| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | DETAIL | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ulf Timmermann |
GDR
|
21.75 | |||||||
| 2 | Randy Barnes |
USA
|
21.28 | |||||||
| 3 | Georg Andersen |
NOR
|
20.98 | NR | ||||||
| 4 | August Wolf |
USA
|
20.82 | |||||||
| 5 | Karsten Stolz |
FRG
|
20.11 | |||||||
| 6 | Gert Weil |
CHI
|
19.91 | |||||||
| 7 | Alessandro Andrei |
ITA
|
19.77 | |||||||
| 8 | Janne Ronkainen |
FIN
|
19.25 | |||||||
| 9 | Karel Å ula |
TCH
|
19.24 | |||||||
| 10 | Paul Ruiz |
CUB
|
18.80 | |||||||
| 11 | Pétur Gudmundsson |
ISL
|
18.31 |