1924 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 15 countries
Competition location	Stade de Colombes
Competition phase	July 8, 1924
Medalist Bud Houser ( USA )   Glenn Hartranft ( USA )   Ralph Hills ( USA )

The shot put men at the 1924 Olympics in Paris was held on 8 July 1924th 28 athletes took part.

In the competition there was a triple triumph for the US team. Bud Houser won ahead of Glenn Hartranft and Ralph Hills .

Existing records

• World record : 15.54 m - Ralph Rose ( USA ), San Francisco , August 21, 1909
• Olympic record : 15.34 m - Pat McDonald ( USA ), Stockholm final , July 10, 1912

Conducting the competition

The athletes had to complete a qualifying round in three groups on July 8th. These six best athletes from the four qualifying groups qualified for the final, which took place on the same day. The distances achieved in the preliminary fight were included in the final result.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: July 8, 1924

Group 1

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Bud Houser	United States	14.995 m
2	Ralph Hills	United States	14.51 m
3	Ville Pörhölä	Finland	14.10 m
4th	Bertil Jansson	Sweden	13.76 m
5	Harald Tammer	Estonia	13.28 m
6th	Ketil Askildt	Norway	13.09 m
7th	Daniel Pierre	France	13.07 m
8th	John O'Grady	Irish Free State	12.75 m
9	Arvīds Ķibilds	Latvia	12.53 m
10	Jesus Aguirre	Mexico	9.47 m

Group 2

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Hannes Torpo	Finland	14.45 m
2	Glenn Hartranft	United States	14.41 m
3	Elmer Niklander	Finland	14.265 m
4th	Raoul Paoli	France	13.54 m
5	Sixten Sundström	Sweden	13.53 m
6th	Veljko Narančić	Yugoslavia	13.22 m
7th	Charles Beckwith	Great Britain	12.48 m
8th	Otto Garnus	Switzerland	12.12 m
9	José Galimberti	Brazil	11.30 m
10	Dimitrios Karabatis	Greece	10.96 m

Group 3

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Norman Anderson	United States	14.29 m
2	Akseli Takala	Finland	13.32 m
3	Christos Vrettos	Greece	13.13 m
4th	Pál Bedő	Hungary	12.66 m
5	Werner Nuesch	Switzerland	12.45 m
6th	Maxime Bousselaire	France	12.27 m
7th	Rex Woods	Great Britain	11.77 m
ogV	Octavio Zani	Brazil

final

space	Surname	nation	Qualification range	Final width	result	annotation
1	Bud Houser	United States	14.995 m	no improvement in the final	14.995 m
2	Glenn Hartranft	United States	14.41 m	14.895 m	14.895 m
3	Ralph Hills	United States	14.51 m	14,640 m	14,640 m
4th	Hannes Torpo	Finland	14.45 m	no improvement in the final	14,450 m
5	Norman Anderson	United States	14.29 m	no improvement in the final	14,290 m
6th	Elmer Niklander	Finland	14.265 m	no improvement in the final	14.265 m
7th	Ville Pörhölä	Finland	14.10 m	not in the final	14.100 m
8th	Bertil Jansson	Sweden	13.76 m	not in the final	13,760 m

Date: July 8, 1924

In the shot put there was a triple success for the Americans. Bud Houser - actually Lemuel Clarence Houser's full name - won just ahead of Glenn Hartranft and Ralph Hills. In addition, another US athlete and two Finns had reached the final. Among them, however, was not the Olympic champion of Antwerp 1920 Ville Pörhölä, who had to be content with a seventh place here. The performances of the athletes did not quite come close to the distances that Ralph Rose and Pat McDonald had achieved in the era before the First World War .

This triple victory for the USA was the fourth in the seventh Olympic shot put competition. Of the 21 medals awarded so far, US starters alone have won 16.

Picture gallery

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  Olympic champion Bud Houser (USA) on a trading card from 1930

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  Elmer Niklander (FIN) finished sixth (photo from 1912)

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  Ketil Askildt (NOR) failed in qualification (photo from 1933)

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 170

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed September 9, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 170
2. ↑ Official report, p. 141/142 (fr.) ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.