Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put

Men's shot put at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	August 3 (qualifying and final)
Medalists
Wilbur Thompson United States   Jim Delaney United States   Jim Fuchs United States

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Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
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
10 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 event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on August 3. The final was won by American Wilbur Thompson. Thompson's compatriots, Jim Delaney and Jim Fuchs took 2nd and 3rd place.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Jack Torrance (USA)	17.40 m	Oslo, Norway	5 August 1934
Olympic record	Hans Woellke (GER)	16.20 m	Berlin, Germany	2 August 1936

The following new Olympic record was set during this competition:

Date	Event	Athlete	Height	Notes
3 August	Final	Wilbur Thompson (USA)	17.12 m	OR

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Results

Qualifying Round

Qual. rule: qualification standard 14.60m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Jim Fuchs	United States	15.870	Q
2	Wilbur Thompson	United States	15.090	Q
3	Jim Delaney	United States	14.970	Q
4	Yrjö Lehtilä	Finland	14.850	Q
5	John Giles	Great Britain	14.795	Q
6	Jaakko Jouppila	Finland	14.720	Q
7	Mieczysław Łomowski	Poland	14.700	Q
7	Gösta Arvidsson	Sweden	14.700	Q
9	Konstantinos Giataganas	Greece	14.630	Q
10	Čestmír Kalina	Czechoslovakia	14.540	q
11	Sigfús Sigurðsson	Iceland	14.480	q
12	Witold Gerutto	Poland	14.450	q
13 !-	Willy Senn	Switzerland	14.450
13 !-	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	14.360
13 !-	Eric Coy	Canada	14.150
13 !-	David Guiney	Ireland	14.010
13 !-	Vilhjálmur Vilmundarson	Iceland	13.990
13 !-	Harold Moody	Great Britain	13.400
13 !-	Roger Verhaes	Belgium	13.540
13 !-	Emilio Malchiodi	Argentina	DNQ
13 !-	Juan Kanhert	Argentina	DNQ
13 !-	Leonello Patiño	Peru	DNQ
13 !-	Nazar Muhammad Khan Malik	Pakistan	DNQ
13 !-	Ahmed Zahur Khan	Pakistan	DNQ

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
01 !	Wilbur Thompson	United States	16.47	17.12	16.97	16.67	16.80	00.00 !x	17.12	OR
02 !	Jim Delaney	United States	16.14	16.68	15.88	16.03	16.03	16.28	16.68
03 !	Jim Fuchs	United States	16.32	16.42	15.60	15.56	14.82	16.28	16.42
4	Mieczysław Łomowski	Poland							15.43
5	Gösta Arvidsson	Sweden							15.37
6	Yrjö Lehtilä	Finland							15.05
7	Jaakko Jouppila	Finland							14.59
8	Čestmír Kalina	Czechoslovakia							14.55
9	Konstantinos Giataganas	Greece							14.54
10	Witold Gerutto	Poland							14.37
11	John Giles	Great Britain							13.73
12	Sigfús Sigurðsson	Iceland							13.66

Key: OR = Olympic record

External links

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Men's shot put, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-07-11.
• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 5 September 2016.