Athletics at the 1959 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	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	men
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The men's shot put event at the 1959 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Comunale di Torino in Turin on 3 September 1959.^[1][2]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Hermann Lingnau  West Germany	Zsigmond Nagy  Hungary	Georgios Tsakanikas  Greece

Qualification mark: 14.00 metres

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Hermann Lingnau	West Germany	17.33	Q
2	Zsigmond Nagy	Hungary	16.62	Q
3	Martyn Lucking	Great Britain	16.53	Q
4	Dako Radošević	Yugoslavia	14.86	Q
5	Gerald Harrison	Great Britain	14.52	Q
6	Piero Monguzzi	Italy	14.50	Q
7	Emilio Poli	Italy	14.29	Q
8	Eugeniusz Wachowski	Poland	14.27	Q
9	Georgios Tsakanikas	Greece	14.24	Q
10	Jean-Pierre Lassau	France	14.09	Q
11	Henk van Aarst	Netherlands	13.94	q
12	Salem El Djirs	Lebanon	13.94	q
13	Czesław Snieżyński	Poland	13.93
14	Francis Delecourt	France	13.49

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Hermann Lingnau	West Germany	17.32
	Zsigmond Nagy	Hungary	17.10
	Georgios Tsakanikas	Greece	16.70
4	Martyn Lucking	Great Britain	16.59
5	Dako Radošević	Yugoslavia	16.34
6	Gerald Harrison	Great Britain	16.83
7	Piero Monguzzi	Italy	16.32
8	Jean-Pierre Lassau	France	15.01