| Final 15:00 | Distance | 1. | 2. | 3. | ThrOff | 4. | 5. | 6. | | 1. Ken Carpenter |  United Staes | 50.48m | X | 44.53 | 48.98 | | X | 50.48 | 47.48 | | 2. Gordon Dunn | United States | 49.36m | X | 49.36 | 48.04 | | 47.21 | 47.77 | 49.36 | | 3. Giorgio Oberweger |  Italy | 49.23m | 46.67 | 46.65 | 49.23 | | 47.28 | X | X | | 4. Reidar Sørlie |  Norway | 48.77m | 47.01 | 48.77 | 46.79 | | 47.66 | 48.65 | 47.87 | | 5. Wilhelm Schröder |  Germany | 47.93m | 44.79 | 47.22 | 45.01 | 47.64 | 47.39 | 47.81 | 47.93 | | 6. Nikolaos Syllas |  Greece | 47.75m | 47.75 | 44.58 | 47.07 | | 45.34 | 47.59 | 47.67 | | 7. Gunnar Bergh |  Sweden | 47.22m | 44.19 | 47.13 | 47.22 | 46.19 | | | 8. Åke Hedvall | Sweden | 46.20m | 46.20 | 46.15 | 45.83 | | | | 9. Johann Wotapek |  Austria | 46.05m | 45.65 | 44.34 | 46.05 | | | | 10.Helge Sivertsen | Norway | 45.89m | X | 45.82 | 45.89 | | | | 11.Hans Fritsch | Germany | 45.10m | 38.91 | 45.10 | 43.61 | | | | 12.Jules Noël |  France | 44.56m | 44.56 | X | 43.70 | | | | 13.Walter Wood | United States | 43.83m | 43.83 | X | 43.32 | | |
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| | | Venue: Olympiastadion, Charlottenburg, Berlin. Capp.: 100,000. | | -- competitors from -- nations. | | Elimination |
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