1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	29 athletes from 19 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Munich
Competition phase	September 8, 1972 (qualification) September 9, 1972 (final)
Medalist Władysław Komar ( POL )   George Woods ( USA )   Hartmut Briesenick ( GDR )

The men's shot put at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was played on September 8 and 9, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 29 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Władysław Komar from Poland . The silver medal went to the American George Woods , while the bronze went to Hartmut Briesenick from the GDR.

In addition to the bronze medalist, Hans-Peter Gies and Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg also competed for the GDR . Both reached the final. Gies was fourth, Rothenburg eleventh.
For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - Heinfried Birlenbach , Ralf Reichenbach and Traugott Glöckler started. They too reached the finals. Birlenbach was seventh and Reichenbach was 13th, Glöckler was 18th.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	21.78 m	Randy Matson ( USA )	College Station , USA	April 22, 1967
Olympic record	20.68 m		Mexico City , Mexico Qualifying	October 13, 1968

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round on September 8th. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 19.00 m. Since more than twelve athletes reached this distance, the final field did not have to be filled.
In the final on September 9, each athlete initially had three attempts. The best eight participants then had another three attempts.

Time schedule

September 8, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification
September 9, 2:30 p.m .: Final

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: September 8, 1972, from 10 a.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Wladyslaw Komar	Poland	20.60 m	-	-	20.60 m
2	George Woods	United States	19.96 m	-	-	19.96 m
3	Al Feuerbach	United States	19.94 m	-	-	19.94 m
4th	Yves Brouzet	France	19.87 m	-	-	19.87 m
5	Jaroslav Brabec	Czechoslovakia	19.82 m	-	-	19.82 m
6th	Seppo Simola	Finland	19.49 m	-	-	19.49 m
7th	Ralf Reichenbach	BR Germany	19.14 m	-	-	19.14 m
8th	Hans-Peter Gies	GDR	19.06 m	-	-	19.06 m
9	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg	GDR	19.03 m	-	-	19.03 m
10	Alexander Baryshnikov	Soviet Union	18.45 m	18.41 m	18.65 m	18.65 m
11	Loukas Louka	Greece	17.47 m	17.48 m	x	17.48 m
12	Jugraj Singh	India	x	17.15 m	16.69 m	17.15 m
13	Christopher Okonkwo	Nigeria	14.98 m	x	16.51 m	16.51 m
14th	Hussein Al-Taib Maki	Saudi Arabia	x	11.57 m	10.77 m	11.57 m
DNS	Bjørn Andersen	Norway
	Youssef Nagui Assaad	Egypt
	Bill Tancred	Great Britain

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Hartmut Briesenick	GDR	20.38 m	-	-	20.38 m
2	Heinfried Birlenbach	BR Germany	20.10 m	-	-	20.10 m
3	Brian Oldfield	United States	19.95 m	-	-	19.95 m
4th	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	19.94 m	-	-	19.94 m
5	Jaromír Vlk	Czechoslovakia	x	18.20 m	19.61 m	19.61 m
6th	Lahcen Samsam Akka	Morocco	18.98 m	19.36 m	-	19.36 m
7th	Rimantas Plungė	Soviet Union	18.97 m	19.18 m	-	19.18 m
8th	Bruce Pirnie	Canada	19.18 m	-	-	19.18 m
9	Traugott Glöckler	BR Germany	18.15 m	19.11 m	-	19.11 m
10	Ivan Ivančić	Yugoslavia	18.80 m	18.95 m	x	18.95 m
11	Geoff Capes	Great Britain	18.94 m	18.72 m	18.79 m	18.94 m
12	Arnjolt Beer	France	18.55 m	18.74 m	18.21 m	18.74 m
13	Les Mills	New Zealand	17.61 m	18.38 m	x	18.38 m
14th	Bo Grahn	Finland	x	x	18.20 m	18.20 m
15th	Phil Conway	Ireland	16.16 m	15.76 m	16.69 m	16.69 m
DNS	Wassil Krumow	Bulgaria
	Aristides Lanier	Cuba
	Salvatore Morale	Italy

final

Date: September 9, 1972, 2:30 p.m.

