Heat 2 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | 4. Robin James Backhaus | United States | 56.944s | | +1.00s | - | 18 | 1. | 9. Hideaki Hara | Japan | 58.000s | | +2.06s | - | 17 | 2. | 11.Brian Phillips | Canada | 58.689s | | +2.74s | - | 19 | 3. | 12.Istvan Szentirmay | Hungary | 59.097s | | +3.15s | - | 24 | 4. | 14.Eduardo Orejuela | Ecuador | 59.216s | | +3.27s | - | 21 | 5. | 24.Ali Gharbi | Tunisia | 1:05.449 | | +9.50s | - | 18 | 6. |
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Heat 1 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | 2. Hartmut Flockner | East Germany | 56.894s | CR | +0.95s | - | 20 | 1. | 7. Folkert Meeuw | West Germany | 57.697s | | +1.75s | - | 26 | 2. | 8. Neil Rogers | Australia | 57.984s | | +2.04s | - | 20 | 3. | 15.Vladimir Krivtsov | Soviet Union | 59.478s | | +3.53s | - | 21 | 4. | 20.Jose Ferraioli | Puerto Rico | 1:00.484 | | +4.54s | - | 25 | 5. | 22.Ramon Volcan | Venezuela | 1:01.779 | | +5.83s | - | 17 | 6. |
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