| 1 | Hollis Conway | USA | |
2,40 |
| 2 | Artur Partyka | POL | |
2,37 |
| 3 | Javier Sotomayor | CUB | |
2,31 |
| 3 | Aleksey Yemelin | URS | |
2,31 |
| 5 | Stevan Zoric | YUG | 2,31 | |
| 6 | Charles Austin | USA | 2,31 | |
| 6 | Sorin Matei | ROM | 2,31 | |
| 8 | Timothy Forsythe | AUS | 2,28 | |
| 9 | Arturo Ortiz | ESP | 2,28 | |
| 10 | Mariano Drake | CUB | 2,28 | |
| 11 | Georgiy Dakov | BUL | 2,24 | |
| 11 | Dragutin Topic | YUG | 2,24 | |
| 13 | Patrik Sjöberg | SWE | 2,24 | |
| 14 | Troy Kemp | BAH | 2,20 | |
| 15 | Ian Garrett | AUS | 2,20 |