| Group A | Team | Dist. | 1. | 2. | 3. | | 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 | Team | Dist. | 1. | 2. | 3. | | 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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