Heat 5 | Team | time | Rk. | 1. Brad Cooper | AUS | 16:11.41 | 3. | 2. Bengt Gingsjö | SWE | 16:26.67 | 7. | 3. Klaus Dockhorn | GDR | 16:55.30 | 16. | 4. Jo O-Ryeon | KOR | 17:29.23 | 30. | 5. Aleksandr Samsonov | URS | 17:32.88 | 32. | 6. Kamal Kenavi Ali Moustafa | EGY | 17:40.37 | 36. | 7. Neil Dexter | GBR | 17:42.83 | 37. | 8. Brian Clifford | IRE | 18:09.28 | 40. |
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Heat 6 | Team | time | Rk. | 1. Ton van Klooster | NED | 16:34.77 | 11. | 2. Axel Freudenberg | GDR | 16:37.19 | 12. | 3. Zoltán Verrasztó | HUN | 17:18.66 | 24. | 4. Wojtakajtis Władysław | POL | 17:23.47 | 27. | 5. Christoph Kreienbühl | SUI | 17:27.67 | 29. | 6. Csaba Sós | HUN | 17:43.97 | 38. | 8. Rick DeMont | USA | 18:15.90 | 42. | -. Dimitrios Theodoropoulos | GRE | 16:17.61 | |
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