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
Medalist Bill Nieder ( USA )   Parry O'Brien ( USA )   Dallas Long ( USA )

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

Failed in qualification: Fritz Kühl (GER)

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
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
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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 557, accessed on October 19, 2017 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 63 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 19, 2017
3. ^ Official report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 146 (English) on library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 19, 2017
4. ↑ 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.
5. ^ Official report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 148 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 19, 2017
6. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 19, 2017