| Final | Distance | | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. | | 1. Sverre Strandli |  Norway | 55.71m | | | 2. Teseo Taddia |  Italy | 54.73m | | | 3. Jiří Dadák |  Czechoslovakia | 53.64m | | 52.99 | 52.86 | 51.71 | 51.18 | X | 53.64 | | 4. Ivan Gubijan |  Yugoslavia | 53.44m | | | 5. Aleksandr Kanaki |  Soviet Union | 53.09m | | | 6. Duncan McDougall Clark |  Great Britain | 52.83m | | | 7. Svend-Aage Frederiksen |  Denmark | 50.01m | | | 8. Ewan Douglas | Great Britain | 49.18m | | | 9. Rudolf Galin | Yugoslavia | 49.01m | |
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| Ranking | Distance | | | 1. Teseo Taddia | Italy | 55.05m | Q | | 2. Sverre Strandli | Norway | 54.17m | Q | | 3. Aleksandr Kanaki | Soviet Union | 53.73m | Q | | 4. Ivan Gubijan | Yugoslavia | 52.29m | Q | | 5. Jiří Dadák |  Czechoslovakia | 52.27m | Q | | 6. Duncan McDougall Clark | Great Britain | 52.25m | Q | | 7. Svend-Aage Frederiksen | Denmark | 50.87m | Q | | 8. Rudolf Galin | Yugoslavia | 48.54m | Q | | 9. Ewan Douglas | Great Britain | 47.31m | Q | | eliminated | | 10.Henri Haest |  Belgium | 47.22m | | | 11.Toma Balcı |  Turkey | 46.63m | | | 12.André Osterberger |  France | 46.45m | | | 13.Pierre Legrain | France | 46.21m | |
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