Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put

Men's shot put at the Games of the X Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	July 31
Competitors	15 from 10 nations
Medalists
Leo Sexton United States   Harlow Rothert United States   František Douda Czechoslovakia

Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
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 steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's shot put event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place July 31.

Results

Final standings

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
01 !	Leo Sexton	United States	16.005	OR
02 !	Harlow Rothert	United States	15.675
03 !	František Douda	Czechoslovakia	15.610
4	Emil Hirschfeld	Germany	15.560
5	Nelson Gray	United States	15.460
6	Hans-Heinrich Sievert	Germany	15.070
7	József Darányi	Hungary	14.670
8	Jules Noël	France	14.530
9	Zygmunt Heljasz	Poland	14.490
10	Harry Hart	South Africa	14.220
11	Clément Duhour	France	13.960
12	Kalle Järvinen	Finland	13.910
13	Paul Winter	France	13.140
14	Pedro Elsa	Argentina	11.210
	Antônio Lyra	Brazil		NM

Key: NM = No mark, OR = Olympic record

References

• 1932 Summer Olympics results: Men's shot put, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-04-04.