| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Wind | DETAIL | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenny Harrison |  USA | 17.78 | -0.8 | |||||||
| 2 | Leonid Voloshin |  URS | 17.75 | +1.0 | |||||||
| 3 | Mike Conley |  USA | 17.62 | +0.4 | |||||||
| 4 | Vasiliy Sokov |  URS | 17.28 | -0.4 | |||||||
| 5 | Tord Henriksson |  SWE | 17.12 | +0.5 | |||||||
| 6 | Brian Wellman |  BER | 16.98 | -0.5 | |||||||
| 7 | Yoelbi Quesada |  CUB | 16.94 | -0.4 | |||||||
| 8 | Georges Sainte-Rose |  FRA | 16.92 | -0.3 | |||||||
| 9 | Ralf Jaros |  GER | 16.76 | -2.1 | |||||||
| 10 | Oleg Denishchik |  URS | 16.61 | -0.2 | |||||||
| 11 | Norifumi Yamashita |  JPN | 16.26 | -0.4 | |||||||
| 12 | Andrzej Grabarczyk |  POL | 16.23 | -0.2 |