| Final | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Matt Vogel | USA | 54.35 | 3. 2. | | 2. Joe Bottom | USA | 54.50 | 6. 3. | | 3. Gary Hall | USA | 54.65 | 2. 4. | | 4. Roger Pyttel | GDR | 55.09 | 1. 1. | | 5. Roland Matthes | GDR | 55.11 | 7. 7. | | 6. Clay Evans | CAN | 55.81 | 4. 6. | | 7. Hideaki Hara | JPN | 56.34 | 9. 9. | | 8. Neil Rogers | AUS | 56.57 | 14.5. |
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| Semi 1 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Joe Bottom | USA | 55.26s | 3. | | 2. Gary Hall | USA | 55.32s | 4. | | 3. Neil Rogers | AUS | 55.72s | 5. | | 4. Clay Evans | CAN | 55.86s | 6. | | 5. John Mills | GBR | 56.54s | 10. | | 6. Stephen Pickell | CAN | 56.66s | 11. | | 7. Arvidsson Pär | SWE | 56.93s | 15. | | 8. Yevgeny Seredin | URS | 57.46s | 16. |
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| Semi 2 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Roger Pyttel | GDR | 54.75s | 1. | | 2. Matt Vogel | USA | 54.80s | 2. | | 3. Roland Matthes | GDR | 55.88s | 7. | | 4. Klaus Steinbach | FRG | 55.90s | 8. | | 5. Hideaki Hara | JPN | 56.52s | 9. | | 6. Bruce Robertson | CAN | 56.72s | 12. | | 7. Peter Broscienski | FRG | 56.81s | 13. | | 8. Jorge Delgado, Jr. | ECU | 56.91s | 14. |
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| Heat 6 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Joe Bottom | USA | 56.26s | 6. | | 2. Roland Matthes | GDR | 56.41s | 7. | | 3. Michael Kraus | FRG | 57.22s | 17. | | 4. Ross Seymour | AUS | 57.74s | 24. | | 5. Richard Iredale | GBR | 58.50s | 31. | | 6. Shinsuke Kayama | JPN | 58.55s | 32. | | 7. Konstantinos Koskinas | GRE | 1:00.20 | 37. | | 8. Robert Howard | IRE | 1:00.92 | 38. |
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| Heat 5 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Gary Hall | USA | 55.35s | 2. | | 2. John Mills | GBR | 56.53s | 8. | | 3. Stephen Pickell | CAN | 56.59s | 10. | | 4. John Coutts | NZL | 57.29s | 18. | | 5. Hartmut Flöckner | GDR | 57.66s | 23. | | 6. Luis Goicoechea | VEN | 57.92s | 27. | | 7. John Daly | PUR | 58.04s | 28. | | 8. Steven Newkirk | USV | 1:01.46 | 40. |
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| Heat 4 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Matt Vogel | USA | 55.40s | 3. | | 2. Clay Evans | CAN | 55.65s | 4. | | 3. Peter Broscienski | FRG | 57.15s | 15. | | 4. Paolo Barelli | ITA | 57.64s | 21. | | 4. Aleksandr Manachinsky | URS | 57.64s | 22. | | 6. José Luis Prado | MEX | 59.16s | 35. | | 7. Paulo Frischknecht | POR | 1:01.97 | 41. | | 8. Lawrence Kwoh | HKG | 1:02.47 | 43. |
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| Heat 3 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Roger Pyttel | GDR | 55.25s | 1. | | 2. Klaus Steinbach | FRG | 56.10s | 5. | | 3. Hideaki Hara | JPN | 56.57s | 9. | | 4. Jorge Jaramillo | COL | 57.33s | 19. | | 5. John Park | GBR | 57.42s | 20. | | 6. Campari Knoepffler | NIC | 1:02.05 | 42. |
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| Heat 2 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Jorge Delgado, Jr. | ECU | 56.79s | 11. | | 2. Neil Rogers | AUS | 57.08s | 14. | | 3. Milošlav Roľko | TCH | 57.79s | 25. | | 4. Serge Buttet | FRA | 58.37s | 29. | | 4. Arnaldo Pérez | PUR | 58.37s | 30. | | 6. Riccardo Urbani | ITA | 58.83s | 34. | | 7. Carlos González | PAN | 1:00.97 | 39. |
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| Heat 1 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Yevgeny Seredin | URS | 56.95s | 12. | | 2. Bruce Robertson | CAN | 57.06s | 13. | | 3. Arvidsson Pär | SWE | 57.17s | 16. | | 4. Cees Vervoorn | NED | 57.84s | 26. | | 5. Arantes Filho Rômulo | BRA | 58.80s | 33. | | 6. Adi Prag | ISR | 59.99s | 36. | | -. François Deley | BEL | | |
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