Heat 4 | | time | | gap | L | 4. Sergey Fesenko | Soviet Union | 2:01.98 | | +1.11s | - | 8. Vlastimil Cerny | Czechoslovakia | 2:03.83 | | +2.96s | - | 9. Torsten Karl | West Germany | 2:04.13 | | +3+26s | - | 12.Istvan Kallo | Hungary | 2:05.17 | | +4.30s | - | 13.Thomas Lejdstrom | Sweden | 2:05.29 | | +4.42s | - | 18.Per Eriksson | Sweden | 2:06.52 | | +5.65s | - | -. Soren Ostberg | Denmark | DNS | | | - |
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Heat 3 | | time | | gap | L | 3. Paolo Revelli | Italy | 2:01.64 | | +0.77s | - | 5. Stephen Poulter | Great Britain | 2:02.76 | | +1.89s | - | 10.Zoltan Enekes | Hungary | 2:04.51 | | +3.84s | - | 14.Frank Drost | Netherlands | 2:05.89 | | +5.02s | - | 15.Olaf Zieche | East Germany | 2:05.98 | | +5.11s | - | 19.Theophile David | Switzerland | 2:06.81 | NR | +5.94s | - | 21.Sabri Ozun | Turkey | 2:07.28 | NR | +6.41s | - | 24.Elvis Sevo | Yugoslavia | 2:10.60 | | +9.73s | - |
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