1958 European Athletics Championships – Men's shot put

Events at the 1958 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 1958 European Athletics Championships was held in Stockholm, Sweden, at Stockholms Olympiastadion on 23 August 1958.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Arthur Rowe  United Kingdom
Silver	Viktor Lipsnis  Soviet Union
Bronze	Jiří Skobla  Czechoslovakia

Results

Final

23 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
01 !	Arthur Rowe	United Kingdom	17.78	CR NR
02 !	Viktor Lipsnis	Soviet Union	17.47
03 !	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	17.12
4	Hermann Lingnau	West Germany	17.07
5	Silvano Meconi	Italy	16.98
6	Vladimir Loshchilov	Soviet Union	16.96
7	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	16.77
8	Alfred Sosgórnik	Poland	16.65
9	Dieter Urbach	West Germany	16.65
10	Todor Artarski	Bulgaria	16.48
11	Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski	Poland	16.33
12	Jaroslav Plíhal	Czechoslovakia	16.26
13	Joel Eklund	Sweden	16.20
14	Martyn Lucking	United Kingdom	16.02
15	Aksel Thorsager	Denmark	15.88
16	Georgios Tsakanikas	Greece	15.73
17	Gunnar Huseby	Iceland	15.62

Qualification

23 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Hermann Lingnau	West Germany	17.00	Q
2	Alfred Sosgórnik	Poland	16.79	Q
3	Viktor Lipsnis	Soviet Union	16.76	Q
4	Vladimir Loshchilov	Soviet Union	16.75	Q
5	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	16.75	Q
6	Silvano Meconi	Italy	16.07	Q
7	Arthur Rowe	United Kingdom	16.04	Q
8	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	15.95	Q
9	Georgios Tsakanikas	Greece	15.91	Q
10	Dieter Urbach	West Germany	15.89	Q
11	Joel Eklund	Sweden	15.76	Q
12	Martyn Lucking	United Kingdom	15.74	Q
13	Todor Artarski	Bulgaria	15.61	Q
14	Jaroslav Plíhal	Czechoslovakia	15.60	Q
15	Gunnar Huseby	Iceland	15.50	Q
16	Aksel Thorsager	Denmark	15.45	Q
17	Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski	Poland	15.32	Q
18	Mario Monti	Italy	14.53

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

References