Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put

Men's shot put at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Men's shot put at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Hungary
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	17 October
Competitors	25 from 15 nations
Medalists
Dallas Crutcher Long   United States   James Randel Matson   United States   Vilmos Varju   Hungary

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Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics
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
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
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's shot put was one of four men's throwing events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 17 October 1964. 25 athletes from 15 nations entered, with 3 not starting in the qualification round.^[1]

Results

Qualification

The qualification standard was 17.80 metres. Each thrower had three attempts to reach that standard.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Best mark		Throw 1	Throw 2	Throw 3
1	Dallas Crutcher Long	United States	19.51 metres		19.51	—
2	James Randel Matson	United States	18.92 metres		18.92	—
3	Victor Lipsnis	Soviet Union	18.90 metres		18.90	—
4	Vilmos Varju	Hungary	18.26 metres		18.26	—
5	Zsigmond Nagy	Hungary	18.14 metres		18.14	—
6	Władysław Komar	Poland	18.05 metres		18.05	—
	Leslie Mills	New Zealand	18.05 metres		18.05	—
	Georgios Tsakanikas	Greece	18.05 metres		17.72	17.25	18.05
9	Rudolf Langer	United Team of Germany	17.90 metres		17.90	—
10	Adolf Varanauskas	Soviet Union	17.86 metres		17.86	—
11	W. Parry O'Brien	United States	17.84 metres		17.84	—
12	Nikolay Karasiov	Soviet Union	17.83 metres		17.83	—
13	Dieter Hoffmann	United Team of Germany	17.82 metres		17.45	X	17.82
14	Heinfried Birlenbach	United Team of Germany	17.77 metres		17.10	16.79	17.77
15	Alfred Sosgórnik	Poland	17.75 metres		X	17.75	X
16	Martyn Lucking	Great Britain	17.67 metres		X	X	17.67
17	Silvano Meconi	Italy	17.29 metres		17.29	17.20	X
18	Lahcen Akka Samsam	Morocco	17.24 metres		X	17.24	X
19	Mike Lindsay	Great Britain	17.23 metres		16.77	16.70	17.23
20	Segui Denis Kragbe	Ivory Coast	16.59 metres		16.20	16.59	16.38
21	Itokawa Teruo	Japan	15.84 metres		15.73	15.84	15.56
22	Rim He Kun	South Korea	13.64 metres		13.47	13.64	13.37
—	Edmund Piatkowski	Poland	Did not start		—
	Gideon Uriel	Israel	Did not start		—
	Gheorghe Zimbresteanu	Romania	Did not start		—

Final

The scores from the qualification round were ignored for the final. Each thrower received three attempts; the six that had thrown the longest in those three threw another three times each.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Best mark		Throw 1	Throw 2	Throw 3	Throw 4	Throw 5	Throw 6
1	Dallas Crutcher Long	United States	20.33 metres OR		19.61	19.55	19.34	20.33	19.09	X
2	James Randel Matson	United States	20.20 metres		18.53	19.19	18.88	20.20	X	19.62
3	Vilmos Varju	Hungary	19.39 metres		19.23	X	19.39	19.29	18.97	19.25
4	W. Parry O'Brien	United States	19.20 metres		18.95	18.86	19.20	18.32	18.62	18.84
5	Zsigmond Nagy	Hungary	18.88 metres		18.77	X	18.50	18.43	X	18.88
6	Nikolay Karasiov	Soviet Union	18.86 metres		18.86	18.26	X	18.14	17.98	18.18
7	Leslie Mills	New Zealand	18.52 metres		18.19	18.50	18.52
8	Adolf Varanauskas	Soviet Union	18.41 metres		X	18.30	18.41
9	Władysław Komar	Poland	18.20 metres		18.20	X	X
10	Victor Lipsnis	Soviet Union	18.11 metres		17.45	17.86	18.11
11	Rudolf Langer	United Team of Germany	17.29 metres		17.29	16.90	X
12	Dieter Hoffmann	United Team of Germany	17.11 metres		X	X	17.11
13	Georges Tsakinikas	Greece	16.87 metres		16.87	X	16.38

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