| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Wind | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yoelbi Quesada |  CUB | 17.47 Q | +0.5 | 
| 2 | Jonathan Edwards |  GBR | 17.28 Q | +0.4 | 
| 3 | Kenny Harrison |  USA | 17.11 Q | -1.0 | 
| 4 | HrÃstos Melétoglou |  GRE | 17.04 Q =NR | -0.3 | 
| 5 | Jérôme Romain |  DMA | 17.03 Q | +0.6 | 
| 6 | Charles Michael Friedek |  GER | 16.98 q | -2.0 | 
| 7 | Brian Wellman |  BER | 16.84 q | +0.8 | 
| 8 | Yoel GarcÃa |  CUB | 16.79 | +0.7 | 
| 9 | Nikolay Raev |  BUL | 16.72 | +0.4 | 
| 10 | Andrey Kurennoy |  RUS | 16.59 | +1.3 | 
| 11 | Zoran Djurdjevic |  SCG | 16.49 | +0.2 | 
| 12 | Ketill Hanstveit |  NOR | 16.45 | +0.8 | 
| 13 | Avi Tayari |  ISR | 16.45 | +1.0 | 
| 14 | Tibor Ordina |  HUN | 16.38 | +1.2 | 
| 15 | Sergey Arzamasov |  KAZ | 16.37 | +0.7 | 
| 16 | Georges Sainte-Rose |  FRA | 16.32 | +0.8 | 
| 17 | Volodymyr Kravchenko |  UKR | 16.24 | +0.7 | 
| 18 | Andrius Raizgys |  LTU | 16.21 | +0.6 | 
| 19 | Xavier Montané |  AND | 14.58 | +0.8 | 
| Aleksandr Tumanov |  TKM | NM | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Wind | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aliecer Urrutia |  CUB | 17.11 Q | 0.0 | 
| 2 | Andrew Owusu |  GHA | 17.05 Q PB | +0.3 | 
| 3 | Serge Hélan |  FRA | 17.01 Q | +0.1 | 
| 4 | Armen Martirosyan |  ARM | 16.98 q SB | +0.7 | 
| 5 | Denis Kapustin |  RUS | 16.96 q | 0.0 | 
| 6 | Francis Agyepong |  GBR | 16.83 SB | +0.4 | 
| 7 | Raúl Chapado |  ESP | 16.80 PB | +1.5 | 
| 8 | Robert Howard |  USA | 16.63 | +0.6 | 
| 9 | Rostislav Dimitrov |  BUL | 16.62 | +0.3 | 
| 10 | Ndabazinhle Mdhlongwa |  ZIM | 16.56 | +0.2 | 
| 11 | Vasiliy Sokov |  RUS | 16.42 | +0.2 | 
| 12 | Maris Bruziks |  LAT | 16.35 | -0.5 | 
| 13 | Oluyemi Sule |  NGR | 16.16 | +0.9 | 
| 14 | Yevgeniy Petin |  UZB | 16.13 | 0.0 | 
| 15 | Yuriy Osipenko |  UKR | 16.13 | +0.8 | 
| 16 | Zsolt Czingler |  HUN | 16.04 | -0.8 | 
| 17 | Paul Nioze |  SEY | 15.79 | +0.7 | 
| Paolo Camossi |  ITA | NM | ||
| Majed Jabbar |  IRQ | NM | ||
| Jianfeng Lao |  CHN | DNS |