| POS | Rank | Heat | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | RESULTS | WIND |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | A | Erick Walder |
USA |
8.30 Q | +0.6 |
| 2 | 2 | A | Iván Pedroso |
CUB |
8.23 Q | +1.0 |
| 3 | 1 | B | Mike Powell |
USA |
8.15 Q | 0.0 |
| 4 | 3 | A | Ivaylo Mladenov |
BUL |
8.10 Q | +0.6 |
| 5 | 2 | B | Stanislav Tarasenko |
RUS |
8.05 q | +0.3 |
| 6 | 3 | B | Aleksandr Glavatskiy |
BLR |
8.03 q | +1.0 |
| 7 | 4 | B | Vitaliy Kirilenko |
UKR |
8.02 q | +0.4 |
| 8 | 6 | B | Spirídon Vasdékis |
GRE |
7.99 q | +0.5 |
| 8 | 5 | B | Milan Gombala |
CZE |
7.99 q | +0.7 |
| 10 | 7 | B | Andre Müller |
GER |
7.95 q | +0.3 |
| 10 | 4 | A | François Fouché |
RSA |
7.95 q | +1.0 |
| 12 | 5 | A | Nikolay Antonov |
BUL |
7.91 q | +0.9 |
| 13 | 6 | A | Konstadínos Koukodímos |
GRE |
7.90 | +1.1 |
| 14 | 8 | A | Joe Greene |
USA |
7.86 | +0.7 |
| 14 | 8 | B | Elmer Williams |
PUR |
7.86 | +0.6 |
| 14 | 9 | B | Jaime Jefferson |
CUB |
7.86 | +1.0 |
| 14 | 7 | A | Ángel Hernández |
ESP |
7.86 | +0.3 |
| 18 | 9 | A | Obinna Eregbu |
NGR |
7.85 | +0.3 |
| 19 | 10 | B | Daniel Hepburn |
BAH |
7.83 | +0.7 |
| 20 | 11 | B | Bernhard Kelm |
GER |
7.78 | +0.3 |
| 20 | 12 | B | Mattias Sunneborn |
SWE |
7.78 | -0.2 |
| 22 | 10 | A | Vasiliy Sokov |
RUS |
7.75 | +0.4 |
| 23 | 13 | B | Juha Kivi |
FIN |
7.69 | +0.6 |
| 24 | 11 | A | Vladimir Malyavin |
TKM |
7.66 | +1.1 |
| 24 | 14 | B | Robert Emmiyan |
ARM |
7.66 | +0.9 |
| 26 | 12 | A | Lotfi Khaida |
ALG |
7.65 | +0.3 |
| 27 | 13 | A | Wendell Williams |
TTO |
7.63 | +0.5 |
| 28 | 14 | A | Jérôme Romain |
DMA |
7.62 | +0.7 |
| 29 | 15 | A | Viktor Rudenik |
BLR |
7.60 | +0.7 |
| 29 | 15 | B | Fred Salle |
GBR |
7.60 | +0.3 |
| 31 | 16 | B | Masaki Morinaga |
JPN |
7.58 | +0.1 |
| 32 | 16 | A | Konstantin Krause |
GER |
7.53 | -0.3 |
| 33 | 17 | A | Eugene Licorish |
GRN |
7.48 | -0.4 |
| 34 | 18 | A | Banaras Khan |
PAK |
7.43 | +1.2 |
| 35 | 17 | B | Franck Zio |
BUR |
7.42 | +0.6 |
| 36 | 18 | B | Musabbah Ali Saeed |
UAE |
7.41 | +0.6 |
| 37 | 19 | A | Edrick Floréal |
CAN |
7.39 | -0.1 |
| 38 | 19 | B | Hui-Fang Nai |
TPE |
7.31 | +0.2 |
| 38 | 20 | A | Nélson Carlos Ferreira |
BRA |
7.31 | +1.2 |
| 40 | 20 | B | Galin Georgiev |
BUL |
7.27 | +0.4 |
| 41 | 21 | B | Frans Maas |
NED |
7.26 | +0.1 |
| 42 | 22 | B | Ahmed Al-Moamari |
OMA |
7.23 | +0.5 |
| 43 | 23 | B | Olive Fifita |
TGA |
6.86 | 0.0 |
| A | Tibor Ordina |
HUN |
NM | |||
| A | Rogelio Sáenz |
MEX |
NM |