Heat 4 | | time | | 1. Michel Rousseau | France | 52.8s | Q ER | 2. Roland Matthes | East Germany | 54.0s | Q | 3. Lutz Unger | East Germany | 54.4s | Q | 15.Pano Capéronis | Switzerland | 55.4s | NR | 19.Jorge Comas | Spain | 55.8s | | 22.Piotr Chmielewski | Poland | 56.4s | | 24.Jan-Erik Korsvold | Norway | 56.7s | | 28.Donnacha O’Dea | Ireland | 59.2s | |
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Heat 3 | | time | | 4. Leonyid Iljicsov | Soviet Union | 54.5s | Q | 8. José Chicoy | Spain | 54.8s | Q | 9. Malcolm Windeatt | Great Britain | 54.9s | | 16.Madsen Ørjan | Norway | 55.6s | | 18.Csatlós Csaba | Hungary | 55.7s | | 21.Hanspeter Würmli | Switzerland | 56.3s | | 27.Andrew Hunter | Ireland | 58.6s | |
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