| Final | | time | | gap | L | | 1. Tamas Darnyi |  Hungary | 4:15.24 | | | 4 | | 2. Jani Sievinen |  Finland | 4:15.51 | | 0.27s | 5 | | 3. Marcel Wouda |  Netherlands | 4:17.90 | NR | 2.66s | 3 | | 4. Patrick Kuhl |  Germany | 4:18.97 | | 3.75s | 6 | | 5. Frederik Hviid Kohler |  Spain | 4:22.56 | | 7.32s | 2 | | 6. Jorge Perez | Spain | 4:23.75 | | 7.51s | 1 | | 7. Vyatcheslav Valdayev |  Ukraine | 4:26.76 | | 11.52s | 7 | | 8. Petr Kratochvil |  Czechoslovakia | 4:26.77 | | 11.53s | 8 |
| Final B | | time | | gap | L | | 9. Petteri Lehtinen | Finland | 4:23.02 | | | - | | 10.Xavier Marchand |  France | 4:23.64 | | 0.52s | - | | 11.Fredrik Lundin |  Sweden | 4:23.74 | | 0.72s | - | | Heat | | time | | gap | L |
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| 1. Tamas Darnyi | Hungary | 4:19.32 | | | - | | 2. Jani Sievinen | Finland | 4:19.98 | | 0.66s | - | | 3. Marcel Wouda | Netherlands | 4:21.20 | | 1.88s | - | | 4. Patrick Kuhl | Germany | 4:21.24 | | 1.92s | - | | 5. Battistelli |  Italy | 4:22.21 | | 2.89s | - | | 6. Frederik Hviid Kohler | Spain | 4:23.99 | | 4.67s | - | | 7. Vyatcheslav Valdayev | Ukraine | 4:25.05 | | 5.73s | - | | 8. Jorge Perez | Spain | 4:25.61 | | 6.29s | - | | 9. Petr Kratochvil | Czechoslovakia | 4:2-.-- | | -.--s | - | | -. Petteri Lehtinen | Finland | 4:2-:-- | | -.--s | - | | -. Xavier Marchand | France | 4:2-:-- | | -.--s | - | | -. Fredrik Lundin | Sweden | 4:2-:-- | | -.--s | - |
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