Heat 3 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | 3. Nikolay Pankin | Soviet Union | 1:06.101 | CR | +1.75s | - | 24 | 1. | 7. Jurgen Glas | East Germany | 1:07.320 | | +2.97s | - | | 2. | 8. Nigel Cluer | Papua New Guine | 1:07.590 | | +3.24s | - | | 3. | 17.Alfredo Hunger | Peru | 1:09.736 | | +5.38s | - | 18 | 4. | 19.Michael Creswick | Australia | 1:09.815 | | +5.46s | - | | 5. | 23.Zdravko Divjak | Yugoslavia | 1:10.159 | | +5.80s | - | 17 | 6. | 25.Giorgio Lalle | Italy | 1:10.976 | | +6.62s | - | 16 | 7. |
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Heat 2 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | 6. David Wilkie | Great Britain | 1:06.981 | | +2.63s | - | 19 | 1. | 10.Bernard Combet | France | 1:08.260 | | +3.91s | - | 19 | 2. | 15.Pawe Dyrek | Poland | 1:09.602 | | +5.25s | - | | 3. | 21.Gustavo Lozano | Mexico | 1:09.923 | | +5.57s | - | 21 | 4. | 29.Carlos Nazario | Puerto Rico | 1:13.335 | | +8.98s | - | 15 | 5. | 31.Orlando Catinchi | Puerto Rico | 1:14.506 | | +10.15s | - | 16 | 6. |
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