1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	22 athletes from 15 countries
Competition location	Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	17th October 1964
Medalist Dallas Long ( USA )   Randy Matson ( USA )   Vilmos Varjú ( HUN )

The shot put men at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo was on 17 October 1964 at the National Olympic Stadium held. 22 athletes took part.

The American Dallas Long was the Olympic champion . He won ahead of his compatriot Randy Matson and the Hungarian Vilmos Varjú .

While athletes from Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part, three Germans started. Heinfried Birlenbach failed in the qualification, he was three centimeters short of the required qualification width. Rudolf Langer and Dieter Hoffmann reached the final. In the final they finished eleven and twelve.

Existing records

World record	20.68 m	Dallas Long ( USA )	Los Angeles , USA	July 25, 1964
Olympic record	19.68 m	Bill Nieder ( USA )	Final of Rome , Italy	August 31, 1960

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a qualifying round on October 17, in which each competitor had three attempts. The qualification width was 17.80 m. For all qualified athletes, the final took place in the afternoon of the same day. There, each participant initially had three attempts. The six best athletes were then allowed three more attempts.

Time schedule

October 17, 10 a.m .: Qualification

October 17, 3 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)

Best widths are printed in bold.

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.

qualification

Date: October 17, 1964, 10:00 a.m.

Weather conditions: clear, 17–20 ° C, 67–69% humidity

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Dallas Long	United States	19.51 m	-	-	19.51 m
2	Randy Matson	United States	18.92 m	-	-	18.92 m
3	Viktor Lipsnis	Soviet Union	18.90 m	-	-	18.90 m
4th	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	18.26 m	-	-	18.26 m
5	Zsigmond Nagy	Hungary	18.14 m	-	-	18.14 m
6th	Georgios Tsakanikas	Greece	17.72 m	17.25 m	18.05 m	18.05 m
7th	Wladyslaw Komar	Poland	18.05 m	-	-	18.05 m
	Les Mills	New Zealand
9	Rudolf Langer	Germany	17.90 m	-	-	17.90 m
10	Adolfas Varanauskas	Soviet Union	17.86 m	-	-	17.86 m
11	Parry O'Brien	United States	17.84 m	-	-	17.84 m
12	Nikolai Karassev	Soviet Union	17.83 m	-	-	17.83 m
13	Dieter Hoffmann	Germany	17.45 m	x	17.82 m	17.82 m
14th	Heinfried Birlenbach	Germany	17.10 m	16.79 m	17.77 m	17.77 m
15th	Alfred Sosgórnik	Poland	x	17.75 m	x	17.75 m
16	Martyn Lucking	Great Britain	x	x	17.67 m	17.67 m
17th	Silvano Meconi	Italy	17.29 m	17.20 m	x	17.29 m
18th	Lahcen Samsam Akka	Morocco	x	17.24 m	x	17.24 m
19th	Mike Lindsay	Great Britain	16.77 m	16.70 m	17.23 m	17.23 m
20th	Denis Ségui Kragbé	Ivory Coast	16.20 m	16.59 m	16.38 m	16.59 m
21st	Teruo Itokawa	Japan	15.73 m	15.84 m	15.56 m	15.84 m
22nd	Rim He-kun	South Korea	13.47 m	13.64 m	13.37 m	13.64 m

final

Date: October 17, 1964, 3 p.m.

Weather conditions: sunny, approx. 23 ° C, 65–67% humidity

The US athlete Parry O'Brien took part in the Olympic Games for the fourth time. The winner of Helsinki in 1952 and Melbourne in 1956 was not the favorite. That role went to his teammate Dallas Long, who had broken the world record four times before the Tokyo Games . His fiercest competitor Randy Matson came from his own camp, Matson, like Long, had already exceeded the 20-meter mark several times.

Long also took the lead in the first attempt in the final, for which 13 participants had qualified. In second place was the Hungarian Vilmos Varjú, third was O'Brien, who was ousted in fourth place by young Randy Matson in his second attempt. In the third round, Varjú was able to overtake Matson, but Matson countered. On the fourth try, both Long and Matson hit their bests. First Matson reached 20.20 m, then Long's ball landed at 20.33 m. Both had exceeded the previous Olympic record. Afterwards nothing changed in the classification. The favorites had prevailed and Parry O'Brien went home for the first time after two golds and one silver from 1952 to 1960 without precious metal, although he had achieved his greatest Olympic distance with 19.20 m.

Dallas Long made for the 13th US success in the 15th Olympic final. It was also the fifth US victory in a row and the eleventh double victory.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Dallas Long	United States	19.61 m	19.45 m	19.34 m	20.33 m OR	19.09 m	x	20.33 m	OR
2	Randy Matson	United States	18.53 m	19.19 m	18.88 m	20.20 m OR	x	19.62 m	20.20 m
3	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	19.23 m	x	19.39 m	19.29 m	18.97 m	19.25 m	19.39 m
4th	Parry O'Brien	United States	18.95 m	18.86 m	19.20 m	18.32 m	18.62 m	18.84 m	19.20 m
5	Zsigmond Nagy	Hungary	18.77 m	x	18.50 m	18.43 m	x	18.88 m	18.88 m
6th	Nikolai Karassev	Soviet Union	18.86 m	18.26 m	x	18.14 m	17.98 m	18.18 m	18.86 m
7th	Les Mills	New Zealand	18.19 m	18.50 m	18.52 m	not in the final of the six best athletes			18.52 m
8th	Adolfas Varanauskas	Soviet Union	x	18.30 m	18.41 m				18.41 m
9	Wladyslaw Komar	Poland	18.20 m	x	x				18.20 m
10	Viktor Lipsnis	Soviet Union	17.45 m	17.86 m	18.11 m				18.11 m
11	Rudolf Langer	Germany	17.29 m	16.90 m	x				17.29 m
12	Dieter Hoffmann	Germany	x	x	17.11 m				17.11 m
13	Georgios Tsakanikas	Greece	16.87 m	x	16.38 m				16.87 m

Picture gallery

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  Wladyslaw Komar from Poland - photo from 1972 - finished ninth in the final

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  Best German in eleventh place in the final: Rudolf Langer

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  Twelfth place for Dieter Hoffmann

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 280–282

Video

• The Tokyo 1964 Olympics Part 2 | Olympic History , range 15:22 min - 17:42 min, published on October 10, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on October 28, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed October 28, 2017
• Official report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 51f engl. (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 557 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ) retrieved on October 28, 2017
2. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 17 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017 
3. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 51f (English) from library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017 
4. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 52 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017 
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 28, 2017