Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put

Men's shot put at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	August 31
Medalists
Bill Nieder  United States Parry O'Brien  United States Dallas Long  United States

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's shot put throwing event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on August 31.

Results

All throwers reaching 16.75 metres advanced to the finals. All distances are listen in metres.

Qualifying

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3
1T	Dallas Long	United States	17.65	17.65	pass	pass
1T	Viktor Lipsnis	Soviet Union	17.65	17.65	pass	pass
3	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	17.32	17.32	pass	pass
4	Parry O'Brien	United States	17.29	17.29	pass	pass
5	Mike Lindsay	Great Britain	17.28	17.28	pass	pass
6	Martyn Lucking	Great Britain	17.20	17.20	pass	pass
7	Bill Nieder	United States	17.14	17.14	pass	pass
8	Dieter Urbach	United Team of Germany	17.09	16.55	17.09	pass
9	Silvano Meconi	Italy	17.08	17.08	pass	pass
10	Alfred Sosgórnik	Poland	17.06	17.06	pass	pass
11	Les Mills	New Zealand	16.93	foul	16.93	pass
12	Hermann Lingnau	United Team of Germany	16.87	16.21	16.87	pass
13	Zsigmond Nagy	Hungary	16.84	16.84	pass	pass
14T	Jaroslav Plíhal	Czechoslovakia	16.81	16.81	pass	pass
14T	Warwick Selvey	Australia	16.81	16.81	pass	pass
16	Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski	Poland	16.71	foul	foul	16.71
17	Arthur Rowe	Great Britain	16.68	16.19	16.42	16.68
18	Georgios Tsakanikas	Greece	16.44	16.44	16.22	16.38
19	Erik Uddebom	Sweden	16.31	16.31	16.09	16.27
20	Fritz Kühl	United Team of Germany	15.71	15.71	15.71	15.69
21	Gideon Ariel	Israel	14.65	14.56	14.65	14.57
22	Salem El-Jisr	Lebanon	13.82	13.34	13.82	13.50
23	Nayef Mohamed Hameed	Iraq	13.65	13.52	12.61	12.65
24	Haider Khan	Pakistan	13.53	13.53	13.47	13.26

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3	4	5	6	Notes
	Bill Nieder	United States	19.68	18.67	18.77	foul	18.67	19.68 OR	foul	OR
	Parry O'Brien	United States	19.11	18.77 OR	19.11 OR	foul	18.64	17.41	18.39
	Dallas Long	United States	19.01	16.80	18.88	18.66	18.25	foul	19.01
4	Viktor Lipsnis	Soviet Union	17.90	17.28	17.90	17.51	foul	foul	17.83
5	Mike Lindsay	Great Britain	17.80	17.63	17.63	17.80	17.09	17.39	17.43
6	Alfred Sosgórnik	Poland	17.57	17.57	17.57	foul	foul	17.52	17.39
7	Dieter Urbach	United Team of Germany	17.47	17.34	17.05	17.47
8	Martyn Lucking	Great Britain	17.43	17.05	16.71	17.43
9	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	17.39	17.31	17.39	foul
10	Jaroslav Plíhal	Czechoslovakia	17.36	17.35	17.36	17.27
11	Les Mills	New Zealand	17.06	16.86	16.09	17.06
12	Hermann Lingnau	United Team of Germany	16.98	16.65	16.98	16.66
13	Silvano Meconi	Italy	16.73	foul	16.73	foul
14	Zsigmond Nagy	Hungary	16.67	foul	16.67	foul
15	Warwick Selvey	Australia	16.18	16.18	15.93	15.76

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Men's shot put, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-12.