1950 European Athletics Championships – Men's shot put

1950 European Athletics Championships
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
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 1950 European Athletics Championships was held in Brussels, Belgium, at Heysel Stadium on 25 August 1950.^[1]

The winning margin was 1.58 metres which with the conclusion of the 2024 championships remains the only time the men's shot put has been won by more than 1.3 metres at these championships.

Gold	Gunnar Huseby  Iceland
Silver	Angiolo Profeti  Italy
Bronze	Otto Grigalka  Soviet Union

25 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Gunnar Huseby	Iceland	16.74	CR NR
	Angiolo Profeti	Italy	15.16
	Otto Grigalka	Soviet Union	15.14
4	Willy Senn	Switzerland	14.95
5	Petar Sarcevic	Yugoslavia	14.90
6	Vladimír Jirout	Czechoslovakia	14.89
7	John Savidge	Great Britain	14.69
8	John Giles	Great Britain	14.29
9	Gösta Arvidsson	Sweden	14.17

25 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Gunnar Huseby	Iceland	16.29	CR Q
2	John Savidge	Great Britain	15.54	Q
3	Otto Grigalka	Soviet Union	15.45	Q
4	Vladimír Jirout	Czechoslovakia	15.23	Q
5	Petar Sarcevic	Yugoslavia	15.18	Q
6	Angiolo Profeti	Italy	14.95	Q
7	Willy Senn	Switzerland	14.79	Q
8	Gösta Arvidsson	Sweden	14.57	Q
9	John Giles	Great Britain	14.52	Q
10	Konstantinos Giataganas	Greece	14.49
11	Roger Verhas	Belgium	14.37
12	Willy Wuyts	Belgium	13.28
13	Jean Darot	France	13.12

According to an unofficial count, 13 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.