Heat 3 | time | | Rk. | 1. Valentin Kusmin | Soviet Union | 2:17.0 | | 1. | 2. Nenad Kuridza | Yugoslavia | 2:22.8 | NR | 9. | 3. Jean Pommat | France | 2:24.9 | | 15. | 4. Alexandru Popescu | Romania | 2:25.4 | | 16. | 5. Joaquin Pujol | Spain | 2:30.8 | | 20. | 6. Aleksander Straklecz | Poland | 2:32.1 | | 21. |
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Heat 4 | time | | Rk. | 1. Volker Frichke | East Germany | 2:22.7 | | 8. | 2. Matti Kasvio | Finland | 2:23.8 | | 11. | 3. Terence Glenville | Great Britain | 2:24.5 | | 12. | 3. Hakan Bengtsson | Sweden | 2:24.5 | | 12. | 3. Gianpiero Fossati | Italy | 2:24.5 | | 12. | 6. Volkert Deckart | Austria | 2:30.3 | NR | 19. | 7. Vladimir Hopka | Czechoslovakia | 2:36.7 | | 22. | 8. Andras Katona | Hungary | 3:07.1 | | 24. |
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