Heat 4 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Serhiy Fesenko | Soviet Union | 2:00.20 | | - | 21 | 1. | 2. Philip Hubble | Great Britain | 2:00.75 | +0.55s | - | 20 | 2. | 3. Steve Poulter | Great Britain | 2:02.18 | +1.98s | - | 19 | 4. | 4. Gabor Meszaros | Hungary | 2:05.01 | +4.81s | - | 18 | 14. | 5. Paul Moorfoot | Australia | 2:05.69 | +5.49s | - | 20 | 15. | 6. David Cummins | Ireland | 2:06.47 | +6.27s | - | 18 | 16. | 7. Saleh Almarzouk | Kuwait | 2:36.53 | +36.33s | - | 18 | 25. |
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Heat 3 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Peter Morris | Great Britain | 2:02.72 | +2.52s | - | 18 | 6. | 2. Par Arvidsson | Sweden | 2:03.14 | +2.94s | - | 20 | 7. | 3. Aleksandr Buchenkov | Soviet Union | 2:03.98 | +3.78s | - | 16 | 10. | 4. Rafael Vidal-Castro | Venezuela | 2:04.23 | +4.03s | - | 16 | 11. | 5. Evangelos Koskinas | Greece | 2:06.80 | +6.60s | - | 21 | 17. | 6. Claudio Mamede Kestener | Brazil | 2:08.65 | +8.45s | - | 18 | 20. | 7. Djamel Yahioche | Algeria | 2:12.65 | +12.45s | - | 21 | 22. |
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