1960 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Shot put | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 24 athletes from 16 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stadio Olimpico | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 31, 1960 | ||||||||
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The men's shot put at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome was played on August 31, 1960 at the Stadio Olimpico . 24 athletes took part in the first men's athletics decision at these games.
The US team celebrated a triple success. Bill Nieder won ahead of Parry O'Brien , the 1952 and 1956 Olympic gold medalist . Bronze went to Dallas Long .
While athletes from Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part, three Germans started. Fritz Kühl could not qualify for the final. Dietrich Urbach and Hermann Lingnau reached the final. Urbach came in seventh there, Lingnau reached twelfth.
Existing records
World record | 20.06 m | Bill Nieder ( USA ) | Walnut (California) , USA | August 12, 1960 |
Olympic record | 18.57 m | Parry O'Brien ( USA ) | Melbourne finals , Australia | November 28, 1956 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in a qualifying round on August 31. The required qualification distance was 16.75 meters. For all qualified participants the final took place on the afternoon of the same day. Each participant was initially entitled to three attempts. The best six athletes could then complete three more attempts.
Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.
Time schedule
August 31, 9:00 a.m .: Qualification
August 31, 4:50 p.m .: Final
qualification
Date: August 31, 1960, 9:00 a.m.
The best widths are printed in bold. With the same distance, the second best result decided on the placement.
With Salem El-Jisr, a track and field athlete from Lebanon took part for the first time.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | result | annotation |
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1 | Viktor Lipsnis | Soviet Union | 17.65 m | - | - | 17.65 m | |
Dallas Long | United States | ||||||
3 | Jíři Skobla | Czechoslovakia | 17.32 m | - | - | 17.32 m | |
4th | Parry O'Brien | United States | 17.29 m | - | - | 17.29 m | |
5 | Mike Lindsay | Great Britain | 17.28 m | - | - | 17.28 m | |
6th | Martyn Lucking | Great Britain | 17.20 m | - | - | 17.20 m | |
7th | Bill Nieder | United States | 17.14 m | - | - | 17.14 m | |
8th | Dietrich Urbach | Germany | 16.55 m | 17.09 m | - | 17.09 m | |
9 | Silvano Meconi | Italy | 17.08 m | - | - | 17.08 m | |
10 | Alfred Sosgórnik | Poland | 17.06 m | - | - | 17.06 m | |
11 | Les Mills | New Zealand | x | 16.93 m | - | 16.93 m | |
12 | Hermann Lingnau | Germany | 16.21 m | 16.87 m | - | 16.87 m | |
13 | Zsigmond Nagy | Hungary | 16.84 m | - | - | 16.84 m | |
14th | Jaroslav Plíhal | Czechoslovakia | 16.81 m | - | - | 16.81 m | |
Warwick Selvey | Australia | ||||||
16 | Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski | Poland | x | x | 16.71 m | 16.71 m | |
17th | Arthur Rowe | Great Britain | 16.19 m | 16.42 m | 16.68 m | 16.68 m | |
18th | Georgios Tsakanikas | Greece | 16.44 m | 16.22 m | 16.38 m | 16.44 m | |
19th | Erik Uddebom | Sweden | 16.31 m | 16.09 m | 16.27 m | 16.31 m | |
20th | Fritz Kühl | Germany | 15.71 m | 15.71 m | 15.69 m | 15.71 m | |
21st | Gideon Ariel | Israel | 14.56 m | 14.65 m | 14.57 m | 14.65 m | |
22nd | Salem El-Jisr | Lebanon | 13.34 m | 13.82 m | 13.50 m | 13.82 m | |
23 | Nayef Mohamed Hameed | Iraq | 13.52 m | 12.61 m | 13.65 m | 13.65 m | |
24 | Haider Khan | Pakistan | 13.53 m | 13.47 m | 13.26 m | 13.53 m |
final
Date: August 31, 1960, 4:50 p.m.
15 participants had made the qualification distance. The favorite was US athlete Bill Nieder, who became the first man to surpass the 20-meter mark in August.
In the final it was only the three Americans Nieder, Parry O'Brien and Dallas Long, who pushed further than 19 meters. However, the world record holder Nieder had to support his injured knee with a bandage and was only able to contest the competition with pain. O'Brien, the Olympic champion in 1952 and 1956 , tried to impress his competitors with psychological games, which he initially succeeded in doing. In the first two rounds he improved his own Olympic record . In the penultimate round, however, O'Brien was intercepted by Nieder and had to be satisfied with the silver medal. Bronze went to Long.
In the 14th Olympic final, William Nieder achieved the twelfth US victory. It was the fourth US success in a row. At the same time it was the seventh US triple success.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Bill Nieder | United States | 18.67 m | 18.77 m | x | 18.67 m | 19.68 m OR | x | 19.68 m | OR |
2 | Parry O'Brien | United States | 18.77 m OR | 19.11 m OR | x | 18.64 m | 17.41 m | 18.39 m | 19.11 m | |
3 | Dallas Long | United States | 16.80 m | 18.88 m | 18.66 m | 18.25 m | x | 19.01 m | 19.01 m | |
4th | Viktor Lipsnis | Soviet Union | 17.28 m | 17.90 m | 17.51 m | x | x | 17.83 m | 17.90 m | |
5 | Mike Lindsay | Great Britain | 17.63 m | 17.63 m | 17.80 m | 17.09 m | 17.39 m | 17.43 m | 17.80 m | |
6th | Alfred Sosgórnik | Poland | 17.57 m | 17.57 m | x | x | 17.52 m | 17.39 m | 17.57 m | |
7th | Dietrich Urbach | Germany | 17.34 m | 17.05 m | 17.47 m | not in the final of the six best athletes |
17.47 m | |||
8th | Martyn Lucking | Great Britain | 17.05 m | 16.71 m | 17.43 m | 17.43 m | ||||
9 | Jíři Skobla | Czechoslovakia | 17.31 m | 17.39 m | x | 17.39 m | ||||
10 | Jaroslav Plíhal | Czechoslovakia | 17.35 m | 17.36 m | 17.27 m | 17.36 m | ||||
11 | Les Mills | New Zealand | 16.86 m | 16.09 m | 17.06 m | 17.06 m | ||||
12 | Hermann Lingnau | Germany | 16.65 m | 16.98 m | 16.66 m | 16.98 m | ||||
13 | Silvano Meconi | Italy | x | 16.73 m | x | 16.73 m | ||||
14th | Zsigmond Nagy | Hungary | x | 16.67 m | x | 16.67 m | ||||
15th | Warwick Selvey | Australia | 16.18 m | 15.93 m | 15.76 m | 16.18 m |
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 209–211
Videos
- Olympic shot put 1960 , published November 20, 2006 on youtube.com, accessed October 19, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference Shot Put , accessed October 19, 2017
- Official report pp. 146–148, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 19, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 557, accessed on October 19, 2017 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 63 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 19, 2017
- ^ Official report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 146 (English) on library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 19, 2017
- ↑ There are two different versions for this width: (1) 12.65 m - SportsReference database / (2) 13.65 m - Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 146 (English) on library.la84.org (PDF ) and Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 209. Since two sources agree a value of 13.65 m, will here it is assumed that this information is correct. This also corresponds to the placement, which would otherwise be different.
- ^ Official report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 148 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 19, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 19, 2017