| 1 | Reijo Ståhlberg | FIN | |
20,48 |
| 2 | Wladyslaw Komar | POL | |
20,16 |
| 3 | Geoffrey Capes | GBR | |
20,11 |
| 4 | Alexander Baryshnikov | URS | 19,95 | |
| 5 | Gerd Steines | FRG | 16,81 | |
| 6 | Jaroslav Brabec | TCH | 19,36 | |
| 7 | Marco Montelatici | ITA | 19,27 | |
| 8 | Jean-Pierre Egger | SUI | 19,04 | |
| 9 | Matthias Schmidt | GDR | 19,00 | |
| 10 | Angelo Gropelli | ITA | 18,45 |