1962 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 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia, at JNA Stadium on 14 September 1962.^[1]

Gold	Vilmos Varjú  Hungary
Silver	Viktor Lipsnis  Soviet Union
Bronze	Alfred Sosgórnik  Poland

14 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	19.02	CR
	Viktor Lipsnis	Soviet Union	18.38
	Alfred Sosgórnik	Poland	18.26
4	Władysław Komar	Poland	18.00
5	Zsigmond Nagy	Hungary	17.97
6	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	17.87
7	Dieter Urbach	West Germany	17.58
8	Milija Jocović	Yugoslavia	17.55
9	Martyn Lucking	Great Britain	17.47
10	Mike Lindsay	Great Britain	17.23
11	Peter Gratz	East Germany	17.09
12	Jarmo Kunnas	Finland	17.06
13	Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski	Poland	17.05
14	Rudolf Langer	East Germany	16.95
15	Boško Tomasović	Yugoslavia	16.95

14 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Viktor Lipsnis	Soviet Union	18.00	CR Q
2	Zsigmond Nagy	Hungary	17.91	Q
3	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	17.81	Q
4	Alfred Sosgórnik	Poland	17.71	Q
5	Milija Jocović	Yugoslavia	17.46	Q
6	Mike Lindsay	Great Britain	17.44	Q
7	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	17.31	Q
8	Władysław Komar	Poland	17.22	Q
9	Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski	Poland	17.12	Q
10	Dieter Urbach	West Germany	17.13	Q
11	Boško Tomasović	Yugoslavia	17.12	Q
12	Peter Gratz	East Germany	17.12	Q
13	Jarmo Kunnas	Finland	17.08	Q
14	Martyn Lucking	Great Britain	17.06	Q
15	Rudolf Langer	East Germany	17.05	Q
16	Silvano Meconi	Italy	16.93
17	Jean-Claude Ernwein	France	16.82
18	Aksel Thorsager	Denmark	16.22
19	Bjørn Bang Andersen	Norway	16.12
20	André Godard	France	15.71

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.