Heat 4 | time | 1. Ian Morris | TRI | 45.84s | 2. Thomas Schoenlebe | GDR | 47.07s | 3. Sunday Uti | NGR | 47.08s | 4. Kuang-Liang Lin | TPE | 48.18s | 5. Ernest Tche noubossie | CMR | 48.31s | 6. Hadi Alqahtani | KSA | 48.53s | 7. Enock Musonda | ZAM | 49.21s | 8. Ahmed Shageef | MDV | 50.61s |
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Heat 5 | time | 1. Steven Lewis | USA | 45.31s | 2. Jens Carlowitz | GDR | 45.64s | 3. Gabriel Tiacoh | CIV | 47.19s | 4. Jean-Didace Bemou | CGO | 48.46s | 5. Abdalla Ahmed | LBA | 48.89s | 6. Jonathan Chipalo | ZAM | 48.97s | 7. Maher Abbas | LIB | 51.29s | 8. Carlton Usher | BIZ | 51.42s |
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Heat 6 | time | 1. Gerson Souza | BRA | 45.90s | 2. Howard Davis | JAM | 45.97s | 3. Takale Tuna | NGU | 47.87s | 4. Sunday Maweni | BOT | 47.97s | 5. Sulaiman Al-Habsi | OMA | 48.30s | 6. Nordin Mohd Jadi | MAL | 49.52s | 7. Michael Williams | VIN | 51.22s | -. Derek Redmond | GBR | DNS |
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