1958 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
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
20 km walk	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
v t e

The men's shot put at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held in Stockholm, Sweden, at Stockholms Olympiastadion on 23 August 1958.^[1]

Gold	Arthur Rowe  Great Britain
Silver	Viktor Lipsnis  Soviet Union
Bronze	Jiří Skobla  Czechoslovakia

23 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Arthur Rowe	Great Britain	17.78	CR NR
	Viktor Lipsnis	Soviet Union	17.47
	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	17.12
4	Hermann Lingnau	West Germany	17.07
5	Silvano Meconi	Italy	16.98
6	Vladimir Loshchilov	Soviet Union	16.96
7	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	16.77
8	Alfred Sosgórnik	Poland	16.65
9	Dieter Urbach	West Germany	16.65
10	Todor Artarski	Bulgaria	16.48
11	Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski	Poland	16.33
12	Jaroslav Plíhal	Czechoslovakia	16.26
13	Joel Eklund	Sweden	16.20
14	Martyn Lucking	Great Britain	16.02
15	Aksel Thorsager	Denmark	15.88
16	Georgios Tsakanikas	Greece	15.73
17	Gunnar Huseby	Iceland	15.62

23 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Hermann Lingnau	West Germany	17.00	Q
2	Alfred Sosgórnik	Poland	16.79	Q
3	Viktor Lipsnis	Soviet Union	16.76	Q
4	Vladimir Loshchilov	Soviet Union	16.75	Q
5	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	16.75	Q
6	Silvano Meconi	Italy	16.07	Q
7	Arthur Rowe	Great Britain	16.04	Q
8	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	15.95	Q
9	Georgios Tsakanikas	Greece	15.91	Q
10	Dieter Urbach	West Germany	15.89	Q
11	Joel Eklund	Sweden	15.76	Q
12	Martyn Lucking	Great Britain	15.74	Q
13	Todor Artarski	Bulgaria	15.61	Q
14	Jaroslav Plíhal	Czechoslovakia	15.60	Q
15	Gunnar Huseby	Iceland	15.50	Q
16	Aksel Thorsager	Denmark	15.45	Q
17	Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski	Poland	15.32	Q
18	Mario Monti	Italy	14.53

According to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.