| Rnk | Perf | Mark | Wind | Name | Nat | Born | Pos | Meet | Venue | Date | Ht/Wt | Record | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 22.02 | i | George Woods | USA | 11Feb1943 | 1 | Inglewood CA | 8Feb1974 | 188/136 | PB | SP | |
| 2 | 2 | 21.70 | Aleksandr Baryshnikov | URS | 11Nov1948 | 1q | NC | Moskva | 25Aug1974 | 198/130 | SP | ||
| 3 | 3 | 21.60 | Allan Feuerbach | USA | 14Jan1948 | 1 | USTFF | Wichita KS | 31May1974 | 186/120 | SP | ||
| 4 | 21.58 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | AAU | Westwood CA | 21Jun1974 | SP | ||||||
| 5 | 21.52 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | Eugene OR | 8Jun1974 | SP | |||||||
| 6 | 21.45 | i | George Woods | 1 | Daly City | 1Feb1974 | SP | ||||||
| 7 | 21.44 | i | Allan Feuerbach | 2 | Inglewood CA | 8Feb1974 | SP | ||||||
| 4 | 8 | 21.42 | i | Fred DeBernardi | USA | 2Mar1949 | 1 | ITA | Portland OR | 20Apr1974 | 196/135 | PB | SP |
| 9 | 21.42 | George Woods | 2 | USTFF | Wichita KS | 31May1974 | SP | ||||||
| 10 | 21.41A | Fred DeBernardi | 1 | ITA | El Paso TX | 27Apr1974 | SP | ||||||
| 11 | 21.40 | George Woods | 2 | AAU | Westwood CA | 21Jun1974 | SP | ||||||
| 12 | 21.38 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | Idag | Malmö | 24Aug1974 | SP | ||||||
| 13 | 21.37 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | Tex R | Austin TX | 13Apr1974 | SP | ||||||
| 5 | 14 | 21.37 | i | James Randle "Randy" Matson | USA | 5Mar1945 | 1 | ITA | Atlanta GA | 10May1974 | 200/122 | SP | |
| 15 | 21.37 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | AAA | London (CP) | 13Jul1974 | SP | ||||||
| 6 | 16 | 21.37 | Geoffrey Capes | GBR | 23Aug1949 | 1 | London (CP) | 10Aug1974 | 197/139 | SP | |||
| 17 | 21.36 | i | James Randle "Randy" Matson | 1 | ITA | New York | 29May1974 | SP | |||||
| 7 | 18 | 21.35 | Ron Semkiw | USA | 28Mar1954 | 1 | Mesa AZ | 5Mar1974 | 180/105 | PB | SP | ||
| 19 | 21.35 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | Karlstad | 2Aug1974 | SP | |||||||
| 20 | 21.35 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | Trollhättan | 3Aug1974 | SP | |||||||
| 21 | 21.34 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | WK | Zürich | 16Aug1974 | SP | ||||||
| 22 | 21.33 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | MtSAC R | Walnut CA | 27Apr1974 | SP | ||||||
| 23 | 21.31 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | Kenn | Berkeley CA | 1Jun1974 | SP | ||||||
| 24 | 21.30 | i | George Woods | 1 | Portland OR | 26Jan1974 | SP | ||||||
| 25 | 21.28 | George Woods | 1 | Torino | 24Jul1974 | SP | |||||||
| 26 | 21.28 | Allan Feuerbach | 2 | Torino | 24Jul1974 | SP | |||||||
| 27 | 21.27 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | Athína | 11Jul1974 | SP | |||||||
