1962 European Athletics Championships – Men's shot put

Events at the 1962 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
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
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's shot put at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Beograd, then Yugoslavia, at JNA Stadium on 14 September 1962.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Vilmos Varjú  Hungary
Silver	Viktor Lipsnis  Soviet Union
Bronze	Alfred Sosgórnik  Poland

Results

Final

14 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
01 !	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	19.02	CR
02 !	Viktor Lipsnis	Soviet Union	18.38
03 !	Alfred Sosgórnik	Poland	18.26
4	Władysław Komar	Poland	18.00
5	Zsigmond Nagy	Hungary	17.97
6	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	17.87
7	Dieter Urbach	West Germany	17.58
8	Milija Jocović	Yugoslavia	17.55
9	Martyn Lucking	United Kingdom	17.47
10	Mike Lindsay	United Kingdom	17.23
11	Peter Gratz	East Germany	17.09
12	Jarmo Kunnas	Finland	17.06
13	Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski	Poland	17.05
14	Rudolf Langer	East Germany	16.95
15	Boško Tomasović	Yugoslavia	16.95

Qualification

14 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Viktor Lipsnis	Soviet Union	18.00	CR Q
2	Zsigmond Nagy	Hungary	17.91	Q
3	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	17.81	Q
4	Alfred Sosgórnik	Poland	17.71	Q
5	Milija Jocović	Yugoslavia	17.46	Q
6	Mike Lindsay	United Kingdom	17.44	Q
7	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	17.31	Q
8	Władysław Komar	Poland	17.22	Q
9	Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski	Poland	17.12	Q
10	Dieter Urbach	West Germany	17.13	Q
11	Boško Tomasović	Yugoslavia	17.12	Q
12	Peter Gratz	East Germany	17.12	Q
13	Jarmo Kunnas	Finland	17.08	Q
14	Martyn Lucking	United Kingdom	17.06	Q
15	Rudolf Langer	East Germany	17.05	Q
16	Silvano Meconi	Italy	16.93
17	Jean-Claude Ernwein	France	16.82
18	Aksel Thorsager	Denmark	16.22
19	Bjørn Bang Andersen	Norway	16.12
20	André Godard	France	15.71

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

References