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

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	Viktor 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	—
	Les 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	Adolfas Varanauskas	Soviet Union	17.86 metres		17.86	—
11	W. Parry O'Brien	United States	17.84 metres		17.84	—
12	Nikolay Karasyov	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 Samsam Akka	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	Teruo Itokawa	Japan	15.84 metres		15.73	15.84	15.56
22	Im Ho-geun	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		—

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	Les 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