| 28 | 21.26 | i | George Woods | 1 | Winnipeg | 23Feb1974 | SP | ||||||
| 29 | 21.26 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | Long Beach CA | 6Apr1974 | SP | |||||||
| 30 | 21.26 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | Top Games | Helsinki | 26Jun1974 | SP | ||||||
| 8 | 31 | 21.26 | Reijo Ståhlberg | FIN | 21Sep1952 | 2 | Top Games | Helsinki | 26Jun1974 | 194/130 | SP | ||
| 32 | 21.25 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | San José CA | 4May1974 | SP | |||||||
| 33 | 21.25 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | Hannover | 23May1974 | SP | |||||||
| 34 | 21.24 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | Vindeln | 29Jun1974 | SP | |||||||
| 35 | 21.23 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | Nurmi | Turku | 1Aug1974 | SP | ||||||
| 36 | 21.21 | i | George Woods | 1 | San Diego CA | 17Feb1974 | SP | ||||||
| 37 | 21.20 | i | George Woods | 2 | Nurmi | Turku | 1Aug1974 | SP | |||||
| 38 | 21.19A | i | George Woods | 1 | Albuquerque NM | 2Feb1974 | SP | ||||||
| 9 | 39 | 21.19 | Wladyslaw Komar | POL | 11Apr1940 | 1 | Warszawa | 17Aug1974 | 195/130 | PB | SP | ||
| 40 | 21.18 | i | George Woods | 1 | Houston TX | 9Feb1974 | SP | ||||||
| 41 | 21.17 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | Drake R | Des Moines IA | 26Apr1974 | SP | ||||||
| 42 | 21.17 | George Woods | 1 | Bakersfield CA | 18May1974 | SP | |||||||
| 43 | 21.16 | George Woods | 1 | WCR | Fresno CA | 11May1974 | SP | ||||||
| 44 | 21.13 | George Woods | 1 | Sig | Paris | 25Jun1974 | SP | ||||||
| 10 | 45 | 21.12A | Brian Oldfield | USA | 1Jun1945 | 2 | ITA | El Paso TX | 27Apr1974 | 196/125 | SP | ||
| 46 | 21.12 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | London (CP) | 22May1974 | SP | |||||||
| 47 | 21.11 | George Woods | 2 | Vindeln | 29Jun1974 | SP | |||||||
| 48 | 21.08 | George Woods | 2 | Kenn | Berkeley CA | 1Jun1974 | SP | ||||||
| 49 | 21.07 | Allan Feuerbach | 1 | Bloomington IN | 20Apr1974 | SP | |||||||
| 50 | 21.07 | i | James Randle "Randy" Matson | 2 | ITA | Portland OR | 20Apr1974 | SP | |||||
| 11 | 51 | 21.05 | i | Terrence Albritton | USA | 14Jan1955 | 1 | AAU | New York | 22Feb1974 | 194/115 | SP | |
| 12 | 20.91 | Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg | GDR | 9Apr1944 | 1 | Berlin | 14Aug1974 | 185/122 | SP | ||||
| 13 | 20.88A | i | Karl Salb | USA | 19May1949 | 1 | ITA | Salt Lake City | 22Feb1974 | 190/129 | SP | ||
| 14 | 20.86 | Hans-Peter Gies | GDR | 9May1947 | 1 | Berlin | 10Aug1974 | 194/115 | SP | ||||
| 15 | 20.80 | Ralf Reichenbach | FRG | 31Jul1950 | 1 | URS-FRG-FRA | Stuttgart | 10Aug1974 | 198/137 | SP | |||
| 16 | 20.77 | Hartmut Briesenick | GDR | 17Mar1949 | 2 | vsGBR | London (CP) | 19Jun1974 | 191/118 | SP | |||
