| Final | time | | 1. Patriz Ilg |  FRG | 8:18.52 | | 2. Boguslaw Maminski |  POL | 8:19.22 | | 3. Domingo Ramon |  ESP | 8:20.48 | | 4. Hagen Melzer |  GDR | 8:21.33 | | 5. Wolfgang Konrad |  AUT | 8:21.95 | | 6. Ilkka Aeyraevaeinen |  FIN | 8:24.19 | | 7. Mariano Scartezzini |  ITA | 8:24.68 | | 8. Tommy Ekblom | FIN | 8:27.15 | | 9. Colin Reitz |  GBR | 8:28.67 | | 10.Grahame Fell | GBR | 8:34.30 | | 11.Juan Torres | ESP | 8:37.84 | | 12.Rainer Schwartz | FRG | 8:41.67 |
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| Heats - Tuesday 07.09 - First 3 and Best 3 progress. |
| Heat 1 | time | | 1. Patriz Ilg | FRG | 8:22.36 | | 2. Mariano Scartezzini | ITA | 8:23.11 | | 3. Ilkka Aeyraevaeinen | FIN | 8:23.18 | | 4. Colin Reitz | GBR | 8:23.86 | | 5. Joseph Mahmoud |  FRA | 8:27.70 | | 6. Jand Hagelbrand |  SWE | 8:28.02 | | 7. Peter Daenens |  BEL | 8:28.64 | | 8. Guilherme Alves |  POR | 8:33.32 | | 9. F. Filippou |  GRE | 8:42.73 |
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| Heat 2 | time | | 1. Boguslaw Maminski | POL | 8:31.50 | | 2. Hagen Melzer | GDR | 8:31.90 | | 3. Tommy Ekblom | FIN | 8:32.52 | | 4. Francisco Sanchez | ESP | 8:33.10 | | 5. Krzystof Wesolowski | POL | 8:35.33 | | 6. Arsenios Tsiminos | GRE | 8:37.44 | | 7. Roger Hackney | GBR | 8:39.22 | | 8. Pascal Debacker | FRA | 8:44.79 | | 9. Luciano Carchesio | ITA | 8:50.36 |
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| Heat 3 | time | | 1. Domingo Ramon | ESP | 8:22.11 | | 2. Wolfgang Konrad | AUT | 8:23.40 | | 3. Grahame Fell | GBR | 8:23.76 | | 4. Juan Torres | ESP | 8:24.08 | | 5. Rainer Schwartz | FRG | 8:25.21 | | 6. Vesa Laukkanen | FIN | 8:29.75 | | 7. Serguey Yepirsin |  URS | 8:29.98 | | 8. Raymond Pannles | FRA | 8:40.41 |
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