| Final 24.08 | | time | gap | | L | | 1. Per Johansson |  Sweden | 50.20s | | | - | | 2. Jorg Woithe |  East Germany | 50.29s | +0.09s | | - | | 3. Sergey Smiriagin |  Soviet Union | 50.35s | +0.15s | | - | | 4. Pelle Holmertz | Sweden | 50.71s | +0.51s | | - | | 5. Dirk Richter | East Germany | 50.90s | +0.70s | | - | | 6. Alexey Markovskiy | Soviet Union | 51.16s | +0.96s | | - | | 7. Andreas Schmidt |  West Germany | 51.24s | +1.04s | | - | | 8. Fabrizio Rampazzo |  Italy | 51.50s | +1.30s | | - |
| Final B | | time | gap | | L | | 9. David Lowe |  Great Britain | 51.37s | | | - | | 10.Peter Rohde |  Denmark | 51.71s | +0.34s | | - | | 11.Marcello Guarducci | Italy | 51.79s | +0.42s | | - | | 12.Stefan Volery |  Switzerland | 51.96s | +0.59s | | - | | 13.Marcel Gery |  Czechoslovakia | 52.02s | +0.75s | | - | | 14.Hans Kroes |  Netherlands | 52.23s | +0.86s | | - | | 14.Alexander Schowtka | West Germany | 52.23s | +0.86s | | - | | 16.Stephan Caron |  France | 52.42s | +1.05s | | - |
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