Heat 4 | | time | gap | L | Y | pts | Rk | 1. Tamas Darnyi | Hungary | 4:16.21 | CR | 4 | 23 | - | 1. | 2. Christian Gessner | Germany | 4:22.06 | +5.85s | 3 | 22 | - | 8. | 3. Patrick Kuhl | Germany | 4:22.79 | +6.58s | 5 | 22 | - | 9. | 4. Brent Harding | Australia | 4:24.59 | +8.38s | 6 | 15 | - | 11. | 5. Christophe Bordeau | France | 4:25.77 | +9.56s | 2 | 22 | - | 13. | 6. John Munro | New Zealand | 4:32.14 | +15.93s | 7 | _ | - | 18. | 7. Charalambos Papanikolaou | Greece | 4:40.02 | +23.81s | 1 | 21 | - | 25. | -. Chert Gilad | Israel | DSQ | | 8 | _ | - | -. |
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Heat 3 | | time | gap | L | Y | pts | Rk | 1. Eric Namesnik | United States | 4:17.82 | +1.61s CR | 4 | 20 | - | 2. | 2. Joszef Szabo | Hungary | 4:19.04 | +2.83s | 3 | 21 | - | 3. | 3. Sergey Marinyuk | Soviet Union | 4:21.04 | +4.83s | 5 | _ | - | 5. | 4. Jan Bidrman | Sweden | 4:23.04 | +6.83s | 2 | 24 | - | 10. | 5. Darren Ward | Canada | 4:27.40 | +11.19s | 6 | 22 | - | 15. | 6. Renato Ramalho | Brazil | 4:31.55 | +15.34s | 7 | 23 | - | 17. | 7. Kristian Johansson | Finland | 4:34.76 | +18.55s | 1 | 21 | - | 19. | 8. Emmanouil Kandris | Greece | 4:39.25 | +23.04s | 8 | _ | - | 24. |
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