| Key to notes | ||
|---|---|---|
| WJR | World Junior Record | |
| CR | Championship Record | |
| WJL | World Junior Leading | |
| AJR | Area Junior Record | |
| NJR | National Junior Record | |
| PB | Personal Best | |
| SB | Season Best | |
| DNS | Did not start | |
| DNF | Did not finish | |
| NM | No mark | |
| Key to results | ||
| Q | Automatic qualification | |
| q | Qualified as best performer | |
| X | Fail | |
| Gold | Lázaro Martínez | |
| Silver | Max Hess | |
| Bronze | Mateus de Sá |
, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.
| World Junior Record | 17.50 m | Erfurt, East Germany | 23 June 1985 | ||
| Championship Record | 17.04 m | Seoul, South Korea | 19 September 1992 | ||
| World Junior Leading | 17.24 m | Havana, Cuba | 1 February 2014 | ||
| Broken records during the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Championship Record | 17.13 m | Eugene, United States | 27 July 2014 | ||
Qualification: Standard 15.90 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).[1]
| Rank | Group | Name | Nation | Result | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | B | 16.63 | Q | |||
| 2 | A | 16.38 | Q, PB | |||
| 3 | A | 16.37 | Q | |||
| 4 | B | 16.27 | Q | |||
| 5 | B | 16.20 | Q | |||
| 6 | B | 16.16 | Q | |||
| 7 | B | 16.15 | Q, PB | |||
| 8 | A | 15.99 | Q | |||
| 9 | B | 15.97 | Q | |||
| 10 | A | 15.92 | Q, PB | |||
| 11 | A | 15.75 | q | |||
| 12 | A | 15.71 | q | |||
| 13 | B | 15.37 | ||||
| 14 | B | 15.33 | ||||
| 15 | B | 15.31 | ||||
| 16 | B | 15.30 | ||||
| 17 | A | 15.26 | ||||
| 18 | A | 15.22 | ||||
| 19 | A | 15.09 | ||||
| 20 | A | 15.01 | ||||
| 21 | B | 14.92 | ||||
| 22 | B | 14.90 | ||||
| 23 | A | 14.84 | ||||
| 24 | B | 14.71 | ||||
| A | DNS |
Summary:[2]
| Rank | Name | Nation | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Result | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17.08 | 17.13 | X | — | — | 16.39 | 17.13 | PB, CR | |||
| 15.90 | 16.55 | X | X | X | X | 16.55 | PB | |||
| 15.93 | 16.47 | 16.41 | 16.18 | 16.25 | 16.27 | 16.47 | NJR | |||
| X | 15.88 | 16.35 | 15.72 | 15.97 | 16.43 | 16.43 | ||||
| 14.48 | 16.17 | X | 15.82 | 16.10 | 16.28 | 16.28 | ||||
| 16.15 | 15.96 | 15.35 | 15.10 | 15.70 | 15.97 | 16.15 | ||||
| 15.54 | 15.81 | 15.89 | 15.62 | X | X | 15.89 | ||||
| 15.66 | 15.80 | 15.88 | X | X | 15.52 | 15.88 | NJR | |||
| 15.76 | 15.49 | 15.56 | colspan="3" | 15.76 | ||||||
| 10 | 15.54 | X | 13.60 | colspan="3" | 15.54 | |||||
| 11 | 15.51 | 15.27 | 13.66 | colspan="3" | 15.51 | |||||
| 12 | X | 15.37 | 15.46 | colspan="3" | 15.46 |