Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put
Final
Key: OR = Olympic record

Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put

Section Title: Final
Table Section Text: Key: OR = Olympic record

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes

Parry O'Brien	United States	17.41	17.21	16.79	16.87	17.12	16.53	17.41	OR

Darrow Hooper	United States	17.02	16.59	17.08	16.90	16.93	17.39	17.39

Jim Fuchs	United States	16.93	x	x	x	17.06	x	17.06

4	Oto Grigalka	Soviet Union	16.53	16.78	15.91	16.27	16.29	16.33	16.78

5	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	16.55	16.08	16.33	x	x	x	16.55

6	John Savidge	Great Britain	16.17	16.18	x	16.19	16.03	x	16.19

7	Georgy Fyodorov	Soviet Union	15.98	16.01	16.06	16.06

8	Per Stavem	Norway	15.14	16.02	15.31	16.02

9	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	15.73	15.60	15.92	15.92

10	Tadeusz Krzyżanowski	Poland	15.08	14.57	14.32	15.08

11	Lucien Guillier	France	13.94	14.46	14.84	14.84

12	Angiolo Profeti	Italy	14.59	14.00	14.74	14.74

13	Alois Schwabl	Austria	14.43	14.20	14.45	14.45

Sentence(s)

In the first round of the final O'Brien reached a distance of 17.41, which gave him the lead, holding on until the final round when Hooper's 17.39 put him just two centimeters short of a gold medal.

final_sentence: In the first round of the final O'Brien reached a distance of 17.41, which gave him the lead, holding on until the final round when Hooper's 17.39 put him just two centimeters short of a gold medal.