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| 1 | Igor Lapshin | URS | 16,81 | Q |
| 2 | Leonid Voloshin | URS | 16,72 | Q |
| 3 | Zhu Sixin | CHN | 16,68 | Q |
| 4 | Tord Henriksson | SWE | 16,64 | Q |
| 5 | Frank Rutherford | BAH | 16,63 | Q |
| 6 | Volker Mai | GER | 16,58 | Q |
| 7 | Chen Yanping | CHN | 16,51 | Q |
| 8 | Anisio Souza | BRA | 16,50 | Q |
| 9 | Andrej Grabarczyk | POL | 16,46 | Q |
| 10 | Milan Mikulas | TCH | 16,37 | Q |
| 11 | John Tillman | USA | 16,32 | Q |
| 12 | Dario Badinelli | ITA | 16,25 | Q |
| 13 | Nikolay Raev | BUL | 16,25 | Q |
| 14 | Jörg Frieß | GER | 16,16 | |
| 15 | Marios Hadjiandreou | CYP | 15,97 | |
| 16 | Jan Cado | TCH | 15,85 | |
| 17 | Theodoros Tandanozis | GRE | 15,85 | |
| 18 | Dorel Eftens | ROM | 15,83 | |
| 19 | Antonio Santos | ANG | 15,49 | |
| 20 | Ricardo Valiente | PER | 14,71 |