| Venue: Empire Stadium, London. |
| Event Ranking | Dist. | pts | 1984 | Y | | 1. Bob Mathias |  USA | 44.00m | 834 | 746 | 17 | | 2. Witold Gerutto |  POL | 41.80m | 765 | 701 | 35 | | 3. Albert Dayer |  BEL | 41.54m | 757 | 696 | 22 | | 4. Enrique Kistenmacher |  ARG | 41.11m | 744 | 687 | 25 | | 5. Per Stavem |  NOR | 41.06m | 743 | 686 | 22 | | 6. Ignace Heinrich |  FRA | 40.94m | 739 | 684 | 22 | | 7. Davorin Marčelja |  YUG | 39.44m | 695 | 653 | 24 | | 8. Edward Adamczyk | POL | 39.11m | 685 | 646 | 26 | | 9. Jacques Crétaine | FRA | 38.90m | 679 | 642 | | | 10.Irving Mondschein | USA | 38.74m | 674 | 639 | 24 | | 11.Godtfred Holmvang | NOR | 38.11m | 656 | 626 | 30 | | 12.Wacław Kuźmicki | POL | 38.06m | 655 | 625 | 27 | | 13.Pierre Sprécher | FRA | 37.02m | 625 | 604 | 26 | | 14.Azcune Hércules |  URU | 36.62m | 614 | 596 | 19 | | 15.Sayed Moukhtar |  EGY | 36.54m | 612 | 595 | | | 16.Kjell Tånnander |  SWE | 36.50m | 610 | 594 | 21 | | 17.Clausen Örn |  ISL | 36.34m | 606 | 591 | 19 | | 18.Yrjö Mäkelä |  FIN | 36.12m | 600 | 586 | 21 | | 19.Erik Andersson | SWE | 36.07m | 599 | 585 | 26 | | 20.Per Eriksson | SWE | 34.91m | 567 | 562 | 23 | | 20.Hannes Sonck | FIN | 34.71m | 561 | 558 | 28 | | 22.Oskar Gerber |  SUI | 34.32m | 551 | 550 | | | 23.Peter Mullins |  AUS | 33.94m | 541 | 543 | 22 | | 24.Mario Recordón |  CHI | 33.77m | 536 | 539 | 26 | | 25.Fritz Nussbaum | SUI | 33.54m | 530 | 535 | 24 | | 26.Hernán Figueroa | CHI | 32.98m | 515 | 523 | 20 | | 27.Floyd Simmons | USA | 32.73m | 509 | 518 | 25 | | 28.Lionel Fournier |  CAN | 32.31m | 498 | 510 | 31 | | 29.Baldev Singh |  IND | 29.63m | 430 | 457 | | | 30.Josef Seger |  LIE | 28.60m | 404 | 437 | |
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