Heat 2 | | time | | gap | L | 2. Adrian Morrhouse | Great Britain | 2:18.98 | | +0.03s | - | 3. Alban Vermes | Hungary | 2:19.02 | | +0.07s | - | 14.Peter Wolf | West Germany | 2:26.20 | | +7.25s | - | 15.Enrique Romero | Spain | 2:26.55 | | +7.60s | - | 21.Stefanos Papadopulos | Greece | 2:30.76 | NR | +8.81s | - | 24.Ingolfur Gissurason | Iceland | 2:36.05 | | +17.10s | - | 25.Martti Jarventaus | Finland | 2:36.89 | | +17.94s | - |
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Heat 1 | | time | | gap | L | 7. Peter Berggren | Sweden | 2:22.51 | | +3.56s | - | 8. Ralf Buttgereit | East Germany | 2:23.42 | | +4.47s | - | 11.Gustavo Torrijos | Spain | 2:24.83 | | +5.88s | - | 17.Gerhard Prohaska | Austria | 2:26.78 | | +7.71s | - | 18.Jan Campbell | Great Britain | 2:27.10 | | +8.15s | - | 20.Andreas Vold | Norway | 2:30.41 | | +8.46s | - | 22.Robert Woinicki | Poland | 2:31.28 | | +9.33s | - |
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