| Final | Dist. | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. | | 1. Werner Gunthor |  SUI | 22.23m | 21.63 | 21.19 | 20.88 | 22.12 | 20.67 | 22.23 | | 2. Alessandro Andrei |  ITA | 21.88m | 21.12 | X | 21.17 | X | 21.88 | 21.76 | | 3. John Brenner |  USA | 21.75m | X | 21.75 | 21.14 | X | 19.91 | 21.18 | | 4. Remigius Machura |  TCH | 21.39m | 21.15 | X | 21.39 | X | X | 21.25 | | 5. Ulf Timmermann |  GDR | 21.35m | 20.80 | 21.22 | 21.28 | 21.35 | X | 21.05 | | 6. Udo Beyer | GDR | 21.13m | 21.13 | X | X | 21.02 | X | 20.39 | | 7. Klaus Bodenmuller |  AUT | 20.41m | 19.30 | 20.41 | X | 18,74 | X | 19.52 | | 8. Sergey Gavryushin |  URS | 20.15m | 19.99 | 19.83 | X | X | 20.15 | X | | 9. Vyacheslav Lykho | URS | 19.98m | | | | | | 10.Gert Weil |  CHI | 19.71m | | | | | | 11.Karsten Stolz |  FRG | 19.22m | | | | | | 12.Helmut Krieger |  POL | 19.15m | | | | |
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Qualification - Saturday 29.08 |
| Group A | Dist. | | 1. Alessandro Andrei | ITA | 21.57m | | 2. Ulf Timmermann | GDR | 21.11m | | 3. Vyacheslav Lykho | URS | 20.99m | | 4. Werner Gunthor | SUI | 20.66m | | 5. Helmut Krieger | POL | 19.73m | | 6. Karsten Stolz | FRG | 19.69m | | 7. Gregg Tafralis | USA | 19.62m | | 8. Georgi Todorov |  BUL | 19.43m | | 9. Ron Backes | USA | 19.34m | | 10. Dimitrios Koutsoukis |  GRE | 19.05m | | -. Jan Sagedal |  NOR | DNS |
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| Group B | Dist. | | 1. Udo Beyer | GDR | 20.95m | | 2. John Brenner | USA | 20.28m | | 3. Remigius Machura | TCH | 20.27m | | 4. Klaus Bodenmuller | AUT | 19.96m | | 5. Sergey Gavryushin | URS | 19.96m | | 6. Gert Weil | CHI | 19.76m | | 7. Udo Gelhausen | FRG | 19.10m | | 8. Janne Ronkainen |  FIN | 18.36m | | 9. Lars Sundin |  SWE | 17.25m | | -. Arne Pedersen | NOR | DNS |
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