Heat 5 | | time | gap | L | Y | pts | Rk | 1. Melvin Stewart | United States | 1:58.53 | +0.12s | 4 | 22 | - | 2. | 3. Bart Pippenger | United States | 2:00.23 | +1.82s | 5 | _ | - | 4. | 4. Simon Mckillop-Davies | Australia | 2:01.00 | +2.59s | 2 | 18 | - | 7. | 5. Kunio Sugimoto | Japan | 2:01.06 | +2.65s | 3 | _ | - | 8. | 6. Vadym Yaroshchuk | Soviet Union | 2:01.57 | +3.16s | 6 | 24 | - | 9. | 7. Jose Luis Ballester | Spain | 2:02.37 | +3.96s | 1 | 21 | - | 15. | -. Jan Bidrman | Sweden | DNS | | 8 | 24 | - | -. |
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Heat 4 | | time | gap | L | Y | pts | Rk | 2. Franck Esposito | France | 1:59.00 | +0.59s | 7 | 19 | - | 3. | 1. Tamas Darnyi | Hungary | 2:00.23 | +1.82s | 4 | 23 | - | 4. | 2. Martin Roberts | Australia | 2:00.56 | +2.15s | 5 | 24 | - | 6. | 3. Marco Braida | Italy | 2:01.85 | +3.44s | 3 | 24 | - | 12. | 4. Peter Bermel | Germany | 2:01.97 | +3.56s | 2 | 23 | - | 13. | 5. Gary Van Der Meulen | Canada | 2:02.85 | +4.44s | 6 | 25 | - | 16. | 6. Yun-Ahn Lee | South Korea | 2:02.95 | +4.54s | 7 | _ | - | 17. | 7. Wojciech Wyzga | Poland | 2:05.38 | +6.97s | 1 | 24 | - | 23. | 8. Christer Wallin | Sweden | 2:05.80 | +7.39s | 8 | 21 | - | 24. |
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