The audience saw a very exciting final. The Pole Władysław Komar hit his ball on the first attempt on the new Olympic record of 21.18 m. The GDR athlete Hans-Peter Gies came to 21.14 m, followed by his teammate Hartmut Briesenick and the US pusher Allan Feuerbach. In the second attempt, Gies added 21.00 m, in the third another 21.01 m. Also in the third round Briesenick came to 21.02 m before he brought the ball to 21.14 m on lap four. That was the same distance as that of his compatriot Gies, but Briesenick's second best attempt was an inch further. However, that was only enough for Briesenick to get a bronze medal and Gies to take fourth place, because the American George Woods also managed 21.17 m in the fourth attempt, which was only one centimeter behind the leading Komar. Until the end nothing changed in the order.

The fifth Feuerbach and his compatriot Brian Oldfield in sixth place , who competed with a new joint technique, a forerunner of the rotary joint technique , remained above the Olympic record that had been valid until then.
In Shot Put Men Wladyslaw Komar was the first Polish Olympic champion and was also the first Polish medalist in this discipline.

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  Olympic champion Władysław Komar, Poland

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  Hartmut Briesenick from the GDR, winner of the bronze medal

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  Hans-Peter Gies, GDR, took fourth place

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  Al Feuerbach from the USA came in fifth

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  The eleventh placed Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg, GDR

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Wladyslaw Komar	Poland	21.18 m OR	x	20.55 m	20.74 m	20.80 m	x	21.18 m	OR
2	George Woods	United States	20.55 m	20.17 m	20.71 m	21.17 m	20.88 m	21.05 m	21.17 m
3	Hartmut Briesenick	GDR	20.97 m	20.91 m	21.02 m	21.14 m	20.61 m	20.54 m	21.14 m
4th	Hans-Peter Gies	GDR	21.14 m	21.00 m	21.01 m	20.62 m	x	x	21.14 m
5	Al Feuerbach	United States	20.90 m	20.29 m	x	20.86 m	21.01 m	20.28 m	21.01 m
6th	Brian Oldfield	United States	20.85 m	20.60 m	20.87 m	20.54 m	20.91 m	20.13 m	20.91 m
7th	Heinfried Birlenbach	BR Germany	20.37 m	x	x	19.89 m	x	20.13 m	20.37 m
8th	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	20.10 m	x	x	x	19.67 m	19.65 m	20.10 m
9	Jaromír Vlk	Czechoslovakia	19.66 m	20.09 m	x	not in the final of the eight best athletes			20.09 m
10	Jaroslav Brabec	Czechoslovakia	19.61 m	19.86 m	19.60 m				19.86 m
11	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg	GDR	19.74 m	x	x				19.74 m
12	Yves Brouzet	France	19.42 m	19.61 m	19.49 m				19.61 m
13	Ralf Reichenbach	BR Germany	19.48 m	x	x				19.48 m
14th	Rimantas Plungė	Soviet Union	19.30 m	x	x				19.30 m
15th	Lahcen Samsam Akka	Morocco	19.11 m	x	x				19.11 m
16	Seppo Simola	Finland	18.91 m	19.06 m	x				19.06 m
17th	Bruce Pirnie	Canada	18.90 m	x	x				18.90 m
18th	Traugott Glöckler	BR Germany	18.85 m	18.47 m	x				18.85 m

Video

• 1972 Olympic Games - Men's Shot put Final , published June 2, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed December 1, 2017

literature

• Werner Schneider (Hrsg.): The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo. Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich / Gütersloh / Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , p. 46f.

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed December 1, 2017
• Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 61f, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 1, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 557 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 1, 2017.
2. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 1, 2017. 
3. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 61, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 1, 2017. 
4. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 62, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 1, 2017. 
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 1, 2017.