Heat 2 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | 3. John Murphy | United States | 59.332s | CR | +0.64s | - | 20 | 1. | 5. Klaus Steinbach | West Germany | 59.833s | | +1.14s | - | 19 | 2. | 9. Zoltan Verraszto | Hungary | 1:00.495 | | +1.80s | - | 17 | 3. | 19.Anders Sandberg | Sweden | 1:01.926 | | +3.23s | - | 20 | 4. | 20.Jean-Paul Berjeau | France | 1:02.033 | | +3.34s | - | 20 | 5. | 23.Enrique Melo | Spain | 1:02.655 | | +3.96s | - | 20 | 6. | 28.Cesar Lourenco | Brazil | 1:03.950 | | +5.26s | - | _ | 7. |
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Heat 1 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | 4. Lutz Wanja | East Germany | 59.535s | CR | +0.84s | - | 17 | 1. | 6. Laszlo Cseh | Hungary | 59.886s | | +1.19s | - | 21 | 2. | 7. Romulo Arantes Filho | Brazil | 1:00.179 | | +1.48s | - | 16 | 3. | 13.Brad Cooper | Australia | 1:00.874 | | +2.18s | - | 19 | 4. | 17.Predrag Milos | Yugoslavia | 1:01.561 | | +2.87s | - | 18 | 5. | 24.Ramon Volcan | Venezuela | 1:03.022 | | +4.33s | - | 17 | 6. | 29.Dimitar Kolarov | Bulgaria | 1:04.043 | | +5.35s | - | _ | 7. |
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