| Venue: Empire Stadium, London. |
| Event Ranking | Dist. | pts | 1984 | Y | | 1. Yrjö Mäkelä |  FIN | 62.55m | 835 | 776 | 21 | | 2. Pierre Sprécher |  FRA | 58.79m | 757 | 720 | 26 | | 3. Per Eriksson |  SWE | 56.70m | 715 | 688 | 23 | | 4. Davorin Marčelja |  YUG | 55.34m | 688 | 668 | 24 | | 5. Godtfred Holmvang |  NOR | 53.66m | 656 | 643 | 30 | | 6. Per Stavem | NOR | 52.79m | 639 | 630 | 22 | | 7. Floyd Simmons |  USA | 51.99m | 624 | 618 | 25 | | 8. Peter Mullins |  AUS | 51.32m | 612 | 608 | 22 | | 9. Witold Gerutto |  POL | 51.06m | 607 | 604 | 35 | | 10.Erik Andersson | SWE | 51.04m | 607 | 604 | 26 | | 11.Bob Mathias | USA | 50.32m | 593 | 593 | 17 | | 12.Albert Dayer |  BEL | 48.71m | 564 | 570 | 22 | | 13.Hannes Sonck | FIN | 48.24m | 555 | 563 | 28 | | 14.Wacław Kuźmicki | POL | 47.34m | 539 | 549 | 27 | | 15.Fritz Nussbaum |  SUI | 46.13m | 518 | 532 | 24 | | 16.Enrique Kistenmacher |  ARG | 45.06m | 499 | 516 | 25 | | 17.Sayed Moukhtar |  EGY | 44.59m | 491 | 509 | | | 18.Clausen Örn |  ISL | 44.16m | 484 | 503 | 19 | | 19.Edward Adamczyk | POL | 43.70m | 476 | 496 | 26 | | 20.Kjell Tånnander | SWE | 43.65m | 475 | 495 | 21 | | 20.Jacques Crétaine | FRA | 43.26m | 469 | 490 | | | 22.Hernán Figueroa |  CHI | 43.05m | 465 | 486 | 20 | | 23.Oskar Gerber | SUI | 42.44m | 455 | 478 | | | 24.Lionel Fournier |  CAN | 42.39m | 454 | 477 | 31 | | 25.Ignace Heinrich | FRA | 40.98m | 430 | 456 | 22 | | 26.Azcune Hércules |  URU | 38.31m | 387 | 418 | 19 | | 27.Mario Recordón | CHI | 38.06m | 383 | 414 | 26 | | 28.Irving Mondschein | USA | 36.81m | 363 | 396 | 24 |
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