1932 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	15 athletes from 10 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	July 31, 1932
Medalist Leo Sexton ( USA )   Harlow Rothert ( USA )   František Douda ( TCH )

The shot put men at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was on July 31, 1932 in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum discharged. 15 athletes took part.

The American Leo Sexton was Olympic champion ahead of his compatriot Harlow Rothert . The Czech František Douda won the bronze medal.

Existing records

• World record : 16.05 m - Zygmunt Heljasz ( Poland ), Poznan , June 29, 1932
• Olympic record : 15.87 m - John Kuck ( USA ), Amsterdam final , July 29, 1928

Conducting the competition

On July 31, all athletes went into a qualifying round with three attempts each. The best six competitors had three more attempts in the final, which was held on the same day. The result of the qualification was included in the final result.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. Since the Anglo-American measure - feet and inches - was measured, millimeters are also taken into account in the final.

qualification

The French Paul Winter was eliminated as 13th in the qualification.

Date: July 31, 1932

The Finnish report Olympialaiskisal Los Angelesissa 1932 is the only source that completely presents the test series. Several newspaper reports confirmed the accuracy of the information in this report. The information differs from the official report, as there apparently the widths of the third round were adopted for the placements of places 7 to 14.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	result	annotation
1	Leo Sexton	United States	15.60 m	15.56 m	15.72 m	15,720 m
2	Harlow Rothert	United States	15.67 m	15.675 m	15.43 m	15.675 m
3	František Douda	Czechoslovakia	15.61 m	15.24 m	14.49 m	15.610 m
4th	Nelson Gray	United States	15.46 m	14.90 m	14.84 m	15,460 m
5	Emil Hirschfeld	German Empire	15.21 m	15.36 m	15.02 m	15,360 m
6th	Hans-Heinrich Sievert	German Empire	13.87 m	14.99 m	14.75 m	14,990 m
7th	Zygmunt Heljasz	Poland	13.80 m	14.80 m	14.49 m	14,800 m
8th	József Darányi	Hungary	14.58 m	14.67 m	14.67 m	14,670 m
9	Kalle Järvinen	Finland	13.80 m	14.63 m	13.91 m	14,630 m
10	Jules Noël	France	14.37 m	13.91 m	14.53 m	14,530 m
11	Harry Hart	South African Union	14.47 m	X	14.22 m	14,470 m
12	Clement Duhour	France	X	12.31 m	13.96 m	13,960 m
13	Paul Winter	France	12.57 m	12.60 m	13.14 m	13,140 m
14th	Pedro Elsa	Argentina	11.77 m	X	11.21 m	11,770 m
ogV	Antônio Lira	Brazil	X	X	X

final

The medal winners (from left to right): Leo Sexton (USA), Harlow Rother (USA) and František Douda (TCH)

The German Emil Hirschfeld - photo from 1928 - finished fourth.

Date: July 31, 1932

The top of the world were very close together before these games. With the Poland Zygmunt Haljasz, world record holder with 16.05 m, František Douda, Czechoslovakia and Emil Hirschfeld, Germany, three Europeans with bests over 16 meters were just ahead of the US-Americans who qualified for the Olympic competition. But in their homeland, the US shot putters presented themselves at their best, while the Europeans lagged behind their potential. Leo Sexton was the only one to exceed the 16-meter mark with 16.005 m. That meant an Olympic record and brought him the gold medal. Silver went to his compatriot Harlow Rothert, bronze went to František Douda. Emil Hirschfeld, bronze medalist in 1928 , came in fourth place five centimeters behind Douda.

Sexton's win was the eighth win by a US athlete in the ninth Olympic shot put final. It was also the sixth US double victory.
František Douda won the first Olympic medal in athletics for Czechoslovakia.

				final
space	Surname	nation	Qualification range	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Leo Sexton	United States	15,720 m	15.94 m	15.48 m	16.005 m	16.005 m	OR
2	Harlow Rothert	United States	15.675 m	15.43 m	14.99 m	X	15.675 m
3	František Douda	Czechoslovakia	15.610 m	15.05 m	15.22 m	15.33 m	15.610 m
4th	Emil Hirschfeld	German Empire	15,360 m	15.38 m	15.54 m	15.56 m	15,560 m
5	Nelson Gray	United States	15,460 m	13.74 m	X	X	15,460 m
6th	Hans-Heinrich Sievert	German Empire	14,990 m	15.07 m	X	X	15,070 m
7th	Zygmunt Heljasz	Poland	14,800 m	not in the final			14,800 m
8th	József Darányi	Hungary	14,670 m				14,670 m

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 240f

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed September 18, 2017
• Official report pp. 453–454 for comparison, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 18, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 557 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)
3. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 240f