| Final 19:20 | time | L | | 1. Greg Foster |  USA | 13.42s | | 2. Arto Bryggare |  FIN | 13.46s | | 3. Willie Gault | USA | 13.48s | | 4. Mark McKoy |  CAN | 13.56s | | 5. Thomas Munkelt |  GDR | 13.66s | | 6. Gyorgy Bakos |  HUN | 13.68s | | 7. Ventsislav Radev |  BUL | 13.73s | | 8. Sam Turner | USA | 13.82s |
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| Semi 1 | time | L | | 1. Greg Foster | USA | 13.22s | | 2. Willie Gault | USA | 13.48s | | 3. Thomas Munkelt | GDR | 13.62s | | 4. Gyorgy Bakos | HUN | 13.66s | | 5. Andrey Prokofyev |  URS | 13.76s | | 6. Mark Holtom |  GBR | 13.79s | | 7. Modesto Castillo |  DOM | 14.23s | | -. Alejandro Casanas |  CUB | DNS |
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| Semi 2 | time | L | | 1. Arto Bryggare | FIN | 13.50s | | 2. Sam Turner | USA | 13.65s | | 3. Mark McKoy | CAN | 13.73s | | 4. Ventsislav Radev | BUL | 13.82s | | 5. Javier Moracho |  ESP | 13.92s | | 6. Andreas Oschkenat | GDR | 13.93s | | 7. Don Wright |  AUS | 14.28s | | -. Bela Bodo | HUN | DNS |
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| Heat 1 | time | | 1. Mark McKoy | CAN | 13.53s | | 2. Thomas Munkelt | GDR | 13.61s | | 3. Ventsislav Radev | BUL | 13.78s | | 4. Mark Holtom | GBR | 13.85s | | 5. Bela Bodo | HUN | 13.91s | | 6. Modesto Castillo | DOM | 13.93s | | 7. Tim Soper | NZL | 14.28s |
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| Heat 2 | time | | 1. Arto Bryggare | FIN | 13.44s | | 2. Willie Gault | USA | 13.66s | | 3. Alejandro Casanas | CUB | 13.70s | | 4. Liviu Giurgian |  ROU | 13.98s | | 5. Stephane Caristan |  FRA | 14.10s | | 6. Julius Ivan |  TCH | 14.28s | | 7. Gary Bullard |  BAH | 14.31s |
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| Heat 3 | time | | 1. Greg Foster | USA | 13.41s | | 2. Gyorgy Bakos | HUN | 13.61s | | 3. Javier Moracho | ESP | 13.62s | | 4. Andreas Oschkenat | GDR | 13.80s | | 5. Ion Oltean | ROU | 13.97s | | 6. Zhicheng Yu |  CHN | 14.43s | | 7. Chai Kim San |  CAM | 16.26s |
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| Heat 4 | time | | 1. Sam Turner | USA | 13.62s | | 2. Don Wright | AUS | 13.70s | | 3. Andrey Prokofyev | URS | 13.90s | | 4. Daniele Fontecchio |  ITA | 14.05s | | 5. Ching-Jing Wu |  TPE | 14.24s | | 6. Axel Schaumann |  FRG | 14.40s | | 7. Daniel Ololo |  GAB | 14.93s |
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