| 1 | Javier Sotomayor | CUB | |
2,43 | WR |
| 2 | Dietmar Mögenburg | FRG | |
2,35 | |
| 3 | Patrik Sjöberg | SWE | |
2,35 | |
| 4 | Dalton Grant | GBR | 2,35 | ||
| 5 | Carlo Thränhardt | FRG | 2,33 | ||
| 6 | Krzystof Krawczyk | POL | 2,28 | ||
| 7 | Jake Jacoby | USA | 2,28 | ||
| 8 | Robert Ruffini | TCH | 2,28 | ||
| 9 | Panayotis Kontaksakis | GRE | 2,28 | ||
| 9 | Sergey Dymchenko | URS | 2,28 | ||
| 11 | Georgiy Dakov | BUL | 2,25 | ||
| 12 | Jean Charles Gicquel | FRA | 2,25 | ||
| 13 | Troy Kemp | BAH | 2,25 | ||
| 14 | Clarence Saunders | BER | 2,20 |