.71 PB

All available sources give a width of 17.12 m for Kwiatkowski, which is not compatible with the ranking given there.

final

Władysław Komar reached fourth place - in 1972 he became Olympic champion

September 14, 1962, 4:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	19.02 CR
2	Viktor Lipsnis	Soviet Union	18.38 SB
3	Alfred Sosgórnik	Poland	18.28 SB
4th	Wladyslaw Komar	Poland	18.00 SB
5	Zsigmond Nagy	Hungary	17.97
6th	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	17.87 SB
7th	Dietrich Urbach	Germany	17.58 SB
8th	Milija Jocović	Yugoslavia	17.55 SB
9	Martyn Lucking	Great Britain	17.47
10	Mike Lindsay	Great Britain	17.23
11	Peter Gratz	Germany	17.09
12	Jarmo Kunnas	Finland	17.06
13	Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski	Poland	17.05
14th	Rudolf Langer	Germany	16.95
15th	Boško Tomasović	Yugoslavia	16.95

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  Jiří Skobla, among other things European champion in 1954 and Olympic knight in 1956 , came in sixth place

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  Peter Gratz came in eleventh

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  Rudolf Langer was fourteenth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 14, 2019
• Men Shot Put European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed on May 14, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1962 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 14, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1962, men's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on May 14, 2019
• 7th European Athletics Championships 1962 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on May 14, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put, men , accessed May 14, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Shot Put on rfea.es, p. 28 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 14, 2019