| Venue: Empire Stadium, Wembley. |
| Final Ranking | Dist. | Y | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. | | 1. Imre Németh |  HUN | 56.07m | 30 | 53.59 | 55.44 | 54.94 | 50.05 | X | 56.07 | | 2. Ivan Gubijan |  YUG | 54.27m | 25 | X | X | 54.27 | 51.76 | 54.22 | X | | 3. Bob Bennett |  USA | 53.73m | 28 | 52.53 | 51.11 | 52.08 | 53.73 | 51.21 | 49.81 | | 4. Sam Felton | USA | 53.66m | 22 | | 5. Lauri Tamminen |  FIN | 53.08m | 28 | | 6. Bo Ericsson |  SWE | 52.98m | 29 | | 7. Teseo Taddia |  ITA | 51.74m | 28 | | 8. Einar Söderqvist | SWE | 51.48m | 26 | | 9. Henry Dreyer | USA | 51.37m | 37 | | 10.Svend Aage Frederiksen |  DEN | 50.07m | 28 | | 11.Duncan Clark |  GBR | 48.35m | 33 | | 12.Hans Houtzager |  NED | 45.69m | 37 | | 13.Gin Gang-Hwan |  KOR | 43.93m | 31 |
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Qualification - Saturday 31.07 | | mark - 49.00m. 13 athletes reached the mark. |
| Ranking | Dist. | Y | | 1. Imre Németh | HUN | 54.02m | 30 | | 2. Einar Söderqvist | SWE | 52.39m | 26 | | 3. Bo Ericsson | SWE | 52.28m | 29 | | 4. Svend Aage Frederiksen | DEN | 51.35m | 28 | | 5. Bob Bennett | USA | 51.13m | 28 | | 6. Teseo Taddia | ITA | 51.06m | 28 | | 7. Hans Houtzager | NED | 50.91m | 37 | | 8. Ivan Gubijan | YUG | 50.44m | 25 | | 9. Henry Dreyer | USA | 50.37m | 37 | | 10.Lauri Tamminen | FIN | 49.82m | 28 | | 11.Duncan Clark | GBR | 49.76m | 33 | | 12.Gin Gang-Hwan | KOR | 49.49m | 31 | | 13.Sam Felton | USA | 49.20m | 22 | | 14.Reino Kuivamäki | FIN | 48.99m | 30 | | 15.Poul Cederquist | DEN | 48.16m | 32 | | 16.Ewan Douglas | GBR | 47.77m | 25 | | 17.Norman Drake | GBR | 47.75m | 36 | | 18.Pierre Legrain |  FRA | 47.60m | 28 | | 19.Dan Coyle |  IRL | 47.11m | | | 20.Juan Fusé |  ARG | 46.95m | 43 | | 21.Edmundo Zúñiga |  CHI | 44.03m | | | 22.Jaroslav Knotek |  TCH | 42.46m | 36 | | 23.Nat Singh Somnath |  IND | 41.36m | | | 24.Francisco González |  MEX | 39.50m | |
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