1948 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	24 athletes from 14 countries
Competition location	Wembley Stadium
Competition phase	August 3, 1948
Medalist Wilbur Thompson ( USA )   Jim Delaney ( USA )   Jim Fuchs ( USA )

The shot put men at the 1948 Olympic Games in London was on August 3, 1948 at Wembley Stadium discharged. 24 athletes took part.

The US team celebrated a triple success. Wilbur Thompson won ahead of Jim Delaney and Jim Fuchs .

Existing records

• World record : 17.68 m - Charlie Fonville ( USA ), Lawrence (Kansas) , April 17, 1948
• Olympic record : 16.20 m - Hans Woellke ( Germany ), Berlin final , August 2, 1936

Conducting the competition

The South American champion Emilio Malchiodi (ARG) failed in the qualification

Participants competed in a qualifying round on August 4th. The qualification distance required was 14.60 meters. All athletes who managed this distance qualified for the final on the same day. Should fewer than 12 athletes have made the distance, the final field was filled up to 12 athletes based on the distances.

qualification

August 3, 1948, 11 a.m.

Note: The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The qualifiers who did not make the required distance but were still able to qualify are highlighted in light green. Only the best is recorded. The order and length of further attempts in qualification are unknown. It was measured in the British system (feet, inches), so half a centimeter is also given

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Jim Fox	United States	15,870 m
2	Wilbur Thompson	United States	15,090 m
3	Jim Delaney	United States	14,970 m
4th	Yrjö Lehtilä	Finland	14,850 m
5	John Giles	Great Britain	14.795 m
6th	Jaakko Jouppila	Finland	14,720 m
7th	Gosta Arvidsson	Sweden	14,700 m
7th	Mieczysław Łomowski	Poland	14,700 m
9	Konstantinos Giataganas	Greece	14,630 m
10	Čestmír Kalina	Czechoslovakia	14,540 m
11	Sigfús Sigurðsson	Iceland	14,480 m
12	Witold Gerutto	Poland	14,450 m
13	Willy Senn	Switzerland	14,450 m
14th	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	14.360 m
15th	Eric Coy	Canada	14.150 m
16	David Guiney	Ireland	14.010 m
17th	Vilhjálmur Vilmundarson	Iceland	13,990 m
18th	Harold Moody	Great Britain	13,400 m
19th	Roger Verhaes	Belgium	13,540 m
20th	Emilio Malchiodi	Argentina
21st	Juan Kahnert	Argentina
22nd	Leonello Patiño	Peru
23	Nazar Muhammad Khan Malik	Pakistan
24	Ahmed Zahur Khan	Pakistan

final

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Best	annotation
1	Wilbur Thompson	United States	16.47 m	17.12 m	16.97 m	16.67 m	16.80 m	x	17.12 m	OR
2	Jim Delaney	United States	16.14 m	16.68 m	15.88 m	16.03 m	16.03 m	16,280 m	16.68 m
3	Jim Fox	United States	16.32 m	16.42 m	15.60 m	15.56 m	14.82 m	16.28 m	16.42 m
4th	Mieczysław Łomowski	Poland							15.43 m
5	Gosta Arvidsson	Sweden							15.37 m
6th	Yrjö Lehtilä	Finland							15.05 m
7th	Jaakko Jouppila	Finland							14.59 m
8th	Čestmír Kalina	Czechoslovakia							14.55 m
9	Konstantinos Giataganas	Greece							14.54 m
10	Witold Gerutto	Poland							14.37 m
11	John Giles	Great Britain							13.73 m
12	Sigfús Sigurðsson	Iceland							13.66 m

August 3, 1948, 4 p.m.

World record holder Charlie Fonville was unable to qualify for London due to an injury. He suffered from severe back pain for several weeks and only came fourth in the US trials. The favorite role went to Jim Delaney, the winner of the US eliminations. But Wilbur Thompson, the runner-up in these trials, won over 17 meters at the Olympic Games with the first shot, which he succeeded in the second attempt. The Americans completely dominated this competition. Delaney was second with 16.68 m, James Fuchs third with 16.42 m. His lead over the fourth was exactly 99 centimeters.

In the eleventh Olympic competition there was the ninth US victory. It was also the US's fifth triple success.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 36f

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed August 23, 2017
• Official report p. 270, engl. (PDF), accessed on August 23, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 557 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Official report "Athletic Timetable" p. 240, engl. (PDF)
3. ^ Official report "Athletic Timetable" p. 240, engl. (PDF)
4. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of the Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 36f
5. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)