Heat S1 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Clarke Scholes | United States | 57.1s | OR | 1 | 21 | 1. | 2. Goran Larsson | Sweden | 57.8s | +0.7s | 1 | 20 | 3. | 3. Aldo Eminente | France | 58.3s | +1.2s | - | 20 | 7. | 3. Yoshihiro Hamaguchi | Japan | 58.3s | +1.2s | - | 26 | 7. | 5. Carlo Pedersoli | Italy | 58.9s | +1.8s | - | 22 | 12. | 6. John Wardrop | Great Britain | 59.4s | +2.3s | - | 20 | 15. | 7. Endel Edassi | Soviet Union | 59.8s | +2.7s | - | 23 | 18. | 8. Nicasio Silverio | Cuba | 59.9s | +2.8s | - | 21 | 20. |
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Heat S2 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Geza Kadas | Hungary | 57.8s | +0.7s | - | 25 | 3. | 2. Hiroshi Suzuki | Japan | 58.0s | +0.9s | - | 18 | 6. | 3. Dick Cleveland | United States | 58.6s | +1.5s | - | 22 | 10. | 4. Lev Balandin | Soviet Union | 58.8s | +1.7s | - | _ | 11. | 5. Joris Tjebbes | Netherlands | 59.8s | +2.7s | - | 22 | 18. | 6. John Diederik Durr | South Africa | 1:00.2 | +3.1s | - | 21 | 21. | 7. Thomas Douglas Welsh | Great Britain | 1:00.3 | +3.2s | - | 19 | 22. | 8. Kin-Man Cheung | Hong Kong | 1:00.9 | +3.8s | - | 20 | 23. |
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