| 17 | 20.69 | Valeriy Voykin | URS | 14Oct1945 | 1 | vsUSA | Durham NC | 5Jul1974 | 192/118 | SP | |||
| 18 | 20.66 | Hans Höglund | SWE | 23Jul1952 | 3 | Kenn | Berkeley CA | 1Jun1974 | 193/130 | SP | |||
| 19 | 20.53 | i | Jesse Stuart | USA | 18Mar1951 | 2 | Detroit MI | 8Mar1974 | 190/120 | SP | |||
| 20 | 20.48 | Jaromír Vlk | CZE | 4Mar1949 | 1 | Mlada Boleslav | 6Jul1974 | 198/120 | SP | ||||
| 21 | 20.43 | Michael Winch | GBR | 20Jul1948 | 3 | London (CP) | 22May1974 | 182/101 | PB | SP | |||
| 22 | 20.37 | Jaroslav Brabec | CZE | 27Jul1949 | 1 | Ros | Praha | 19Jun1974 | 190/125 | SP | |||
| 23 | 20.32 | Valcho Stoev Khristov | BUL | 20Jan1952 | 1 | Balkan C | Sofia | 3Aug1974 | 186/115 | SP | |||
| 24 | 20.21 | Eugenijus Skapas | URS | 23Feb1943 | 1 | Vilnius | 15Jun1974 | 190/118 | PB | SP | |||
| 25 | 20.20 | Rimantas Plunge | URS | 22Mar1944 | 1 | Vilnius | 20May1974 | 189/119 | SP | ||||
| 26 | 20.20 | Udo Beyer | GDR | 9Aug1955 | 2 | NC | Leipzig | 6Jul1974 | 195/140 | SP | |||
| 27 | 20.18 | Sam Walker | USA | 15Aug1950 | 2 | Fort Worth TX | 13Jun1974 | 185/113 | SP | ||||
| 28 | 20.09 | Miroslav Janousek | CZE | 2Feb1945 | 5 | Ros | Praha | 19Jun1974 | 182/125 | SP | |||
| 29 | 20.09 | Aleksandr Nosyenko | URS | 4Apr1952 | 1 | Kharkov | 3Aug1974 | 194/135 | SP | ||||
| 30 | 20.06 | Peter Shmock | USA | 29Apr1950 | 4 | AAU | Westwood CA | 21Jun1974 | 182/118 | SP | |||
| 31 | 20.03 | Dana LeDuc | USA | 22Mar1953 | 5 | AAU | Westwood CA | 21Jun1974 | 191/129 | SP | |||
| 32 | 20.03 | Anatoliy Yarosh | URS | 22Oct1952 | 3 | vsUSA | Durham NC | 5Jul1974 | 191/130 | SP | |||
| 33 | 20.02 | Peter Hlawatschke | GDR | 11Apr1950 | 1 | Greifswald | 11Jul1974 | 202/132 | SP | ||||
| 34 | 20.02 | Ole Lindskjöld | DEN | 1Feb1944 | 2 | Lyngby | 14Aug1974 | 186/110 | PB | SP | |||
| 35 | 19.96 | Josef Forst | FRG | 2Nov1946 | 3 | ISTAF | West Berlin | 21Aug1974 | 190/105 | PB | SP | ||
| 36 | 19.93 | Gerd Lochmann | GDR | 3Apr1948 | 2 | Berlin | 14Aug1974 | 191/110 | SP | ||||
| 37 | 19.91 | Rickard Bruch | SWE | 2Jul1946 | 1 | Roma | 26Apr1974 | 199/130 | SP | ||||
| 38 | 19.87 | Yevgeniy Mironov | URS | 1Nov1949 | 2 | Leningrad | 8Jun1974 | 193/130 | SP | ||||
| 39 | 19.84 | Anders Arrhenius | SWE | 16Jul1947 | 4 | Stockholm | 18Jul1974 | 198/124 | SP | ||||
| 40 | 19.84 | Leonid Smelash | URS | 22Sep1944 | 1 | Kyiv | 12Oct1974 | 191/117 | PB | SP | |||
| 41 | 19.76 | Gerhard Steines | FRG | 17Aug1947 | 1 | Koblenz | 10Jul1974 | 195/108 | SP | ||||
| 42 | 19.74 | Matti Yrjölä | FIN | 26Mar1938 | 1 | Tampere | 22May1974 | 192/120 | SP | ||||
| 43 | 19.74 | Bishop Dolegiewicz | CAN | 8Jul1953 | 4 | NCAA | Austin TX | 7Jun1974 | 190/145 | SP | |||
