| 1 | Ulf Timmermann | GDR | |
21,75 |
| 2 | Randy Barnes | USA | |
21,28 |
| 3 | Georg Andersen | NOR | |
20,98 |
| 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 Sula | TCH | 19,24 | |
| 10 | Paul Ruiz | CUB | 18,80 | |
| 11 | Petur Gudmundsson | ISL | 18,31 |
| Athlet | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. |
| Ulf Timmermann | 20,78 | 21,75 | 21,70 | 21,16 | x | 21,14 |
| Randy Barnes | 18,16 | 19,77 | 19,72 | x | x | 21,28 |
| Georg Andersen | 20,07 | 20,49 | 20,65 | 20,98 | 20,54 | 20,72 |