Heat S1 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Yoshinobu Oyakawa | United States | 1:05.7 | OR | - | 18 | 1. | 2. Boris Skanata | Yugoslavia | 1:07.8 | +2.1s | - | 25 | 5. | 3. Pedro Galvao | Argentina | 1:07.9 | +2.2s | - | 18 | 6. | 4. Allen Stack | United States | 1:08.0 | +2.3s | - | 24 | 7. | 5. William John Brockway | Great Britain | 1:09.0 | +3.3s | - | 23 | 9. | 6. Fernando Pavan | Brazil | 1:10.2 | +4.5s | - | 19 | 13. | 6. Lincoln Hurring | New Zealand | 1:10.2 | +4.5s | - | 20 | 13. | 8. Lucien Zins | France | 1:10.5 | +4.8s | - | 29 | 15. |
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Heat S2 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Gilbert Bozon | France | 1:06.6 | +0.9s | - | 17 | 2. | 2. Jack Taylor | United States | 1:07.0 | +1.3s | - | 21 | 3. | 3. Nicolaas Lingen Meiring | South Africa | 1:07.6 | +1.9s | - | 18 | 4. | 4. Robert Wardrop | Great Britain | 1:08.6 | +2.9s | - | 20 | 8. | 5. Viktor Solovyov | Soviet Union | 1:09.6 | +3.9s | - | _ | 10. | 6. Joao Goncalves Filho | Brazil | 1:09.7 | +4.0s | - | 17 | 11. | 6. Egidio Massaria | Italy | 1:09.7 | +4.0s | - | 26 | 11. | 8. Jitze Van Der Veen | Netherlands | 1:10.5 | +4.8s | - | 23 | 16. |
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