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Date: 16 October 1968 / 17 October 1968
| Rank | Name | Nation | Distance |
| 1 | Gyula Zsivotzky | HUN | 73.26m [240' 4 ¼"] |
| 2 | Romuald Klim | URS | 73.28m [240' 5"] |
| 3 | Lazar Lovasz | HUN | 69.78m [228' 11 ¼"] |
| 4 | Takeo Sugawara | JPN | 69.78m [228' 11 ¼"] |
| 5 | Sandor Eckschmiedt | HUN | 69.46m [227' 10 ¾"] |
| 6 | Gennadiy Kondrashov | URS | 69.08m [226' 7 ¾"] |
| 7 | Reinhard Theimer | GDR | 68.84m [225' 10 ¼"] |
| 8 | Helmut Baumann | GDR | 68.26m [223' 11 ½"] |
| 9 | Anatoly Shchupliakov | URS | 67.74m [222' 3"] |
| 10 | Howard Payne | GBR | 67.62m [221' 10 ¼"] |
| 11 | Hans Fahsl | FRG | 66.36m [217' 8 ½"] |
| 12 | Edward Burke | USA | 65.72m [215' 7 ½"] |
| 13 | Yoshihisa Ishida | JPN | 65.04m [213' 4 ¾"] |
| Qualifying | |||
| 14 | Albert Hall | USA | 65.70m [215' 6 ½"] |
| 15 | Lutz Caspers | FRG | 65.54m [215' ¼"] |
| 16 | Uwe Beyer | FRG | 65.44m [214' 8 ½"] |
| 17 | Harold Connolly | USA | 65.00m [213' 3"] |
| 18 | Jose Martinez | ESP | 63.40m [208' 0"] |
| 19 | Ernst Ammann | SUI | 62.40m [204' 8 ¾"] |
| 20 | Praveen Kumar | IND | 60.84m [199' 7 ¼"] |
| 21 | Gustavo Morales | NCA | 45.76m [150' 1 ½"] |
| 22 | Carlos Hasbun | ESA | 37.46m [122' 10 ¾"] |
| Did not start | |||
| Frangiskos Politis | GRE | ||