1946 European Athletics Championships – Men's shot put

1946 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		women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's shot put at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held in Oslo, Norway, at Bislett Stadion on 23 August 1946.^[1] Although the existence of this event is up for debate.^[2]

Gold	Gunnar Huseby  Iceland
Silver	Dmitriy Goryainov  Soviet Union
Bronze	Yrjö Lehtilä  Finland

23 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Gunnar Huseby	Iceland	15.56
	Dmitriy Goryainov	Soviet Union	15.25
	Yrjö Lehtilä	Finland	15.23
4	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	15.16
5	Thage Pettersson	Sweden	14.87
6	Sulo Bärlund	Finland	14.75
7	Eivind Sværen	Norway	14.34
8	Lars Ulgenes	Norway	14.28
9	Witold Gerutto	Poland	13.90

23 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Gunnar Huseby	Iceland	15.64	Q
2	Thage Pettersson	Sweden	14.72	Q
3	Yrjö Lehtilä	Finland	14.50	Q
4	Witold Gerutto	Poland	14.49	Q
5	Eivind Sværen	Norway	14.33	Q
6	Dmitriy Goryainov	Soviet Union	14.32	Q
7	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	14.20	Q
8	Sulo Bärlund	Finland	14.11	Q
9	Lars Ulgenes	Norway	14.02	Q
10	Čestmír Kalina	Czechoslovakia	13.60
11	Dave Guiney	Ireland	13.57
12	Roger Verhas	Belgium	12.77
13	Mieczysław Łomowski	Poland	12.53

According to an unofficial count, 13 athletes from 9 countries participated in the event.