Heat 4 | Team | time | Rk. | 1. Denys Sylantyev | UKR | 1:56.42 | 2. | 2. Thomas Rupprath | GER | 1:58.32 | 11. | 3. Heath Ramsay | AUS | 1:58.82 | 12. | 4. Hisayoshi Tanaka | JPN | 1:59.00 | 14. | 5. Ioan Ştefan Gherghel | ROU | 1:59.48 | 17. | 6. Jorge Pérez | ESP | 2:00.15 | 23. | 7. Massimiliano Eroli | ITA | 2:01.32 | 30. | 8. Mickey Halika | ISR | 2:01.79 | 31. |
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Heat 3 | Team | time | Rk. | 1. Vladan Marković | YUG | 2:00.11 | 21. | 2. Viktor Bodrogi | HUN | 2:00.74 | 24. | 3. Ioannis Drymonakos | GRE | 2:00.75 | 25. | 4. Theo Verster | RSA | 2:00.90 | 26. | 5. Gunter Rodríguez | CUB | 2:01.06 | 27. | 6. Michael Windisch | AUT | 2:01.20 | 28. | 7. Tero Välimaa | FIN | 2:02.46 | 34. | 8. Colin Lowth | IRE | 2:03.91 | 37. |
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