| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lars Riedel |  GER | 65.30 Q | 
| 2 | Attila Horváth |  HUN | 64.54 Q | 
| 3 | Mike Buncic |  USA | 63.12 | 
| 4 | Sergey Lyakhov |  URS | 63.02 | 
| 5 | Vasili Kaptyukh |  URS | 62.88 | 
| 6 | Jürgen Schult |  GER | 62.56 | 
| 7 | Nikolay Kolev |  BUL | 62.40 | 
| 8 | Roberto Moya |  CUB | 62.32 | 
| 9 | David MartÃnez |  ESP | 61.14 | 
| 10 | Svein Inge Valvik |  NOR | 60.86 | 
| 11 | Simon Williams |  GBR | 60.68 | 
| 12 | Vésteinn Hafsteinsson |  ISL | 60.12 | 
| 13 | Marcel Tirle |  ROU | 59.80 | 
| 14 | Luciano Zerbini |  ITA | 58.34 | 
| 15 | Anthony Washington |  USA | 58.02 | 
| 16 | Ray Lazdins |  CAN | 56.58 | 
| 17 | James Wong |  SGP | 44.26 | 
| Christian Erb |  SUI | DNS | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wolfgang Schmidt |  GER | 65.18 Q | 
| 2 | Dmitriy Shevchenko |  URS | 63.70 | 
| 3 | Erik de Bruin |  NED | 63.34 | 
| 4 | Adewale Olukoju |  NGR | 62.36 | 
| 5 | Imrich Bugár |  TCH | 61.90 | 
| 6 | Werner Reiterer |  AUS | 60.40 | 
| 7 | Marco Martino |  ITA | 60.34 | 
| 8 | Georgi D. Georgiev |  BUL | 60.08 | 
| 9 | Ramón Jiménez Gaona |  PAR | 60.02 | 
| 10 | Costel Grasu |  ROU | 60.00 | 
| 11 | Jozsef Ficsor |  HUN | 59.98 | 
| 12 | Juan MartÃnez |  CUB | 59.98 | 
| 13 | Mike Gravelle |  USA | 58.28 | 
| 14 | Kamen Dimitrov |  BUL | 57.72 | 
| 15 | Igor Avrunin |  ISR | 56.74 | 
| 16 | Mickaël Conjungo |  CAF | 53.02 | 
| 17 | Herbert RodrÃguez |  ESA | 46.62 | 
| Stefan Fernholm |  SWE | DNS |