| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Wind | DETAIL | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ajayi Agbebaku |  NGR | 16.80 | -0.9 | |||||||
| 2 | Zdzislaw Hoffmann |  POL | 16.72 | -0.3 | |||||||
| 3 | Al Joyner |  USA | 16.65 | -0.2 | |||||||
| 4 | Gennadiy Valyukevich |  URS | 16.64 | -0.4 | |||||||
| 5 | Willie Banks |  USA | 16.58 | -0.4 | |||||||
| 6 | Ján Cado |  TCH | 16.50 | -1.4 | |||||||
| 7 | Bedros Bedrosian |  ROU | 16.43 | -0.5 | |||||||
| 8 | Béla Bakosi |  HUN | 16.41 | -0.3 | |||||||
| 9 | Zhenxian Zou |  CHN | 16.17 | +0.3 | |||||||
| 10 | John Herbert |  GBR | 16.12 | -1.7 | |||||||
| 11 | Esa Viitasalo |  FIN | 16.03 | -2.2 | |||||||
| 12 | Wolfgang Knabe |  FRG | 15.61 | -2.0 | |||||||
| 13 | Oswald Phillip |  MNT | 13.96 | +0.6 | |||||||
| 14 | Adnan Abu Lawi |  JOR | 13.53 | -1.0 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Wind | DETAIL | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mike Conley |  USA | 16.90 | +0.4 | |||||||
| 2 | Steve Hanna |  BAH | 16.76 | -1.5 | |||||||
| 3 | Peter Bouschen |  FRG | 16.71 | -0.8 | |||||||
| 4 | Vlastimil Marinec |  TCH | 16.57 | +0.2 | |||||||
| 5 | Vasiliy Grishchenkov |  URS | 16.29 | -0.7 | |||||||
| 6 | Khristo Markov |  BUL | 16.25 | -0.3 | |||||||
| 7 | Keith Connor |  GBR | 16.18 | +0.5 | |||||||
| 8 | Claes Rahm |  SWE | 16.07 | +0.7 | |||||||
| 9 | Dan Simion |  ROU | 15.96 | -0.9 | |||||||
| 10 | Mamadou Diallo |  SEN | 15.67 | -0.2 | |||||||
| 11 | José Quiñalisa |  ECU | 15.18 | -0.2 | |||||||
| Dimitrios Mihas |  GRE | NM | |||||||||
| José Salazar |  VEN | DNS |