Heat 2 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | 6. Nobutaka Taguchi | Japan | 2:25.25 | | +3.35s | - | 24 | 1. | 7. Graham Smith | Canada | 2:25.42 | | +3.52s | - | 17 | 2. | 9. Anders Norling | Sweden | 2:26.72 | | +4.82s | - | 19 | 3. | 11.Mikhail Kryukin | Soviet Union | 2:27.46 | | +5.56s | - | _ | 4. | 15.Gregor Arnicke | East Germany | 2:29.49 | | +7.59s | - | _ | 5. | 21.Hiroshi Kabatani | Japan | 2:31.85 | | +9.95s | - | _ | 6. | 26.Jacinto Orozco | Ecuador | 2:49.30 | | +27.40s | - | _ | 7. |
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Heat 1 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | 1. David Wilkie | Great Britain | 2:21.90 | | - | - | 21 | 1. | 5. David Leigh | Great Britain | 2:25.04 | | +3.14s | - | 18 | 2. | 18.Dave Heinbuch | Canada | 2:30.78 | | +8.88s | - | 20 | 3. | 22.Piero Ferricuti | El Salvador | 2:32.19 | | +10.29s | - | _ | 4. | 23.Zdravko Divjak | Yugoslavia | 2:32.80 | | +10.90s | - | 19 | 5. | 27.Victor Calderon | Ecuador | 2:52.31 | | +30.41s | - | _ | 6. |
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