| 44 | 19.63 | Nikolay Khristov | BUL | 14Feb1952 | 2 | Balkan C | Sofia | 3Aug1974 | 184/125 | SP | |||
| 45 | 19.62 | Manfred Kaiser | GDR | 20Jul1951 | 1 | Erfurt | 21Aug1974 | 186/125 | PB | SP | |||
| 46 | 19.54 | Ferdinand Schladen | FRG | 24May1939 | 2 | vsPOL | Augsburg | 13Jul1974 | 203/125 | SP | |||
| 47 | 19.51 | Mieczyslaw Breczewski | POL | 2Jan1954 | 1 | NC | Warszawa | 20Jul1974 | 184/92 | SP | |||
| 48 | 19.48 | Heino Sild | URS | 10Apr1944 | 1 | Tallinn | 5Sep1974 | 196/120 | SP | ||||
| 49 | 19.48 | Ivan Ivancic | YUG | 6Dec1937 | 1 | Beograd | 5Oct1974 | 194/128 | SP | ||||
| 50 | 19.47 | Tadeusz Sadza | POL | 27May1946 | 1 | Bydgoszcz | 6Oct1974 | 190/108 | PB | SP | |||
| 51 | 19.43 | William Tancred | GBR | 6Aug1942 | 1 | Shotley Gate | 18May1974 | 193/105 | PB | SP | |||
| 52 | 19.39 | Jim Neidhart | USA | 8Feb1955 | 3 | Cal R | Modesto CA | 25May1974 | 180/114 | SP | |||
| 53 | 19.36 | John van Reenen | RSA | 26Mar1947 | 1 | Cape Town | 2Dec1974 | 202/125 | SP | ||||
| 54 | 19.35 | Yussuf Nagui Asaad | EGY | 12Sep1945 | 1 | Karachi | 6Apr1974 | 193/113 | SP | ||||
| 55 | 19.35 | Richard Marks | USA | 16Apr1944 | 7 | AAU | Westwood CA | 21Jun1974 | 187/122 | SP | |||
| 56 | 19.34 | Vladimir Byerezhnoy | URS | 3Jul1953 | 1 | Baku | 29Sep1974 | 190/113 | SP | ||||
| 57 | 19.31 | Maurice "Mac" Wilkins | USA | 15Nov1950 | 1 | Linz | 11Aug1974 | 193/114 | SP | ||||
| 58 | 19.30 | Norbert Jahl | GDR | 7Feb1954 | 1 | Schmolin | 28Jun1974 | 190/103 | SP | ||||
| 59 | 19.28 | Loucas Louca | GRE | 15May1945 | 1 | Athína | 17May1974 | 180/120 | SP | ||||
| 60 | 19.27 | Bruce Pirnie | CAN | 20Sep1942 | 1 | NC | Winnipeg | 29Aug1974 | 200/141 | SP | |||
| 61 | 19.23 | i | Doug Price | USA | 17Feb1950 | 3 | AAU | New York | 22Feb1974 | 186/128 | SP | ||
| 62 | 19.21 | Hans Almström | SWE | 1Aug1950 | 4 | vsFIN | Helsinki | 17Aug1974 | 193/125 | SP | |||
| 63 | 19.20A | Richard Bilder | USA | 8Oct1951 | 1 | El Paso TX | 4May1974 | 193/122 | SP | ||||
| 64 | 19.19 | Wolfgang Schmidt | GDR | 16Jan1954 | 3 | Berlin | 14Aug1974 | 197/115 | SP | ||||
| 65 | 19.12 | Brian Caulfield | CAN | 13Jul1948 | 2 | Can-Gre | Athína | 6Jul1974 | SP | ||||
| 66 | 19.09 | Mikhail Kyoshev | BUL | 15Mar1951 | 3 | Athína | 11Jul1974 | 180/112 | SP | ||||
| 67 | 19.05 | Dave Schiller | USA | 22Sep1952 | 5 | Cal R | Modesto CA | 25May1974 | 183/91 | SP | |||
| 68 | 19.05 | Leszek Gajdzinski | POL | 25Sep1946 | 2 | NC | Warszawa | 20Jul1974 | 188/124 | SP | |||
| 69 | 19.02 | Edmund Antczak | POL | 20Jul1946 | 1 | Tczew | 4May1974 | 186/109 | SP | ||||
| 70 | 19.02 | Aleksandr Tammert | URS | 28Apr1947 | 1 | Valga | 25May1974 | 189/115 | SP | ||||
| 71 | 19.02 | Angelo Groppelli | ITA | 12Jul1946 | 1 | Padova | 23Jul1974 | 191/100 | SP | ||||
