| Final | time | | gap | 100m | | 1. Leonid Barbier |  Soviet Union | 2:16.6 | | | 1:06.3 | | 2. Wolfgang Wagner |  East Germany | 2:17.9 | | +1.3s | 1:08.4 | | 3. Jozsef Czikany |  Hungary | 2:18.5 | | +1.9s | 1:07.9 | | 4. Jan Westeling |  Netheralnds | 2:19.5 | | +2.9s | 1:08.4 | | 5. Claude Raffy |  France | 2:21.9 | | +5.3s | 1:07.3 | | 6. Roland Kunze | East Germany | 2:22.1 | | +5.5s | 1:08.2 | | 7. Hermann Verbauwen |  Belgium | 2:23.0 | | +6.4s | 1:08.3 | | 8. Bengt-Olaf Almstedt |  Sweden | 2:23.5 | | +6.9s | 1:06.6 |
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| Heat 1 | time | | Rk. | | 1. Jan Westeling | Netherlands | 2:20.9 | NR | 3. | | 2. Claude Raffy | France | 2:21.8 | | 4. | | 3. Wolfgang Wagner | East Germany | 2:22.8 | | 7. | | 4. Jesus Cabrera |  Spain | 2:27.0 | | 17. | | -. Bonev |  Bulgaria | DNS | | | | -. Krcek |  Czechoslovakia | DNS | | |
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| Heat 2 | time | | Rk. | | 1. Viktor Masanov | Soviet Union | 2:24.3 | | 11. | | 2. Jozsef Szabo | Hungary | 2:24.6 | | 13. | | 3. Christian Schollmeyer |  Italy | 2:26.5 | | 16. | | 4. Bozhidar Dimitrov | Bulgaria | 2:34.5 | | 21. | | 5. Antonio de Almeida Basto |  Portugal | 2:35.2 | | 22. |
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| Heat 3 | time | | Rk. | | 1. Leonid Barbier | Soviet Union | 2:20.6 | | 2. | | 2. Hermann Verbauwen | Belgium | 2:22.3 | NR | 5. | | 3. Gr. Sykes |  Great Britain | 2:23.6 | | 9. | | 4. Julio Cabrera | Spain | 2:24.3 | | 11. | | 5. Ivan Fecak | Czechoslovakia | 2:25.0 | | 15. | | 6. Mihovil Dorcic |  Yugoslavia | 2:27.3 | | 18. | | 7. Rudy Mueller |  Luxembourg | 2:39.0 | | 23. | | -. Gislason |  Iceland | DNS | | |
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| Heat 4 | time | | Rk. | | 1. Jozsef Czikany | Hungary | 2:20.0 | | 1. | | 2. Roland Kunze | East Germany | 2:22.6 | | 6. | | 3. Bengt-Olaf Almstedt | Sweden | 2:23.0 | | 8. | | 4. Andrzej Werner |  Poland | 2:23.7 | | 10. | | 5. Henri van Osch | Netherlands | 2:24.6 | | 13. | | 6. Gerhard Wieland |  Austria | 2:27.6 | | 19. | | 7. Lars-Kraus Jensen |  Denmark | 2:28.6 | | 20. |
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