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Date: 14 October 1968 / 15 October 1968
| Rank | Name | Nation | Distance |
| 1 | Al Oerter | USA | 64.78m [212' 6 ½"] |
| 2 | Lothar Milde | GDR | 63.08m [206' 11 ½"] |
| 3 | Ludvik Danek | TCH | 62.92m [206' 5 ¼"] |
| 4 | Manfred Losch | GDR | 62.12m [203' 9 ¾"] |
| 5 | Jay Silvester | USA | 61.78m [202' 8 ¼"] |
| 6 | Gary Carlsen | USA | 59.46m [195' 1"] |
| 7 | Edmund Piatkowski | POL | 59.40m [194' 10 ½"] |
| 8 | Bjorn Bruch | SWE | 59.28m [194' 5 ¾"] |
| 9 | Hein-Direk Neu | FRG | 58.66m [192' 5 ½"] |
| 10 | Gunter Schaumberg | GDR | 58.62m [192' 3 ¾"] |
| 11 | Ferenc Tegla | HUN | 58.36m [191' 5 ¾"] |
| 12 | Robin Tait | NZL | 57.68m [189' 2 ¾"] |
| Qualifying | |||
| 13 | Guram Gudashvili | URS | 57.48m [188' 7"] |
| 14 | George Puce | CAN | 57.34m [188' 1 ½"] |
| 15 | Namakoro Niare | MLI | 56.60m [185' 8 ¼"] |
| 16 | Janos Farago | HUN | 56.00m [183' 8 ¾"] |
| 17 | Segui Kragbe | CIV | 55.24m [181' 2 ¾"] |
| 18 | Lech Gajdzinski | POL | 54.92m [180' 2 ¼"] |
| 19 | Jens Reimers | FRG | 54.02m [177' 2 ¾"] |
| 20 | Jalal Keshmiri | IRI | 53.96m [177' ½"] |
| 21 | Klaus-Peter Hennig | FRG | 53.80m [176' 6"] |
| 22 | Heimo Reinitzer | AUT | 53.52m [175' 7"] |
| 23 | Modesto Mederos | CUB | 52.30m [171' 7"] |
| 24 | William Tancred | GBR | 51.74m [169' 9"] |
| 25 | Edy Hubacher | SUI | 51.70m [169' 7 ½"] |
| 26 | Rolando Mendoza | NCA | 39.62m [129' 11 ¾"] |
| 27 | Mauricio Jubis | ESA | 36.18m [118' 8 ½"] |
| Did not start | |||
| Silvano Simeon | ITA | ||
| Samsam Akka | MAR | ||
| Praveen Kumar | IND | ||
| Sidhu Nashatar | MAS | ||