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Date: 31 August 1960
| Rank | Name | Nation | Distance |
| 1 | William Nieder | USA | 19.68m [64' 6 ¾"] |
| 2 | Parry O'Brien | USA | 19.11m [62' 8 ¼"] |
| 3 | Dallas Long | USA | 19.01m [62' 4 ½"] |
| 4 | Viktor Lipsnis | URS | 17.90m [58' 8 ¾"] |
| 5 | Michael Lindsay | GBR | 17.80m [58' 4 ¾"] |
| 6 | Alfred Sosgornik | POL | 17.57m [57' 7 ¾"] |
| 7 | Dieter Urbach | GER | 17.47m [57' 3 ¾"] |
| 8 | Martin Lucking | GBR | 17.43m [57' 2 ¼"] |
| 9 | Jiri Skobla | TCH | 17.39m [57' ¾"] |
| 10 | Jaroslav Plihal | TCH | 17.36m [56' 11 ½"] |
| 11 | Leslie Mills | NZL | 17.06m [55' 11 ¾"] |
| 12 | Hermann Lingnau | GER | 16.98m [55' 8 ½"] |
| 13 | Silvano Meconi | ITA | 16.73m [54' 10 ¾"] |
| 14 | Zsigmond Nagy | HUN | 16.67m [54' 8 ¼"] |
| 15 | Warwick Selvey | AUS | 16.18m [53' 1"] |
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| 16 | Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski | POL | 16.71m [54' 9 ¾"] |
| 17 | Arthur Rowe | GBR | 16.68m [54' 8 ¾"] |
| 18 | Haider Khan | PAK | 16.47m [54' ½"] |
| 19 | Georgios Tsakanikas | GRE | 16.44m [53' 11 ¼"] |
| 20 | Erik Uddebom | SWE | 16.31m [53' 6 ¼"] |
| 21 | Fritz Kuhl | GER | 15.71m [51' 6 ½"] |
| 22 | Gideon Uriel | ISR | 14.65m [48' ¾"] |
| 23 | Salem El-Jisr | LBR | 13.82m [45' 4"] |
| 24 | Naif Hamid | IRQ | 13.65m [44' 9 ½"] |