| Final Rank |
Athlete | Country | Snatch | Cl.&J | Total |
| 1 | Sultan Rakhmanov | USSR | 195.0 | 245.0 | 440.0 |
| 2 | Jurgen Heuser | GDR | 182.5 | 227.5 | 410.0 |
| 3 | Tadeusz Rutkowski | Poland | 180.0 | 227.5 | 407.5 |
| 4 | Rudolf Strejcek | Czechoslovakia | 182.5 | 220.0 | 402.5 |
| 5 | Bohuslav Braum | Czechoslovakia | 180.0 | 217.5 | 397.5 |
| 6 | Francisco Mendez | Cuba | 175.0 | 220.0 | 395.0 |
