1928 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	22 athletes from 14 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase	July 29, 1928
Medalist John Kuck ( USA )   Herman Brix ( USA )   Emil Hirschfeld ( DEU )

The shot put men at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam was on 29 July 1928 in the Olympic Stadium Amsterdam discharged. 22 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the American John Kuck with a new world record ahead of his compatriot Herman Brix . Bronze went to the German Emil Hirschfeld .

Existing records

• World record : 15.79 m - Emil Hirschfeld ( Germany ), Breslau , May 6, 1928
• Olympic record : 15.34 m - Pat McDonald ( USA ), Stockholm Olympic Final , July 10, 1912

Conducting the competition

On July 29th there was a qualifying round in two groups. The six best athletes from the four groups qualified for the final, which took place on the same day. The result of the qualification was included in the final result.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The respective best widths are marked in bold. The widths indicated with a (g) are estimated.

qualification

Date: July 29, 1928 The test series are only available for those athletes who have qualified for the finals, otherwise incomplete.

Group 1

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Pre-match result	annotation
1	Herman Brix	United States	15.75 m	15.30 m (g)	15.30 m (g)	15.75 m	OR
2	Eric Krenz	United States	13.80 m	14.99 m	unknown	14.99 m
3	Wilhelm Uebler	German Empire	14.69 m	14.64 m	14.66 m	14.69 m
	Armas Wahlstedt	Finland	14.69 m	14.40 m (g)	13.90 m (g)
5	Werner Nuesch	Switzerland	Further widths of the test series unknown			13.77 m
6th	Rex Woods	Great Britain				12.70 m
7th	Raoul Paoli	France				12.68 m
8th	Alexandru Fritz	Romania				12.55 m
9	Jesus Aguirre	Mexico				11.33 m

Group 2

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Pre-match result	annotation
1	Emil Hirschfeld	German Empire	15.72 m	14.98 m	15.52 m	15.72 m
2	John Kuck	United States	15.00 m (g)	14.80 m (g)	15.43 m	15.43 m
3	Harlow Rothert	United States	Further widths of the test series unknown			14.68 m
3	József Darányi	Hungary				14.35 m
5	Paavo Yrjölä	Finland				14.01 m
6th	Edouard Duhour	France				13.72 m
7th	Nikolai Feldmann	Estonia				13.54 m
8th	Johan Trandem	Norway				13.40 m
9	František Douda	Czechoslovakia				13.12 m
10	Dimitrios Karabatis	Greece				12.98 m
11	Ion David	Romania				12.82 m
12	Robert Howland	Great Britain				12.52 m
	Auguste Vos	Belgium

Bottom line

The medal winners (from left to right): John Kuck (gold), Emil Hirschfeld (bronze), Herman Brix (silver)

				final
space	Surname	nation	Qualification range	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	result	annotation
1	John Kuck	United States	15.03 m	15.10 m (g)	15.87 m	15.87 m (g)	15.87 m	WR
2	Herman Brix	United States	15.75 m	15.40 m (g)	15.20 m (g)	15.40 m (g)	15.75 m
3	Emil Hirschfeld	German Empire	15.72 m	15.63 m	14.78 m	15.01 m	15.72 m
4th	Eric Krenz	United States	14.99 m	Extent of the test series unknown			14.99 m
5	Armas Wahlstedt	Finland	14.69 m	14.00 m (g)	13.90 m (g)	13.92 m	14.69 m	after stinging with Uebler
6th	Wilhelm Uebler	German Empire	14.69 m	13.91 m	14.58 m	13.82 m	14.69 m	after stitching with Wahlstedt
7th	Harlow Rothert	United States	14.68 m	did not qualify for the finals			14.68 m
8th	József Darányi	Hungary	14.35 m				14.35 m

Date: July 29, 1928

A few weeks before these games, Emil Hirschfeld had improved the long-standing world record of the former Olympic champion Ralph Rose to 15.79 m and thus drove to Amsterdam as one of the favorites . When he reached 15.72 m in the first attempt, it looked very much like a medal for him. The Americans turned out to be very nervous. Initially, Herman Brix took the lead with 15.75 m in his first attempt. In the penultimate run, John Kuck climbed to the new world record of 15.87 m and won the gold medal. Otherwise, the order among the medal winners from the first attempt remained unchanged. Brix later went to film and worked under the stage name Bruce Bennett to avoid confusion with the Austrian actor Hermann Brix . Shortly after the games in Amsterdam, Emil Hirschfeld was the first athlete to exceed the 16-meter mark with 16.045 m.

John Kuck's win was the seventh win by a US athlete in the eighth Olympic shot put final . It was also the fifth US double victory.

Emil Hirschfeld won the first German medal in this discipline.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 206

Video

• John Kuck Wins Shot Put Gold With New World Record - Amsterdam 1928 Olympics , published May 20, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed September 14, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed September 14, 2017
• Official report pp. 454–456, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 14, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 557 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Official report, pp. 454 - 456 (Eng.)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)