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Date: 6 September 1960 / 7 September 1960
| Rank | Name | Nation | Distance |
| 1 | Al Oerter | USA | 59.18m [194' 2"] |
| 2 | Richard "Rink" Babka | USA | 58.02m [190' 4 ¼"] |
| 3 | Richard Cochran | USA | 57.16m [187' 6 ½"] |
| 4 | Jozsef Szecsenyi | HUN | 55.79m [183' ½"] |
| 5 | Edmund Piatkowski | POL | 55.12m [180' 10"] |
| 6 | Viktor Kompaneyets | URS | 55.06m [180' 7 ¾"] |
| 7 | Carmelo Rado | ITA | 54.00m [177' 2"] |
| 8 | Kim Bukhantsev | URS | 53.61m [175' 10 ¾"] |
| 9 | Pentti Repo | FIN | 53.44m [175' 4"] |
| 10 | Ferenc Klics | HUN | 53.37m [175' 1 ¼"] |
| 11 | Stein Haugen | NOR | 53.36m [175' ¾"] |
| 12 | Lothar Milde | GER | 53.33m [174' 11 ½"] |
| 13 | Zdenek Cihak | TCH | 53.29m [174' 10"] |
| 14 | Zenon Begier | POL | 53.18m [174' 5 ¾"] |
| 15 | Vladimir Trusenyev | URS | 52.93m [173' 7 ¾"] |
| 16 | Manfred Grieser | GER | 52.69m [172' 10 ½"] |
| 17 | Adolfo Consolini | ITA | 52.44m [172' ½"] |
| 18 | Antonios Kounadis | GRE | 52.42m [171' 11 ¾"] |
| 19 | Zdenek Nemec | TCH | 52.14m [171' ¾"] |
| 20 | Todor Artarski | BUL | 52.12m [171' 0"] |
| 21 | Warwick Selvey | AUS | 49.34m [161' 10 ½"] |
| 22 | Cornelis Koch | NED | 49.21m [161' 5 ½"] |
| Qualifying | |||
| 23 | Stephanus du Plessis | RSA | 51.86m [170' 1 ¾"] |
| 24 | Osten Edlund | SWE | 51.76m [169' 9 ¾"] |
| 25 | Carol Lindroos | FIN | 51.07m [167' 6 ¾"] |
| 26 | Pierre Alard | FRA | 51.02m [167' 4 ¾"] |
| 27 | Erik Uddebom | SWE | 50.87m [166' 10 ¾"] |
| 28 | Leslie Mills | NZL | 50.76m [166' 6 ½"] |
| 29 | Franco Grossi | ITA | 50.43m [165' 5 ½"] |
| 30 | Fritz Kuhl | GER | 50.40m [165' 4 ¼"] |
| 31 | Michael Lindsay | GBR | 50.15m [164' 6 ½"] |
| 32 | Mesulame Rakuro | FIJ | 47.18m [154' 9 ½"] |
| 33 | Haider Khan | PAK | 46.57m [152' 9 ½"] |
| 34 | Naif Hamid | IRQ | 39.37m [129' 2"] |
| Did not qualify for final (No mark set) | |||
| Manuel de la Quadra | ESP | ||