Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games – Men's shot put

The men's shot put event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games was held on 12 August at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.^[1]

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result
	Geoff Capes	England	19.77
	Bruno Pauletto	Canada	19.33
	Zbigniew Dolegiewicz	Canada	18.45
4	Michael Mercer	Canada	17.83
5	Mike Winch	England	16.93
6	Robert Dale	England	16.89
7	Bahadur Chauhan	India	16.57
8	Jugraj Mann	India	16.50
9	Gurdeep Singh	India	15.74
10	Wayne Martin	Australia	15.54
11	Keith Falle	Jersey	15.32
12	Bradley Cooper	Bahamas	14.92
13	Michael Obange	Kenya	13.68

Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 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	women
Road events
Marathon	men
30 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
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