| 72 | 19.01 | Eero Jouppila | FIN | 9Dec1938 | 1 | Ruovesi | 26May1974 | 187/144 | SP | ||||
| 73 | 19.00 | Arnjolt Beer | FRA | 19Jun1946 | 1 | Paris | 23Jun1974 | 192/110 | SP | ||||
| 74 | 18.99 | Anatoliy Aronov | URS | 19May1946 | 8 | NC | Moskva | 25Jul1974 | 186/118 | SP | |||
| 75 | 18.98 | Jussi Jouppila | FIN | 5Mar1945 | 1 | Kauhava | 21Jun1974 | 196/130 | SP | ||||
| 76 | 18.93 | i | Henning Maßholder | FRG | 14Sep1947 | 2 | Stuttgart | 2Feb1974 | 194/128 | SP | |||
| 77 | 18.92 | Thord Carlsson | SWE | 22Jan1943 | 3 | GBR-SWE | Stockholm | 30Jul1974 | 190/120 | SP | |||
| 78 | 18.90 | i | Yves Brouzet | FRA | 5Sep1948 | 1 | Vittel | 17Feb1974 | 198/150 | SP | |||
| 79 | 18.90 | Carl Wallin | USA | 4Oct1941 | 1 | Braintree | 29Jul1974 | 193/126 | SP | ||||
| 80 | 18.90 | Hreinn Halldórsson | ISL | 3Mar1949 | 1 | Selfoss | 7Aug1974 | 192/113 | SP | ||||
| 81 | 18.90 | Bjørn Bang Andersen | NOR | 14Nov1937 | 1 | Porsgrunn | 14Sep1974 | 185/107 | SP | ||||
| 82 | 18.87 | Jan Skoupý | CZE | 17May1951 | 1 | Praha | 26Jul1974 | 191/130 | SP | ||||
| 83 | 18.85 | Tapio Rauhala | FIN | 14Dec1943 | 1 | Mänttää | 1Aug1974 | 190/120 | SP | ||||
| 84 | 18.81 | Dave Doupe | USA | 1Jul1955 | 7 | USTFF | Wichita KS | 31May1974 | 184/105 | SP | |||
| 85 | 18.80 | Flavio Asta | ITA | 10Sep1946 | 1 | Schio | 13Aug1974 | 193/95 | SP | ||||
| 86 | 18.77 | i | Mike Marks | USA | 17Jul1951 | 1 | Norman OK | 23Feb1974 | SP | ||||
| 87 | 18.75 | Roger Freberg | USA | 14Apr1952 | 2 | Los Angeles CA | 17May1974 | 193/113 | SP | ||||
| 88 | 18.71 | Nikolay Fyodoseyev | URS | 1947 | 1 | Podolsk | 10Aug1974 | SP | |||||
| 89 | 18.70 | Butch Schmidt | USA | 7Feb1952 | 1 | Corvallis OR | 30May1974 | 198/127 | SP | ||||
| 90 | 18.65 | Jukka Tapio | FIN | 24Mar1951 | 2 | Mänttää | 1Aug1974 | 193/110 | SP | ||||
| 91 | 18.64 | Aleksandr Yefimov | URS | 3Jan1949 | 1 | Grodno | 23Sep1974 | 182/115 | SP | ||||
| 92 | 18.63 | Kent Pagel | USA | 2Aug1952 | 5 | MtSAC R | Walnut CA | 27Apr1974 | 200/126 | SP | |||
| 93 | 18.62 | Vakhtang Maisuradze | URS | 7Sep1944 | 1 | Odessa Ukr | 29Apr1974 | SP | |||||
| 94 | 18.58 | Djalal-Ali Keshmiri | IRI | 25Mar1939 | 4 | Kenn | Berkeley CA | 1Jun1974 | 182/108 | SP | |||
| 95 | 18.55 | i | Ed Kohler | USA | 5Jul1940 | 3 | Oakland | 16Feb1974 | 196/131 | SP | |||
| 96 | 18.52 | Jean-Pierre Egger | SUI | 30Jul1943 | 4 | WK | Zürich | 16Aug1974 | 192/112 | SP | |||
| 97 | 18.49 | Viktor Kalabin | URS | 29May1947 | 2 | Donyetsk | 12Jul1974 | 188/108 | SP | ||||
| 98 | 18.49 | Jaan Ossi | URS | 25Nov1948 | 2 | Tallinn | 20Sep1974 | 189/106 | SP | ||||
| 99 | 18.47 | Georges Schroeder | BEL | 17Feb1950 | 2 | Århus | 22Jun1974 | 197/118 | SP | ||||
| 100 | 18.44 | Bahadur Singh | IND | 8Feb1946 | 1 | Patiala | 17Aug1974 | 188/112 | SP |