Semi 1 | | time | | gap | L | Y | Rk | 100m | 1. Carl Robie | United States | 2:09.3 | OR | | 4 | 19 | 1. | 1:02.3 | 2. Fred Schmidt | United States | 2:11.5 | | +2.2s | 6 | 20 | 4. | 1:02.5 | 3. Brett Hill | Australia | 2:11.9 | | +2.6s | 3 | 20 | 5. | 1:02.3 | 3. Valentin Kuzmin | Soviet Union | 2:11.9 | | +2.6s | 1 | 23 | 5. | 1:01.3 | 5. Kosuke Sato | Japan | 2:13.4 | | +4.1s | 5 | 22 | 9. | 1:02.5 | 6. Werner Freitag | UT Germany | 2:13.5 | | +4.2s | 8 | 18 | 10. | 1:05.1 | 7. Luis Nicolao | Argentina | 2:13.7 | | +4.4s | 2 | 20 | 11. | 1:01.4 | 8. John Stark | Australia | 2:18.4 | | +9.1s | 7 | 16 | 16. | 1:03.5 |
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Semi 2 | | time | | gap | L | Y | Rk | 100m | 1. Kevin Berry | Australia | 2:09.8 | | +0.5s | 4 | 19 | 2. | 1:03.7 | 2. Philip Riker | United States | 2:09.9 | | +0.6s | 5 | 18 | 3. | 1:03.8 | 3. Yoshinori Kadonaga | Japan | 2:12.3 | | +3.0s | 6 | 17 | 7. | 1:03.9 | 4. Daniel Sherry | Canada | 2:12.9 | | +3.6s | 3 | 18 | 8. | 1:03.5 | 5. Atsushi Obayashi | Japan | 2:14.1 | | +4.8s | 2 | 21 | 12. | 1:02.4 | 6. David Gerrard | New Zealand | 2:15.4 | | +6.1s | 1 | 19 | 13. | 1:02.1 | 7. Brian Jenkins | Great Britain | 2:15.5 | | +6.2s | 7 | 21 | 14. | 1:04.8 | 8. Giampiero Fossati | Italy | 2:18.1 | | +8.8s | 8 | 20 | 15. | 1:05.5 |
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