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Date: 4 August 1948
| Rank | Name | Nation | Distance |
| 1 | Tapio Rautavaara | FIN | 69.77m [228' 10 ¾"] |
| 2 | Steve Seymour | USA | 67.56m [221' 7 ¾"] |
| 3 | Jozsef Varszegi | HUN | 67.03m [219' 11"] |
| 4 | Pauli Vesterinen | FIN | 65.89m [216' 2"] |
| 5 | Odd Mahlum | NOR | 65.32m [214' 3 ¾"] |
| 6 | Martin Biles | USA | 65.17m [213' 9 ¾"] |
| 7 | Mirko Vujacic | YUG | 64.89m [212' 10 ¾"] |
| 8 | Robert Likens | USA | 64.51m [211' 7 ¾"] |
| 9 | Gunnar Pettersson | SWE | 62.80m [206' ½"] |
| 10 | Per-Arne Berglund | SWE | 62.62m [205' 5 ¼"] |
| 11 | Lubomir Kiesewetter | TCH | 60.25m [197' 8"] |
| 12 | Soini Nikkinen | FIN | 58.05m [190' 5 ½"] |
| Did not qualify for final (Mark unknown) | |||
| Pedro Apellaniz | ESP | ||
| Morville Chote | GBR | ||
| Malcolm Dalrymple | GBR | ||
| Ricardo Heber | ARG | ||
| Nicolaas Lutkeveld | NED | ||
| Leo Roininen | CAN | ||
| Joel Sigurdsson | ISL | ||
| Raymond Tissot | FRA | ||
| Dusan Vujacic | YUG | ||
| Halil Ziraman | TUR | ||